Joan Hetzler has been a freelance writer and editor for over twenty-five years. She has worked as a communications writer, newspaper journalist, and a technical writer for software companies. Her creative writing experience includes plays, poems, short stories, humor, memoir, and classic mystery novels. Her stage plays have won awards as well as her memoir writings. For eight years, she produced and hosted The Writers Show, a radio program devoted to writers and their readers at a local college station. From the coastal islands of South Georgia to the mountains of Northwest Georgia, Joan captures her experiences in stories and poems. She wrote the Megan O'Connell mystery series based in Atlanta, Georgia, about an investigative reporter who goes undercover to solve crimes with the help of her IT friends and a handsome homicide detective. These books are clean fiction that can fit in the Christian marketplace or secular as they are suitable for all ages. Clues appear throughout to give a reader a chance to figure out "whodunit." The characters are likeable and the villains, not so much. The second series begins the Megan and Derek mysteries as they start their honeymoon with a cold case to solve and a deadline for Derek to start a new future as a law student. With wit, love and intelligence they do their part to service justice and help find a killer.
