Beginnings

Sunday? Beginnings! Since CAT ON A HOT TIN WOOF, the new Chet and Bernie mystery comes out on Tuesday, let’s go with it. Here’s the first line, a sort of door opening to the whole story, and of course I’m an in medias res kind of writer. Still time to preorder, btw!

“Whatta we got here?” said Nixon Panero.

Renowned sculptor Roy Valois receives the worst news since learning of his adored wife Delia's death in South America fifteen years ago. His doctor tells him he's dying—and a morbid curiosity about how he'll be remembered inspires Roy, with the help of a local computer geek, to hack into a newspaper's system to read his prewritten obituary. But the death notice includes a small discrepancy about his late wife—and by calling the mistake to the attention of the surprised obit writer, Roy has inadvertently sealed an innocent man's doom.

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