The Land of Civilian was a dry bitter place where you sat in your car staring at drawn curtains and closed doors for hours on end, and where everything was a big, freaking secret.

The love of money can do wicked things to one’s soul.

You have the Answer. Just get quiet enough to hear it. ~Pat Obuchowski

Awoke to find three vultures sitting on the fence. Realizing they were a portent of impending death I shot them.

The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.Michel de Montaigne

This is the day the Lord has made, suck it up and rejoice.

Friendships outlive marriages and family. Friendships can make a life wonderful or wasted, worth sacrificing or worth saving. In the Paris-based 7-book Apricot Tree House Mystery Series, Jamie Litton and Ben Foulof choose to save...

Emma was doing something nice for Simon? Hell must be enjoying the snow day.

When you’re poor and hungry and frightened of failure, you often don’t have the luxury of high values, lofty goals, and social conscience. Funny how fear and poverty will acid-wash your value set, burn away...

Let the spirits guide you, but never let them take you.

His attitude to physical clues was rather like that of the modern Christian to miracles. They could happen, but probably not just at the moment.

At the moment developing a nice little inoffensive cancer somewhere on dry land seemed infinitely preferable to what she was grimly convinced was soon to be her death by drowning way too far out at...

Ah ha!’ the Doc screeched suddenly, wheeling around. ”The salicylic acid! Maybe it SHOULD have been heated first!

The real core of this book is about the open secrets that can fester in a community until an outsider raises questions.

“Pilate’s Cross” is inspired by the questions this terrible crime created but as a work of fiction it is set in a different place and time and has a more complex motive for the murders.