Ten years ago today was a major milestone in my writing career with the official release of my first mystery novel, Deadly Heirs. The fantastic crew that I worked with at the time at Howard County Library in Columbia, Maryland, arranged a nice little release party that morning, decorating the office as private investigator Chase Michael DeBarlo’s office, and a new phase of my life as a published author began. However, it was a long and colorful journey for DeBarlo to make it to those pages.

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