Winner of the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance fiction award for The Edge of Ruin, Kate Gallison has been at various times a store clerk, a bill collector, a computer programmer, a technical writer, and a museum docent. As Kate Gallison, her writing credits include three private eye novels and five traditional mysteries.
Under the name of Irene Fleming, she writes a series about silent movie production in the early twentieth century. The first of these, The Edge of Ruin, told the story of a young couple starting out in the movie business in Fort Lee, New Jersey, in 1909, fighting bankruptcy, sabotage and murder. In the second, The Brink of Fame, the action shifts to Hollywood.
Kate has three grown sons and a bachelor's degree from Thomas Edison College. She lives in Lambertville, New Jersey, with her librarian husband and their cat. There she divides her time among her family, her writing, and various civic pursuits. She is a member of the Author's Guild, the MWA, Sisters in Crime, and St. Andrew's Episcopal Church.
She is descended from a convicted Salem witch.
Contact Kate at kate@kategallison.com.
The Organizer (KHG Dunn, 2004)
Grave Misgivings (Delacorte, 1998)
Hasty Retreat (Delacorte, 1997)
Unholy Angels (Dell, 1996)
Devil's Workshop (Dell, 1996)
Bury the Bishop (Dell, 1995)
The Jersey Monkey (St. Martin's Press, 1992)
The Death Tape (Little, Brown, 1987)
Unbalanced Accounts (Little, Brown, 1986)
The Edge of Ruin (Minotaur, 2010)
The Brink of Fame (Minotaur, 2011)
"Spectral Evidence," The Prosecution Rests, MWA Anthology, Little, Brown, April 2009
"Ex Libris," Murder Most Catholic, ed. Ralph McInerney, 2002
"The Workshop," More Murder, They Wrote, ed. Elizabeth Foxwell & Martin H. Greenberg, Boulevard Books, 1999
"Dead Cats," Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, May 1999
"Plastic," Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Nov 1994
"Ars Longa, Vita Brevis," Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, August 1993