It’s about the light.

Kristi Belcamino is a mystery writer, artist and photographer who also bakes a yummy biscotti.

In her former life, as a crime reporter at newspapers in California, she flew over Big Sur in an FA-18 jet with the Blue Angels, raced a Dodge Viper at Laguna Seca, sat in on an autopsy and conversed with serial killers.

Now, as an Italian-American mother, she recently finished writing her first novel, inspired by her life as a Bay Area newspaper reporter. BLESSED ARE THE DEAD is the first novel in her mystery series featuring newspaper crime reporter Gabriella Giovanni.