Joanne Pence
Author of Something's Cooking: An Angie Amalfi Mystery (Angie Amalfi Mysteries)
About the Author
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Series
Works by Joanne Pence
The Inspector Rebecca Mayfield Mysteries Box Set 1: (Thirteenth Santa, One O'Clock Hustle, Two O'Clock Heist) (2017) 2 copies
Six O'Clock Silence: An Inspector Rebecca Mayfield Mystery (Inspector Rebecca Mayfield Mysteries) (2018) 2 copies
Still Life 1 copy
Murder By Devil's Food: An Angie & Friends Food & Spirits Mystery (The Angie & Friends Food & Spirits Mysteries… (2021) 1 copy
Associated Works
A Taste of Murder: Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers (1999) — Contributor — 45 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1946
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Places of residence
- San Francisco, California, USA
Boise, Idaho, USA - Education
- University of California, Berkeley (MS|Journalism)
- Occupations
- writer
civil servant
teacher - Organizations
- Sisters in Crime (Boise chapter)
Popular Fiction Association of Idaho
Idaho Writers Guild - Agent
- Sue Yuen (Inko Inc.)
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Reviews
Seems Like Old Times by JoMarie Lodge
I really enjoyed this book, it held my interest. At times, I couldn't put it down. I got emotionally involved with the characters. Yes, it was predictable but it wasn't a bad thing.
If you enjoy Clive Cussler, you're going to love this! It's a heart-pounding adventure that will send chills down your spine. I got so immersed in the story that I completely lost track of time while reading it. I absolutely loved Michael, he had great depth, and you couldn't help but root for him. It's clear Pence has done some research to help bring this story to life, and the realistic settings are brilliant. Highly recommend!
Inspector Rebecca Mayfield, a homicide detective with the San Francisco Police Department, is a strictly by-the-book cop. Outside of work, she lives quietly in a small, not quite legal in-law apartment, with her dog, Spike, who is a hairless Chinese Crested-Chihuahua mix.
And then one fine Saturday night, she gets called to Big Caesar's, a popular, fancy club where there has just been a shooting. There's one dead woman, and one suspect, caught standing over the body with the gun in his hand. He has a crazy story about being innocent, and seeing the actual killer leave via the window.
This suspect is Richie Amalfi, a charming, handsome businessman whose business and actual source of income isn't entirely clear. Richie, though, is "practically family" at Mayfield's home police station, with his niece engaged to marry another Inspector there. And however skeptical Mayfield and others are about his source of income, he has absolutely no record of violence. Yet, he's been caught red-handed, right?
Mayfield questions the witnesses, while her partner takes Amalfi in for booking. Or, rather, he tries to. Amalfi quickly gives him the slip. Mayfield finds this out when she finally gets home--and finds Richie Amalfi waiting for her, and getting an unusually warm welcome from Spike, who usually is cool and standoffish with strangers (a typical Chinese Crested trait, by the way.)
Richie Amalfi wants her help proving he's innocent. Somehow, he convinces her, not exactly that it's a good idea, but to go along with it, nevertheless. Just for a day. Really.
Soon they're chasing all over San Francisco, looking for the missing bookkeeper, or rather, as it turns out, the bookie, who works at Big Caesar's, his mistress, his wife, a friend of the dead woman, and a newspaper reporter whose career isn't going anywhere, and who, it turns out, had agreed to ghostwrite a book for Danny the bookie, whose clients would not be happy to find out about Danny's book.
The local criminal gangs get interested, too. It's soon not at all clear that either Richie or Rebecca will survive.
However! I can assure you that, as in all well-organized novels, the dog does survive, without a scratch.
It's an enjoyable mystery, if a little bit stereotypical in parts.
I bought this book.… (more)
And then one fine Saturday night, she gets called to Big Caesar's, a popular, fancy club where there has just been a shooting. There's one dead woman, and one suspect, caught standing over the body with the gun in his hand. He has a crazy story about being innocent, and seeing the actual killer leave via the window.
This suspect is Richie Amalfi, a charming, handsome businessman whose business and actual source of income isn't entirely clear. Richie, though, is "practically family" at Mayfield's home police station, with his niece engaged to marry another Inspector there. And however skeptical Mayfield and others are about his source of income, he has absolutely no record of violence. Yet, he's been caught red-handed, right?
Mayfield questions the witnesses, while her partner takes Amalfi in for booking. Or, rather, he tries to. Amalfi quickly gives him the slip. Mayfield finds this out when she finally gets home--and finds Richie Amalfi waiting for her, and getting an unusually warm welcome from Spike, who usually is cool and standoffish with strangers (a typical Chinese Crested trait, by the way.)
Richie Amalfi wants her help proving he's innocent. Somehow, he convinces her, not exactly that it's a good idea, but to go along with it, nevertheless. Just for a day. Really.
Soon they're chasing all over San Francisco, looking for the missing bookkeeper, or rather, as it turns out, the bookie, who works at Big Caesar's, his mistress, his wife, a friend of the dead woman, and a newspaper reporter whose career isn't going anywhere, and who, it turns out, had agreed to ghostwrite a book for Danny the bookie, whose clients would not be happy to find out about Danny's book.
The local criminal gangs get interested, too. It's soon not at all clear that either Richie or Rebecca will survive.
However! I can assure you that, as in all well-organized novels, the dog does survive, without a scratch.
It's an enjoyable mystery, if a little bit stereotypical in parts.
I bought this book.… (more)
Rebecca Mayfield has been a by-the-book cop until Richie Amalfi enters her life. He's accused of murder and runs to Rebecca to help him prove his innocence. The more she learns about the case, the more convinced she becomes that he's not guilty. He's more than a little shady, but as dangers lurk and more deaths happen, Rebecca discovers there's a lot more to Richie than she thought, and a lot more to like than she imagined. Soon, she fears not only for her life, but also her heart.
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