Dec 26, 2018 | A Day In My Life
Walking into Zarita’s, I wasn’t sure what I’d find. Private investigator SJ Rook had agreed to meet me in his favorite off-duty joint. Rook was seated in a rear booth facing the door, a glass of bourbon settled between his relaxed hands. Black open-collar shirt, black...
Dec 25, 2018 | A Day In My Life
Hi. I’m Jocie Müller and I’m almost ten. Well, not really. I’m nine, but I want to be ten. My daddy is Jakob Müller and he’s a Christmas tree farmer and owns a junk store. We got married last year to Jaymie Leighton. I wasn’t sure what to call her at first, but she...
Dec 24, 2018 | A Day In My Life
Occupation: Texas Ranger One hundred and nineteen. That’s how many murder cases I’ve cleared. A perfect record—maybe the only currently unbroken streak in the Texas Department of Public Safety. It’s what landed me this job—Texas Ranger, the best of the best Lone Star...
Dec 23, 2018 | A Day In My Life
My name is Marabella Vinegar. No, I’m not making it up. It’s not an alias, or a pseudonym. My family name was courtesy of the kind folks at Ellis Island. We were respectable Vinnaucyurs back in south-middle Poland. My strange first name came from my...
Dec 19, 2018 | A Day In My Life
My name is Sadie Elizabeth Coleman. Up until a few months ago, I was living in Boston with my boyfriend, Eric. I lost my job to a merger back in the spring and then my relationship completely fell apart (it had been crumbling for a while). I needed to get away, so I...
Dec 18, 2018 | A Day In My Life
The phone waking me this morning was bad enough, but hearing my twin sister say, “Bill’s dead and, uh, I’m afraid the police think I killed him,” was worse. Why? Because Emily is the perfect cheerleader type who never deviates from the straight and narrow, while the...
