Hope Miller by Alafair Burke

From PATCH Hopewell-Pennington, NJ POLICE SEEK WITNESSES TO ROLLOVER CRASH A woman was found on Tuesday night with critical injuries, not far from an overturned 1999 Toyota 4Runner. Emergency crews responded at 11:20 PM to a report of a single- car accident on East...

Ida Berkowitz by Mark Reutlinger

You want I should tell you what a day at the Julius and Rebecca Cohen Home for Jewish Seniors, where I live, is like? So what should it be? Life in a retirement home is a bissel different from that outside, but not much. We eat three meals a day in the dining room,...

Bonnie and the Case of Cat Breath by Gabriel Valjan

I wake up to cat breath. Before me is the venomous stare of one hungry feline and the ominous cadence of a thumping tail. Delilah is Shane’s cat. She is staying at my place, though true to the laws of the jungle, what is hers is hers and what is mine is hers. Shane is...

Ally Winter by Laura Scott

Hi! My name is Ally Winter, and I’m a vet. A Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, not the other kind. After my cheating ex fiancé took off with our buxom veterinary assistant, I moved to the small town of Willow Bluff Wisconsin to open my own veterinary practice. My plan...

Gemma Doyle by Vicki Delany

Once the summer tourist hordes leave Cape Cod, I look forward to a chance to slow down, take a breath and take stock. And to restock the shelves of my shop, the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium. I love having the time to read some of the marvellous (and sometimes...

Eve Mallow by Clare Chase

My name’s Eve Mallow and as an obituary writer, I find it quite hard to conjure up a post about myself. It’s normally other people that I write about! Moira, who owns the village store, describes me as working in the death industry, but she’s wrong – obituary...