Julie Dennis Brothers | 4,462 (6,013) | 139 | 4,820 | (3.62) | 13 | 0 | Jan Burke, an award-winning mystery writer, holds the distinction of being the first woman novelist to win the Ellery Queen Mystery Readers' Award. She was also awarded an Edgar for her Novel, Bones. Her popular mystery series features the newspaper writer Irene Kelly, who lives and works in Southern California. Burke was born in Texas. With her family she moved to Southern California when she was a young girl. She attended California State University, Long Beach, earning a degree in history. After graduating, she worked for several years as a manager of a manufacturing plant. Her first novel, Goodnight Irene, was written during those years. Goodnight Irene was well received and the Irene Kelly series has grown in popularity with each subsequent novel. Other notable works from the series are Dear Irene and Hocus. Her works include Bloodlines, Kidnapped, The Messenger, and Disturbance. (Bowker Author Biography) Jan Burke has won the Edgar Award, the Macavity Award & the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Award. She lives in Southern California. (Publisher Provided) — biography from Bones … (more) |
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Jan Burke has 7 past events. (show) Mystery on the Menu at the Cerritos Library 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 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 Jan Burke signs The Messenger. An outstanding supernatural thriller in which a salvage diver becomes enslaved to a creature which calls to him from the wreckage of a 19th century ship. (archaism)
Author Interview and Signing with Jan Burke 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)
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