A quickie with Trudi: ‘Suite 606’

  “Suite 606” contains four stories — stories of suspense, drama, mystery and the supernatural — written by four authors.
  The first story, “Ritual in Death,” is by J.D. Robb. This story stars our favorite detective, Lt. Eve Dallas. While attending a party with her husband, Eve is the first on the scene of a gruesome killing spree that looks like a ritual killing.  The murderers use people who are familiar to Eve and her husband. But Eve is the first to do what it takes to catch the killer or killers.
  “Love Endures” by Mary Blayney is a funny but sad story. Summer Cassidy is the wife of a man, Reggie, who likes to gamble and is a pathological liar. When he is killed by thieves on his way home from a poker game, Summer soon discovers several matters about which he had been lying. His ghost is trapped in his room and cannot leave until he has righted the wrongs he has cause. Reggie demands that Summer help him complete this task. However, he does not want to tell her about the wrong he did to her and his best friend, Lord Stephen Bradley. Will Summer believe the lies Reggie told her at the beginning of their engagement, or should she follow her heart and learn what real love is? This story is laugh-out-loud funny.
  Readers can enjoy an unexpected twist in Ruth Ryan Langan’s “Cold Case.” Overworked police officer Sam Hunter is ordered by his captain to take a much needed leave of absence after his partner’s death. Sam feels responsible for his partner’s death, thinking if he had just been a little faster, he could’ve saved his friend. He decides to visit a small town in which he attended one semester of college. He remembers a little out-of-the-way inn. It is November in Vermont so, not surprisingly, Sam gets caught in a snowstorm and that is where the mystery begins. Is what he dreamed real or the result of head trauma? You decide for yourself.
  “Wayward Wizard” by Mary Kay McComas is a hilarious story about a wizard in self-imposed exile. When Marie Barnett and her 12-year-old son, Hugh, stubble upon some ornaments in a museum, they are transported to wizard Nester Baraka of Viator. He explains that the ornament they found in the museum is the partner to the one he has in his possession. He says he can time travel using both ornaments but was unsure of the outcome when using only one. The story then takes readers on tour with them as they try to find their way back to the museum to retrieve Nester’s second ornament and return Marie and Hugh back home. During the trip back home, Marie falls in love with Nester, but can there be a future with a wizard?