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