Welcome to a special edition of Mitch Malone
Mondays on Saturday. Today I’m pleased to have F.M. Meredith or Marilyn as she
is known to her friends stop by but she usually doesn’t say much. She visits
regularly and always brings the most interesting people. Today is no exception.
Miqui Sherwood is featured in the next Deputy Tempe Crabtree book called RAGING
WATERS. Welcome Miqui. Tell me a little about the country where you live. It is
a long way from West Michigan isn’t it?
Miqui: Yes, I live in a small mountain town
called Bear Creek in the Southern Sierra, that’s in California, in case you
didn’t know. The town is named after the river that runs through town. I don’t
know what idiot named it Bear Creek since right now it’s full to overflowing.
I understand you have an interesting hobby and
it has something to do with the U.S. Mail. Tell me how it got started and why
you do it?
Miqui: I’m crazy about holidays and I love to
decorate my home with all my collectibles. I have some priceless and antique
Christmas figurines, everything from Santa and Mrs. Claus to groups of carolers
I decorate inside and out to celebrate every new season. I even decorate my
mailbox.
I’ve been real nice asking you easy questions
but I am a reporter and wanted to soften you up before I got to the last couple
of questions. You had a criminal element surprise you? What did they want? And what
did you do?
Miqui: We’ve had a rash of burglaries in Bear
Creek lately. The burglar creeps into people’s houses while they are sleeping
and they don’t even know until they wake and find their possessions missing. I
woke up when he was in my house and my two precious dogs chased him out. I
called Deputy Crabtree and she and her husband came right away but not in time
to catch him.
Now if I am in the area, would you open up your
home so I could stay? You had any experience with that?
Micqui: I probably would though I had a recent
bad experience. More rain than we usually have caused the river to rise and
threaten all the homes built near the banks. I offered my two extra rooms to
couples that I know on a social level. It was not a good experience.
Thank you Miqui for stopping by. I can’t wait to
hear more about your adventures.
Micqui: In Raging
Water Deputy Tempe
Crabtree’s investigation of the murder
of two close friends is complicated when relentless rain turns Bear Creek into
a raging river. Homes are inundated and a mud slide blocks the only road out of
Bear Creek stranding many—including the murderer.
Please leave a comment and you could win. The
person who leaves comments on the most blogs will have his/her name used for a
character in my next book—can choose if you want it in a Deputy Tempe Crabtree
mystery or a Rocky Bluff P.D. crime novel.
Marilyn
Meredith
is the author of over thirty published novels, including the award winning
Deputy Tempe Crabtree mystery series, the latest Raging Water from
Mundania Press. Writing as F. M. Meredith, her latest Rocky Bluff P.D. crime
novel us No Bells, the forth from Oak Tree Press. Marilyn is a member of
EPIC, three chapters of Sisters in Crime,
Mystery Writers of America, and on the board of the Public Safety Writers of
America. Visit her at http://fictionforyou.com and follow her blog at http://marilymeredith.blogspot.com/
