May 14, 2012 | A Day In My Life
Hi, I’m Bruce, I’m an alcoholic. I’d feel like a dork if I said I’m a grateful recovering alcoholic, the way my friend Jimmy and other guys with long-term sobriety do in AA. But I have to admit that life without booze doesn’t suck as much as I thought it would. For...
May 10, 2012 | A Day In My Life
I’m Helen Hawthorne, Fort Lauderdale private eye. I just finished working as a stewardess aboard a 143-foot luxury yacht, trying to catch an emerald smuggler. Elaine Viets wrote about my adventure in Final Sail. A job with an ocean view. Sounds glamorous, right?...
May 9, 2012 | A Day In My Life
It’s Shop Hop Season. This is when quilters race miles and miles to visit upwards of twenty quilt shops in four days, in order to win prizes. Of all the weird things quilters do, going on a Shop Hop has to be up there in the top ten. I’ll let you in on a little...
May 8, 2012 | A Day In My Life
For Jack MacTaggart, the wise-guy protagonist in my series of legal mysteries from St. Martin’s Minotaur, no two days in the office are ever alike. Nor, for that matter, does he spend a whole lot of time in the office. But luckily for us, we caught him there one...
May 7, 2012 | A Day In My Life
One day. It’s difficult to pick one—nearly all my days in Sea Harbor are filled with interesting things. But there is one I might want to talk about. It was a recent Monday, one worth revisiting, a day that launched all of us into the Sea Harbor summer with a...
May 3, 2012 | A Day In My Life
Thank goodness Mrs. Goodge had a nice pot of tea brewed when I came into the kitchen. I’d not slept much as this case had me tossing and turning all night. Perhaps this morning I will have a breakthrough in my mental faculties and come to some sort of conclusion about...