I love mysteries. I love to read them, watch them and write them. I’ve adored these penned puzzles since I read my first Nancy Drew which was a REALLY long time ago! My romance roots with New Jersey Romance Writers nurtured my love for happy endings – or at least, not horrible ones, so MY mysteries are a blend of the two genres: mainstream mysteries with less-than-horrific endings!
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CRIME SCENE NJ3 – EXCERPT
from SUSSEX COUNTY DRAGNET, Page 105
”How long have you been doing this?” she asked the Sergeant. Mallory finished some notes and looked at her. “I’ve been with the State Police for twenty-five years. I’ve been bringing home missing kids for almost eighteen of those years.”
The Sergeant couldn’t tell the distraught mother that almost nineteen years ago, her own daughter Casey had left home at the age of seventeen and never been seen alive again. It wasn’t the sort of lost-child story that brought anyone comfort…
CRIME SCENE NJ 2 – EXCERPT
from CHASING THE WHITE UNICORN, Page 59
Royal Palm Literary Award Winning Short Story 2007
Asbury Park’s famous Stone Pony hadn’t been reduced to rubble, so I parked in the lot. Memories of after-hour jam sessions with Bruce and Johnny assailed me as I gathered my camera and backpack. Music transcended everything in those days, including Vietnam, race riots, drugs, and stardom. We were all working-class, blue-collar musicians with a message. We were unstoppable.
Bruce is unstoppable. And Southside-to some degree. But me? My life
stopped dead one August night in 1970…