Writing from Life | author’s note

Where I learned about detectives…

A good portion of my suspense fiction is pure fantasy. I don’t mean fantasy as a genre, but fantasy versus realism. Not only am I not remotely involved with any kind of criminal investigations, I don’t even know anyone who is. I have no experts pointing out my bogus assumptions about law enforcement or the criminal element. All of the detection and mystery and crime solving in my books—which make up most of the plots—comes out of my imagination, what I’ve seen...