Nov 13, 2014 | A Day In My Life
I’ve been able to talk to animals since I was a child. My parents never believed me, and for a long time, I wasn’t sure it was real. This led me to believe I had to look elsewhere for a way to make a living. I have been everything from a spiritual advisor to a palm...
Nov 12, 2014 | A Day In My Life
High school reunions can be murder. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, to have one murder as a result of your reunion may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness. I wonder what Mr. Wilde would have said about three? Or four? Speaking of numbers, I had...
Nov 11, 2014 | A Day In My Life
I’m a Conch. To people who know what Conchs are, that should tell you a lot about my character. To those that don’t, well – it means I was born and raised in the Florida Keys. I came into this world at Fisherman’s Hospital in Marathon, the first in my family not born...
Nov 10, 2014 | A Day In My Life
I’ve been asked to explain how a simple gun shop owner like myself manages to find herself involved in so many homicides. I can’t explain why corpses regularly show up in my life, but I can shed some light on how I manage to make them go away. So without further ado,...
Nov 9, 2014 | A Day In My Life
Thumper’s the name. We just got to Grandmother’s Texas ranch and I met this babe…a cream tabby vixen with eyes the color of mustard and stripes the color of marigolds. Yowza! It was love at first sight. We were hanging out by the river together and overheard...
Nov 8, 2014 | A Day In My Life
(Note from Marilyn Meredith: A familiar sounding name you say? Kate Eileen Shannon is an author who entered last year’s contest to have a character named after her in the next Deputy Tempe Crabtree mystery. She won. Now you have a chance to hear from my Kate Eileen...
