Dianne Day spent her early years in the Mississippi Delta before moving to San Francisco and the Bay Area. THE STRANGE FILES OF FREMONT JONES won the Macavity Award for Best First Mystery of 1995. Other books in this series are FIRE AND FOG (1996), THE BOHEMIAN MURDERS (1997), EMPEROR NORTON'S GHOST (1998), DEATH TRAIN TO BOSTON (1999). Dianne has completed the sixth Fremont Jones book, BEACON STREET MOURNING and it is available in stores now. She has also written a novel of suspense based on the life of Clara Barton.