newfound respect

I’ve been reading mystery stories since, well, as long as I can remember. When I was young, my literary interests consisted of science fiction, comic books and mysteries. All of which I still read today, as a matter of fact.

Well, I just wrote my first mystery, and I have newfound respect for those who write them professionally. My goodness, the logistics of it is demanding (who has to be where when, which weapons have to end up where, with plausible reasons for same, which doors have to be locked and unlocked, and why, etc.)

Anyway, I know A Sane Woman is a mystery, but it’s not that kind of mystery. And I thought Jan Sleet (and her trusted assistant Marshall, of course) deserved a more conventional mystery to solve. So, here it is (it’s part of the third novel, by the way).

The parade of characters will resume next week, by the way. I just have to decide who gets to be next.