Joan Lipinsky Cochran

Joan Lipinsky Cochran is a former journalist who now focuses on writing crime-related novels that explore subcultures of American Judaism. Originally from Miami, she lives in Boca Raton and sets her novels in South Florida, where it's easy to find material in the form of eccentric characters and lunatics.

She is now focusing on the Becks Ruchinsky Mystery series. In her most recent, THE HASIDIC REBBE'S SON, a orrmer reporter Becks Ruchinsky is compelled to explore the glitzy South Beach night club scene and the secretive world of Hasidic Judaism to find out who killed an ultra-religious boy she was protecting. THE YIDDISH GANGSTER'S DAUGHTER is about a woman whose life is endangered when she discovers her father was a member of the Jewish mafia. It won a Royal Palm Literary Association award, and was a Claymore Award finalist and an Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award quarter-finalist. Her first book, STILL MISSING BEULAH. STORIES OF JEWS AND BLACKS IN MID-CENTURY MIAMI, explores the racism and anti-Semitism that tarnished Miami's past and informed the relationship between the two minority groups. Three of the short stories in that collection have won literary awards.

When she’s not working on a novel, Joan is testing recipes and writing food articles, playing classical and Irish violin, reading, sailing, and bicycling. She lives in Boca Raton with her husband and ungrateful cat.

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