Joan Hetzler

Author Bio:

Author of the Megan and Derek mysteries, Joan Hetzler has been a freelance writer and editor for over twenty-five years. Her creative writing experience includes plays, poems, short stories, humor, memoir, and classic mystery novels. For eight years, she produced and hosted The Writers Show, a radio program devoted to writers and their readers.

A Civil Murder: A Megan and Derek Mystery

Derek and Megan, a married couple with a knack for solving mysteries, are on the case again. In A Civil Murder, Derek has left his homicide detective career to start law school. At orientation, he meets a professor who is also a neighbor. The elderly man and his wife go missing, unintentionally leaving…

Fair Game: A Megan O'Connell Mystery Book 3

Megan O'Connell moves to Atlanta to start a new job at an International Christian ministry for investigative reporters. Her first assignment is to find and expose the crime boss behind a human trafficking syndicate that targets young women from Christian homes. As she moves further into the world of…

Relative Truth: A Megan O'Connell Mystery Book 2

Is the truth too old fashioned to be believed? Or will the truth set free a popular pastor accused of killing a former church member? In book two of the Megan O’Connell Mysteries, Megan investigates to find out if a mega church pastor was framed for the murder of a deacon who became wealthy preaching…

A Cold Case in July: A Megan and Derek Mystery Book 1

One hot Fourth of July night, crowds filled the streets of a small rural Georgia town and fireworks exploded overhead. Adam Cranford sat at his office desk waiting on a visitor. Someone stepped inside and aimed a single, accurate deadly shot at Adam's head. Was it his political opponent for his incumbent…

Pious Deception: A Megan O'Connell Mystery

Megan O'Connell is an overworked journalist who returns home to Atlanta, Georgia, for a peaceful visit with friends and some quiet time in her church. Instead she finds a friend being blackmailed and agrees to help by going undercover to find the blackmailer in a very secure, very secret software company…