HILARY DAVIDSON

“Toronto native Hilary Davidson is a veteran freelance writer with over a dozen travel guidebooks and hundreds of articles for the likes of the Globe and Mail, Reader’s Digest, Discover, and Working Mother. ‘Anniversary’ is her first published short story, but all those years of writing to deadline pay off in the form of a tightly wound psychological chiller that shocks not with what is said but what is only implied.”

— Sarah Weinman (editor, writer, and “Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind” blogger)

Hilary’s debut novel, THE DAMAGE DONE, will be published by Forge on September 28, 2010. Her short story “Anniversary” was featured in A Prisoner of Memory and 24 of the Year’s Finest Crime and Mystery Stories (Pegasus, 2008). That anthology included fiction by Joyce Carol Oates, Lawrence Block, Michael Connelly, Jeffery Deaver, and Laura Lippman. “Anniversary” was also named among the Distinguished Mystery Stories of 2007 in The Best American Mystery Stories 2008, an anthology edited by George Pelecanos and Otto Penzler.

NOVELS:

THE DAMAGE DONE, Forge, September 28, 2010

(Available for pre-order from independent mystery booksellers across North America, as well as from IndieBound, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Powell’s, and — in Canada — Indigo/Chapters. You can also read reviews of it at GoodReads.)

[Untitled], Forge, October 2011

ANTHOLOGIES:

“Son of So Many Tears” in BLOOD, GUTS, & WHISKEY, Kensington, May 2010

“Anniversary” in A PRISONER OF MEMORY AND 24 OF THE YEAR’S FINEST CRIME AND MYSTERY STORIES, Pegasus, May 2008

“Insatiable,” BEAT TO A PULP: ROUND ONE, coming soon

“Ladykiller,” CRIMEFACTORY anthology, coming soon

SHORT STORIES:

“The Black Widow Club,” Needle: A Magazine of Noir, April 2010

“Fetish,” Beat to a Pulp, April 2010

“Cheap Bastard,” Spinetingler Magazine, March 2010

“Good Bones,” Crimefactory, January 2010

“Undying Love,” The Feral Pages, issue #2, December 2009

“Beast,” A Twist of Noir, December 2009 (“Beast” won the Watery Grave Invitational in September 2009)

“Insatiable,” Beat to a Pulp, September 2009 — winner of the 2010 Spinetingler Award for Best Short Story

“Silent Partners,” The Rose & Thorn, Spring 2009

“Stepmonster,” Thuglit, issue #30 (March/April 2009)

“Family Man,” CrimeSpree Magazine, issue #29 (March/April 2009)

“Son of So Many Tears,” Thuglit, issue #24 (February/March 2008) — named a Notable Story of 2008 by storySouth

“Anniversary,” Thuglit, issue #17 (March 2007) — named a Distinguished Mystery Story of 2007 in The Best American Mystery Stories 2008 by George Pelecanos and Otto Penzler

PODCASTS:

“Anniversary” podcast, Well Told Tales (read by J.B. Goodspeed), May 2009; click here to download it for free from iTunes

“Family Man” podcast, Well Told Tales, coming soon

“Good Bones” podcast, CrimeWAV, coming soon

Contact Hilary at hilary@hilarydavidson.com, or follow her on Twitter @hilarydavidson.