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Chris Kelsey

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in Bangor, Maine, The United States

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Mystery, Crime, Thriller

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Chris Kelsey's first novel, Where the Hurt Is, won the 2018 Pencraft Award for Fiction Book of the Year. He's currently Director of Instrumental Music at Trinity-Pawling School in Pawling, NY. ...more

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Average rating: 4.27 · 1,887 ratings · 202 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	Where the Hurt Is 4.21 avg rating — 1,471 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Butcherville 4.39 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Junker Blues 4.46 avg rating — 138 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ain't Nothin' Personal (An Emmett Hardy Crime Novel) 4.55 avg rating — 125 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Attack of the Contrafact, Vol. 1, for C Instruments: Jazz Lines for the Adept and Incautious by Chris Kelsey (Goodreads Author), Lisa Kelsey (Cover_design) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Fear: Trump in the White House

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Chris Kelsey has read Metro by Steen Langstrup (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Chris Kelsey made a comment on Garth Slater’s review of Blond Hair, Blue Eyes: An Emmett Hardy Crime Novel " No idea. I've never read any of her books. Judging by your review, however, I'd like to think so! :-) ...more "
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Chris Kelsey and 1 other person liked Lisa Kelsey's review of The Ice Storm: "My first book of the year sure is a doozy. Not for the squeamish. But. Really, really good. Some books just get to the heart of things, the "underneath," the parts no one really wants to articulate. I grew up in a wealthy suburb in the 1970's, not in" Read more of this review »
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Chris Kelsey rated a book it was amazing Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America by Hugh Eakin	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The title's a little misleading in that this is more than anything the story of two men—John Quinn and Alfred Barr, non-artists both—who, more than anyone else, established a beachhead for modern art in the US. Secondarily it's the story of the found ...more
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Chris Kelsey wants to read 25 books in the 2023 Reading Challenge He has read 6 books toward his goal of 25 books. 6 of 25 (24%) Create your own 2023 Reading Challenge »
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“The scrublands and pastures glowed like an ocean of fireflies in the light of the full moon. I reckon you might say it was a beautiful sight, but I barely noticed. I’ve been living here so long, sometimes I’m blind to the things that make it special.”
― Chris Kelsey, Where the Hurt Is

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