Janis Thornton
Dust Bunnies & Dead Bodies, Dead Air & Double Dare, Too Good a Girl: Remembering Olene Emberton and the Mystery of Her Death, Love, Lies & Azure Eyes, No Place Like Murder, No Place Like Murder 2
Cozy, True Crime
JANIS THORNTON is the Indiana-based, award-winning author of three vintage Indiana true crime books — “No Place Like Murder,” its successor, “No Place Like Murder 2,” and “Too Good a Girl” about the 1965 unsolved murder of Thornton’s high school classmate. Her historical nonfiction, “The 1965 Palm Sunday Tornadoes in Indiana,” was shortlisted by the Indiana Humanities as one of the best books of 2023-24 by Indiana authors. Thornton also wrote two cozy mysteries in the Elmwood Confidential series, “Dust Bunnies & Dead Bodies” and “Dead Air & Double Dare”; and a stand-alone mystery, “Love, Lies and Azure Eyes.” She is a member of The Authors Guild, Indiana Writers Center, the Women Fiction Writers Association, the National Sisters in Crime , as well as its Indianapolis-based chapter, Speed City Sisters in Crime.