Feb 3, 2017 | A Day In My Life
“Have you brushed your teeth?” I yelled up the stairs. No answer. I took a breath, then raised my voice a notch. “Toby, have you brushed your teeth?” I looked at my watch and tried not to grit my teeth. “We’re going to be late.” The only response was a faint gurgle....
Feb 2, 2017 | A Day In My Life
Hello, taxpayers. I’m Eddie Bardin, a Senior Special Agent for the IRS Criminal Investigations Division in Dallas, Texas. We’re the feds who go after tax cheats. Our boss is retiring in just a few weeks, and I’ll be stepping up to the position of co-director of the...
Feb 1, 2017 | A Day In My Life
Finding a corpse on a date is a whole new way of learning a lot about a person very fast. But I don’t recommend it. My day started fairly well, with a deliciously fattening breakfast of waffles with fresh local blackberries and, naturally, a side of bacon. Living in...
Jan 31, 2017 | A Day In My Life
Veronica Justice here, reporter for the Vista Beach View, the weekly newspaper here in town. You might know me from my blog, VB Confidential, where I give the latest scoop on what’s happening around the area. Or you might remember me from those two books that Johnson...
Jan 30, 2017 | A Day In My Life
I love newspapers. I always have. So even though overtime calls are not my favorite things in life I was a little excited to enter the huge building which houses the staff, reporters and printing press of the Cleveland Herald. Usually I am entering broken-down old...
Jan 28, 2017 | A Day In My Life
The Case: The Medallion Hunt Murder Ice crystals sheathed my eyelashes and tugged at the hairs in my nostrils. Every breath was like an inhalation of flame. Ten below will do that. Tack on a fifteen-mile-an-hour wind carrying shrapnel shards of snow and ice, and it...
