by JHowatt | Jan 21, 2022 | Crime Writing, Life Style
Jigsaw and Jane: How Fishing Got Us Hooked on Each Other This blog isn’t about fishing, really. It isn’t about who caught the largest fish, or the fish that weighed the most, or the fish that put up the biggest fight, or the fish that won the “Fish of the Day”... 
by JHowatt | Nov 19, 2021 | Crime Writing
Vacation of a lifetime–Chapter 2 Camarillo, California. I stepped into our vacation house on wheels and marveled at how the interior of this motorhome resembled a small apartment unit: compact kitchen, two sofas that doubled as beds, another single bed overhead,... 
by JHowatt | Oct 22, 2021 | Crime Writing
Vacation of a Lifetime! Jane’s Family Visits Jigsaw’s Retreat Los Angeles, California. St. John and I sat at our usual booth at Denny’s with our usual combo of iced tea for him, black coffee for me trying to create a rough draft for a chapter outline. But the going... 
by JHowatt | Aug 17, 2021 | Crime Writing
Coffee with Cops at McDonald’s I decided I’d focus my next three or four articles on the LAPD’s Community Outreach program because policing is front-page news these days. Communities are struggling to find a way to find middle ground between cops who use too... 
by JHowatt | Jul 23, 2021 | Crime Writing
Jigsaw Takes Jane Down Memory Lane: Old Los Angles House on Harvard Street: Where Jigsaw Grew Up. One of the things I loved to talk about with Jigsaw, was the difference between old and new Los Angeles. On this particular day–and for no reason I can think of–I asked... 
by JHowatt | Jul 9, 2021 | Crime Writing
Jigsaw and Jane Hit the Big Apple November 30, 1983. I sat with John St. John in a New York Yellow Cab headed to our first appointment of the day: M. Evans, publisher at Contemporary Books on 49th Street in New York. St. John was in the Big Apple at the invitation of...