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Laurie's first book, Anything You Say Can and
Will Be Used Against You, was published by
HarperCollins in February 2004 (Perennial,
January 2005) and received starred reviews in
Kirkus and Library Journal, as well as
outstanding reviews from publications as varied
as the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles
Times Book Review, Publisher's Weekly, Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, and USA Today. Her book
has been translated and published in Finland
and Japan, and is forthcoming in France.
Anything You Say, a BookSense selection, was a
finalist for a PEN/Hemingway Award, and it won a
Violet Crown Award from the Writers' League of
Texas and the Jesse Jones Award from the
Texas Institute of Letters. One of the stories from
the collection,"Something About a Scar," won the
2005 Edgar Award for Best Short Story.
Will Be Used Against You, was published by
HarperCollins in February 2004 (Perennial,
January 2005) and received starred reviews in
Kirkus and Library Journal, as well as
outstanding reviews from publications as varied
as the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles
Times Book Review, Publisher's Weekly, Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, and USA Today. Her book
has been translated and published in Finland
and Japan, and is forthcoming in France.
Anything You Say, a BookSense selection, was a
finalist for a PEN/Hemingway Award, and it won a
Violet Crown Award from the Writers' League of
Texas and the Jesse Jones Award from the
Texas Institute of Letters. One of the stories from
the collection,"Something About a Scar," won the
2005 Edgar Award for Best Short Story.
Anything You Say explores the lives of five
female police officers in Baton Rouge,
Louisiana. Although the stories are fiction,
they come out of Laurie's experience
working as a uniformed police officer for
the Baton Rouge Police Department in the
1980s.
Laurie is currently working on a novel, The Hour
of Two Lights, also for HarperCollins (estimated
pub date: 2008) and a memoir, Losing My Gun.
female police officers in Baton Rouge,
Louisiana. Although the stories are fiction,
they come out of Laurie's experience
working as a uniformed police officer for
the Baton Rouge Police Department in the
1980s.
Laurie is currently working on a novel, The Hour
of Two Lights, also for HarperCollins (estimated
pub date: 2008) and a memoir, Losing My Gun.
