"Anchor Baby," by Shauna Washington, in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May 2014.Write what you know, so Shauna Washington, a Las Vegas-based fashion stylist, writes about Stacey Deshay, a Las Vegas-based fashin stylist. It's so crazy it just might work.
And it works fine in this caper in which Stacey makes a special trip to Arizona to deliver a client's maid and baby to the mansion of the client's soon-to-be-ex-husband. She gets their just in time to witness a murder and after that, things get worse.
Best thing about this story is the writing. First person narrator is character. "It was a long time since I'd traveled this far on a job, but since the recession hit, my new motto was 'Go where the money is, since it sure isn't coming to me.'
