J. A. McKethan

An avenging angel of a sleuth

J.A. McKethan writes murder mysteries. She could hardly avoid it after devouring Agatha, Sherlock, Colombo, Angela, classic mysteries since early on. For 10 years she lived near one of the world's largest spy capitals, Munich. She experienced intrigue firsthand traveling Europe and Eastern Europe as an unknown. Hidden undercover using a few trade tricks. Now she enjoys her life as an eccentric writer, using her country home for writing, painting, and teaching. Busy. She’s as at home there as she was in a European café in Berlin or Munich. As is her female amateur sleuth, the feisty Mackenzie St. John who seems born to identify the bodies that drop all around her. Owner of a budding detective agency, her female lead chases suspects over city sidewalks, country roads, in estates, in downtown dives, public arenas, businesses. You can spy Mackenzie with her girl Friday over coffee in the small quintessential Southern hometown of Eden. And help her solve murders that upset little Eden. Like her female amateur sleuth Mackenzie, J.A. McKethan prefers to ask you the questions. And she loves befriending internationals within the domestic scene.