Janet Dawson's Jeri Howard Anthology Free May 29-30

Janet Dawson announced the publication of an e-anthology featuring the first nine books in the Jeri Howard series. The ebook will be free on Amazon today Tuesday, May 29 and Wednesday, May 30! Head on over to this Amazon link on today and Wednesday, and get your copy!

Fans of hard-boiled women sleuths and detective novels with a twist will love P.I. Jeri Howard. If you like Sue Grafton, Marcia Muller, T.R. Ragan, Laura Lippman, Sara Paretsky, and Alison Gaylin, this intelligent, action-packed anthology is a mega bargain!

KINDRED CRIMES
A puzzling missing persons case--a wife who disappears with the grocery money--keeps winding backward, revealing brand new secrets as fast as ancient skeletons can fall out of closets.

TILL THE OLD MEN DIE
The grisly murder of a sedate, widowed history professor, is written off as a random street crime until a woman turns up at his university, claiming to be his widow and demanding access to his "papers."

TAKE A NUMBER
Out of loyalty to a former client, Jeri takes on a nasty divorce case. The soon-to-be ex-husband winds up with a bullet in his back, and the prime suspect is Jeri's client.

DON'T TURN YOUR BACK ON THE OCEAN
Jeri is looking to catch a respite from the PI life to relax and visit family in lovely Monterey on the California coast. Now, what's the worst thing that could happen on a PI's vacation? A dead body on the beach, most likely.

NOBODY'S CHILD
Is a Jane Doe uncovered at a construction site the body of her client's long-lost daughter Maureen? If so, what's become of Maureen's two-year-old daughter?

A CREDIBLE THREAT
A UC Berkeley undergrad fears the worst when her shared house receives multiple threats from an unknown antagonizer.

WITNESS TO EVIL
A seventeen-year-old Jeri tracked down when she swiped her mother's credit card and took off for Paris is now a "person of interest" in a murder case--and, once again, in the wind.

WHERE THE BODIES ARE BURIED
Jeri's newest client was about to blow the whistle on a large food manufacturer just before he took a header out his fifth-floor apartment window--but he hadn't yet told her what it was about. Next step: Undercover in the corporate office.

A KILLING AT THE TRACK
Set in the fascinating and forbidden racetrack backside. Dawson's complex plot is a pleasure--one dead jockey, then two dead jockeys, three exotic poisons, and several possible payoffs.

Janet Dawson & Wendy Hornsby Literary Salon

Join Mystery Readers NorCal for an evening Literary Salon in Berkeley (CA) with mystery authors Janet Dawson and Wendy Hornsby.

When: Thursday, April 19, 7 p.m.

Where: Berkeley. RSVP by making comment below with your email
 
Janet Dawson is the author of twelve novels featuring Oakland private investigator Jeri Howard. She was the winner of the St. Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of America contest for best first private eye novel and has been nominated for the Shamus, Macavity and Anthony Awards. Her latest novel is The Ghost in Roomette Four, the third in her California Zephyr mystery series.

Edgar Award-winning author Wendy Hornsby has written thirteen mystery novels and many, many short stories. She taught ancient and Medieval history at Long Beach City College for 38 years. Her latest mystery featuring filmmaker Maggie MacGowen takes the intrepid investigative filmmaker across Europe in Number 7, Rue Jacob.

Literary Salon June 2: Janet Dawson, J.J. and Bette Golden Lamb, Wendy Hornsby

Join Mystery Readers NorCal for a Literary Salon on Thursday, June 2, at 7 p.m. in Berkeley, CA. To RSVP and for address, please comment below with your email address.

Janet Dawson has written two novels featuring Zephyrette Jill McLeod and eleven novels with Oakland private investigator Jeri Howard. Her first Jeri Howard book, Kindred Crimes, won the St. Martin’s Press/Private Eye Writers of America contest for best first private eye novel. It was nominated in the best first category for three mystery awards, the Shamus, the Macavity and the Anthony. The California Zephyr series, a historical mystery series with Zephyrette Jill McLeod, includes Death Rides the Zephyr and the latest, Death Deals a Hand. The twelfth book in the Jeri Howard series, Water Signs, will be published by Perseverance Press in spring 2017. She has written twelve short stories, including Macavity winner “Voice Mail.” Janet has also written a stand-alone suspense novel, What You Wish For.

