Jan Burke

Note from the library website: The Friends of the Cerritos Library will host the eighth Mystery on the Menu luncheon with 15 award- winning authors on Saturday, January 26 from 11 a.m. o 4 p.m.

The authors participating in panel discussions and book signing are Rhys Bowen, Robin Burcell, Jan Burke , Marcia Clark , Janet Dawson , Timothy Hallinan, Naomi Hirahara, Melodie Johnson Howe, Leslie S. Klinger , Dick Lochte, Catriona McPherson, Christopher Rice , Sheldon Siegel , April Smith and Kelli Stanley. Copies of books by these authors will be available for purchase at the event from Mysterious Galaxy.

Admission is $45 per person. Register via the library early, as seating as limited. Contact Janice Dawson at (562) 924-2474

Location: Street: Cerritos Library Additional: 18025 Bloomfield Avenue City: Cerritos, Province: California Postal Code: 90703 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Jan Burke , The Messenger.

In Burke’s first supernatural thriller, a salvage driver becomes enslaved to a creature who calls to him from
the wreckage of a 19th-century ship and orders him to hunt down Tyler Hawthorne, a solitary man who has
heard the last thoughts of the dying for more than two centuries. Jan Burke is a national best-selling and
award-winning author, as well as the founder of the Crime Lab Project (www.crimelabproject.com). (booksense)… (more)

Jan Burke on tour for The Messenger .

"In this outstanding supernatural thriller from bestseller Burke (Kidnapped), her first venture into paranormal territory, Tyler Hawthorne, a British officer wounded at Waterloo, receives a memento mori ring on the battlefield from "Messenger" Lucien Adrian deVille, Lord Varre. The ring grants the wearer immortality, but in exchange Tyler must forever comfort the dying. Tyler also gets Shade, a black cemetery dog, for protection. In the present, a salvage diver uncovers Adrian's remains in a ship sunk in the Caribbean in 1815. A resurrected Adrian uses the diver to help locate Tyler in Los Angeles, where Tyler is attending to a leukemia patient. Tyler, an ageless 24, has also fallen for wealthy Amanda Clarke, who's haunted by family members killed in an accident that she survived. Mutual attraction and a dedication to do good unite the pair against the evil Adrian. Shade lends a distinctive Dean Koontzian flavor to the action, while Charlaine Harris fans will appreciate Amanda's ghostly abilities." —Publishers Weekly (Lorriamsden)… (more)