Sylvia Haymon

Critical reception Writing in The St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, Carol M. Harper said, "The Detective Inspector Benjamin Jurnet series is one of the more literate, well written mystery series published, a series most highly recommended to those readers who like the British 'cozy' procedural."

A Publishers Weekly review of A Beautiful Death praised Haymon's writing: "With her elegant style and talent for exposing the raw nerves of her characters in a few select words, she cuts right to the heart of her sleuth in this powerful story."

Haymon died in 1995. In 1996, the last book in her mystery series, Death of a Hero, was published. Kirkus said of it, "All the elements of the author's unique talent are at work here: offbeat characters probed to the bone; plotting that's bizarre but believable, and lyrical writing by turns introspective, pungent, or poetic. She will be missed."