RP Dahlke

Rebecca Phillips-Dahlke ran her father's crop-dusting business near Modesto, California for several years during the early 1980's. Her son and muse for writing this series, John Shanahan, was a career Aero Ag pilot until his accidental work related death in Feb. 2005. Next in the Lalla Bains mystery series: A DEAD RED HEART A DEAD RED OLEANDER. A DANGEROUS HARBOR, a contemporary romantic mystery set in Ensenada, Mexico featuring Katrina Bluementhal will be out in the fall of 2011. Memberships: Sisters in Crime, National Society of Southwestern Authors, Tucson, AZ. Arizona Mystery Writers Public Safety Writers 1st chapter Pres. of Cochise County, AZ chapter of Sisters in Crime from 2003-2005.
RP Dahlke

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A Dead Red Heart
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Lalla Bains, ex-model and Aero Ag pilot has plenty to keep her busy during another long hot summer in the San.....

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A Dead Red Cadillac
Twice divorced NY model, Lalla Bains, now runs her dad's Aero Ag business in Modesto, California where she's hoping to dodge the inevitable fortieth birthday party. But when her trophy red '58 Cadillac is found tail-fins up in a nearby lake, the police as

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Phone Call Alert! 

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Due to the COVID-19 onslaught, we currently cannot take incoming phone calls.  

And since nobody reads anything, I've simply removed the phone number from the site.  

A notification about phone calls:  due to the COVID-19 plague, we've significantly increased our incoming inquiries--nearly double our usual volume--and the number of incoming inquiries by phone has been literally overwhelming.  Although most writers will say that their call "will only take 15 minutes," the truth is, that after 10 years of doing this, most author inquiry calls take an hour.  45 minutes at best. I'm currently receiving 7-10 calls/day, and due to that, I've had to stop accepting incoming phone calls, which my voicemail will tell you. You can leave a message--I can't call you back without one--and if a call is needed, I will of course call you.  But we have very complete and extensive email replies, handouts and our website is very informative. Almost all the questions that I receive during a call are actually already answered on our site, or are, in fact, publishing questions, not questions about our services, what we do, what we offer, or the like.  I already handle between 90-130 emails/day, as it is. I can't handle that many emails and take 7-10 hours of calls each day. I can't. So, in order to be able to answer this huge email volume, to help the greatest number of people, with my time, I've had to stop accepting calls.  I'm sorry, but that's just how it is. I'm in the process of setting up a call-appointment function, for free 15-minute calls to answer questions from new prospective customers and longer paid sessions for folks who generally want consulting on "publishing," generally (and for prospective kids' book publishers, as a special category of paid consulting).  But that functionality isn't yet set up. I hope to get that working the 3rd week of July, sometime.  

Thank you for your understanding.