Emily Ross
photo credit: Lynn Wayne
Emily Ross is the author of Half in Love with Death, an International Thriller Writers Thriller Awards finalist.
Emily Ross is the author of the International Thriller Writers Thriller Awards finalist, Half in Love with Death. She won the Al Blanchard best story award for her short story, “Let the Chips Fall”, which appeared in Devil’s Snare: Best New England Crime stories 2024. She is a graduate of Grub Street’s Novel Incubator and lives in Quincy, MA, with her husband and their very playful cat.
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 thought-provoking exploration of violent representations of women in myth and art.
