Detective Laura McCallister

Well, Roz has finally gotten off her ass long enough to get my latest case in book form! I am impressed.
Secrets and Sins should be released this fall. You can whet your appetite with the first two chapters here.
Here’s the cover. Roz assures me that my name will be on the back, but for the [...]

Interesting article here…
A Greek court has been asked to draw the line between the natives of the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos and the world’s gay women.
Three islanders from Lesbos — home of the ancient poet Sappho, who praised love between women — have taken a gay rights group to court for using the word [...]

My heart goes out to all the Californians, facing fire, losses, and evacuations. It truly must be horrible.
However, why do I not think that we’ll see post-disaster man-made disasters this time: people dying, people in need of rescue and food, begging for help that might not come, etc. Nah, we won’t see it this time, [...]

Should old acquaintances be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne?
A fitting song, I think, to be singing on this, Constitution Day 2007. It seems a day to reminisce about the times — years ago now — when “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” was what [...]

…with all its kabooms. I’m sorry, but when we’re in the midst of a war, it’s hard to hear explosions and smell gunpowder and have it feel festive. Our kids are dying to the same sounds.
But we must… We must celebrate our independence from King George III, even though we are in the lethal grip [...]

I have never and will most likely never dance on anyone’s grave. Death is by far the nastiest thing we as humans must endure — not our own, mind you, but the death of those we love. Grief is a nasty bastard, and for those in its vicious grip, my heart goes out.
But I also [...]

When the day is taken over with heading about another school shooting —this time at Virginia Tech— there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot to say. The jaw just drops, and the heart just hurts for victims and for families. How many lives were ruined today? Certainly not just 33. How many phone calls [...]