Joan Del Monte currently lives on the Venice canals and summers in the Northern California redwoods. She has owned an antique shop, a real estate agency, art gallery in Venice and taught courses in antiques at UCLA extension and California State Colleges. She has written for national newspapers and lectured on antiques.

Joan taught a course in writing the mystery novel at Santa Monica College, which she called "A Guide to the Pitfalls, From Someone Who Has Fallen Into Most of Them". She sold the movie rights to her first mystery '"Magic Angle Ate a Pickle" and has a B.S. from Columbia University and an M.A. from UCLA.

Joan is currently working on her third novel, which will take place in part in the Sacramento Delta area.

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