Services Set for Seranella
From the Orange County Register:
A public memorial tribute for Barbara Seranella, the popular Orange
County mystery writer who died Jan. 21, has been scheduled for 1 p.m.
Sunday at the Irvine Ranch Water District, 15600 Sand Canyon Ave.,
Irvine.
Seranella, who was 50 when she died while awaiting a
liver transplant, spent time in a hippie commune, riding with an outlaw
motorcycle gang and working as a gas station attendant and auto
mechanic before writing her first mystery novel, “No Human Involved.”
It was published in 1997 and rose to No. 5 on the Los Angeles Times
best-seller list.
Seranella went on to see seven more books
in that series published. A new book, “Deadman’s Switch,” based on a
different character, is expected to be released in April.
The new book is quite good, and it would have been intriguing to see where Seranella would have taken her crisis-management character, Charlotte Lyon, in subsequent installments. Now we won’t know.