Listen To Your Editor

She just might know what she’s talking about!

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After revising my second Howard County Mystery True Death three or four times, I passed the manuscript to my wife Kathleen for editing. Coming upon a scene early in the book in which the head of the detective division is reviewing reports of a recent robbery, she stopped. “This doesn’t fit,” she told me. “Why would she be doing this? It’s not her…