Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 150, Nos. 5 & 6. Whole Nos. 914 & 915, November/December 2017

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As this issue goes to press, Midnight, Texas, the third TV series based on Charlaine Harris’s fiction, has begun airing on NBC! From 2008 through 2014, True Blood, adapted from the author’s Southern Vampire Mysteries, was broadcast on HBO, and recently the Hallmark Channel presented a sixth two-hour movie derived from the Harris novels starring librarian Aurora Teagarden.

David Angola was leaning against Anne DeWitt’s car in the Travis High School parking lot. The bright early-fall sun shone on his newly shaved dark head. It was four-thirty on a Friday afternoon, and the lot was almost empty.

Anne did not get the surprise David had (perhaps) intended. She always looked out the window of her office after she’d collected her take-home paperwork.

Anne hadn’t stayed alive as long as she had by being careless.

After a few moments of inner debate, she decided to go home as usual. She might as well find out what David wanted. Anne was utterly alert as she walked toward him, her hand on the knife in her jacket pocket. She was very good with sharp instruments.

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