Friday, July 30
7 p.m.
Main Library Hayes Auditorium

Boise Public Library and The Rediscovered Bookshop are pleased to host an author visit and book signing with best-selling author J.A. Jance! She will be in Boise to promote her newest book, Queen of the Night, published by Harper-Collins. The book is scheduled for release in late July.

Jance is the top 10 New York Times bestselling author of the J. P. Beaumont series, the Joanna Brady series, the Ali Reynolds series, and three stand-alone thrillers featuring the Walker family. Her books have more than 15 million copies in print.  Queen of the Night is the fourth in the Walker series. 

Born in South Dakota and growing up in Bisbee, Arizona, Jance was a voracious reader who knew she wanted to be a writer from the moment she read her first Wizard of Oz book in second grade. Always drawn to mysteries, from Nancy Drew right through John D. McDonald's Travis Magee, it was only natural that when she tried her hand at writing her first book, it would be a mystery as well.

Jance graduated from the University of Arizona with a BA in English and Secondary education and an M.Ed in Library Science. In 2000, she was awarded an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters. After teaching high school English in Tucson for two years, working as a K-12 librarian on an Indian reservation for five, and spending ten years in the life insurance industry, she finally turning her hand to writing full time in the early 1980s. 

Jance is an avid crusader for many causes including the American Cancer Society, Gilda's Club, the Humane Society, the YMCA and the Girl Scouts. A lover of animals, she has a golden retriever, Daphne, named for Daphne du Maurier. She and her husband split their times between homes in Washington State and Arizona.   Visit her website

Last Updated:07/07/2010 Author: JMH