Kelly Oliver is a distinguished author, known for her award-winning and bestselling mystery series. She has written three different series, including the contemporary suspense Jessica James Mysteries, the middle grade Pet Detective Mysteries, and the historical cozies The Fiona Figg Mysteries. Oliver's writing combines her unique background and personal experiences with her talent for storytelling, resulting in captivating and engaging mysteries.
Oliver grew up in the Northwest, surrounded by the contrasting worlds of her maternal grandfather, a forest ranger, and her paternal grandfather, a logger. These contrasting influences shaped her perspective and provided the foundation for her future work as a philosopher and writer. After studying philosophy and pondering animal minds at Northwestern University, she went on to become a distinguished professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Her background in philosophy is evident in her writing, as she skillfully weaves complex ideas and themes into her stories.
In addition to her mystery series, Oliver has also written over 100 articles and over twenty books on philosophy, including "Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape," which won a CHOICE AWARD for Outstanding Title. She has been featured on ABC news, CSPAN books, and various radio programs. Despite her impressive academic accomplishments, Oliver has chosen to focus on her writing, using her skills and knowledge to create captivating and engaging stories.
Oliver currently lives in Nashville with her husband and three demanding felines. When she's not writing, she enjoys visiting her website KellyOliverBooks.com to connect with her readers and share updates on her latest projects. Her dedication to her craft and her ability to create compelling stories have earned her a well-deserved reputation as a talented and successful author.
A Fiona Figg & Kitty Lane Mystery Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
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1
Chaos at Carnegie Hall
2022
2
Covert in Cairo
2023
3
Mayhem in the Mountains
2023
4
Arsenic at Ascot
2023
5
Murder in Moscow
2024
6
Poison in Piccadilly
2024
Fiona Figg Mystery Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
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1
Betrayal at Ravenswick
2020
2
High Treason at the Grand Hotel
2021
3
Villainy in Vienna
2022
Jessica James Mysteries Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
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1
Wolf
2016
2
Coyote
2016
3
Fox
2017
4
Jackal
2018
5
Viper
2019
6
Cottonmouth
2021
Pet Detective Mysteries For Kids 7-12 Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
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1
Treasure Hunter
2020
Pet Detective Mysteries Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
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1
Kassy O'Roarke, Cub Reporter
2019
2
Kassy O'Roake, Treasure Hunter
2020
3
Kassy O'Roarke, Geocacher
2020
SUNY Series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature Books (by with Maurice Blanchot)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
A Voice from Elsewhere
2002
2
A Voice from Elsewhere (By: Charlotte Mandell, Maurice Blanchot)
2002
The Detection Club Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
The Case of the Christie Conspiracy
2025
2
The Case of the Body on the Orient Express
2025
Kelly Oliver Non-Fiction Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Ethics, Politics, and Difference in Julia Kristeva's Writing
1993
2
Reading Kristeva: Unraveling the Double-bind
1993
3
Womanizing Nietzsche: Philosophy's Relation to the "Feminine"
1994
4
The Portable Kristeva
1997
5
The Portable Kristeva (With: Julia Kristeva)
1997
6
Family Values: Subjects Between Nature and Culture
1997
7
Subjectivity Without Subjects: From Abject Fathers to Desiring Mothers
1998
8
French Feminism Reader
2000
9
Between the Psyche and the Social: Psychoanalytic Social Theory
2001
10
Witnessing: Beyond Recognition
2001
11
Noir Anxiety
2002
12
Noir Anxiety (With: Benigno Trigo)
2002
13
Colonization Of Psychic Space: A Psychoanalytic Social Theory Of Oppression
2004
14
Contemporary French Feminism
2004
15
Contemporary French Feminism (With: Lisa Walsh)
2004
16
Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex, and the Media
2007
17
Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Work of Julia Kristeva
2009
18
Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Work of Julia Kristeva (With: S.K. Keltner)
2009
19
Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human
2009
20
Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Films
2012
21
Technologies of Life and Death: From Cloning to Capital Punishment
2013
22
Earth and World: Philosophy After the Apollo Missions
2015
23
Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape
2016
24
Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention
2017
Forerunners: Ideas First Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Trans Care
2020
2
Mediators (By: Reinhold Martin)
2014
3
Aesop's Anthropology (By: John Hartigan Jr.)
