Foreword
Sometime in the 1990’s, after I’d finished The Spy Who Kissed Me, my then agent told me I needed a mystery series if I wanted to catch the attention of a New York publisher. Spy, in her opinion, wasn’t suited to the series format. I agreed with her and bent my brain to the problem of creating a series character. I lived in New Orleans at the time and readers seem to like the location. After much mulling, the story of Luci and Mickey began to take shape.
Before I could even begin to think of submitting the first book, Do Wah Diddy Die, to a publisher, that agent and I had parted ways, and I’d discovered digital publishing. I’d also ventured a toe into script writing. Luci and Mickey’s story got adapted for screen, got optioned and accepted for publication all around the same time
