My very first career goal, at age eight, was to be Nancy Drew. Later, the first of my many college majors was criminal justice. Then came English, followed by drama and astronomy. I had a hard time settling on something. My dreams were of investigating crime or writing about it. My parents were unenthusiastic, to…
Lawyer for the Dog by Lee Robinson tells the tale of Sally Baynard, a divorced public defender who's forced to look after Sherman, a miniature schnauzer (available July 7, 2015). One of the sharpest attorneys in Charleston, S.C., Sally Baynard isn't your typical southern belle. She's certainly not what her mother hoped she'd grow…
Many people believe that Alice Crimmins got away with the 1965 murder of her two children. (Read my views on the Crimmins case here.) But could the Crimmins case have provided fodder for a future child killer? Alice Crimmins always maintained her innocence, but the police and much of the press believed Alice Crimmins was…
Lowcountry Bombshell by Susan M. Boyer is the second cozy mystery about private investigator Liz Talbot set on a small-town island in South Carolina (available September 3, 2013). Susan M. Boyer gets it. And by “it,” I mean “the southern voice.” And by that I do not mean she throws “Y’all” into every other line of…
