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Joan Del Monte
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 set in the Sacramento Delta
of California and is due in the spring of 2008.
See
Forthcoming Title: Mud
Blood
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