Order of Janet Dawson Books

Janet Dawson is an American author known for creating the Jeri Howard series, which centers around a private investigator in Oakland. The series' first book, Kindred Crimes, won the St. Martin’s Press/Private Eye Writers of America contest for the best first private eye novel. Dawson has a background as a newspaper reporter in Colorado and has also worked as a journalist in the U.S. Navy, where she was stationed in the San Francisco Bay area. Currently, she is part of the staff at the University of California, Berkeley. Dawson is a long-time member of both Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime, having served as the president of MWA NorCal.