Janet Dawson

Janet Dawson is the author of the long-running series with Oakland private eye Jeri Howard, who has sleuthed her way through 14 cases. The most recent is the forthcoming The Things We Keep. The first book in the series is the award-winner, Kindred Crimes. She also writes the Jill McLeod series, with her inquisitive Zephyrette riding the rails on the California Zephyr in the early 1950s. The first in the series is Death Rides the Zephyr and the most recent, Death Above the Line. Another series features Kay Dexter, a geriatric care manager who works with elderly clients and their families in a small mountain city in California. The first in that series is The Sacrificial Daughter. Other publications include What You Wish For, a novella, But Not Forgotten, and numerous short stories. She calls California home and has ties to Colorado. She worked as a reporter and later, as a Navy journalist. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and writes full time. She enjoys gardening, the theatre, music and museums. She also denies being a crazy cat lady.