JANIS THORNTON is the Indiana-based, award-winning author of three vintage Indiana true crime books — No Place Like Murder, its successor, No Place Like Murder 2, both highlighting murders in the Hoosier Heartland between 1869 and 1960; and Too Good a Girl about the 1965 unsolved murder of Janis’ high school classmate. Her historical nonfiction, The 1965 Palm Sunday Tornadoes in Indiana, was shortlisted by the Indiana Humanities as one of the best books of 2023-24 by Indiana authors. Janis is also the author of two cozy mysteries in the “Elmwood Confidential” series, Dust Bunnies & Dead Bodies and Dead Air & Double Dare; and a stand-alone mystery, Love, Lies and Azure Eyes. Other works include pictorial-histories for the communities of Tipton County, Elwood, and Frankfort, all of Indiana, and she is a contributor to Undeniably Indiana, a bicentennial project from Indiana University Press, and Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul 2.
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