Apr 20, 2018 | A Day In My Life
I’m Fia McKee, and I work for the Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau. Right now, I’m undercover at New York’s Saratoga racetrack investigating horse trainer, Mars Pizutti. He’s suspected of dirty dealings, like filing fake workout times for his horses and using...
Apr 19, 2018 | A Day In My Life
Traci Andrighetti, “Prugnolino Purple,” a Frank Amato Mystery Ciao, y’all. Franki Amato here. Veronica and I closed the PI firm early to come to Hermann-Grima House, a historic home in New Orleans’ French Quarter, for a fundraiser co-hosted by the Spring...
Apr 16, 2018 | A Day In My Life
Most mornings I wake up with the sound of all those church bells ringing in my ears and wonder where the heck I am. This sure isn’t Leadville, Colorado, where I’d’ve been waking up to the sound of ore carts rattling down from the silver mines and with the stink of the...
Apr 14, 2018 | A Day In My Life
My favorite name these days is “Grampa Seamus.” That’s what my granddaughter, Megan McCree, calls me. She and her father, Paddy, are spending time with me up at my camp on a small lake sequestered deep in the woods of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. We’re fifteen miles...
Apr 10, 2018 | A Day In My Life
The a/c at the Last Ditch Motel is best described as symphonic. It’s not a classical symphony, mind you. It’s modern-atonal over jazz roots, with just a suggestion of someone dropping seven buckets down a fire escape. But I’m used to it now. The water pressure’s not...
Apr 9, 2018 | A Day In My Life
Please call me Charlee, though. Charlemagne is my fancy author’s name. I mean, really, who’d read a mystery by some pipsqueak named Charlee? I’ve been writing mysteries since college and was lucky enough to land a no-nonsense agent right after...
