Jun 8, 2018 | A Day In My Life
Tenacity, that’s what I call my overzealous nature and go get ’em drive. Gifford McGrady, aka Giff, prefers the term thinly veiled insanity. Silly Giff. He’s just jaded because he used to work for me when I was an up-and-coming junior ad exec in one of Chicago’s...
Jun 1, 2018 | A Day In My Life
My day starts early—four o’clock if I can manage it. That’s my writing time. It’s also my catching up on news time. I’m a bit of a news fanatic. Normally I have a mystery I’m working on and those quiet hours from four to six give me the space to slip into my fictional...
May 29, 2018 | A Day In My Life
My name is Michelle Greenleigh Lincoln. I’m a sixty-eight-year-old retired English teacher. I spent most of my adult life in a small town in the mountains of western Maine, but after my husband died, staying on in the house we shared for all of those years was...
May 27, 2018 | A Day In My Life
My name’s Cass Raines. I’m a PI in Chicago. There’s nothing too complicated about it. People come into my office with a problem and I see if I can get them out of it. Most of my days are routine, boring even. I have a handful of steady clients I conduct background...
May 26, 2018 | A Day In My Life
Occupation: Homicide Detective It’s 3:00 p.m. and the beginning of Detective Connors’ last night shift before she switches to two day shifts and then two off. She’ll stay at the precinct tonight. With her shift ending at 1:00 a.m. tomorrow and the new day shift...
May 25, 2018 | A Day In My Life
When 40-something Trisha Carson woke up this morning, she knew exactly what she had to do. Her work uniform was hanging in the closet and she had to leave by 8:30 am to be at her post when the gates opened. You see, Trisha works for the San Francisco Giants in Guest...