Sunday means beginnings where we check out the start of a Peter Abrahams novel including those written under the Spencer Quinn moniker™. We were going backwards through the Che tand Bernie mysteries and I believe got all the way to DOG ON IT, and after that we were going to do the next C&B – CAT ON A HOT TIN WOOF. Pub date is April 14 and here’s an interesting fact that may have eluded you – it’s pre-orderable! But for reasons I can’t recall, my middle-grade Echo Falls trilogy came up so we did the beginnings of that. So today, finally, and if you’re still with me, a sneak peek at the start of CAT ON A HOT TIN WOOF:

“Whatta we got here?” said Nixon Panero.

He popped the hood of our ride and peered inside, where the smoke was coming from. Our ride’s a Porsche, but not shiny new. Far from it! We’ve had several Porsches in my career, for sure more than two, which is where I stop when it comes to numbers, but all of them—including the brown one with yellow doors that went off a cliff and the one with the martini glass decals that got blown up—were old. This one, the newest, was the oldest, if you see what I mean. No problem if you don’t. I’m with you! Bernie calls our ride the Beast, and if you could hear it roar you’d know why. A perfect name and just one more example of his brilliance. Bernie’s always the smartest human in the room, so don’t even try.