Marilyn's Musings

 The first inkling of an idea for this one came from my police officer son-in-law who said, "Movies and books never let you know how awful death smells." Of course from there, my imagination leaped ahead. Blurb: Officer Stacey Wilbur is the first on the scene of too many homicide. A missing child, strange burglaries, the murder of a mother and her daughter disrupt the peaceful beach community of Rocky Bluff. Officer Stacey Wilbur assists Doug Milligan with the investigations and she finds herself breaking her long-standing rule of never dating anyone who works for Rocky Bluff P.D. Reviews:   I’ve enjoyed a number of Marilyn Meredith’s novels, but her latest—Smell of Death—is the first I’ve read from her Rocky Bluff PD Series. Actually, Meredith—who lives in Springville—writes the Rocky Bluff PD series under the name of F.M. Meredith. Smell of Death is the fourth book in this series, with each story in this series set in a small town on Ventura County coast. I settl...

First on the scene of a traffic accident that turns out to be murder, Officer Stacey Wilbur calls Detective Doug Milligan. Despite her former vow to never date anyone on the Rocky Bluff P.D., she and Milligan are romantically involved. Finding time to be alone together isn’t easy. The murder victim is the wife of a popular Rocky Bluff minister, and several suspects immediately come to the forefront, the minister himself, his nosy secretary, the choir director, and a nerdy stalker. Stacey helps Doug with the murder investigation, but the Chief asks her to go undercover as a prostitute to expose a pedophile which leads to a surprising job offer. Stacey must make two major decisions that will change her life forever, and a third that nearly causes her to lose her life. That is one of the blurbs for my new Rocky Bluff P.D. crime novel, No Sanctuary . Because I am a regular church goer, I want to clarify that I am not making fun of churches. Churches, temples, synagogues are where sinners g...