Would Stacey Burns want you to move on?

As promised in the last post, here is an important question which applies to so many situations but we’ll confine this discussion to the ongoing Stacey Burns case. When is it time to move on, to stop looking in the rear view mirror of life at a tragic event...

Degrees of Truth Revisited

“There is a degree of truth in that observation.”  What exactly is a “degree of truth?” In March, 2013, I submitted an essay titled “Degrees of Truth” to a writing contest. The subject has been addressed in this blog on previous...

Embarrassed? Take the test!

For the record, I am an unequivocal supporter of law enforcement officials. They have an impossible job. However, so do many other people and everyone in any job should be held accountable. If you are a teacher, you should not be afraid of being judged. If you are an...

Embarrassed, anyone?

The killer of Stacy Burns remains free six plus years after her murder. Bobbie Miller’s murderer remains free after  almost as long a time. I sometimes wonder if anyone is embarrassed by these facts. For a while in my early days of a long teaching career, I...

A mystery

To my followers on this blog: For some reason, it appears that all my posts under the category of Murder in a Small Town have disappeared from my Facebook author page. This is a test to see if that is true. If this is where you follow this blog, you might have missed...

Harry Hole-Agent for Justice?

The killer of Stacey Burns always is lurking just beneath the surface of my mind. Almost every book I read has something that makes me think of that case and the person who took Stacey’s life. Jo Nesbo has created a superb character in his Inspector Harry Hole...