Mar 18, 2022 | A Day In My Life
It was meant to be a break from running the All’s Well, that’s the bookshop I inherited from my aunt Violet in a village called Abbeymead, deep in the Sussex countryside. I’d agreed to travel with Jack Carrington, our local crime writer, to a place called Treleggan on...
Mar 17, 2022 | A Day In My Life
Hey, my name is Carmen. I live in a tiny apartment in New York City, but I’m from Miami. My parents came over from Cuba right after Castro took over. But that’s the backstory, you’re here for more than that. I moved up here to New York to work in comics. I want to...
Mar 16, 2022 | A Day In My Life
It’s a Saturday morning and few people are at the marina yet. It’s too early. I’m too early. But I’m anxious. This is the day that I—Risa Marr—get the chance to change my life forever. Streaks of pink and gold warm the Florida sky. The wheels on my rolling suitcase...
Mar 15, 2022 | A Day In My Life
Bright sunlight is streaming in through the window in my bedroom, a room that’s only accessible through the secret staircase activated by a stone dragon that hides a lever. It’s six o’clock in the morning. A few months ago, I wouldn’t have believed you if you told me...
Mar 14, 2022 | A Day In My Life
7:00 am: Alarm goes off. Contemplate the snooze button. Another twenty minutes won’t hurt. 7:02 am: Dog nose in my eye. Get up, load coffeemaker and set it on kill. I’m going to need all the help I can get today. I take Teddy, my probably-German-Shepard rescue mutt...
Mar 9, 2022 | A Day In My Life
You might say I have a strange sense of humor, but that’s what growing up around dead bodies will do to you. My family and I love a good macabre joke—it’s like a secret language of our own. We all—my mom and dad, my brother Jack, and me—we all work in the funeral...
