Joyce Spizer

Does Joyce look like a PI to you? Maybe it's those late night stakeouts, being shot at, and bombed out--that's beginning to show.

Considered the "Hart-to-Hart" of Southern California investigators, Joyce and her husband Harold investigated cases involving move stars, mobsters, and millionaires during their careers that spanned several decades.  Changes in law enforcement, the judicial system, and how citizens respond, have become bountiful fruit for her Harbour Pointe Mystery Series; fictionalized stories taken from her actual case files.

The 1998 debut novel, The Cop was White as Snow, focuses on the death of a police officer, protagonist Camellia (Mel) Walker's dad.  The veteran cop would tell his daughter, "The cop's gone CADS." The nemonic spells out--Corruption, alcohol, Drugs and Suicide. But Mel knew he wasn't a dirty cop, and wouldn't commit suicide. The police department disagrees.

In the second novel for this series, I'm Okay, You're Dead, protagonist Camellia (Mel) Walker and her associate Johnnie Blake dodge bullets as their new client is murdered.  More bodies fall. Why should Mel care about the lives of a couple of ex-cons? Because she's a PI with murders to solve, a quarter million dollars to locate, and a powerful sense of right and wrong.

Her experience with serial Killers have led her to the dark world Glen Rogers, a serial killer with perhaps more than 70 victims. Rogers, now on death row in California has also been convicted of murder in Florida. The Cross Country Killer, The Glen Rogers Story as told by Joyce and Glen's brother, Claude Rogers, Jr., was published last fall.