In a lush garden in Seattle, near her snoozing dachshunds, sits a grandmother who’s plotting murder. But, as with any good mystery, all is not as it seems. She’s J.A. Jance, and she’s sold more than 21 million books about life’s darker side.
Beginning in 1985 with her first novel, “Until Proven Guilty,” up through this year’s “Missing and Endangered,” Jance has published more than 70 books featuring her three series protagonists: old-school Seattle Police Detective J.P. Beaumont, widowed Arizona Sheriff Joanna Brady and L.A. newscaster-turned-crime-investigator Ali Reynolds.
Jance is the final speaker, on Monday, March 22, in this year’s virtual Nick Linn Lecture Series, sponsored by the Friends of the Library of Collier County.