Davidson,Hilary

HILARY DAVIDSON

Hilary Davidson’s debut crime novel, The Damage Done, will be published by Forge on September 28, 2010; her follow-up novel will be published in fall 2011.

Her first published short story, “Anniversary,” is featured in A Prisoner of Memory and 24 of the Year’s Finest Crime and Mystery Stories (Pegasus, 2008). Her “Son of So Many Tears” is included in Thuglit Presents: Blood, Guts, and Whiskey (Kensington, 2010). Hilary won the 2010 Spinetingler Award for Best Short Story for “Insatiable.” In 2009, Hilary won the Watery Grave Invitational, a short story competition for crime writers, with her entry, “Beast.”

The Damage Done

Lily Moore, a successful travel writer, fled to Spain to get away from her troubled, drug-addicted younger sister, Claudia. But when Claudia is found dead in a bathtub on the anniversary of their mother’s suicide, Lily must return to New York to deal with the aftermath. The situation shifts from tragic to baffling when the body at the morgue turns out to be a stranger’s. The dead woman had been using Claudia’s identity for months. The real Claudia had vanished, reappearing briefly on the day her impostor died. As Claudia transforms from victim to suspect in the eyes of the police, Lily becomes determined to find her before they do.