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Stan Jones

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in Anchorage, Alaska, The United States

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http://www.sjbooks.com/

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Mystery & Thrillers, Crime, Mystery

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Stan Jones is a writer of mystery novels, and is co-author of a non-fiction oral history book.

He has written seven books in the Nathan Active mystery series. He is also the co-author (with Sharon Bushell) of The Spill: An oral history of the Exxon Valdez disaster.

THE SAND GARDEN, installment No. 1 in his Dana Forsythe Mysteries was published in November 2023. It's based in the Palm Springs area and features a female private detective. Mary Wasche was his co-author on THE SAND GARDEN.

He was born in Anchorage, Alaska, where he lives today.
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	White Sky, Black Ice (Nathan Active Mystery, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 2,003 ratings — published 1999 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shaman Pass (Nathan Active Mystery, #2) 3.95 avg rating — 547 ratings — published 2003 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Story of Me (God's Design for Sex, Book 1) by Brenna B. Jones, Stan Jones (Goodreads Author), Joel Spector (Illustrator) 4.34 avg rating — 362 ratings — published 1994 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Village of the Ghost Bears (Nathan Active Mystery, #4) 3.76 avg rating — 415 ratings — published 2009 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frozen Sun (Nathan Active Mystery, #3) 3.78 avg rating — 392 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Big Empty (Nathan Active Mystery #6) by Stan Jones (Goodreads Author), Patricia Watts (Goodreads Author) 3.90 avg rating — 267 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tundra Kill (Nathan Active Mystery #5) 3.64 avg rating — 199 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	THE SAND GARDEN by Stan Jones (Goodreads Author), Mary Wasche (Goodreads Author) 4.35 avg rating — 96 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ghost Light (Nathan Active Mystery #7) by Stan Jones (Goodreads Author), Patricia Watts (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Spill: Personal Stories from the Exxon Valdez Disaster by Stan Jones (Goodreads Author), Stan Jones (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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SAND GARDEN flashquote of the day!

Today’s selection is from chapter six of THE SAND GARDEN, book one in the Dana Forsythe series.

In it, Dana discovers that her new case, involving a gorgeous murdered mistress name Jennifer Williamson, is big news.

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I start my day with a news cruise. The bomb has gone off.

The Herald web page has a big headline reading Gene Autry victim shot five times in torso. It’s over a crime scene photo Read more of this blog post »

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Nathan Active Mystery (7 books)
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