2014
4
The Anthrobscene (By: Jussi Parikka)
2014
5
No Speed Limit (By: Steven Shaviro)
2015
6
Deep Mapping the Media City (By: Shannon Mattern)
2015
7
The Geek's Chihuahua (By: Ian Bogost)
2015
8
Martin Heidegger Saved My Life (By: Grant Farred)
2015
9
Mandela's Dark Years (By: Sharon Sliwinski)
2015
10
Cinema without Reflection (By: Akira Mizuta Lippit)
2016
11
Dark Deleuze (By: Andrew Culp)
2016
12
How Noise Matters to Finance (By: Nicholas A. Knouf)
2016
13
Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age (By: Mark Jarzombek)
2016
14
The Uberfication of the University (By: Gary Hall)
2016
15
The Politics of Bitcoin (By: David Golumbia)
2016
16
Fifty Years of The Battle of Algiers (By: Sohail Daulatzai)
2016
17
Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics (By: Davide Panagia)
2016
18
The Celebrity Persona Pandemic (By: P. David Marshall)
2016
19
Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention
2017
20
A Third University Is Possible (By: La Paperson)
2017
21
UW Struggle (By: Chuck Rybak)
2017
22
Shareveillance (By: Clare Birchall)
2017
23
Aspirational Fascism (By: William E. Connolly)
2017
24
Callous Objects (By: Robert Rosenberger)
2017
25
The End of Man (By: Joanna Zylinska)
2018
26
The Neocolonialism of the Global Village (By: Ginger Nolan)
2018
27
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (By: Kathryn Yusoff)
2018
28
The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance (By: Kenneth J. Saltman)
2018
29
Learning versus the Common Core (By: Nicholas Tampio)
2019
30
Edges of the State (By: John Protevi)
2019
31
Theory for the World to Come (By: Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer)
2019
32
Break Up the Anthropocene (By: Steve Mentz)
2019
33
Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism (By: Arne De Boever)
2019
34
Burgers in Blackface (By: Naa Oyo A. Kwate)
2019
35
How to Do Things with Sensors (By: Jennifer Gabrys)
2019
36
Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation (By: Jonathan Beecher Field)
2019
37
Medical Technics (By: Don Ihde)
2019
38
Spoiler Alert (By: Aaron Jaffe)
2019
39
Wageless Life (By: Marv Waterstone, Ian G.R. Shaw)
2019
40
LatinX (By: Claudia Milian)
2019
41
Furious Feminisms (By: Michael Gill, Anna Mae Duane, Alexis L. Boylan, Barbara Gurr)
2020
42
Kill the Overseer! (By: Sarah Juliet Lauro)
2020
43
Trans Care (By: Hil Malatino)
2020
44
Cruelty as Citizenship (By: Cristina Beltrán)
2020
45
Grounded: Perpetual Flight . . . and Then the Pandemic (By: Christopher Schaberg)
2020
46
The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender
2020
47
Grounded (By: Christopher Schaberg)
2020
48
The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender (By: Marquis Bey)
2020
49
Virtue Hoarders (By: Catherine Liu)
2021
50
The Global Shelter Imaginary (By: Andrew Herscher, Daniel Bertrand Monk)
2021
51
Calamity Theory (By: Joshua Schuster, Derek Woods)
2021
52
Young-Girls in Echoland (By: Andrea Jonsson, Heather Warren-Crow)
2021
53
Safety Orange (By: Anna Watkins Fisher)
2021
54
Only a Black Athlete Can Save Us Now (By: Grant Farred)
2022
55
The World Is Gone (By: Gregg Lambert)
2022
56
Out of Breath (By: Caterina Albano)
2022
57
Does the Earth Care? (By: Jason Young, Mick Smith)
2022
58
Studious Drift (By: Tyson E. Lewis, Peter Hyland)
2022
59
The Owls Are Not What They Seem (By: Arnaud Gerspacher)
2022
60
Solarities (By: After Oil Collective)
2022
61
The School-Prison Trust (By: Sabina E. Vaught)
2022
62
Endlings: Fables for the Anthropocene (By: Lydia Pyne)
2022
63
Rescue Me (By: Margret Grebowicz)
2022
64
All through the Town (By: Antero García)
2023
65
Health Colonialism (By: Shiloh Krupar)
2023
66
Crip Negativity
2023
67
Gramsci at Sea (By: Sharad Chari)
2023
68
Opening Ceremony (By: Kathryn J. Gindlesparger)
2023
69
No More Fossils (By: Dominic Boyer)
2023
70
Everything is Police (By: Tia Trafford)
2024
71
Livestreaming (By: EL Putnam)
2024
72
On the Appearance of the World (By: Mark Foster Gage)
2024
73
Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism (By: Lisa Diedrich)