My first mystery has been published, in Issue #4 of the Canadian journal Black Dog Review. (It's been said, "Her name is Christie. She writes mysteries.")
"Full Fathom Five" is definitely cozy, rather than Noir (despite le chien noir of its setting), more about dogs and Santa Cruz, art and Greek archaeology, and the Shakespeare garden the retired detective is plotting, than about any horrific crime.
By pure coincidence, Sir Kenneth Branagh was planting a Shakespeare garden too in his most recent film, All Is True—good publicity, which I greatly appreciate.
Some of the dog walkers involved in the story can be seen here—
"Back outside on the oceanfront, Big Tom, an ex-Marine who reminisced from time to time about parties with Ken Kesey and Jerry Garcia, told Gabriel he'd seen nobody in yesterday's early dark. Contrarily petite and always stylish Marilynn, with her Shih Tzus, Xishen and Chenjinggu, which she'd told him translated as Joy God and Old Quiet Lady, agreed with the artist that there had been a pair of surfers on the beach. Her sharp eyes missed little; she'd been a scathing columnist in Washington, DC much of her life."
image: Black Dog Review
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