Jennifer Busskohl (a.k.a. J.B. Kohl)

Jennifer Busskohl (J.B. Kohl), was born and raised in Nebraska. After earning a master’s degree in 1995, she worked as a physician assistant in internal medicine, From 2004-2006, she also wrote and edited a medical newspaper entitled "Primary Care Quarterly" for the Omaha VA hospital. Having decided to pursue full time a career in writing, Jennifer left the health professions, relocated to Virginia in 2006 with her husband and three children, and began work on her first novel, The Deputy's Widow.

Busskohl maintains a website devoted to the genre of Noir and the promotion of other writers’ works. Her books may be purchased through her website, or at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or Borders online bookstores.
 

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2011 Radio nterview

Hollywood, 1941: Ray Ward spends his nights thinking about his brother’s death and the blood-soaked days that followed. Dean Fokoli is off the police force, disgraced by his dirty dealings, left to scrape by as a private investigator. Ray receives a mysterious package from his sister containing a plea for help and a reel of 8mm film; the problem is, Ray has no sister. Now two former enemies must team up, travel halfway across the country and search the dark shadow of Hollywood’s spotlight. Encountering far more than they bargained for, they plunge behind the silver screen to unearth tinsel town’s dirtiest secrets. Two men with nothing left to lose are unafraid to stir up serious trouble. (Eric Beetner, Co-author)

 Borrowed Trouble

J.B. Kohl connected with co-author, Eric Beetner, when he wrote to tell her how much he liked The Deputy’s Widow. From that evolved a bi-coastal collaboration, belying the reality that the two have never met in person.  The result was the highly-regarded novel One Too Many Blows to the Head and now, its sequel, Borrowed Trouble.

 One Too Many Blows To The Head 

 


J.B. Kohl, Noir Fiction Author | Myspace Video

2010 Radio Interview

In a world of fixed fights and mob influence Ray Ward and his brother Rex are two of the only clean fighters in town. With Ray in the corner and Rex in the ring they are headed for the big time. Until that fateful night. Now Ray has a score to settle using a lifetime of lessons in how to fight back. Dean Fokoli is a detective with a new partner, an alcoholic wife and a guilty conscience. At least the boxer on the radio who just got beat to a pulp won’t end up in his homicide file. But when the dregs of the crooked fight world start turning up dead, Fokoli is on the hunt for the killer. The chase will take him to the underbelly of the Kansas City night and hopefully keep him one step ahead of his past. (Eric Beetner, Co-author)

  The Deputy's Widow    2008 Radio Interview

The Deputy’s Widow, released by Arctic Wolf Publishing in January, 2008, is Jennifer's first published novel.  The Deputy’s Widow takes place in 1948. The year is drawing to a close and things couldn't be much worse for Private Detective Hamilton Baker. It starts with a simple phone call from a woman named Diana Kramer. With a voice like a teaspoon of honey drizzled over Lauren Bacall, she begs the detective to find letters she's written to her lover, Sheriff's Deputy Chester "Chet" Ferrebee. Chet is to wed another woman this afternoon and Diana, the scorned mistress, wants the letters back where they belong…with her. Hours after the wedding, when Chet turns up dead in a roadside motel room, his bride beaten beyond recognition and unable to remember anything, Baker fears his client is somehow involved. As he searches for the letters, he unwillingly digs into the past of the sleepy town of Crane Haven and uncovers the dangerous secrets of a group of men who shattered a young girl's mind, as well as her chance for happiness, years ago.