Jane’s professional writing career began in 1994 with the publication of the award-winning Going by the Book, a memoir about teaching high school English in New Haven Connecticut in the Sixties. In 1999 she gave readers The “M” Word, the first mystery in the Bel Barrett Mystery Series which chronicles the sleuthing of a menopausal community college English prof. Her award-winning historical mystery, The Bones and the Book, published in 2012, is set in Seattle’s Jewish community during the Gold Rush and in 1965.

Upheavals have inspired her. Jane began researching their new setting. What she learned formed a story in her head that became The Bones and the Book, a historical mystery set in Seattle’s tiny Jewish community during the Gold Rush and in 1965. Not surprisingly, outsiders and insiders populate this novel written by a “transplant.” It was published in 2012 by Oconee Spirit Press and won a Willa Award in the category of Original Softcover Fiction from Women Writing the West.

Jane continues to write her way to putting down new roots in Washington. She is currently completing a mystery set east of the Cascades in the Evergreen State’s Yakima Valley. Below are some pictures taken in 2013 and 2014 while she was doing research in and near this fascinating oasis nestled in the high desert terrain of central Washington.

Learn more about Jane Isenberg at www.janeisenberg.com