Mystery Women Authors

Janice Steinberg

Biography

Janice Steinberg grew up in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin (a suburb of Milwaukee), where, she says "the weather is perfect for long hours at the typewriter". She wrote her first mystery, "The Clue of the Key," on a snowy day when she was seven years old. In 1969, she moved to a more challenging environment for a writer, Southern California. She attended the University of California-Irvine, receiving a B.A. and M.A. in an interdisciplinary program called Social Ecology. 

She says "I owe my mystery writing career to my mother. She introduced me to Nancy Drew when I was at an impressionable age, and led me into a life of crime."

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Books

Margo Simon's Mysteries

Death Crosses the Border (1)

Margo never expected Reverend 'Zeke', a fundamentalist preacher, to be so young, to surf, or to drive like a demon. She knew the story about U.S.-owned Mexican factories being dangerous. On their trip across the border together, Margo escapes unscathed. But a few days later, Zeke perishes in a car accident. Now, Margo begins to wonder if it really was an accident.

Published Mass Market Paperbacks November 1995

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Death of a Postmodernist (2)

San Diego Public Radio reporter Margo Simon needs some spice in her life, and she's certainly found it with her latest interview subjects: a group of eccentric young artists. When a beautiful artist is found dead at an exhibit opening, Margo wonders if it was extreme artistic expression--or murder.

Published Mass Market Paperbacks Oct 1996

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Death - Fires Dancers (3)

In the wake of a series of canyon fires and the destruction they bring to several San Diego homes, public radio reporter Margo Simon discovers that the victims were all New Age healers and suspects that a modern-day witch hunter is at work.

Published Mass Market Paperbacks November 1996

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Dead Man and the Sea (4)

Margo is shocked when the body of skilled sailor Hob Schreiber is pulled from the water. The sea was his element. How could he have drowned? But Margo soon learns that death came before Hob even hit the water--and at someone else's hands.

Published Berkley 1997

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Death in a City of Mystics (5)

Reporter Margo Simon's mother had a bad fall. But when it's tied to poisonous herbs mixed into her tea, Margo must ponder who would want to hurt her mother--for what happened was no accident.

Published Mass Market Paperbacks 1998

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