Pat Muir

This is a collection of twenty-nine short stories, highly diverse in character, and quick to read--none are longer than 4000 words. There are two comedic stories about a woman anxious to get her thirty year old son married. There are two murder mysteries.

Pat, a 63 year old former geophysicist, desperate for romance, believes the only way to find a good woman on the Internet is to meet lots of them. He numbers them since he remembers names poorly. Beth, #57, goes out of town for a long time so he takes up with Donna, #59, a lovely attorney.

This book is a collection of diverse stories similar to the author's first book - Stories to Entertain You... If You Get Bored on Your Wedding Night. Two stories are about slavery based on reviewing the narratives of ex-slaves compiled by the WPA in 1936-38.

Shane Notfarg, an experienced Afro-American female detective in the San Diego County sheriff’s office, is assigned the case of missing man Arthur Flynn in late 2008. She dislikes cases involving missing persons because they turn up alive later 90 percent of the time....