A Word With Laura Childs

Jul 9, 2022 | A Word With The Author

Why do you write the genre that you write?Ever since I was a kid I adored spooky mysteries. Told ghost stories around the campfire, snuck into the cemetery at night on a dare, scared my friends with a Ouija board. When the time came to start writing mysteries I was...

A day in the life with Afton Tangler by Gerry Schmitt

Aug 2, 2017 | A Day In My Life

Last night was like something out of a nightmare. A medical helicopter was shot down just as it was making its final approach over the Mississippi River to land at the University of Minnesota Medical Center. Two pilots killed, dozens of students injured, rotor blades...

My Musing ~ Shadow Girl by Gerry Schmitt

Jul 30, 2017 | My Musing

Shadow Girl by Gerry Schmitt is the second book in the “Afton Tangler” thriller series. Publisher: Penguin Random House, coming August 1, 2017 The brutal murder of a business tycoon leaves Afton Tangler and the Twin Cities reeling, but that’s just the beginning of a...

My Musing ~ Little Girl Gone by Gerry Schmitt

Jul 10, 2016 | My Musing

Little Girl Gone by Gerry Schmitt is the first book in the NEW “Afton Tangler” thriller series. Publisher: Penguin Random House, July 2016 In the first Afton Tangler thriller, the unforgiving cold of a Minnesota winter hides the truth behind an even more chilling...

A Day in the Life of Afton Tangler by Gerry Schmitt

Jul 7, 2016 | A Day In My Life

I’m sitting here in police headquarters shivering like a Chihuahua in a snowstorm. But not because of the brutal cold. It’s because Chief Thacker called me in to help deal with a baby that’s been kidnapped. A three month-old by the name of Elizabeth Ann who was stolen...