A Chat With Holly Paine by Hannah Reed

My name is Holly Paine (nee Fischer) and I’m married to a millionaire. Sounds great, right? Well, it has it’s pros but also has a few cons. The main one? Max is never home. He’s on the road almost twenty-four-seven, leaving me to fend for myself. Thank God for my...

A Darkship Life’s With Athena by Sarah A. Hoyt

I was a princess of Earth – okay, I know that’s not strictly true. I was the daughter of a Good Man of Earth. But since the Good Men were fifty or so people who controlled between them all the immense wealth of an entire world, you must admit that my position wasn’t...

Spending Time With Eleanor Trewynn by Carola Dunn

I woke up very late this morning. You see, last night Nick, my next-door neighbour, treated me to a whisky up at the Wreckers, to celebrate the sale of one of his pictures (because I introduced him to his London dealer). One of the abstracts, I mean. His paintings of...

Alison Bergeron’s Little Secret by Maggie Barbieri

I try to stay out of trouble. Really, I do. But trouble seems to find me and I can’t say that that upsets me too much. After all, what college professor gets to teach a bunch of bored teenagers while solving murders that stump the police department? Not many, I tell...

Kevin Brickman’s Story by Joyce and Jim Lavene

My name is Kevin Brickman and I’m the owner of the Blue Whale Inn. I worked with the FBI for many years before retiring here to Duck, North Carolina. I saw and heard terrible things during that time. Some of them still wake me up in a cold sweat at night. The last few...

Betsy Devonshire by Monica Ferris

Notes of An Investigative Reporter Doing a Story on Unusual Characters Godwin Dulac – “She’s just so wonderful! And clever! I never thought crime could be fun till she came along! Well, except this once, when my partner, John Nye, got murdered, and the police...