Janis Thornton

Janis Thornton is an Indiana-based author of history, mystery, and true crime. Her books include: two anthologies of historic Indiana true crime, “No Place Like Murder” and “No Place Like Murder 2,” as well as the true crime/oral history/memoir, “Too Good a Girl”; a nonfiction about Indiana's worst weather-related disaster, “The 1965 Palm Sunday Tornadoes in Indiana”; two cozy mysteries in the Elmwood Confidential series, “Dust Bunnies & Dead Bodies” and “Dead Air & Double Dare”; the paranormal-romantic mystery, "Love, Lies & Azure Eyes"; and pictorial-history books about the communities of Tipton, Frankfort, and Elwood — all in Indiana.

Thornton is a member of the national Sisters in Crime and its Indianapolis chapter, Speed City Sisters in Crime; The Authors Guild, the Women's Fiction Writers Association, and the Indianapolis Writers Center.