Karmen H. Spiljak

ALLi Author Member

Location: Europe

Genres: Commercial Fiction, Thriller, LGBTQ+, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Crime, Mystery, Espionage, Short/Flash Fiction Collection, Horror, Writing & Publishing

Skills: Writing Workshop, Self-publishing Workshop/Training

I'm an award-winning author of culinary noir series and a book-coach in training.

My thriller, 'No Such Thing as Goodbye', has been shortlisted and received an honourable mention at the 'The Black Spring Crime Fiction Prize 2020'.

My collection of culinary noir 'Add Cyanide to Taste' won the 2022 IndieReader Discovery Award and its follow-up collection 'Pass the Cyanide' won the 2023 Wishing Shelf Book Awards Bronze.

I live in Belgrade.

Karmen H. Spiljak's books

A Perfect Flaw

Zoja is an anxious geek, who spends more time with computers than with other people. Having grown up without her parents, she has closed herself off from being hurt.

After moving in with two other students, Zoja intends to keep to herself, but her new flatmates have other plans. While struggling with her anxiety, Zoja finds herself falling in love for the very first time.

Add Cyanide to Taste

The 2022 IndieReader Discovery Award for short stories.

This collection of culinary mysteries ascends the jagged culinary heights you’ve hungered to explore but could never find on a map: a family business that depends on a cursed recipe, a remote mountain village harbouring a suspicious cook, a house ghost with a peculiar appetite.

Fourteen short stories and thirteen recipes will chill, thrill and entertain. They range from thrillers and mysteries to ghost stories.

No Such Thing as Goodbye

A spy with a criminal past. A dark family secret. Freedom at the cost of betrayal.

To escape her mobster family, Toni fakes her own death, but before she can start anew in Mexico City, she’s pulled into a world of spies and deadly secrets. Her new life crumbles when she discovers her boss is keeping secrets of his own.

When word gets around that Toni’s brother is on his way to Mexico, she fears the worst - he wants to hunt her down. Cornered and with nowhere to turn, Toni must decide: will she run once more, or will she risk her life for a chance of freedom?

‘Shortlist & Honourable mention at the Black Spring Crime Fiction Prize 2020’

OUT in JULY 2022

Pass the Cyanide

The 2023 Wishing Shelf Book Awards Bronze

Awards Finalist: The 2023 Indies Today, The 2024 Book Excellence Awards

A collection of dark and twisted culinary mysteries with recipes, a follow-up to the award-winning collection of culinary mysteries, Add Cyanide to Taste. This is the second book in the series of 'Cooking with Cyanide' and is perfect for fans of culinary noir and foodies who love a pinch of danger with their suspense.

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