Janet DawsonJanet Dawson is the author of ten novels about PI Jeri Howard. Kindred Crimes won the St. Martin's Press/PWA best first PI novel contest, also earning Shamus, Macavity, and Anthony nominations. Dawson has been an enlisted journalist in the Navy, and now works for the University of California. Dawson says, In a way, I grew up at the movies. My mother's family owned movie theaters from the 1920s till the 1970s. Dawson spent time as a child helping her aunt sell popcorn and watching her uncle lift huge film reels onto the projectors, to spin out dreams on the silver screen. Read More Read Less