Devon Malone Archives - Glenn Harris

And One More for the New Year

Written by glenn on January 26, 2015 · Leave a Comment

I expect to finish the draft of DYING OF DESIRE, the fourth book in the McCall-Malone Mystery series, within a few weeks. So I’ve decided to follow up last month’s teaser with one more before publication…sometime in April maybe? We’ll see. Anyway, here you go…. The three of us stopped […]

A Teaser for Christmas

Written by glenn on December 25, 2014 · Leave a Comment

DYING OF DESIRE, the fourth book in the McCall-Malone Mystery series will be out in 2015. Once again McCall and Malone are in jeopardy as they very tentatively explore a relationship. A young man named George Heatherly wants the two Portland, Oregon, private investigators to simply look into the finances […]

A Quick Brawl in Downtown Portland

Written by glenn on February 11, 2013 · Leave a Comment

An action scene from Turnabout is Fatal Play, the first of the McCall-Malone mysteries. A quick brawl ensues when three young men attempt to take on Clint McCall, Devon Malone, and Reuben Keys — without much success: By this time, Reuben was closing with us, grinning in recognition. “Hey, Reuben,” […]

McCall Meets Malone

Written by glenn on January 27, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Trying something a little different. The next few weeks I think I will occasionally post short excerpts from Turnabout is Fatal Play, the first of the McCall-Malone Mystery series. This is when Clint McCall discovers that Devon Malone seems to be following the same person he is: I first met […]

Writing a Woman

Written by glenn on November 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment

For many years I avoided writing from the female point of view. I had female characters, of course, with dialogue and motivations and back stories of their own, but I never consciously tried to put myself in the woman’s place. I didn’t feel that I knew how women thought and […]

Am I Clint McCall?

Written by glenn on September 26, 2012 · 1 Comment

The short answer is, “No.” I’m not a private detective in Portland, Oregon, or anywhere else. I never taught journalism at Portland State, nor have I been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. I’m not a fourth degree black belt in taekwondo. On the other hand, I was an investigative journalist […]