Writer, teacher, entrepreneur, JOAN DEL MONTE was a featured author in
a Museum of Contemporary Arts show in Washington, DC in 2007. She wrote
a bibliography of antiques for the Los Angeles Public Library and
taught a college course in writing the mystery which she called: "A
Guide to the Pitfalls from Someone Who Has Fallen in Most of Them".
Joan lives on a canal in Venice, California and maintains a summer home
in the Northern California redwoods. Both locales are featured in her
first mystery, PLONK GOES THE WEASEL, Infinity Publishing, 2003. A
small redwoods town is ripped off by a film company and the eccentric
residents go on a dogged hunt for an unthinkable and truly wicked
revenge.
Joan's second novel, DEATH HAD A YELLOW THUMB, Write Up The Road
Publishing, 2005, deals with the counterfeiting of saffron, the world's
most expensive spice, and is set in San Pedro, California and features
a vagabond spice, missing ships and murder in the muscular port city.
Joan has a B.S. from Columbia University and an M.A. from U.C.L.A. She
is a frequent public speaker on her books and the writer's life.
Joan's third mystery, MUD BLOOD, is now published.
