Kelley Armstrong

Kelley Armstrong was born on 14 December 1968, the oldest of four siblings in a "typical middle-class family" in Sudbury, Ontario.^[1]

After graduating with a degree in psychology from University of Western Ontario, Armstrong then switched to studying computer programming at Fanshawe College so she would have time to write.

"I'm a former computer programmer, but I have escaped my corporate cubicle and hope never to return"^[3]

Her first novel Bitten was sold in 1999, and it was released in 2001. Following her first success she has written a total of 13 novels and a number of novellas in the world of the Women of the Otherworld series, and her first crime novel, Exit Strategy, was released July 2007. Armstrong has been a full-time writer and parent since 2002.^[1]

Her novel No Humans Involved (the seventh book of the Women of the Otherworld series) was a New York Times bestseller in the hardback fiction category on 20 May 2007.^[4]Also, her YA novel The Awakening was a No. 1 New York Times bestseller in the Children's Chapter books category on 17 May 2009.^[5]

Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld series is part of a recently popular contemporary fantasy subgenre of the fantasy genre that superimposes supernatural characters upon a backdrop of contemporary North American life, with strong romantic elements. Within that subgenre, she is notable for including many types of supernatural characters, including witches, sorcerers, werewolves, necromancers, ghosts, shamans, demons and vampires, rather than limiting herself primarily to a single type of supernatural creature. Most of her works have a mystery genre plot, with leading characters investigating some novel situation or unsolved question.

In the Otherworld novels, most supernatural powers are either hereditary, or arise from the act of an existing supernatural of the same type. The Otherworld, while it has overarching conflicts and plotlines that span multiple novels, is not an epic battle between good and evil. The novels are largely episodic with the continuing plotlines primarily involving the developing lives of the main characters.

Her contemporary fantasy writings share genre similarities with writers Charlaine Harris, Laurell K. Hamilton and Kim Harrison.

Standalone novels

• Wherever She Goes (2019)
• Every Step She Takes (2020)

Young adult

• The Masked Truth (2015)
• The Unquiet Past (2016)
• Missing (2017)
• Aftermath (2018)
• Someone Is Always Watching (2023) ISBN 9780735270923

The Women of the Otherworld Series

• All other stories may be found on the series' main article.

Otherworld novellas

Otherworld Young Adult

1. Wolf's Bane^[7] (Oct 2019)
2. Wolf's Curse^[8] (Mar 2020)

The Nadia Stafford Series

1. Exit Strategy (novel, Jul 2007)^[9]
2. Made to be Broken (novel, Feb 2009)
3. Wild Justice (novel, late 2013)^[10]
4. Double Play^[11] (Apr 2016)
5. Perfect Victim^[12] (Nov 2017)

The Darkest Powers Series

The Darkest Powers Trilogy

The Darkness Rising Trilogy

Cainsville series

1. Omens (novel, Aug 2013)^[19]
2. Visions (novel, Aug 2014)^[20]
3. Deceptions (novel, Aug 2015)^[21]
4. Betrayals (novel, Aug 2016)^[22]
5. Rituals (novel, Aug 2017)^[23]
6. Portents: A Collection of Cainsville Tales (collection, Aug 2018)^[24]
7. Cruel Fate (novella, Apr 2019)^[25]
8. Rough Justice (novella, Jun 2018)^[26]
9. Lost Souls (novella, Mar 2017)^[27]

The Age of Legends Series

1. Sea of Shadows (novel, 2014)
2. Empire of Night (novel, 2015)
3. Forest of Ruin (novel, 2016)

The Blackwell Pages Trilogy

Written under the alias: K. L. Armstrong. Co-authored with Melissa Marr.

1. Loki's Wolves (2013)
2. Odin's Ravens (May 2014)
3. Thor's Serpent (May 2015)

Rockton novels

1. City of the Lost (Jan 2017)
2. A Darkness Absolute (Nov 2017)
3. This Fallen Prey (Nov 2018)
4. Watcher in the Woods (Nov 2019)
5. Alone in the Wild (Feb 2020)^[28]
6. A Stranger in Town (Feb 2021)
7. The Deepest of Secrets (Feb 2022)

A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying

1. A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying (Aug 2019)
2. The Gryphon's Lair (Jun 2020)^[29]
3. The Serpent's Fury (Jun 2021)
4. The Final Trial (Jun 2022)

Haven's Rock

1. Murder at Haven's Rock (Feb 2023)^[30]
2. The Boy Who Cried Bear (Feb 2024)^[31]

A Stitch in Time

Cursed Luck

A Rip Through Time

Series in collaboration

Anthologies and collections

Wikiquote has quotations related to Kelley Armstrong.

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• Kelley Armstrong at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Kelley Armstrong at Library of Congress, with 59 library catalogue records