Richard Helms is a retired college professor and forensic psychologist. He has been nominated eight times for the SMFS Derringer Award, winning it twice; seven times for the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award, with a win in 2021; twice for the ITW Thriller Award, with one win; four times for the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award with one win: and once for the Mystery Readers International Macavity Award. He is a frequent contributor to Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, along with other periodicals and short story anthologies. His story “See Humble and Die” was included in Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt”s Best American Mystery Stories 2020. A Kind and Savage Place is his twenty-second novel. He would like to acknowledge the contributions of developmental editor Derek Mc Fadden in the production of this manuscript. Mr. Helms is a former member of the Board of Directors of Mystery Writers of America, and the former president of the Southeast Regional Chapter of MWA. When not writing, Mr. Helms enjoys travel, gourmet cooking, simracing, rooting for his beloved Carolina Tar Heels and Carolina Panthers, and playing with his grandsons. Richard Helms and his wife Elaine live in Charlotte, North Carolina.
6 Ebooks by Richard Helms
Richard Helms: A Kind and Savage Place
It’s 1954. The place is Prosperity, North Carolina, a small farming community in Bliss County. Three teenagers, the 1953 championship-winning offensive backfield for Prosperity High, and lifelong fri …
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Richard Helms: Vicar Brekonridge
On a frigid January day on London’s Whitehall in 1843, a Scottish woodturner named Daniel M’Naghten guns down Edward Drummond, believing him to be British Prime Minister Robert Peel. M’Naghten, who s …
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Prabhakar Chaganti & Rich Helms: Amazon SimpleDB Developer Guide
Simple DB is a highly scalable, simple-to-use, and inexpensive database in the cloud from Amazon Web Services. But in order to use Simple DB, you really have to change your mindset. This isn’t a trad …
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Richard Helms: Everybody Loves A Hero
Trauma-bonded kindred spirits Wes Valentine and Tyler Gill try to support one another in the face of incessant high school bullying. The principal and administrators won’t intervene because the bulli …
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Janice Law & Aeryn Rudel: Black Cat Weekly #131
This issue, we have a pair of original tales—Aeryn Rudel’s “The Past, History” (which served double-duty as both science fiction and a crime story, courtesy of Acquiring Editor Mich …
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