BONES IN THE ATTIC--Fact or fiction
Readers often ask me how much is true that I put in my books.
To be perfectly honest, a lot that has happened in my life or to people I know turns up in one book or another but significantly changed. The true event is often what trigger the idea for the plot.
For instance, in Bones in the Attic the main plot is about bones found in a trunk in an attic and the question is was the person the skeleton belongs to murdered?
I can't tell you much about the skeleton as too much of the plot is based on something that happened to a friend of mine, and when she told me, believe me, I was surprised and a bit shocked by her revelation.
Another body in the story is based on a true happening where I live, in fact only two doors away. We live out in the country so our homes are separated much more than they would be in the city.
Also where we live we has a definite fire season which extends from summer far into fall and the first rains, and it's the same over on the coast, but they are mostly vulnerable during the times of east winds. Because fairly recently there' been a huge fire that had raged from Santa Paula to Santa Barbara and would have passed through foothills of Rocky Bluff, the fire that occurs in Bones in the Attic happens in the area the big fire didn't touch.
I've never decorated for a haunted house, but since this book happens close to Halloween it certainly worked for the mystery. I belong to our local Art Gallery and I know what happens in this story would be something the members would agree to.
And of course you'll learn more about what is happening in the lives of the officers of RBPD and their families. Yes, there's also more of the budding romance between Chief Taylor and the mayor, Devon Duvall.
I loved writing this tale, and I hope you'll like reading it.
Blurb:
Detective Doug Milligan’s daughter, Beth, informs him a body has been discovered in a long-abandoned home, which Beth and other students are turning into a haunted house. The skeleton was crammed inside an old trunk, still clothed in the remnants of what appeared to be pajamas. Another call for elder abuse may be a case of murder. To complicate matters, a wildfire threatens the town.
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Marilyn who writes this series as F. M. Meredith
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