Released
November 2010
Mystery writer, Tess, has been supplementing her writing income for years by doing speaking engagements with no problems. But following a last-minute invitation to a book club 60 miles away, she takes a shortcut home with dire consequences.
In 2007, while traveling on Interstate 84 to an autographing in western Massachusetts, I stopped at a rest area for a typical Steve King Health Meal; a soda and a candybar. When I came out of the refreshment shack, I saw a woman with a flat tire talking earnestly to a long-haul trucker parked in the next slot. He smiled at her and got out of the rig.
"Need any help?" I asked.
"No, no, I got this," the trucker said.
The lady got her tire changed, I'm sure. I got a Three Musketeers and the story that eventually became "Big Driver."
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