Posts by Mystery Writer
Guarding the perimeter
April 27, 2026 It was not my intention today to write about Linkie, my gorgeous dog. He posed so sweetly as a guard at my living room window, though, that I have threaded him into this post. Please bear with me. I really wanted to talk about The Technological Society ( 1984) by Jacques…
Read MoreThe Holy Whodunit
March 28, 2026 Last month I talked about the niche, or sub-genre, of the crime-solving priest. Today, I am using a synonym of sorts that I recently came across and have been dying to use: holy whodunit. To start at the beginning, let’s look at the very first modern detective novel. It was Edgar…
Read MoreThe crime-solving priest: a niche genre
February 25, 2026 The exciting thing about writing in this niche genre is that the priest protagonist must honor dual allegiances. He must live, in a sense, on the edge. My niche genre novel is The Casino Caper: an ill-conceived quest (2023), set in Montreal, 2009. In it, Father Bob Desjardins…
Read MoreAlligators in winter
January 27, 2026 There once was a fella from God knows where, who moved to Montreal in January and learned too late there was no systematic ‘fix’ for the snow. Is there no fix in place for that? Gilles Vigneault, hearing that, might have tripped on his snowshoes and laughed ’til he cried. His…
Read MoreBlizzards R Us ..dec 25,2025
Who’s to say it was not in a December snowstorm that old Jacques Cartier landed in Montreal, trudged up Mount Royal and planted the cross we still can see? Who’s to say his spirit of hope and promise didn’t embed itself in the hearts of the original settlers? What else could it be, that propels…
Read MoreWinging It
If family, environment, and culture are what shapes us, then for me in that order were: Church, Church, and ‘60’s idealism. Books, by the grace of God, filled in the gaps. When friends from Marymount High School and Marianopolis College became nurses, teachers, spiritual advisors, researchers, and early devotees of the Mrs., I sort…
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