Thank you

to all who have inquired and otherwise shown interest! I have finally finished the second Andy Gammon mystery, And There He Kept Her Very Well. That’s the good news. The not so good news is that the manuscript is still making the rounds of agents, etc., so I can’t say yet when it will see print.

Meanwhile, I can provide a little appetizer. And There He Kept Her Very Well is another dual mystery, set in two time periods—1901 and the present. Andy and her mother-in-law Mayta are at the reopening gala of a seaside Victorian grand hotel when a fellow diner is murdered during a tour. A suspicious overheard conversation draws Andy into the mystery of why the woman was killed in the same hotel room another woman disappeared from more than a century before.

In typical fashion, Andy’s snooping gets her into some curious situations, among them a nighttime prowl through the underground tunnels of a derelict Gothic insane asylum. Issues of independence and vulnerability—in the present among the elderly, and during the 19th century among women, especially in regard to mental illness—are threaded through the story.

A shout, a scuffle of feet, and two guards above hit the stairs to descend. I exited the door at the bottom and found myself in the basement, where I recognized a hallway we’d been in before. I didn’t see or hear where the others had gone. Crap! Not only was I being chased by guards, and probably police at this point also, I was now lost from my group.

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