Mar 22, 2017 | A Day In My Life
Dear Douglas, Take this job and shove it! Love, Myra Leaning back in my swivel chair, I stared at the words on my computer screen. My friend Gwen was right. It was cathartic to type them out, even if I’d never actually say them or send them. It’s silly to burn...
Mar 21, 2017 | A Day In My Life
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do . . . It’s hard to that believe kidnapping wasn’t a national offense until 1932, when President Hoover signed it into law. Until then, authority was held at the state level, which is why these Baby Alice Spenser case notes are so...
Mar 20, 2017 | A Day In My Life
Chapter One teaser: “What’s going on in D’Iberville, Davis?” My immediate supervisor, Jeremy Covey, a tank of a man—former Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, current head of security at the Bellissimo, future unemployment-benefit recipient—took his seat at our...
Mar 18, 2017 | A Day In My Life
The Lady Montfort series set in England in the early 1900s features amateur sleuths Clementine, the Countess of Montfort and Edith Jackson, her housekeeper. Edith Jackson is a senior servant to the Earl of Montfort at his gracious Elizabethan country house Iyntwood,...
Mar 17, 2017 | A Day In My Life
Before I moved to Ireland last year, I spent all my life in Boston. There are real winters there. It snows in Boston, which makes the whole city a real mess for a day or three. That was the only time I was glad we didn’t own a car, because it would have been a pain to...
Mar 16, 2017 | A Day In My Life
Nothing beats horseback riding through the woods on one of those rare gorgeous days in November, blue sky instead of the usual dreary gray that we get here in southwestern Pennsylvania from October until May. I might be exaggerating. But only a little. Those of us...
