About the Author

Janet Dawson is the author of the Jeri Howard PI series, which includes Kindred Crimes, winner of the St. Martin’s Press/Private Eye Writers of America contest for Best Private Eye Novel, and Bit Player, which was nominated for a Golden Nugget award for Best California Mystery. The most recent series entry is Cold Trail. Two of Dawson’s short stories were nominated for a Shamus and another won a Macavity.

In addition to a suspense novel, What You Wish For, she has written Death Rides the Zephyr, the predecessor to this book. A past president of NorCal MWA, Dawson lives in the East Bay region. She welcomes visitors at www.janetdawson.com and at her blog, www.getitwriteblog.wordpress.com.

Mystery fiction by Janet Dawson

THE JERI HOWARD MYSTERY SERIES

Kindred Crimes

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

A Killing at the Track

Bit Player

Cold Trail

SHORT STORIES

Scam and Eggs

SUSPENSE FICTION

What You Wish For

Death Rides the Zephyr

Death Deals a Hand