Joanna Elm
Author of three crime thrillers, Scandal (1996) Delusion (1997). Her third thriller, Fool Her Once was released on March 1, 2022.
In between writing fiction, she has worked as a journalist on newspapers in UK and in New York; on magazines including as the news editor of STAR tabloid magazine, and in TV News where she wrote and researched for WNYW-TV's Emmy award-winning documentary, Irish Eyes.
She was also a producer on Fox-TV's "A Current Affair."
She attended law school in 2002, and worked as a judicial law clerk for a New York appellate judge for more than seven years.
She divides her time between New York and Palm Beach where she plays tennis and golf in her spare time.
You can read more about her at "http://www.joannaelm.com/about."
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