You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters insteresting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects.

Their son Matt DeAndrea is also a writer. She has also written a number of murder mysteries under her real name Orania Papazoglou featuring the romance author Patience McKenna. Her novel Not a Creature Was Stirring also received an Edgar nomination this time for "Best Paperback Original"; it was also nominated for the 1991 Anthony Award in the same category.