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Northern California Mysteries II
Volume 41, No. 4, Winter 2025

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES
- They Didn’t Intend to Be Detectives… by Aubrey Nye Hamilton
- The Air Smelled Like Redwoods by Rona Bell
AUTHOR! AUTHOR!
- Northern California—in My Blood, in My Books by Juliet Blackwell
- A Time Traveler in the East Bay by Mary Adler
- Did a Charlie Chan Film Influence the Zodiac Murders? by Lou Armagno
- If You’ve Got the Lipstick… by David Corbett
- Climate Fiction in Northern California by Mary Flodin
- Just Say “Yes” to Stories from the Bay Area by Meredith Blevins
- Why I Set My Stories in Northern California by Daryl Wood Gerber
- San Francisco Wild by Toni Dwiggins
- Setting: Real or Invented? by Vinnie Hansen
- Mild-Mannered Men in Northern California by Walter Horsting
- I Have a Wild Imagination by Nancy Lynn Jarvis
- Following the Money to Silicon Valley by Ron Katz
- Baking Up Good Mystery in the Northern California Redwoods by Victoria Kazarian
- The Fault Lines in Northern California by Ellen Kirschman
- 1860s San Francisco— A Perfect Place for a Mystery by Nancy Herriman
- It Had to Be San Francisco… by Barry Lancet
- The City, My City by Lexa Mack
- World Building: It’s Not Just for Science Fiction and Fantasy by A.B. Michaels
- Feng Shui-by-the-Sea by Denise Osborne
- A Fog-Shrouded Lens by Tim Maleeny
- A Fish Out of Water in Oakland by Brad Parks
- The Babylon Deception, a Northern California Mystery by Ray Pace
- The Estuary Kept Its Secrets by Susan Paturzo
- Red Rock Island: Where Imagination Found a Home by Alec Peche
- The Cook, the Inspector, and the City by the Bay by Joanne Pence
- A Reader and a Writer Walk into a Bar by Karen A. Phillips
- Northern California: The Lost Highway by Alexandra Sokoloff
COLUMNS
- Mystery in Retrospect: Reviews
- Crime Seen: The Streets of San Francisco by Kate Derie
- Cop Ten: The Streets of… Everyplace Else but San Francisco by Jim Doherty
- From the Editor’s Desk by Janet A. Rudolph
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