Janis Thornton

JANIS THORNTON is Central Indiana’s home-grown author of history, mystery, and true crime.

Her newest book, The 1965 Palm Sunday Tornadoes in Indiana, documents Indiana's worst weather-related disaster through the stories of 120 Hoosiers who experienced the tornadoes first-hand.

Previously, she wrote No Place Like Murder,a collection of 20 true crime stories that rocked Indiana between 1869 and 1950. And her 2018 non-fiction release, Too Good a Girl, tells the story of Janis’ high school classmate, Olene Emberton, whose tragic, unsolved death in 1965 shocked their community.

Her novels include: Love, Lies, and Azure Eyes, a suspenseful, paranormal romantic mystery; and two cozy mysteries in the “Elmwood Confidential” series — Dead Air & Double Dare and Dust Bunnies & Dead Bodies.

Janis also authored three pictorial-history books in Arcadia Publishing's Images of America series for Tipton County, Frankfort, and Elwood, all in Indiana; and she is a contributor to Undeniably Indiana, a bicentennial project from Indiana University Press.

She is a member of the national mystery writer’s organization, Sisters in Crime, its Indianapolis chapter, Speed City Sisters in Crime, The Author’s Guild, Women Fiction Writers Association, the Indiana Writers Center, the Tipton County Historical Society, and the Tipton County Chamber of Commerce. She loves exploring the past, experiencing the present, and imagining tomorrow.

For more information, please visit her website, www.janis-thornton.com and her Amazon author page.