Sunday is for beginnings, when we take a look at the start of a Peter Abrahams novel, including those written under the Spencer Quinn moniker™. Since pub date for A Farewell to Arfs, the next Chet and Bernie novel, is just over 2 months away, how about we go with it? Two notes – A Farewell to Arfs is preorderable, thanks to the ingenuity of 21st Century commerce; and this series can be read in any order. Take it away, Chet!

Who wouldn’t love my job? You see new things every day! Here, for example, we had a perp clinging to a branch high up in a cottonwood tree. That wasn’t the new part. Please don’t get ahead of me – although that’s unlikely to happen, your foot speed and mine being … very different, let’s leave it at that with no hurt feelings.