Naomi Rand


Author of The Emma Price Mystery Series

IT’s Raining Men

AN EMMA PRICE MYSTERY

When her boss and close friend, Dawn Prescott, is murdered in an apparent crime of passion, Emma Price investigates personal suspicions and risks her life to uncover a web of corruption and duplicity that takes her from Nassau County to Hollywood.

Stealing for a Living

An Emma Price Mystery

An investigator with the Capital Defender’s office, Emma Price is assigned to the case of an accused mufrderrer who faces death row unless she can dig up mitigating circumstances. Meanwhile, she’s juggling her role as the newly single mother of a toddler and a troubled teenager who’s heading down a slippery slope that’s all too familiar to her.

The One That Got Away

An Emma Price Mystery

After being betrayed by her husband, former investigator for the Capital Defender's Office and mother-to-be Emma Price is forced to go back to work and must discover the reasons behind a teenage girl's murderous rampage with the help of a streetwise detective.

Praise for the One that GoT AWAy

"An intriguing character driven mystery that just may become a fine series."

– Booklist



“Ambitiously scaled and generously plotted.”

— Kirkus



“Emma Price is a fine creation, too-reasonable, sympathetic, funny and as formidable as she needs to be.”

— The Newark Star Ledger

Praise for It’s Raining Men

"A complicated and challenging mystery"

– Publishers Weekly



“Required reading.”

— New York Post



“Nerve jangling.”

— I LOVE A MYSTERY

Praise for Stealing for a Living

“One of the Years Ten Best Mysteries: The mystery, Rand’s second, combines an intelligent, well-fleshed out cast of characters with a swiftly moving plot that is studded with surprises.”

– St. Louis Post Dispatch


“Rand has a great trick for building suspense.”

— The Charlotte Observer


“A fast paced whodunit that keeps the reader captive to the end.”

— LA Times Review

About
NAOMI

Naomi Rand is the author of the Emma Price mysteries, The One That Got Away, Stealing For A Living, and It’s Raining Men (Harper Collins) and the novel, Surviving Amelia (Bink Booka). She has stories in three great collections, Brutal and Strange: Stories Inspired by the Songs of Elvis Costello (Down and Out Press), Crime Plus Music (Three Rooms Press) and Hard Boiled Brooklyn (Bleak House Books). Her fiction and literary criticism have appeared in numerous publications including The Flexible Persona, Other Voices, Melus, Cutbank, The Florida Review, The Spirit That Moves Us Press, Invisible City, and The North Dakota Quarterly. Her personal essays have appeared in The Huffington Post and Ravishly, and she's written a book review column, numerous articles for national publications and, once, long ago, a pregnancy guide. Now she lives in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn with her husband, David. When she's not writing, swimming, or walking, she's planning her next great meal.