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The books are here! Calloo callay, oh frabjous day, she Swiffered in her joy (hey, there's a lot of cat hair around here). Four big boxes of books have just arrived -- three go back to Poisoned Pen on Monday with my signature (which is so bad anyway, it doesn't matter...

But I am doing some guestblogging, notably here on Dazed and Confused.

Fields are supposed to lie fallow after seven seasons of planting, right? So I'm taking it easy this week. Well, I'm doing the various odds and ends (a book review, an article on online learning, etc.) that pay the bills, but nothing with mysteries, nothing creative....

I'm sort of stunned and definitely exhausted, but I think it is now safe to say that I have completed a first draft of the second Dulcie Schwartz mystery, tentatively titled "Grey Matters." Oh yeah, and we're refinancing our mortgage, too.

"While cat lovers will be drawn to Probable Claws for its feline characters, it's the overall book itself that will have mystery readers looking forward to the next in the series." Hey, thanks! (Read the whole review here.) And thanks to Linda L. Richards for letting...

Otherwise, I'm very happy with this interview, which went up today on the International Thriller Writers site.

All through the 1990s, I worked at the Boston Globe. I made some great friends there and I learned a lot. Now, I'm not sorry I left, but I've also always understood why others stayed. It is the biggest newspaper in the region. The most respected and seemingly the most...

The Globe's Judy Foreman tackles that question today. Of course, those of us who love our pets don't really look at them as a source of infection...