TYPORAMA
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The second in her humorous, horror-mystery-paranormal Bless Your Heart series--a current nominee for the Bram Stoker Award--which features several generations of the funeral-home-owning Evans women and which CrimeReads named in their Most Anticipated Crime, Horror and Mystery Novels of 2025.
PRAISE FOR ANOTHER FINE MESS:
"Sometimes the dead can ruin your life. Lindy Ryan's Another Fine Mess is a rich and captivating story about family legacy, history, lore, and of course murder. Delightfully alluring and richly suspenseful." –Cynthia Pelayo, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Vanishing Daughters
"If you ever thought Supernatural should have starred the Golden Girls, have I got the series for you. Smart, at times devastating, and just as funny as it is dark, Another Fine Mess is Lindy Ryan's unputdownable follow-up to Bless Your Heart. Balancing grief and duty, monsters and men, the Evans women are characters to sink your teeth into."–Katrina Monroe, author of Through the Midnight Door
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ABOUT ANOTHER FINE MESS:
Making sure dead things stay buried is the family business… .
For over a hundred years, the Evans women have kept the undead in their strange southeast Texas town from rising. But sometimes the dead rise too quick–and that’s what left Lenore Evans, and her granddaughter Luna, burying Luna’s mother, Grace, and Lenore’s mother, Ducey. Now the only two women left in the Evans family, Luna and Lenore, are left rudderless in the wake of the most Godawful Mess to date.
But when the full moon finds another victim, it’s clear their trouble is far from over. Now Lenore, Luna, and the new sheriff—their biggest ally—must dig deep down into family lore to uncover what threatens everything they love most. The body count ticks up, the most unexpected dead will rise–forcing Lenore and Luna to face the possibility that the undead aren’t the only monsters preying on their small town.
ANOTHER FINE MESS is the anticipated follow up to BLESS YOUR HEART, which has been optioned for television, is in development for a TV series and has been long-listed for Bram Stoker Award, and will be available in paperback March 18, 2025.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Photo Credit: Pete Vilotti
Lindy Ryan is an award-winning author, anthologist, and short-film director whose books and anthologies have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist and Library Journal.
She also writes sweet, seasonal romance under the pseudonym Lindy Miller. Several of her projects have been adapted for screen.
Ryan is the current author-in-residence at Rue Morgue and regularly contributes articles to outlets including BookTrib, Crime Reads, and more. Declared a “champion for women’s voices in horror” by Shelf Awareness, Ryan was named a Publishers Weekly Star Watch Honoree in 2020, and in 2022, was named one of horror's most masterful anthology curators.
She previously served on the Board of Directors for the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA).
She is an award-winning professor at Rutgers University, and has published several academic texts. Prior to her career in academia, Ryan was the co-founder of Radiant Advisors, a business intelligence research and advisory firm, where—as research director and then chief operations officer—she led the company's research and data enablement practice for clients including 21st Century Fox Films, Warner Bros., and Disney.
Born and raised in Southeast Texas, Ryan currently resides on the East Coast.
