Jeri Weseterson

Noir and hard-boiled fiction seem to be in Jeri Westerson’s blood. She was born and bred on the mean streets of Los Angeles, inhaling smog and enduring earthquakes. Newspaper reporter, would-be actress, graphic artist; these are the things she spent her time on before becoming a novelist. She took all that gritty edginess and plunked it into the Middle Ages, creating the newest hard-boiled detective, Crispin Guest; disgraced knight turned PI, solving crimes on the mean streets of fourteenth century London in her “Medieval Noir” novels. Jeri’s debut, VEIL OF LIES, garnered nominations from the Mystery Reader’s Journal Macavity Award for Best Historical Mystery and the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel, the first medieval mystery to be so honored. Westerson is on the board of directors and newsletter editor for the southern California chapter of Mystery Writers of America, is president for the Orange County chapter of Sisters in Crime, a member of the Los Angeles Chapter, is a member of Private Eye Writers of America, and the Historical Novel Society. She is married to a commercial photographer, has a son in college, and herds two cats, a tortoise, and the occasional tarantula at her home in southern California.