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Janet Dawson

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The United States

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http://www.janetdawson.com/

Genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Crime, Historical Fiction

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April 2012

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Janet Dawson is the author of The Sacrificial Daughter, first in a new series featuring geriatric care manager. She has also written thirteen novels featuring Oakland private investigator Jeri Howard. Her first, Kindred Crimes, won the St. Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of America contest for best first private eye novel. The most recent book in the series is The Devil Close Behind.

Her Jill McLeod historical mystery series features a Zephyrette sleuthing aboard the long-distance train called the California Zephyr in the early 1950s. The first in that series is Death Rides the Zephyr.

In the past, Dawson was a newspaper reporter and a Navy journalist. She has worked in the legal field and on the staff of the University of California Berke ...more

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Average rating: 4.24 · 14,624 ratings · 1,049 reviews · 65 distinct works • Similar authors

	Kindred Crimes (Jeri Howard Mystery, #1) 4.25 avg rating — 1,821 ratings — published 1990 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jeri Howard Books 1-5 (Jeri Howard Mystery #1-5) 4.56 avg rating — 1,153 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Take a Number (Jeri Howard Mystery, #3) 4.17 avg rating — 1,256 ratings — published 1993 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Till the Old Men Die (Jeri Howard Mystery, #2) 3.91 avg rating — 1,338 ratings — published 1993 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where The Bodies Are Buried 4.29 avg rating — 847 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Killing At The Track (Jeri Howard #9) 4.22 avg rating — 832 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jeri Howard Books 1-9 (Jeri Howard Mystery #1-9) 4.58 avg rating — 665 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Credible Threat 4.17 avg rating — 710 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jeri Howard Books 6-9 (Jeri Howard Mystery #6-9) 4.52 avg rating — 638 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nobody's Child (Jeri Howard Mystery #5) 4.28 avg rating — 605 ratings — published 1995 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“car back”
― Janet Dawson, Jeri Howard Books 1-5

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“truck for an uncle.”
― Janet Dawson, Witness To Evil

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“lucked between a drugstore and a discount shoe outlet, the Manila Galleon featured Filipino and American food, and it seemed to have a brisk lunchtime trade. I spent the next couple of hours plowing through business records, first at the San Mateo County Courthouse, then at its San Francisco counterpart.”
― Janet Dawson, Till the Old Men Die

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Polls

Voting for September 2020 Group Read - a book with the letters C-R-I-M-E in the title.

Crimson Lake by Candice Fox

13 votes, 50.0%

Crime on the Fens by Joy Ellis

5 votes, 19.2%

Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie

2 votes, 7.7%

The Chemistry of Death by Simon Beckett

2 votes, 7.7%

Kindred Crimes by Janet Dawson

2 votes, 7.7%

A Suspension of Mercy by Patricia Highsmith

1 vote, 3.8%

The Minutes of the Lazarus Club by Tony Pollard

1 vote, 3.8%

26 total votes

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