Tenth Commandment by D. B. Borton

About Tenth Commandment by D. B. Borton

Q: Who wanted Billie Ransom dead?
A: Who didn’t?

A writers’ group hires Cat Caliban to investigate the hit-and-run death of their most successful — and least popular — member. A young novelist and college professor, Billie Ransom has recently won the coveted contract to write the sequel to acclaimed bestseller THE FAR HORIZON when she’s struck and killed while out for a run one icy morning. Cat’s not convinced it’s murder, but her preliminary investigations identify a host of potential suspects, from rivals to disgruntled students to irate models for Ransom’s thinly disguised characters. Cat is forced to admit that if she’d known the writer, she might have wanted to murder Billie herself. Meanwhile, the group members are eager to help with the investigation and thrilled to be considered suspects. Cat tries to keep them out of trouble while walking in the dead woman’s footsteps to find out what Billie knew. But can she evade Billie’s fate?

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D. B. Borton is the author of two mystery series—the Cat Caliban series and the Gilda Liberty series —as well as the standalone mysteries novels Smoke and Bayou City Burning and the humorous science fiction novel Second Coming. She is Professor Emeritus of English at Ohio Wesleyan University.

A native Texan, Borton became an ardent admirer of Nancy Drew at a young age. At the age of fourteen, she acquired her own blue roadster, trained on the freeways of Houston and the broad stretches of oil-endowed Texas highway, and began her travels. She also began a lifetime of political activism, working only for political candidates who lost. She left Texas at about the time everyone else arrived.

In graduate school, Borton converted a lifetime of passionate reading and late-night movie-watching into a doctorate in English. She discovered that people would pay her to discuss literature and writing, although not much. But because she found young people interesting and entertaining and challenging, she became a college teacher, and survived many generations of college students. Later, during a career crisis, she discovered that people would pay her to tell stories, although even less than they would pay her to discuss stories written by someone else.

Borton has lived in the Southwest and Midwest, and on the West Coast, where she has planted roses and collected three degrees in English without relinquishing her affection for the ways in which actual speakers constantly reinvent the language to meet their needs. In her spare time, she gardens, practices aikido, studies languages, and, of course, reads.