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Sisters in Crime Webinar
Thursday, Jan 22, 7 PM

This January will be the last time for our branch to donate money for the Legal Advocacy Fund. Money raised helps support women who have pending legal cases fighting harassment or from being overlooked for tenure in academia or promotions in their professional lives. Your tax-deductible donation of $25 (or more, we hope) will also include our popular Sisters in Crime webinar on January 22 (see below).
Simply write out a check to AAUW Funds with LAF on the memo line & send to Gerry Roy, 1639 Lewiston Dr. SV 94087. A confirmation email will be sent. If you send a check & don’t receive an acknowledgement, call me at 408-736- 3521.

Meet our 3 interesting & diverse “mystery authors:
• D. M. Rowell (Donna), an enrolled citizen of the Kiowa Tribe, comes from a long line of storytellers within a Plains Indian culture that treasures oral traditions. After a 32-year career spinning stories for Silicon Valley corporations and start-ups, Rowell started a new chapter by writing the Mud Sawpole mysteries featuring a Silicon Valley professional Kiowa woman solving thefts and murders in Kiowa country. The first, Never Name the Dead, was a 2023 Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award Finalist. Publishers Weekly said of Silent are the Dead, “Rowell’s clever second whodunit … elegantly threads tangible details about tribal life into the action, which remains propulsive throughout.”
• Victoria Zackheim is the author of novels The Bone Weaver and The Curtain Falls in Paris (May 2025), with two sequels (2026, 2027). She also completed Death Times Seven, the final novel in Anne Perry’s Daniel Pitt series. Victoria is the editor of seven anthologies, including the international bestseller The Other Woman. She wrote the documentary Where Birds Never Sang: The Story of Ravensbrück and Sachsenhausen Concentration Camps (PBS). She teaches creative nonfiction in the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program.
• Claire M. Johnson’s first novel, Beat Until Stiff, was nominated for the 2003 Agatha Award for Best First Novel. Her second book in this series, Roux Morgue, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. Fog City, the first book in her Fog City Noir series, is set in Prohibition-era San Francisco and features Maggie Laurent, P.I. Fog City has been nominated for the 2025 Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel from the Private Eyes Writers of America and a Macavity Award for Best Historical Mystery by the Mystery Readers International.