Beverly M. Kelley
Beverly Merrill Kelley, Ph.D. retired from teaching communication courses after thirty-five years in the department she founded at California Lutheran University. She has instructed so many local attorneys, she is rarely permitted to serve on a jury. She previously published three nonfiction books that explore the relationship between politics and film as well as numerous scholarly articles in the fields of argumentation, persuasion, credibility, interpersonal communication, television, and film history. She published her first novel two years ago to which this book is the sequel. She plans to chronicle the progress of the Port Cabrillo Cold Case Unit and the Hunter Triplets in a series of murder mysteries inspired by actual unsolved cases from the seventies and the eighties.