J. A. Jance
When J. A. Jance was introduced to Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz series in the second grade, she knew she wanted to be a writer. It was many years later before this wish came true with the publication of the first Detective Beaumont book, Until Proven Guilty (1985). She has written more than 15 best-selling J.P. Beaumont mysteries and her most recent book, Exit Wounds (William Morrow, 2003), is the tenth in her Sheriff Joanna Brady series. She lives in Bellevue, Washington.
