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title: THE WIDOW DETECTIVE genre: mystery/police procedural Sergeant Ruta Petrauskas sat down to pull on her boots, not the fashionable high-heeled boots she used to wear when she was thirty, but warm, non-skid, flat-soled footwear appropriate for snow and ice and a lady of fifty-five. She had stowe...

THE WIDOW DETECTIVE, a police procedural / mystery Sergeant Ruta Petrauskas sat down to pull on her boots, not the fashionable high-heeled boots she used to wear when she was thirty, but warm, non-skid, flat-soled footwear appropriate for snow and ice and a lady of fifty-five. She had stowed the boo...

I greatly admire Ann Cleeves’ Vera Stanhope novels and Hallie Ephron’s novels (and books about writing mysteries). My novel, THE WIDOW DETECTIVE, is a police procedural (87,000 words). The lead character is Ruta Petrauskas, a 55-year-old detective sergeant in a midwestern university town in America....