Mary Higgins Clark was the first suspense writer whose work I fell in love with. I don’t remember quite how I found her books, but it was somewhere around age 10 or 11. Certainly, I’d known her name for a while; the “Queen of Suspense” was an icon of every bookstore, supermarket mass-market paperback section, and library front table.

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I first discovered Sue Grafton’s Alphabet series while volunteering at the local library in the seventh grade. I overheard a patron come up to the librarian with a copy of Q IS FOR QUARRY and asked her if she had the unreleased R yet. The idea that there was a series of books that was released in alphabetical order delighted my OCD. I went over to the mystery shelf, picked up an omnibus of A through C, and devoured it in two weeks.

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There are certain moments in my adventures in the publishing business that stand out --- ones that I will remember for a long time. Amongst many evenings of author meetings and book discussions, one dinner in July 2012 is certainly among the most memorable.

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