Marilyn's Musings

Thanks Marilyn for inviting me to once again share my news and views on your excellent blog. I am a retired journalist and the author of nine crime novels in different subgenres. On August 21, the third in my Moriah Dru/Richard Lake Series will be published by Five Star Cengage Publishing Company. Let me introduce you to THE DEVIL LAUGHED. Dru -- the owner of Child Trace, a specialty PI agency -- and her lover, Lake -- an Atlanta Police detective -- team up to solve the disappearance of the sailboat Scuppernong and three of the four people aboard her. The fourth, a man named Johnny, was found in the waters of the marina. In the reverse of her child-finder role, Dru is hired by Evangeline to find her mother, Candice, one of the missing and Johnny’s wife. Evangeline, a precocious yet annoying adolescent, has faith that her mother is alive. My post today deals with a subject that has me going back to old mystery novels like Agatha Christie (read all many times), Ngaio Ma...