This week I am preparing to go on my first girls’ trip since … well, I can’t actually remember. It’s been that long. Even in the wake of the dreadful Hurricane Ian, we are set to arrive in Miami and drive to Key West, where, in spite of spending many of my formative years in Vermont, I was born.

Though he’s made a business of writing police procedural mysteries, Archer Mayor seems to be a man of mystery himself. “Fall Guy,” Mayor’s most recent Joe Gunther novel, was released just Tuesday, his 33rd novel in nearly as many years. At the peak of his multiple careers, he held three full…

From the time we’re approaching our toddler years, we want to do exactly what we are told not to. We may grow out of this, or train ourselves to withstand the urge to do what we’re not to, but the desire is most likely still there. We’re trained to go the speed limit with the memory or threa…