C. Jane lives in the Pacific Northwest where she loves the rain because it makes being a writer even easier with few bright, sunny days to draw her out of the house. She credits her upbringing in Indiana and her early adulthood in the West Texas Panhandle for her fascination with family history. Much like her characters, her own extended family lives within a few towns (or at times only a cornfield) from each other.
She loves old maps, old books, and old handcrafts. She also keeps a genealogy of all her characters but sadly hasn’t had time to work on the one for her own family. Life is funny like that.
C. Jane currently has two published series: The Donaghue Histories (a family's saga from 1720 to 2020) and the Lola Rose Mysteries (a jazz age mystery set in a posh hotel in 1920s London). She also has two short story collections, an anthology, and a book set in WWI. Expect more to come.
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C. Jane lives in the Pacific Northwest where she loves the rain because it makes being a writer even easier with few bright, sunny days to draw her out of the house. She credits her upbringing in Indiana and her early adulthood in the West Texas Panhandle for her fascination with family history. Much like her characters, her own extended family lives within a few towns (or at times only a cornfield) from each other.
She loves old maps, old books, and old handcrafts. She also keeps a genealogy of all her characters but sadly hasn’t had time to work on the one for her own family. Life is funny like that.
C. Jane currently has two published series: The Donaghue Histories (a family's saga from 1720 to 2020) and the Lola Rose Mysteries (a jazz age mystery set in a posh hotel in 1920s London). She also has two short story collections, an anthology, and a book set in WWI. Expect more to come.
The week that Lola Rose checked into the Regal Rose Hotel, three events caught her quite unprepared: her widowed mother’s surprise engagement to a famous London barrister, her desire to form a friendship with the cantankerous elderly woman living in the hotel’s penthouse, and a dead body at the foot of the elegant sweeping staircase on the hotel...
Life at the Regal Rose Hotel has never been grander for Lola Rose, daughter of a Texas rancher and a British Lady. She has a fine suite, finer dining, and the finest friends. There is jazz every night with cocktails and dancing. She can take tea in the Tea Rose or sip champagne punch at the Punch Bowl. Or she can stumble upon a dead body.
There is nothing quite like an engagement party in a lovely garden, especially when that garden is on the rooftop of the Regal Rose Hotel. At least until the groom-to-be goes missing, leaving only a pool of blood the perfect shade of a crimson rose. As a witness to a crime that nobody saw, Lola is once more up to her strand of ruby beads in the...
