Andrea Johnson

Crafting a killer cozy can be perilous. Fans of the genre expect authors to forego explicit gore and violence while at the same time creating a mind-boggling murder mystery with pulse-pounding tension and a twisty plot. But how is a writer supposed to satisfy such disparate demands? “How to Craft a Killer Cozy Mystery” tackles this exact problem by providing an actionable roadmap for starting (and completing!) a manuscript that will leave readers...

A riveting debut thriller by Andrea J. Johnson, and the first in the Victoria Justice series. Twenty-five-year-old Victoria Justice has never really gotten over a near drowning at the hands of a high school bully, but has attempted to build her confidence and career as a court stenographer under the mentorship of The Honorable Frederica Scott Wannamaker, the county's first African American Superior Court judge. But when her old nemesis appears on...

Fourteen-year-old Marley's seemingly perfect life in the small town of Heaven is disrupted when she discovers that her father and mother are not her real parents.

Eleven-year-old Beth thinks that Philip Hall likes her, but their on-again, off-again relationship sometimes makes her wonder.

Born with a withered leg and hand, Pascal, who is about twelve years old, joins other former slaves in a search for a farm and the freedom which it promises.

WKBA news in Chicago is reeling. Their ratings are the lowest in town, and company morale has plummeted. At the end of their ropes, five women band together to correct injustices and hopefully shoot WKBA up the ratings chart. Their ideas are inventive, and their convictions are infectious, but they'll need to crack the good-old-boys network before they ever get a chance to prove themselves. Through Yolanda Joe's sharp observations about this cutthroat...