Lethal Assumptions
The C.o.P. on the Scene Mysteries Book 1
by Kassandra Lamb
Genre: Crime Mystery
Judith
Anderson’s no-nonsense attitude and confidence served her well in
her climb to homicide lieutenant in the Baltimore County PD, but that
confidence is shaken when she finds herself one step behind a serial
killer—just eight days into her new job as Chief of Police in a
small Florida city.
The
first victim, a female college student, may be a case of wrong place,
wrong time. But the bodies keep coming, with a mishmash of MOs, and
the murders may be linked to various cases in nearby
Jacksonville.
While
Judith assumed the CoP job would be challenging, she’s finding it
harder than she imagined to establish her authority without
alienating and be more hands-on without micro-managing. Plus,
evidence is stacking up that there’s a leak in her department.
Who
can she trust? If she makes the wrong assumption, the wrong decision,
it may be her last. In a race to save lives, she’ll draw on every
talent and instinct that made her a star in Baltimore. But will it be
enough this time?
Fans
of JA Jance’s Sheriff Joanna Brady and JD Robb’s Eve Dallas will
love this new female cop on the scene!
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In her youth, Kassandra Lamb had two great passions—psychology and writing. Advised that writers need day jobs—and being partial to eating—she studied psychology. Her career as a psychotherapist and college professor taught her much about the dark side of human nature, but also much about resilience, perseverance, and the healing power of laughter. Now retired, she spends most of her time in an alternate universe populated by her fictional characters. The portal to this universe (aka her computer) is located in North Central Florida where her husband and dog catch occasional glimpses of her.
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GUEST POST
How I Learned to Write by the Seat of My Pants
by Kassandra Lamb
Readers and bloggers often ask about my writing process—do I use an outline, write detailed character sketches, etc. The answer is a resounding “No.”
Like most of us, I was taught in English class to write outlines before starting an essay or story. So for years, I wrote outlines of stories, and then shoved the outline into a drawer and never wrote the story.
There was one story, in particular, that periodically insisted I write it. It was about platonic friends—a female therapist and a male lawyer—who have an anonymous common enemy. Said enemy is not only threatening them, but s/he is going after their loved ones as well.
So I wrote an outline. And I even wrote the first three chapters. And then life happened and my interest in the story faded. A few months later, I got out the outline, revised it and wrote another chapter. A year or two later, I revised the outline again and wrote chapter five.
This went on for 15 years! But I never got past Chapter 5. I would redo the outline, edit the first few chapters, and then back into the drawer it went.
Finally, after I retired from my career as a therapist myself (hey, write what you know), I sat down one day, intending to, once again, rewrite the first chapter. I’d had what I thought was a brilliant idea for a different opening.
Something took over and I wrote almost nonstop for six weeks, and the first draft of my first completed book was done (now Book 1 of my Kate Huntington series).
And I never once looked at the outline during those six weeks.
That was when it dawned on me that the outlines were the problem! Once I’d written the outline, the story was told. I’d lost interest in actually fleshing it out.
I realized that I am what is called a pantser in the writerly world. I write by the seat of my pants.
And I am not alone. Quite a few authors are pantsers (as opposed to plotters; the ones who adore outlines). We’ve learned the hard way that our muses must be unfettered in order to produce a steady flow of words.
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