About J.B. Hawker
J. B. Hawker currently living in the wilds of Northern California, she
is a woman of a certain age with a lot of living behind her, who looks forward to all the great adventures ahead.
J.B. mines the richness of her history as a pastor’s wife in small communities all over the Western United States to people her not-quite-cozy mystery/thrillers. (If you’ve ever attended a small town church, you may even recognize some of the characters.)
Writing from a Christian perspective, her stories include men and women at all stages in their faith walk, along with some truly scary villains.
J.B. hopes her readers appreciate main characters who struggle with their faith as real Christians do and that non-believers will get a peek at Christian life beyond media stereotypes.
After twenty years serving small churches from Alaska to South Dakota, J.B. Hawker returned to her California roots to start over in mid-life as a single business woman, inspirational speaker and award-winning author.
“I’ve made up stories my whole life,” said Hawker when interviewed. “While other children might need a flashlight to read under the covers after bedtime, I simply made up my own stories, many of which lasted multiple nights, having intricate details and characters drawn both from my life and my imagination.”
J.B. has published many articles on faith and ministry.
“Hollow” the first book in the Bunny Elder series and winner of the B.R.A.G. Medallion Award, was her first published fiction.
J.B. has three grown sons. Her oldest, the father of her three beautiful granddaughters, lives in northern Italy, the setting of the second book in the series, “Vain Pursuits” also a B.R.A.G. Medallion winner.
