

A Blind Pig and a Million Monkeys
While my stories will not be among the great works of the 21st century, every so often I nail a sentence—or so I like to tell myself as a way of continuing to write. Maybe I’m like one of the million monkeys pounding away at a typewriter, but here are a few lines that strike me as pure Riley from my next mystery, Lethal Fetish... With regard to Carol (Riley’s girl-Friday who actually runs Goat Hill Extermination): Carol grabbed a handful of my graying hair, looked me in the