Emily Ross
photo credit: Lynn Wayne
Emily Ross is the author of Half in Love with Death, an International Thriller Writers Thriller Awards finalist.
She received a Massachusetts Cultural Council finalist award in fiction for Half in Love with Death. She won the Al Blanchard award for her short story, Let the Chips Fall, which appears in the Best New England Crime Fiction collection Devil's Snare. Her work has appeared in Boston Magazine, Five South, and the Best New England Crime Fiction collection Devil's Snare. She is an editor at Deaddarlings.com and a graduate of Grub Street’s Novel Incubator program. She lives in Quincy MA.
Books
SWALLOWTAIL
(pub date November 18 2025)
In Quincy, Massachusetts, a detective must unravel the mystery of her own abduction 20 years ago in order to find the killer of a local girl—before her own daughter is next. A literary mystery thriller steeped in imagery from Surrealist art and Greek mythology, SWALLOWTAIL is the moving story of a woman’s journey to free herself from the trauma of her past, and a meditation on representations of women in the violence of myth and art.
