Here you go: the first four pages of Hot Property, Cutthroat Business mystery #2, for your enjoyment: 1. The first open house robbery took place on the second Sunday in August, just at the time I was busy apprehending a murderer. Before I go any further, I guess I should make it clear that I’m Read More …
I wrote this for the Working Stiffs a few months ago, about one of my favorite book characters. He doesn’t qualify as a hunk, exactly – a little too short, for one thing – but he’s still one of the best written, best realized, most amazing heroes out there, and I have a feeling that Read More …
Last year sometime, I went to a book club meeting with a bunch of ladies from Hillwood Presbyterian Church, who had been reading A Cutthroat Business for their selection that month. (Thanks again, Carmen!) One of them, a sweet little blue-hair in her sixties, made me mark this section of her book and autograph it, since Read More …
Pale green in color, with gleaming white gingerbread trim, and surrounded by velvety grass and masses and masses of flowers, the house we were visiting was another impressive Victorian confection, such as I envisioned Aunt Inga’s house might one day look like. The doorbell rang with a somber, tolling sound that reverberated in the recesses Read More …
Today is the season finale of Criminal Minds, which is the only show I watch on television these days. (Writing takes a lot of time. And it’s easier to give up TV than to give up time with the kids or the hubster. Although I suppose I could give up eating. It might not hurt.) Read More …
