Rick Polad

I was recently asked to write a blog about my books and food. My first thought was that I wouldn’t have enough material for a paragraph much less a blog. After all, my books are about Spencer Manning and the cases he works on, not food. But after some thought I realized food is an […]

How is your grandmother’s roast like a period inside a quote mark? Somewhere along my path as a kid I heard the following story. Many of you probably have also. A youngster is watching his mother prepare the dinner roast. She cuts a chunk off of each end of the roast, sets it in the […]

A Drug Affair, the seventh Spencer Manning mystery, is done and will be out mid February. It was a challenge, with more plot roadblocks than I am used to. Here’s a preview: Stosh and I chatted over the rest of the pizza and finished our beer. By the time we were done we had come […]