Bette Golden Lamb and J.J. Lamb are co-authors of eight crime novels, including The Killing Vote, a taut political thriller, and Bone Crack, sixth book in the Gina Mazzio RN medical thriller series. The LAMBS have also collaborated on Sisters in Silence, a medical thriller about a fertility counselor who goes on a mercy-killing spree of barren women; and Heir Today …, a fast-paced suspense/adventure novel. Bette is a professional ceramicist, artist  and devoted gardener. J.J. is a journalist and skilled jack-of-all-trades.

Wendy Hornsby is the Edgar Award-winning creator of the Maggie MacGowen series. Her first novel, No Harm, was published in 1987, but it wasn’t until 1992 that Hornsby introduced her most famous character: Maggie MacGowen, documentarian and amateur sleuth. She has written ten MacGowen novels, most recently Disturbing the Dark. Besides her ten MacGowen novels, Hornsby has written dozens of short stories, and two novels in the earlier Kate Teague series.

James Benn, Janet Dawson, Martin Limon-October 2 Literary Salon

Join Mystery Readers NorCal for an evening Literary Salon in Berkeley with award winning authors James Benn, Janet Dawson & Martin Limon: Wednesday, October 2, 7 p.m.

Make a comment below for address.

James Benn, best known for the Billy Boyle World War II Mystery Series will be introducing his eighth adventure crime novel, A Blind Goddess. 

Martin Limón, retired from U.S. military service after 20 years in the Army and author of eight novels in the Sergeants Sueño and Bascom series. He will tell us about his latest, Nightmare Range: The Collected Sueño and Bascom Short Stories.

Janet Dawson's Death Rides the Zephyr is coming down the track. December 1952. The California Zephyr pulls out of Oakland headed for Chicago. Zephyrette Jill McLeod hopes for an uneventful run. But the Silver Lady’s passenger list includes mayhem—and murder.

Janet Dawson & Gigi Pandian: September 19 Literary Salon

Join Mystery Readers NorCal for an evening Literary Salon on September 19 at 7 p.m. in Berkeley with Bay Area Mystery Writers Janet Dawson and Gigi Pandian.

Janet Dawson 

Janet Dawson has written ten novels featuring Oakland private investigator Jeri Howard. Her first, Kindred Crimes, won the St. Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of America contest for best first private eye novel. It was nominated in the best first category for three mystery awards, the Shamus, the Macavity and the Anthony. Other Jeri Howard books include Till The Old Men Die, Take A Number, Don't Turn Your Back On The Ocean, Nobody's Child, A Credible Threat, Witness to Evil, Where The Bodies Are Buried and A Killing at the Track. A book of ten short stories, Scam and Eggs, was published in 2002. A new Jeri Howard novel, Bit Player, published by Perseverance Press in April 2011, was nominated for a Golden Nugget Award for the best mystery set in California. Her stand-alone suspense novel What You Wish For will be published by Perseverance in September 2012.

In the past, Dawson was a newspaper reporter in Colorado, and her stint as a U.S. Navy journalist took her to Guam and Florida. As an officer in the Navy, she was stationed in the San Francisco Bay Area. After leaving the Navy, Dawson worked in the legal field. She is now on the staff of the Physical Biosciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and resides in Alameda, California.

Read a Guest Post by Janet Dawson

Gigi Pandian

Gigi Pandian is a mystery writer, photographer, and graphic designer in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the child of two cultural anthropologists, one from the southern tip of India, the other from Albuquerque, New Mexico.

She graduated from Pitzer College and went on to graduate school at the University of Washington in Seattle and the University of Bath in England. Before completing her PhD, she realized she was much better suited to writing about the fictional adventures of academics than being one herself. She left academia for art school, and began writing the Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt Mystery Series. The first book in the series, Artifact, was released August 28, 2012.


Pandian was awarded the William F. Deeck Malice Domestic Grant for Artifact. The grant is given out every year at the Malice Domestic mystery convention to foster the next generation of traditional mystery writers.

A month after her 36th birthday, Gigi was diagnosed with breast cancer. To get through her treatments, she decided to throw herself into her mystery writing. She’s happy to report that she’s doing well. Life is still uncertain, though, so she plans to have a lot of fun in life as she travels the world with her husband, camera, and notebook for writing mysteries.

Read Gigi's Guest Post HERE.

Please RSVP for more information and location.  Potluck Sweets & Savories.