by Jane Howatt | Jun 28, 2024 | Crime Writing
What Does a Hard-Boiled Detective Do in Retirement? June 21, 2024. When author Roslyn Sulcas posed the question of what a hard-boiled detective does in retirement in the article she wrote for the New York Times, I didn’t have to guess an answer. I knew from thirteen...
by Jane Howatt | Jun 19, 2024 | Crime Writing
John List: The Perfect Family Man Who Killed His Perfect Family June 1, 2024. I read the headline published on March 21, 2019, by The Lineup Staff once and twice, then set my coffee mug on the dining room table and pulled the article close. There was something...
by Jane Howatt | May 28, 2024 | Life Style
The Cowgirl and the Crime Writer: Chapter One Saturday, April 20, 2024. Clio, California. 4:30 pm. I stood knee-deep in a stack of Bekins boxes piled almost to the garage ceiling, feeling tired, grumpy, and grumbly about unpacking another damn container jam-packed...
by Jane Howatt | May 13, 2024 | Crime Writing
The Greatest Aviation Mystery of all Time: What Happened to MH370? April 5, 2024. The expectation of an airline passenger is that they will travel safely and in relative comfort, whether the ticket comes with champagne or water. For the 239 passengers and 12 flight...
by Jane Howatt | Apr 19, 2024 | Crime Writing
Lover, Stalker, Killer: A Twisted, Terrifying True Crime Whodunnit When Match.com became the first online dating website in 1995, not one of my single friends considered going out with someone they hadn’t met. They told me that part of the mystique, intrigue, and hope...