Joanne Pence

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Joanne Pence
BornJoanne Lopez
San Francisco, California, U.S.
OccupationAuthor
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley
SpouseDavid Pence
Children2

Joanne Pence is the author of a long running and successful romantic culinary mystery series. Fourteen books were published from 1993 to 2006. [1]

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Her amateur sleuth Angie Amalfi is an underemployed food writer and gourmet chef in San Francisco, romantically involved with homicide inspector Paavo Smith. As well as fitting in the culinary mystery niche, her books are followed by romance novelist enthusiasts [2] and also have a humorous, screwball adventure flavor. [1] [3]

Joanne Pence was born Joanne Lopez in San Francisco. She attended the University of California, Berkeley and worked from 1970 to 1998 as an operations analysis manager in the Social Security administration. She is married to David Pence and has two children. [1]

She is a member of Sisters in Crime, Novelists, Inc, and Romance Writers of America. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Joanne Pence". Contemporary Authors Online, 2007. Gale Cengage Learning. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  2. Jill M. Smith, reviews of Cooking up Trouble, Cooking Most Deadly, Cook's Night Out, Cooks Overboard, A Cook in Time, To Catch a Cook, and Bell, Cook, and Candle. Romantic Times website accessed 17 Aug 2012
  3. "Red Hot Murder." Publishers Weekly 19 Dec. 2005: 47. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 17 Aug. 2012.