Kate Hopkins Joyce

Mystery

As a child, Kate Hopkins Joyce adored books featuring “old-fashioned girls”: Anne of Green Gables, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, The Five Little Peppers, the Betsy-Tacy series …. So when it came time to write a new mystery series, Miss Joyce created a grown-up version of those “old-fashioned girls” and set her loose in San Francisco at the turn of the 20th century. In another lifetime, Miss Joyce worked in print and broadcast journalism. She published three contemporary mysteries with St. Martin’s Press under a different pen name. Miss Joyce lives on California’s beautiful Central Coast with the requisite feline companion, a tabby named Dandy.