A Rare Jewel / Blackberry Bowl
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A Rare Jewel: She is a NJ P.I. in her families' Private Investigation company. Her grandfather, a multi-millionaire has been murdered in CA. Her father hatches a plot to get a CA homicide cop into the Grandfather's home in a way no one knows he is a cop. There are 55 relatives to her grandfather and all stood to inherit two million dollars. Jewel is positive the killer has to be family and assures the homicide detective that she could prove it in less than two weeks. BLACKBERRY BOWL is about a young secretary that refused to sell her grandfather's island to a sleazy man with the attitude of a crook. She is drugged, thrown from a plane into a crater in the Oregon mountains that fortunately had a deep lake in the bottom of it. and when she comes to, she has a badly broken leg, and is vision impaired with amnesia. How she escapes the Bowl with the verbal help of a ghost, regains her memory and brings Justice to the 'bad guys' makes a great story.
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A Rare Jewel is about Jewel Sherman, a young female NJ private detective with a plan to pose as Fred Gearhard’s (a CA cop) fiancée to help him catch the family member who has murdered her grandfather in California. Her grandfather was a philanthropist who bought up blocks of dilapidated city slums. And under the supervision of Sgt. Fred Gearhard, during his off-duty times, the property was turned into nice homes for veterans. Jewel is positive the killer has to be a family member, and her ruse is so the family would speak freely around the sergeant in charge of the homicide investigation. Blackberry Bowl is about a young lady who refused to sell her island to a lowlife who wanted it for criminal activities. She is drugged and thrown from a plane into a crater lake. She survives the fall with amnesia and a broken leg. Rescuing herself several months later in the hospital; she regains her memory, and the rest is a good story.
About the Author
JO HAVENS MOVED TO ALASKA AT AGE 5 AND HAS LIVED THERE FOR OVER 65 YEARS. I was raised on a homestead in Homer and was the youngest of twelve. Farming was the family occupation and I loved it. I left the farm at eighteen and soon met my husband Roger, and five days later we got married. We now have over 53 years of happy life together. My interests while and after we raised our three boys was fire science. I took many fire service courses through the FD and local community college and served on the Cordova Volunteer FD for many years as the dept. secretary and as an EMT 2 and firefighter, as did my husband and three sons. While volunteering in the fire service I wrote and published a statewide fire service newsletter from 8 to 16 pages; with a circulation of 2700 in Alaska and the lower 48 states. I have an 8th grade education but at 34 took my GED so I could take more college classes. I have written many stories in steno pads for 35 years and am happy to finally get brave enough to start submitting them for publication. We have three sons, (plus my two stepsons), 10 grandkids and 7 great grandkids. My husband and I retired to and presently reside in North Pole, Alaska.