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SISTERS IN CRIME/LA August 2020 Meeting Recap

On August 2nd, 2020, Sisters in Crime/LA met virtually via Zoom.

 

Featured Speaker
Toby Neal

 

Award-winning, USA Today bestselling social worker turned author Toby Neal grew up on the island of Kauai in Hawaii. Neal is a mental health therapist, a career that has informed the depth and complexity of the characters in her stories.

Neal’s Paradise Crime Mysteries, starring multicultural detective Lei Texeira, explore the crimes and issues of Hawaii from the bottom of the ocean to the top of volcanoes. Spinoff Paradise Crime Thrillers, with Lei’s friend Sophie, features a tech sleuth with a mean left hook and an ongoing vigilante justice manhunt.

Neal’s also written the romance thriller Scorch Series (with Emily Kimelman) and her own Somewhere Series romances under Toby Jane.

Toby’s memoir, Freckled: a Memoir of Growing Up Wild in Hawaii, has been widely praised. Kirkus calls Freckled, “an affecting and riveting chronicle…in a Hawaii long lost.” She writes memoir under TW Neal.
See her work at:  Home – Toby Neal

 

 

Featured Reader
Henry Forman aka Jordan Hanks

 

Henry Jay Forman is an emeritus professor at the University of Southern California and University of California at Merced. Dr. Forman is an award-winning scientist with over two hundred scientific publications, and editor of a scientific journal. He uses the pen name Jordan Hanks to write mystery novels that are based in the world of biomedical science, the first being “The Death of Death.” This will be part of a series in which the lead characters are Cindy Firestone, a police detective turned private investigator and her husband, FBI agent, former forensic pathologist, Steve Jude.