Mystery Readers Journal: Northern California Mysteries II (41:4)

Mystery Readers Journal: Northern California II (41:4) is now available. 

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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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