by JHowatt | Aug 22, 2022 | Crime Writing, Life Style
Three Women Who Shaped Me: A Teacher, An Officer’s Wife and A Plucky, German Grandma August 14, 2022. My non-fiction book titled “Jigsaw and Jane: Thirteen Years of Murder and Mayhem with Badge Number One,” which chronicles my thirteen-year crime-solving journey with... 
by JHowatt | Jul 29, 2022 | Crime Writing
Jigsaw Takes Jane to the Bradford Crime Scene August 31, 1984. In our thirteen years together, John St. John and I had more than a few epic battles. We argued over the use of profanity in a scene (I wanted less. He wanted more). We disagreed about diet (He liked... 
by Jane Howatt | Jul 14, 2022 | Crime Writing
Jigsaw Takes Jane to the Miranda Crime Scene Camarillo, California. 1982. Detective St. John and I sat across the kitchen table from each other– a glass of iced tea for him and coffee for me – and the LAPD Homicide Manual off to the side. The plan was, for him to give... 
by JHowatt | Mar 21, 2022 | Crime Writing, Life Style
Momdog and Grandma Kay meet Veronica and Igor March 1999. The gloomy, grey sky seemed to follow my laborious trek to the stalled baggage claim carousel. Grandma Kay – always the efficient traveler who once hailed a New York cab driver with the flourish and theatrics... 
by JHowatt | Feb 18, 2022 | Crime Writing, Life Style
Momdog Frets while Grandma Kay Sleeps: From San Diego to Russia. March 1999. When I learned Grandma Kay had booked our flight on the Russian airline, Aeroflot, my stomach twisted into a knot. For good reason. Back in the day when I was an airline stewardess, I’d... 
by JHowatt | Jan 29, 2022 | Crime Writing, Life Style
San Diego to St. Petersburg with Grandma Kay January 24, 2021. I read the headline in Yahoo News: “Ukrainians to Grapple with Warnings That Russian Invasion is Imminent.” Russia! Russia! Russia! Headlines getting worse. Will Putin invade Ukraine? What does this...