Northern California Mysteries: Mystery Readers Journal (41:3) Fall 2025

Northern California I is now available. What a great issue--and not only because I live in NorCal. We've received wonderful articles, reviews, and author essays--so many that we are splitting this theme into two issues. We've left room for a few more articles and author essays. So if you didn't get around to contributing to Northern California Mysteries, you still have until November 10--a drop dead deadline!-- to send something. Send to janet @ mystery readers . org  Hope you enjoy Northern California I. 

Northern California Mysteries I

Volume 41, No. 3, Fall 2025

Available as a downloadable PDF.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLES

• The Campanile Murders: A Lost Berkeley Mystery by Randal S. Brandt

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• From Lake Tahoe to the Napa Valley by Rachele Baker
• Embedding Northern California with Murder, Mayhem, and Crime by Susan Alice Bickford
• Highway 49 Revisited by Taffy Cannon
• My NorCal Mystery Escapes by Kate Carlisle
• Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay by Glenda Carroll
• Sam Spade Returns by Mark Coggins
• Silicon Valley Will Always Be the Valley of Heart’s Delight to Me by Ron Cook
• Infinite Variety and Inspiration by Janet Dawson
• You Live Where? by Maddie Day
• We Had One Once, but She Died by Michele Drier
• Indigenous Voices Calling by June Gillam
• Meredith Ryan Women’s Mystery Series by Thonie Hevron
• “Why Is a Rock Band like a Writing Desk?” by Claire Johnson
• Santa Cruz: Home to Linguine with Clam Sauce, Avocado Toast… and Murder by Leslie Karst
• Whose Humboldt County Is It, Anyway? by Maria Kelson
• Why Sacramento? by James L’Etoile
• Just a Small Town Duck… by Claudia Long
• The Many Faces of NorCal by Marcia Muller
• How the Screaming Got Started on Northern California’s Quietest Street by Christopher Null
• A San Francisco Tale—Bop City Swing by M.E. Proctor
• The Cities of San Francisco by Lev AC Rosen
• The Noble Grape by Diane Schaffer
• Creating Justice Bay by Patricia Smiley
• Humboldt County: Prohibition, Dinosaurs and a Thousand-Year Flood by Kelli Stanley
• Death, I Said: A Charlie Chan Mystery by John Swann
• Is It Pelican Point… or Bodega Bay? by Penny Warner
• Real Life to Reel Life NorCal Mysteries by William P. Wood

COLUMNS

• Mystery in Retrospect: Reviews, by LJ Roberts and Lucinda Surber
• Children’s Hour: Northern California Mysteries by Gay Toltl Kinman
• Real Crime in Northern California by Cathy Pickens
• From the Editor’s Desk by Janet A. Rudolph

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