C HAPTER O NE T he beach rental house called the Osprey’s Nest was full of summer guests and should have been full of laughter and music but it wasn’t. It was dead quiet. In fact, it looked a bit like Gettysburg the day after the battle. In the big central living room people lay on the floor, sprawled across sofas, slouched in leather recliners, and slumped over laptop computers with hands hovering over keyboards. Crumpled paper dotted the floor. Glasses of iced tea and bottles of beer sat forgotten on tables. Flip-flops were scattered randomly around the room, but the people weren’t dead. They were writers. They called themselves the Sand Fiddlers Writers Group and this was the week of their annual retreat. Sophie Perone, author of the popular Mysterious Gourmet books, had volunteered to do all the cooking and on this morning, Sophie had arranged her special cheese straws in tall glass tumblers and placed them all around the room so the writers could snack on them while they we
Fun "tails" involving mutts, mayhem, and murder!
Yes, we've been unpenned. As in let out of the dog pen. Yet, I still write with a pen! I'm previewing a few of the Virginia is for Mysteries Volume III stories, and I must say that you will find some dogs, you will find a Mutt Mysteries character you know, and who knows what else?
ReplyDeleteI do know you will find good stories from us and from the other contributing authors, and if you know Virginia, you'll be satisfied to recognize venues and landmarks.
An anthology is a a great way to have good stories close at hand for those vacant or stolen minutes during which you can begin and finish a fast-paced read!
yep . . . I see my own typo! Darn!
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