Beverly M. Kelley

Beverly Merrill Kelley, Ph.D. retired from teaching communication courses after thirty-five years in the department she founded at California Lutheran University. She has instructed so many local attorneys, she is rarely permitted to serve on a jury.

She previously published three nonfiction books that explore the relationship between politics and film as well as numerous scholarly articles in the fields of argumentation, persuasion, credibility, interpersonal communication, television, and film history.

She published four murder mysteries between 2013 and 2022. Inspired by historic events and locations in real life Ventura County, the series chronicles the progress of the Port Cabrillo Cold Case Unit (led by the 50ish Hunter Triplets) in solving serial killings that occurred during the early 1970s. For those looking forward to The Fifth Oldest Cold Case in Port Cabrillo, she will only say that the plot involves Jungleland and Lake Sherwood.

A former radio and television talk-show host and frequent contributor to the Ventura County Perspective pages of the Los Angeles Times, she retired in 2015 from a eighteen-year career as an opinion columnist for the Ventura County Star.

She resides in a sleepy little beach town on the California coast where she enjoys a view of Anacapa Island. She spends her spare time fundraising for the local library and, as city historian, is presently working to reopen the local historical society museum. Her only vice is overindulging her two adorable grandsons, Maxwell and Elliott.

To check out Beverly's travel blogs and her columns in the Ventura County Star, please put your browser to: beverlykelley.typepad.com

Her Facebook page is: https://www.facebook.com/beverly.kelley.148

List of Published Books:

Reelpolitik: Political Ideologies in 30s and 40s Films, Praeger, December, l998.

Reelpolitik II: Political Ideologies in 50s and 60s Films, Rowman and Littlefield, March, 2004.

Reelpolitik Ideologies in American Film, Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield, March, 2012.

The Oldest Cold Case in Port Cabrillo, Get-A-Clue Publications, September, 2013.

The Second Oldest Cold Case in Port Cabrillo, Get-A-Clue Publications, October, 2015.

The Third Oldest Cold Case in Port Cabrillo, Get-A-Clue Publications, September 2020

The Fourth Oldest Cold Case in Port Cabrillo, Get-A-Clue Publications, March 2022