Author, Duffy Brown has given us some fun reading this morning with a guest post,
Sleuthing and the BFF…
It’s that dark and stormy night we hear so much about, your
car just broke down in the middle of nowhere and you forgot to recharge your
cell phone. In the moonlight you see an old dilapidated farmhouse off in the
distance.
The question is… Who’s walking to that farmhouse with you?
Sherlock has Watson with him, Perot has Captain Hastings, Nancy Drew has boyfriend Ned, Stephanie Plum has Lula. Some
sleuths even have a cat or dog. Sometimes they even talk. I wish my cats
talked. Actually I wished they did the laundry and vacuumed but I digress.
Every sleuth has a BFF to chat with, get into trouble with,
drink with.
On TV Beckett has Rick Castle. The SCI people have each
other kicking around and Lizbeth has tea-drinking Patrick Jane in the Mentalist.
It’s not just solving the crimes together that makes them
BFFs, but sharing their personal lives. IMO it’s this personal touch that’s the
most interesting part of the show or book. Don’t you love when Sherlock does
something nice for Watson or Perot and Hastings travel and take on the chase
together or when Becket and Castle turn to each other and say I know who the killer is!
That LuLa is a once-upon-a-time hooker makes for a great
character, that Patrick Jane is hunting for Red John keeps us riveted, that
Rick Castle is has a grown daughter and a boyfriend who is nothing like Rick and
has his mother is living with him gives a human touch to finding killers and
tripping over dead bodies.
In my book the Consignment Shop Mysteries protagonist Reagan
has BFF Auntie KiKi. KiKi was once a roadie for Cher and spouts Cher-isms when
giving sage advice like A girl can wait
for the right man to come along but in the meantime she can have a darn good
time with all the wrong ones. When
KiKi was born the angels chanted cha-cha-cha over her crib and turned her into
Savannah’s resident dancing teacher, when Reagan’s mom was born she was wrapped
in a blanket with pink elephants resulting in Reagan being named Reagan.
In Pearls and Poison, Reagan’s mom is running for city
council and her opponent winds up dead…that’s one way to win an election.
Daughter Reagan and Auntie KiKi run to the rescue to find the real killer
discussing suspects over martinis.
Back to our dark and stormy night. We know who our sleuths
have at their sides when going into that creepy old house. So who would you
have tagging along. Who is at one person that when you show up at their house
with a dead body grabs a shovel and doesn’t ask questions.
When life goes right to hell in a hand-basket, who do you want at
your side?
Thanks Duffy!! It was an enjoyable read.
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