NOT AS WE KNEW IT--I did something others said shouldn't be done



I heard from many authors who said they weren't going to include the pandemic in any of their next books. Frankly, when you're writing an ongoing series in more or less real time, I didn't think that was very realistic.

So, when it was time to write the next Rocky Bluff P.D. mystery, I decide to tackle it the best way I knew how. How would the pandemic affect my characters?

(Believe me, I did give a sigh of relief when I read one of Michael Connelly's latest and he did address the pandemic in it.)

Because I know my characters intimately, I pretty much knew how each one would react. Believe me, I drew a lot on my own family and friends' experiences and their feelings.

As far as the police department, I asked my grandson some questions. 

A side plot was something that was going on all over the country during that time, and I borrowed something my grandson told me his department did and I scaled it down a bit for NOT AS WE KNEW IT.

I couldn't help but wonder what someone like Detective Doug Milligan would do if he was quarantined because of the pandemic and there was a missing person case. Didn't take long for me to figure it out.

If you want to find out what I did, the book is available for Kindle and in paper.


F. M. Meredith aka F. M. Meredith

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