Sunday? Beginnings! Here’s the start of SCENTS AND SENSIBILITY, a  Chet and Bernie mystery now on digital sale for $1.99! $1.99! Imagine! And maybe a nice way to introduce a friend to the series – just in time for publication of the new one, CAT ON A HOT TIN WOOF.

Home at last! We’d been away so long, first in swampy country, then in a big city – maybe called Foggy Bottom – that confused me from the get-go. Is there time to mention the air in both those places before we really get started? Soggy and heavy: that sums it up.

Where were we? Was it possibly … home? Yes! Home! Home at last! Our home – mine and Bernie’s – is on Mesquite Road. Mesquite Road’s in the Valley. Quite recently I might have heard that the Valley’s in Arizona, but don’t count on that. What matters is that right now I was inhaling a nice big noseful of Valley air. Light and dry, with a hint of greasewood and just plain grease: perfect. I felt tip top. Bernie opened our door, kicked aside a huge pile of mail, and we went in.