You probably already know someone like Fiona: she's coasting through life, drinking a little bit too much, and collecting broken relationships. As the only reporter at The Oakfield Tribune, she is used to dealing with incompetent police—who can't keep their eyes off her rear end—and cranky townspeople, but when the bizarre act of foot-tickling turns to murder she begins to suspect the police have the wrong man behind bars, and sets out to exonerate him. In over her head, Fiona relies on a colorful cast of characters to help solve the crime—while trying to make sense of her personal life—in this darkly funny novel with a cinematic sensibility.
I joined my local newspaper when I was fresh out of college. I had a lot of fun there -- riding horses through floods, and sitting on the shore of the CT River watching a seal rest itself on an ice floe -- but for every fun day, there were five mind-numbingly boring days. It was on those days that I wondered what it would be like if a local legend, the Foot Tickler, resurfaced.
As a reporter at a local paper you meet plenty of nuts, and every one of them has a story -- and I plan on turning those stories into fictional gold.
These days, though, I write about digital publishing and technology as the editor of a B2B magazine. I love my job, but I do miss the days when someone would wander up to my desk and start telling me about the bomb shelter a neighbor was building, or phone me with a conspiracy theory about the police department. So, I live vicariously through Fiona.
