The Mystery Starts Here

I have been busy submitting all six of my previously published books to amazon.com for their Kindle book reader and…now they are all there and ready for purchase! I’m not sure how many people use book readers, but they are coming down in price and I see more and more people - especially travelers, using them. I figured, couldn’t hurt - might help. If you’re interested, go to www.amazon for a list of my books.

I’ve been a bit lax in writing here mainly because I have three manuscripts in varying stages of completion and have been working on them. Hey, I’ve got hungry dogs to feed you know! I’m also chef cook and bottle washer, cleaning lady, dog walker and have to give some time to my precious husband, Dennis.

We had a minor trauma a couple weeks ago. Duke the rescue dog had to have a tooth pulled! Poor guy fractured his front tooth somehow, so off to the vet’s we went. Now, we COULD have had a root canal and crown put on, but…we had the vet pull that sucker. Duke didn’t care. He was back to his bouncy, loving self within a day. We were delighted to find he gained 10 pounds in the two months hes’ been with us. He’s still pretty skinny at 87 pounds, so you can imagine what he looked like when we rescued him!

Till next time….

If you don’t believe me, read "Forensics and Fiction" by D. P. Lyle, M.D. I so enjoyed his, "Howdunit Forensics" that I rushed to Amazon and brought this book, too. In it, Dr. Lyle answers questions posed by both published and prepublished mystery writers and some of the questions are downright weird. Here’s a sample: Can a corpse be bled? (No -they ooze) What items were used to stop bleeding in the 1900’s? (mud, eggs, herbs and tabacco - euuu) Can my bad guy be severely burned in a tanning bed? (yup)  and one of my favorites - Could my character hide inside a corpse? (it’s possible!!!) If that one doesn’t give you nightmares, nothing will.

The book is divided into five sections, with a list of each question and its page number in the front of the book so it’s easy to flip to something of particular interest. This will also help in future if you want to go back and re-read a certain question, perhaps to think up one of your own.

Dr. Lyle answers each question completely in language anyone can understand. The questions and answers in "Forensics and Fiction" are sure to trigger a bunch of ‘what-if" questions for your mysteries. If you want to find out more about Dr. Lyle or his books, visit his website at:  www.dplylemd.com