Janet Elizabeth Lynn

Biography

Janet has been writing for 10 years and writes mysteries. She has traveled to the far corners of the globe for work and pleasure. A semi retired clinical speech pathologist she loves to garden and play with her 7 year old niece Jenny. She lives in Southern California with her husband, Bill.

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Books

How It Began: The Skylar Drake Mysteries
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 2,210. Language: English. Published: June 21, 2019 by Shorebird. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled
A short prologue to the five-book series of SKYLAR DRAKE MYSTERIES which take place in 1954 Los Angeles.
Game Town
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 58,240. Language: English. Published: March 23, 2019 by Shorebird. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled, Fiction » Historical » USA
Skylar Drake is hired as a bodyguard for two young starlets. He delivers the actresses home after the Emmy Awards ceremony, but stumbles onto the murder of Silver Brovor-Smith, the mother of one of his charges. The FBI is on-scene. He wonders why they are there for a simple murder. Follow Skylar Drake to Hollywood parties where the forbidden is accepted and games played are for keeps.
Slick Deal
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 62,270. Language: English. Published: March 15, 2018 by Shorebird. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled
How in the world can a dead man commit suicide? In 1956, oil tycoon, Oliver Wright dies suspiciously at a swanky Hollywood New Year’s Eve party. His death is soon followed by threats against the rest of his family. Clues lead to Santa Catalina Island. Scandal, mysterious women, treason and more deaths complicate matters, putting private investigator Skylar Drake and his partner in danger.
Desert Ice
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 56,630. Language: English. Published: January 10, 2017 by Shorebird. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled
A missing Marine and stolen diamonds lead Private Eye Skylar Drake to Sin City in 1955, where the women are beautiful and almost everything is legal—except murder. Drake is forced to choose between the right and wrong side of the law. Common sense tells him to go back to L.A., but his gut tells him to find the Marine
Strange Markings
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 58,780. Language: English. Published: November 26, 2015 by Shorebird. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical
At the dawn of the television age in 1955, A wealthy Bel Air matron enlists Skylar Drake’s help in locating a missing nephew. The search takes him back to pre-statehood Hawaii where unexplained deaths, politics and superstitious locals turn the tropical paradise into a nightmare where nothing is what it seems and no one can be trusted.
Slivers of Glass
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 59,400. Language: English. Published: November 28, 2014 by Shorebird. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
Summer 1955: The body of a woman thought to be killed three years earlier is found behind a theater in Hollywood. Movie stuntman Skylar Drake, a former LAPD detective, is dragged into the investigation. He can make no sense of the crime until he discovers a dirty underworld and unearths deep-seated… greed.
The Pier Murder Mysteries Cookbook
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 6,790. Language: English. Published: March 4, 2014 . Categories: Nonfiction » Cooking, Food, Wine, Spirits » International
The Pier Murder Mystery Cookbook came about as a result of requests from readers interested in the foods my characters ate or mentioned. There are four mysteries in this series, hence four chapters of recipes, one for each book. I hope you enjoy the regional American and international foods presented here. The international foods in each chapter are authentic and based on my extensive travels.
Eggnog a Cozy Mystery Cookbook
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 3,080. Language: English. Published: March 4, 2014 . Categories: Nonfiction » Cooking, Food, Wine, Spirits » American / General
I wrote this Cookbook of recipes from my cozy mystery, EGGNOG, after many reader requests for the food cooked, served and enjoyed by the characters in my novels.
North of the Pier - A Murder Mystery
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 60,120. Language: English. Published: December 9, 2013 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
Skylar Tirnov is found hung in his slick LA night club with money and a huge diamond in his pocket. Detective Marcello Prado and former CSI Connie Cane work with the CIA and foreign services to follow clues that take them to Alaska and eastern Russia. A trail of contraband diamond and gold leads back to the US. They are plagued by false identities, betrayal and danger before the crime is solved.
Crepes Suzette a Cookbook
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 3,440. Language: English. Published: June 9, 2013 . Categories: Nonfiction » Cooking, Food, Wine, Spirits » General cookbooks, Nonfiction » Cooking, Food, Wine, Spirits » French
I wrote this Cookbook of recipes from my cozy mystery, Crepes Suzette, after many reader requests for the food cooked, served and enjoyed by the characters in my novels.
East of the Pier
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 50,430. Language: English. Published: November 28, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
Brian Woods washes ashore with missing limbs. Counterfeit money and Spanish doubloons are found on his body. How did he get there? Detective Marcello Pardo and former CSI Connie Cane team up with the FBI to find out why. The investigation leads to Florida. The Mardi Gras in New Orleans and the Caribbean Islands. False arrest, racketeering and smuggling dredge up an old unsolved murder. Who?
Crépes Suzette A Cozy Mystery
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 59,110. Language: English. Published: July 8, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
Wrigley Rose, 25, Entertainment Editor of the Uptown Bulletin, begins to search for her biological family. A slander suit is slapped on the paper and her because of her witty humor. When the three guys she thought she couldn’t live without and her job become tenuous life takes a suspenseful turn. Mysterious information about her family surfaces, throwing Wrigley into life threatening danger.
West of the Pier - A Murder Mystery
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 60,190. Language: English. Published: March 30, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
Ruth Whitmore, is savagely stabbed to death leaving a devastated family asking why? Her devoted nephew Kyle, vows to avenge her murder. His fiancée Connie Cane, a former CSI, agrees to study the scattered clues the victim left with Det. Marcello Parada. The trail leads to Kiribati, a small group of islands in the middle of the Pacific where Ruth’s secret life and ultimate betrayal are revealed.
Eggnog
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 51,270. Language: English. Published: December 4, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
After three lonely Christmases, Elaine Cooper, CPA, a forty something divorced mother of three teenagers, says farewell to her two quarts of eggnog. Bravely she puts her chin to the wind, picks the bugs out of her teeth to dive into the dating scene when five men enter her life. Her identity is stolen and things don’t add up at work, Why? Is she, her family and co-worker in danger?
South of the Pier-A Murder Mystery
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 72,570. Language: English. Published: September 9, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
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Palmer Railton is brutally murdered on his doorstep. In the meantime, Camille Brewster, calls her twin sister, Connie, excited about Palmer’s wedding proposal, and huge ruby engagement ring. Connie, former CSI, must keep her smart-ass sister from getting killed.