Joyce Ann Brown

Joyce Ann Brown is an explorer. In life, she explores the world. Her career as a librarian let her explore all types of media with her students. On hikes and trips, she always needs to find out what is around the next bend. In her stories, especially her mysteries, she explores human nature, the light and the dark. Her travels provide many of her settings. In "CATastrophic Connections," the sleuth follows clues which lead her to St. John and St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands where she encounters frustrations and dangers in that tropical paradise. "Furtive Investigation" takes the reader back and forth in time and from Kansas City, MO to Frog Springs, Arkansas after Psycho Cat finds a skeleton in the attic of a duplex. The protagonist explores Kansas City, especially the Brookside neighborhood, in "Nine LiFelines," the third book in the Psycho Cat series. The Trolley Track Trail, the author's favorite walking trail in Kansas City, is the setting for the action in this book. In "Tailed," to save her brother-in-law from going to prison for murder, our intrepid sleuth and her clairvoyant cat must connect a bungling duo of petty crooks to the RV and truck break-ins and murder that happened during their RV vacation to Texas.