Authors starting with J from The Whodunit Company

This biography of George Sand (1804-1876) concentrates on her life rather than her writing, and posits the fascinating idea that Sand wrote about things as a sort of rehearsal for living them--including her sexual experiments.

In her posh, quiet home in a privately guarded neighborhood, a woman is attacked in her bathtub. She struggles out her front door, through the snow, to a neighbor's house, and dies. Detroit police detective, Fang Mulheisen, must piece together a chilling puzzle about the rich woman who died hardest, but didn't die last.

In South Central Los Angeles, Jazmine chafes under the thumb of her preacher father, wishing instead for salvation and success through her musical talents and to have some fun with her gregarious friend Dakota.

Three African American women and one white woman work at a beauty shop called Blessings. This novel tells their stories, and describes their intersecting lives.

With a King James Bible, and a world of rock 'n' roll trivia, journalist A. J. Jacobs makes comparisons...between Jesus and Elvis.