Yes, it is true. There is an agent who is intrigued with the premise of DOA. This agent shall remain anonymous, unless said agent becomes my agent. Then, I’ll dedicate a section of my blog where I shall write odes to the unnamed individual.

Honestly, though, it has given me hope. Sometimes when you’ve been rejected so many times, just the thought of someone who might take you on as a client does wonders for your spirit. The fact it happened on the same day that winter’s back was broken made it golden. Puffy white clouds with bright blue overhead, sandals on feet. My cats sitting on their condo chattering to the birds to come closer. “No harm will come to you, little chicks,” they said. "Just a bit closer. . ." (No birdies were harmed by my cats, at least.)

It’s almost a shame that DOA is about hunting a serial killer.

What does make DOA different from all the other books populated with killers and detectives? Dover and Ollie, the detectives, are the real stars of this book. Dover with his instinctive desire to clean things up around him, since his life has always been so messy; while Ollie hides inside her computer digging up evidence, deliberately ignoring that same quagmire.

There is another star in DOA. It’s the novel’s setting. Part of the story takes place on an mountain, a place where no one but the elite reside. What happens on the mountain, Dover and Ollie know, stays on the mountain. The rest of the setting takes place in a part of the city called the Enclave. It’s where Dover and Ollie’s Agency sits and it's where the chase for the killer begins.

Can’t you just imagine yourself, out on a picnic, letting the kids run around the playground, while you sit back with a copy of DOA in your hand? How intriguing is that?