My new book, On Behalf of the Family, is the third in a series featuring Detective Dave Mason of the Santa Monica Police Department. He is presented with a complex car arson death of a beautiful and rich Turkish girl. The question is whether this young girl’s...
I know that I’m a lucky woman. They say it’s better to be lucky than rich. I must have made some good choices in life, because I’ve sure as hell made some lollapalooza bad ones. This week I’ll embark from San Diego on a cruise ship for a six-week experience in French...
Radine Trees Nehring wrote an inspired blog http://radine.wordpress.com/ recently about the reasons for poor financial prospects in the mystery writing game. My heart sank as I read it because it mirrors my own experience. Even Marilyn Meredith,...
My friend Vicky Bingaman is a wildlife rehabber who takes in injured creatures, nurses them back to health, and pushes them back out into the wild. You can’t feed a Cooper’s hawk or a rat snake on cat kibble. So when I see a squirrel on the roadway who has succumbed...
I live in a mountain village in rural California and my third mystery suspense novel, Payback, is set in fictional Sierra Mountain Village, somewhat like the village where I live. But I assure you; only nice people live here in Pine Mountain Club. Nonetheless, the...
