How Things Have Changed in RBPD by Marilyn Meredith
Slowly but surely, I'm moving my Rocky Bluff P.D. mystery series to Aakenbaaken & Kent Publishers. I have my latest mystery in the series with them now, Unresolved. The publisher and I decided we'd start with the first one in the series-- Final Respects . I received the text block to check it for typos, etc. First thing I noticed was the overabundance of exclamation points! I took them all out. Then came a lot of things that have changed over the years. All my police officers had mustaches of one sort or another. You seldom see a mustache on a law enforcement officer these days. But back when I was writing the book, all the officers i knew and saw had a mustache. And with their dark glasses on, they tended to all look alike. My detectives smoked--and they smoked in their office in the police department. Something that would not happen today. No, I didn't change any of that--because it would make problems in the plots of later books. D...