She Can Do It: Real/’Reel’ Women and Midcentury Mysteries
Author Panel with Janet Raye Stevens and Sharon Healy-Yang

Friday, September 25 at 11:00 AM
In-person in Community Rooms AB

Join us for an engaging, multimedia program focused on the intriguing aspects of creating a mystery set circa WWII.

Using film clips, photos, anecdotes, and excerpts from their books, Janet Raye Stevens and Sharon Healy-Yang talk about 1940s women in real as well as reel life and how these smart, stylish, and wise-cracking gals in books and film inspired their own 1940s-set mysteries. If you love mysteries, movies, and lots of banter, don’t miss it!

Copies of both authors’ books will be available for purchase after the presentation.

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Meet our Panelists:

Janet Raye Stevens/Evie Kelley is an award-winning author, along with a mom, tea-drinker (okay, tea guzzler), and weaver of smart, stealthily romantic tales. As Janet Raye Stevens, she writes both short and novel-length mysteries that include the Beryl Blue, Time Cop time travel adventures and the WWII-set historical suspense A Moment After Dark. Writing as Evie Kelley, she’s published the first in a young adult sci-fi suspense series, The Nascent Bloom: Book 1 Caught and the coming-of-age novel My Bicentennial, set in the 1970s era of mood rings, platform shoes, and the eternal debate of who’s cuter, Starsky or Hutch.
Learn more about Janet/Evie on her website: janetrayestevens.com

Sharon Healy-Yang is passionate about mysteries from the golden age, whether in a book or on the screen. Her fascination with mysteries and the 1940s drives her pleasure in crafting novels that recapture the era’s wit, adventure, and suspense. Books in her Jessica Minton series include: Bait and Switch, Letter from a Dead Man, Always Play the Dark Horse, Shadows of a Dark Past and Surprise!
Learn more about Sharon on her website: sharonhealyyang.com