Janice Cantore

A retired Long Beach California police officer of 22 years (16 in uniform and 6 as a non-career officer), Janice Cantore worked a variety of assignments, patrol, administration, juvenile investigations and training. During the course of her career in uniform Janice found that faith was indispensable to every aspect of the job and published articles on faith at work, one for a quarterly newspaper called Cop and Christ, and another for the monthly magazine Todays Christian Woman.anice has bachelors degrees in Biology (University of California at Irvine) and Physical Education (California State University at Long Beach).

 She also completed graduate coursework in Criminal Justice (University of Southern California) and is currently a member of American Christian Fiction Writers and Sisters in Crime.  She attends Rim Church in Running Springs California and lives in the small town of Green Valley Lake in the mountains of Southern California. Janice is single and has three Labrador Retrievers, Jake, Maggie and Abbie. Janices hobbies are reading, cross-stitching, kayaking, hiking, walking the dogs and trying to stay fit.