{"id":131,"date":"2023-10-03T08:56:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T15:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.judyhock.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=131"},"modified":"2026-10-11T10:33:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T17:33:43","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.judyhock.com\/wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Judy Hock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n
\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Judy Hock is a writer born in Canada. She has a BA in English from the University of Windsor and an MA in English from Tulane University. With a background in technical writing, she documented software and did freelance marketing writing before focusing on writing fiction. She lives in San Diego with her husband Dave and their maltipoo, Zsizsi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n

Welcome! I’m a suspense writer, who loves a creeping plot, lavish settings with insidious danger, morally dubious characters, concealed identities, and deep family secrets. A splash of sweet justice at the end never hurts either! Let me tell you about my novels in progress…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart at the Seams: <\/strong><\/a>A neuroscientist innocently buys a second-hand dress being hunted by a ruthless killer for its concealed riches, her only weapon a deep understanding of the human mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n
Download a free copy of the prequel, The Eavesdrop<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Don’t Get Caught<\/a>: <\/strong>A principled law student, pressured by her family of fraudsters to save her uncle from jail, commits a workplace theft that spirals into a series of increasingly desperate crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good with a Knife:<\/a><\/strong> <\/em>A compassionate doctor learns to think like a killer after she falls in love with the wrong guy and becomes the target of his criminal organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent Awards<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I am honored to have been longlisted for the 2024 Crime Writers’ Association unpublished contest. Also in 2024, my novel About the Dress won third place in the Daphne DuMaurier Kiss of Death unpublished contests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n