Jan 21, 2017 | A Day In My Life
I’m a county police detective in a place that’s postcard pretty. Lots of rolling hills, horse farms and Victorian villages. At least that’s what everybody sees when they first take the train up here from New York City. That, and all the snow. We get...
Jan 20, 2017 | A Day In My Life
“You don’t look like a cop.” Wish I had a dollar for every time I heard a version of that opinion. My boss says it when he explains why I’m so valuable as an undercover drug agent. Drug sellers say it on the rare occasions my cover slips. My grandmother Fern says it...
Jan 19, 2017 | A Day In My Life
Fall is in the air in Etonville, New Jersey. The leaves are about to change colors, the humidity has evaporated, and I, Dodie O’Dell, am whipping the Windjammer restaurant into a finely- tuned machine. Nearly two years after Hurricane Sandy I’m finally getting...
Jan 18, 2017 | A Day In My Life
Aloha, kakou! All right, I have a confession to make. I can’t really speak Hawaiian. In fact, those are the only words of the language I’m familiar with, except for a few that our chef, Poncho, mumbles under his breath occasionally when someone complains that the food...
Jan 17, 2017 | A Day In My Life
Dru asked me to share a typical day in the life of Maggie McDonald, sole proprietor of Simplicity Itself Organizing Services and the protagonist of the Maggie McDonald Mystery series. But she’s a take-charge kind of gal, and insisted on telling her own...
