Rick Hundey

I've been writing tall yarns for our grandchildren, based on true bear-encounter stories. My wife and daughter like them too. So, I put the first one on my website blog at www.rickhundey.ca. PS If you're running out of reading (as am I) there are two free short stories on my site - go to Buy Me for the free download. Stay safe and well all. (The pic : that's an Alberta grizzly with cubs. She paid us no attention.)

My 5th Jack Beer mystery, 'Devil's Elbow,' is in final rewrite (fingers crossed). Though set in Exeter and Grand Bend, it starts out in Mexico where this Howler lives. He's not in the book though maybe he should be. He was one spooky character (photo by Tim Hundey)

Five very pretty women, the year about 1927. On the left end sits my grandmother. Second from the right is my very young aunt. The identities of the rest remain unknown though I suspect Grandma’s sister was sitting beside her. Anyhow, I love the joy in their faces. And there are the questions and mysteries. Are they on an all-girls weekend adventure? Did my aunt meet her future husband (my wonderful Uncle Dan) that weekend? What tomfoolery did they stir up? After all, along with joy, the looks betray a good measure of mischief.

Photographs stir the imagination, right? Some years ago, I used the picture of my father’s WWII Platoon to help me develop a character for my first mystery. For starters I stole the last name of one of his comrades, Beer, and gave it to my protagonist. Then I rounded out Jack Beer’s family background by borrowing from my own family’s history taking some truths but fabricating most of it.

Check out my mysteries at Gregarious Cravings on Main Street, Exeter, The Village Bookshop, Main Street, Bayfield and Fincher’s on the square in Goderich.

As an early Christmas gift, I'm offering free downloads of my short story "The Interview." This story won first prize in the 2005 Alice Munro Festival of the Short Story contest and launched my career. Here I am five books later. Hitchcock would have loved this one. Click here to download your copy. https://www.rickhundey.ca/shop/the-interview-free