- Keepers - Nominated for the 2001 Shamus Award for Best Paperback PI Novel! Port Silva, a fictional town on the chilly but scenic California north coast, was established in the latter half of the 19th century and supported itself with lumber mills and a fishing fleet. More than a hundred years later, those industries began to fade, to be replaced by tourism, second homes, and a university. In ...www.janetlapierre.com