Jo A. Hiestand
Jo A. Hiestand is the author of two British mystery series. While this may not seem so unusual, Jo was born in — and still lives in — St. Louis, Missouri, USA. To get around the technical difficulties dictated by living in one country and writing about another — especially about police procedures and crime detection, of which she has no personal experience — she travels to Britain every few years for research. During a citizen’s police academy course she met future co-author police officer Paul Hornung, where they talked more about writing than about police work. During several ride-alongs they established a bond through these two mutual interests; eventually they agreed to collaborate on books. They’ve done this with Paul supplying information, writing the fights scenes, and finally writing some of the chapters as one of the series characters.
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