Marcie Rayner by J.C. Eaton

Occupation: Minnesota P.I. and former Crime Statistician When I gave up my position as a crime statistician at St. Paul Community College to work as an investigative assistant for my late father’s former partner, I expected a few murders to waft my way. I also...

Alexis Winston by Kathryn Long

My name is Alexis Winston. I am a screen writer for a popular television show, or I should say was a writer. Just like I was also the show’s researcher, until budget cuts and younger views pushed me out the door. (My views are considered old? Good grief. I’m only...

Cassandra Davenport by Lois Winston

Being a single parent isn’t easy, especially when The Ex rarely remembers his financial obligations to me and our kids. Which is why I, Cassandra Davenport, recently concluded I needed a better paying job than working as the Arts and Entertainment reporter for our...

Harbinder Kaur by Elly Griffiths

One of the advantages of still living with your parents at the age of thirty-six – don’t get me going on the disadvantages – is that my mum makes me breakfast. I remember, when I was at primary school, being asked to describe a typical breakfast. I began, ‘First you...

Theodosia Browning by Laura Childs

Occupation: proprietor of the Indigo Tea Shop It’s the week before Halloween and Drayton Conneley (my tea sommelier) and I are attending the grand opening of a “literary and historically themed” haunted house. It’s in a dilapidated old Victorian mansion known as the...

Kari Stuart by Deborah Blake

My name is Kari Stuart, and my life now is very different from the days not so long ago when I worked as a waitress in the Lakeview Diner and tried to figure out who I wanted to be when I grew up. (Okay, I was already twenty-nine, but you know what I mean.) Then I...