The Juan Doe Murders: A Smokey Brandon Thriller (25 page)

If you love
CSI
or
NCIS
, you’ll love the mysteries of Noreen Ayres. This Edgar Award finalist was writing memorable and compelling crime fiction with a focus on forensics long before those shows emerged on the scene. She broke new ground in the crime fiction genre with
The Juan Doe Murders
and her two prior suspense novels featuring Smokey Brandon, an ex-Las-Vegas-stripper-and-police-officer turned forensic criminalist. Smokey finds herself involved in cases that cut a little too close to home—and Ayres’s plucky heroine is as sunny and complex as the Southern California world where she solves crimes.

In addition to her novels, Ayres is also an acclaimed short-story writer. Her stories have been featured in many mystery and suspense anthologies and earned her an Edgar Award nomination for “Delta Double Deal,” her contribution to the collection
The Night Awakens
. For gritty police procedurals with a fun and sexy twist, Noreen Ayres’s Smokey Brandon series can’t be beat.