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Julia Keller

Born

Huntington, West Virginia, The United States

Genre

History, Nonfiction, Mystery

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Julia was born and raised in Huntington, West Virginia. She graduated from Marshall University, then later earned a doctoral degree in English Literature at Ohio State University.

She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and has taught at Princeton and Ohio State Universities, and the University of Notre Dame. She is a guest essayist on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS and has been a contributor on CNN and NBC Nightly News. In 2005, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.

Julia lives in a high-rise in Chicago and a stone cottage on a lake in rural Ohio.

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Average rating: 3.77 · 21,704 ratings · 3,203 reviews · 29 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Killing in the Hills (Bell Elkins, #1) 3.64 avg rating — 5,341 ratings — published 2012 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bitter River (Bell Elkins #2) 3.69 avg rating — 3,659 ratings — published 2013 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Summer of the Dead (Bell Elkins, #3) 3.80 avg rating — 2,160 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Last Ragged Breath (Bell Elkins, #4) 3.91 avg rating — 1,694 ratings — published 2015 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sorrow Road (Bell Elkins, #5) 3.81 avg rating — 1,448 ratings — published 2016 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fast Falls the Night (Bell Elkins, #6) 3.88 avg rating — 1,218 ratings — published 2017 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cold Way Home (Bell Elkins, #8) 3.95 avg rating — 1,108 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bone on Bone (Bell Elkins #7) 3.98 avg rating — 1,075 ratings — published 2018 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Haunting of the Bones (Bell Elkins, #3.5) 3.93 avg rating — 359 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Devil's Stepdaughter (Bell Elkins #3.6) 3.88 avg rating — 336 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Bell Elkins (8 books)
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“We are defined not so much by what we're reading, as by what we're reading next.”
― Julia Keller

tags: la-times

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“Maybe if you carried bad memories around long enough, they started to change how you walked, how you talked. How you thought.”
― Julia Keller

tags: bad-memories, depression, dystopian

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“The past was a tricky bastard. It called and called to you—and when you turned around and tried to grasp it, it disappeared.”
― Julia Keller, Last Ragged Breath

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Without Fail by Lee Child

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The Blood Gospel by James Rollins

24 votes 11.1%

Rose Madder by Stephen King

22 votes 10.1%

Birdman by Mo Hayder

22 votes 10.1%

The One I Left Behind by Jennifer McMahon

18 votes 8.3%

Bangkok 8 by John Burdett

16 votes 7.4%

Eden by David Holley

13 votes 6.0%

Big Red Tequila by Rick Riordan

11 votes 5.1%

Nano by Robin Cook

10 votes 4.6%

Traces of Kara by Melissa Foster

10 votes 4.6%

Raw Material by J.J. Marsh

10 votes 4.6%

A Killing in the Hills by Julia Keller

8 votes 3.7%

Crashed by Timothy Hallinan

6 votes 2.8%

Predator Strike by Liam Saville

4 votes 1.8%

Brass Knuckles by Larry Matthews

2 votes 0.9%

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