Jun 13, 2018 | A Day In My Life
My name is Romaine Gabriela Sadie Heloise Wilder, I’m fortyish, of mixed race French Creole, and death is my legacy. Let me explain that . . . When I was twelve my parents died and I moved to Roble in East Texas with my Auntie Zanne whose home was also a funeral...
Jun 12, 2018 | A Day In My Life
Finding Out Dad’s Secret “What did you say?” I leaned forward toward the mahogany desk stacked with folders of papers. It was the first time I’d been in a lawyer’s office, and this one was as intimidating as the ones I’d seen on TV. Maybe I hadn’t heard him right. Mr....
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...
