Rebecca M. Douglass, Author

  Title: An Impartial Witness   (Bess Crawford Mysteries #2) Author: Charles Todd. Read by Rosalyn Landor Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America, 2010. Hardback published by William Morrow, 2010, 352 pages. Source: Library digital resources Publisher's Blurb: It is early summer 1917. Bess Crawford has returned to England from the trenches of France with a convoy of severely wounded men. One of her patients is a young pilot who has been burned beyond recognition, and who clings to life and the photo of his wife pinned to his tunic. While passing through a London train station, Bess notices a woman bidding an emotional farewell to an officer, her grief heart-wrenching. And then Bess realizes that she seems familiar. In fact, she's the woman in the pilot's photo, but the man she is seeing off is not her husband. Back on duty in France, Bess discovers a newspaper with a drawing of the woman's face on the front page. Accompanying the drawing is a plea from Scotland Yar...

Friday looming ahead of me, I pulled another title from Jemima Pett's flash fiction prompts late Thursday afternoon. That gave me "The Thirteenth Keeper," and I decided that a little romance might be in order. This one's about 950 words. The 13th Keeper "He's cute." Jill giggled, a sound disturbing incongruous with the evidence of decades past that marked her eyes, if not her skin. Sandra nodded. "It's worth investigating. You never know." "The last one didn't turn out so well." "You won't know unless you try." The two women leaned their determinedly dark heads together, whispering, before sitting back and taking long, thoughtful sips from the glasses they held. The gentleman in question, unaware of their scrutiny, continued to sip his own drink, apparently lost in thought. "So how do you go about it?" Sandra wondered. “You’ve no one to introduce you.” "It's an art," Jill said with a smir...