Joan Livingston

Joan Livingston is the author of novels for adult and young readers, including the Isabel Long Mystery Series, featuring a long-time journalist who becomes an amateur P.I. solving cold cases in rural New England. She is currently writing the eighth in the series.

She draws upon her own experience as a long-time journalist to create Isabel Long, a gutsy, savvy widow who uses the skills she acquired in the business to solve what appear to be impossible cases. She also draws on her deep knowledge of rural Western Massachusetts to create realistic characters and settings — from country bars (where Isabel works part-time) to a general store’s backroom where gossipy old men meet — for the series and other novels set in that area.

An award-winning journalist, Joan started as a reporter paid by the inch covering the rural hill towns of Western Massachusetts before working as a columnist and editor. (The experience helped to break a long writer’s block while she raised six children.) She went on to be editor-in-chief of award-winning newspapers in New Mexico and Massachusetts. But she has since left journalism to concentrate on her own writing. She lives in Shelburne Falls, a village in Western Massachusetts.

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