The Detective’s Daughter – The Importance of the Dinner Table.
On Sunday I met my mom for Mother’s Day brunch at one of my favorite coffee shops, The Filling Station. As we sat around the table chatting with my children…
Tag: Baltimore City
The Detective’s Daughter — Snow! Snow! Snow!
Kim, in Baltimore, watching her cement steps crumble under layers of salt. When I was about seven years old, don’t even ask me what year that was, we had an…
The Detective’s Daughter: The Lost Art of Letters
Not long before Dad’s house burned down, he gave me the family photos. There were boxes upon damaged boxes of photographs, letters, postcards and telegrams dating back to the early…
The Detective’s Daughter – Sentimental Journey
Kim in Baltimore counting down the days to Malice Domestic. “The thing I miss most are the fog horns,” Aunt Betty would tell me each time she spoke of growing…
The Detective’s Daughter : Book ’em!
By Kim enjoying spring in Baltimore I come from a family of readers. Whether it was The Sun, a case file, or a John le Carre novel, the written word…
The Detective’s Daughter — You’d Better Watch Out
By Kim Gray baking cookies in Baltimore It was a few weeks until Christmas and we had more gold tinsel garland decking our halls than Blaze Starr had pasties, or…
The Detective’s Daughter — As Seen on TV
By Kim Gray in Baltimore City It never fails that when I am in another city and people learn I’m from Baltimore they all ask me the same question, “Is…
The Detective’s Daughter — The Dog Days of Summer
By Kim Gray in Baltimore City It was going to be another scorching weekend. My grandmother had pinned sheets from the clothesline to the fence to create a tent that…