John L. Evans

John L. Evans was born in Corsham, England. He was raised in Kimberley, British Columbia, Canada, a small mining town in the south-eastern part of the province. In 1946, after graduating from high school, he attended the Vancouver School of Art on a Fine Arts Scholarship. In 1948, Mr. Evans emigrated to Los Angeles, California to attend Woodbury University, where he studied Commercial Art and Interior Design. After graduating, he worked as an Interior Designer at Barker Bros, Inc., one of L.A.'s most prestigious Home Furnishings stores. After a two-year stint in the U.S. Army, where he was stationed in Germany, he continued his Interior Design work in the Southern Calif. area. Before his retirement, he also worked in the Security Division of a large international company. During his working years, he was always interested (maybe obsessed) with writing. In the late sixties he sold a 1-hour script for a TV Western series which was bought and produced by one of the major Hollywood studios. Following that, because he was always intrigued with 'crime,' he wrote and had published a series of mystery/suspense novels, including "Eyes of a Killer," "A Question of Murder," "Prescription: Murder," "To Catch a Killer," "Anatomy of a Killing," and "Ten Sunset Plaza Drive." Mr. Evans has recently completed a screenplay which was adapted from the novel, "Vanished." He is now in the process of "shopping" for a script agent. His big dream is to see "Vanished," made into a motion picture. This was followed by a new mystery/suspense novel: "Time for a Killing," which was published on Amazon's Kindle program. Next came "Tales of Hollywood - A Memoir," also published on Kindle. In January, 2012, "Deliver us from Evil," was released as a Kindle book. The blog: "Mystery surrounds the case of twelve-year-old Danny Novak, who vanishes without a trace from an outing at Camp Sierra, a Catholic boy's summer camp, high in the San Bernardino Mountains."