An interview with Oliver “Tuck” Tucker, Detective for the Dead and Gumshoe Ghost Extraordinaire
Introduction: Detective Oliver “Tuck” Tucker is a former detective with the Frederick County Sheriff’s Department in Winchester, Virginia. I say former, not because he retired or resigned, but because in the fall of 2013, Tuck was murdered. Read More »
Detective Oliver Tucker was a good cop, always determined to solve the case and get justice for those who were wronged. After his death, he continued on, as a ghost, helping his partner, Bear Braddock, solve cases and protecting his wife, Angel, to the best of his ability. Angel, formally Dr. Angela Hill-Tucker, was a history professor who had sponsored a black-tie charity fundraiser, and Tuck dropped in to see how it was going. Noticing a man across the room, dressed in the style of a 1930’s gangster, Tuck became suspicious when the gangster headed in the direction of Angel’s table. As Angel danced with one of her guests, he tried to catch up to his wife, who was also dancing, but before he could, he was shot and killed. Read More »
Dying for the Past—Aren’t We All?
I often live in the past. I think we all do. Our past is who we are—maybe not exactly—but it makes us who we are. Doesn’t it? If we have a great past, we live it today. If our past is not what we wished, we can change it. Either way, our past is like history—it is our roots, like it or not. Read More »
Dying and Murder are overrated. Writing about them is not.
That’s what I used to think anyway. Until my first publishing contract with Midnight Ink last year. Then, holy-crap on a popsicle stick, I got a lesson in being an author!
See, it started with Dying to Know, my fourth book and first to be published. Dying to Know is a murder mystery with a paranormal twist—the story about Oliver Tucker, a fun-loving, wife-loving, take-the-world-by-the-horns homicide cop in my small home town of Virginia. Tuck is murdered in his own home and his world turns, well, weird. He returns to solve his own murder—Detective solve thyself! His biggest challenges are learning to be back Read More »
BBB: Tell us 3 things not in your bio we don’t know about you that might make us leery of befriending you. LOL
TjO: Just three? Okay: 1) I was once stalked and arrested by the Greek Police in Athens, Greece for being a potential terrorist. 2) I have bad luck with air travel, and was on three airplanes that had inflight emergencies in an 18 month period back in the early 2000’s, 3) The Hardy Boys once saved my life - for real!
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After hearing a noise downstairs, Tuck, a police officer, grabbed his gun and went to make sure his home was secure. Moving carefully from room to room, Tuck was certain the house was clear, until he got to his den and realized the desk light was on, his briefcase had been moved, and his backup gun was missing. Read More »
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