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Gloria White
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PUBLISHED: May.31.2007

Cry Baby

A missing friend, two abandoned tykes, Argentinians, liars, SUV-driving suburbanites, and a floater. Ronnie figures it out, but it's not what you think. "A welcome return for a series that should please fans of Marcia Muller's Sharon McCone."Booklist on Cry Baby

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Money to Burn

A Ronnie Ventana Mystery She's a burglar's daughter and a first-rate private investigator. And if the tools of Veronica Ventana's trade include a Ph.D. in lockpicking, thank her parents, the infamous Vintners, who made cat burglary a class act. It's 3:30 A.M. when Bink Hanover bursts into Ronnie's apartment reeking of liquor and fear. Outside are four Uzi-toting thugs and a...

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Murder on the Run

A Ronnie Ventana Mystery Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award Meet Veronica "Ronnie" Ventana, daughter of the infamous Ventana's, the couple who made cat burglary classy. But Ronnie, with her special expertise in burglar alarm systems — getting past them, that is — and her best friend, Blackie Coogan, shamus emeritus of San Francisico,...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.01.2005

Death Notes

When Ronnie invites her friend and mentor Blackie Coogan to join her at the comeback concert of Match Margolis, the greatest tenor sax and jazz composer alive, she is not expecting a final very final performance. Match seems to owe money all round town, but some very powerful figures illogically don't seem to want to call in the debt. Much to the annoyance of Lieutenant Philly Post...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.1997

Sunset and Santiago

In every life there's a turning point. For Ronnie Ventana, it came at the corner of Sunset and Santiago, the San Francisco intersection where her parents died in a car crash twenty years before. Now, at two a.m. on the same corner, Ronnie has witnessed two men dumping a body in the shrubs--and suddenly she's in the middle of a case that will take her through a tunnel of...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.23.1995

Charged With Guilt

EDGAR AWARD Finalist Best Paperback Original SHAMUS AWARD Finalist Best Paperback Original ANTHONY AWARD Finalist Best Paperback Original She should have taken a check. She should have had it in writing. And she should have gotten away before the cops entered the picture and charged her with murder. But P.I. and B&E speciallist Ronnie Ventana had gone ahead and done the...

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Eine Kleine Mordmusik

This is the German edition of Charged With Guilt.

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Gloria's Latest Blogs

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May.02.2009 - 8:42 pm

Turn Off the TV!

Put down that newspaper! Not everything is bad news. Last week, very kind friends invited me to the Goldman Environmental Prize Ceremony. It was a three-hanky affair. Not sad...

Sep.16.2008 - 7:19 pm

Political Humor

Sometimes things just get so seriously serious in the world, especially in this country right here, right now, today, that we need a good laugh. I found it here. Check it out. ...

Aug.19.2008 - 10:11 pm

Econ 101 & the mortgage crisis

Economics is a fascinating subject. At least I find it so. The first econ class I took, I was so completely baffled that I was reduced for the first and only time in my...

Aug.02.2008 - 10:44 am

Noir Alert

Starting yesterday, Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley is hosting a month long film noir retrospective to celebrate David Goodis. Life with Goodis is about as dark and bleak as it...

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Sep.16.2008 - 6:59 pm

In response to: Fiction Finalist - Violet Crown Awards

¡Felicidades!

Congratulations to you and your colleagues. Much luck to you in Austin in November. Best, Gloria White

Aug.24.2008 - 5:52 pm

In response to: Grade Change

Hi Jessica, After reading

Hi Jessica, After reading your post, I thought you might enjoy this from The Atlantic Monthly: http://www.theatlantic...

Aug.05.2008 - 11:51 pm

In response to: And The Winners Are...

Congratulations to one and all

Winners, enjoy! Know that it's been a delightful time for all of us, introducing friends and family and colleagues to...

Aug.02.2008 - 5:01 pm

In response to: Tempest in Teapot: Behind the Removal of an Author on Red Room

Thanks for the

Thanks for the clarification, Ivory. It's much appreciated.

Jul.31.2008 - 12:10 pm

In response to: AN EDITOR'S LOT IS NOT AN EASY ONE

I read this earlier in the

I read this earlier in the week and thought it was quite a kick. Thanks for posting it here. But it does raise the...

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Death Notes

Published by Library Journal

San Francisco PI Veronica "Ronnie" Ventana (Murder on the Run) happens to be present at Match Margolis's musical comeback when somebody murders the talented jazz...

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About Gloria

San Francisco’s two-time EDGAR AWARD finalist GLORIA WHITE is the author of the VERONICA “RONNIE” VENTANA series which features a bicultural (Mexican/Anglo), rule-bending private eye whose deceased parents were cat burglars and who herself is a professional...

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