Jeanne Martin Dams

Background

Jeanne M. Dams, born in 1941 in South Bend, in the Indiana, the United States.

Education

She studies at Purdue University and Notre Dame du Lac University .

Career

In 1995, she published her first novel, The Body in the Transept, which won the Agatha Award for the first novel and featured the character of amateur detective Dorothy Martin, an American schoolmistress who, on retirement, went to live in England. The investigation series of this colorful character has about fifteen titles.

In 1999, Jeanne M. Dams begins in parallel a second series featuring Hilda Johansson, a young immigrant Swedish, which at the end of XIXth century, while working as a maid for a rich family Studebaker of South Bend, a small State town of Indiana, elucidates criminal cases. This series of half a dozen historical detective novels did not meet the same critical and public success as the first series of the author.

Achievements

• She won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel from Malice Domestic in for "The Body in the Transept" (1995).
  
  

Works

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  • The Body in the Transept (A Dorothy Martin Mystery Book 1) - Kindle edition by Jeanne M. Dams. Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. 1995
  • Trouble in the Town Hall (A Dorothy Martin Mystery Book 2) - Kindle edition by Jeanne M. Dams. Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. 1996

• Other Work

  • The Victim in Victoria Station (Dorothy Martin Mysteries, No. 5)
  • Crisis at the Cathedral (A Dorothy Martin Mystery)
  • Missing Masterpiece, The (A Dorothy Martin Mystery)
  • Blood Will Tell: A cozy mystery set in Cambridge, England (A Dorothy Martin Mystery) - Kindle edition by Jeanne M. Dams. Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
  • Malice In Miniature: A Dorothy Martin Mystery
  • Day of Vengeance: Dorothy Martin investigates murder in the cathedral (A Dorothy Martin Mystery Book 15) - Kindle edition by Jeanne M. Dams. Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
  • Sins Out of School (Dorothy Martin Mysteries, No. 8)

Views

Quotations: Jeanne M. Dams told CA: “I can’t remember a time when I didn’t write. It has always been my way of expressing myself. I write when I have to make a decision when I have emotions to deal with when there is a problem that needs hard thought. So, when I was trying to escape a killer job, of course, I approached the problem by writing down my assets. It finally dawned on me that writing was my primary skill! My love of England and the English mystery made that genre a natural."

Connections

She was married to Edward Dams on June 19, 1971.

Father:

Lawrence Martin

Mother:

Mildred Martin

husband:

Edward Dams