A stolen purse, a thriller writer and a particular set of skills

Your fiction skills can help if you're a victim in a real life crime!

There was a point in this article where I got goosebumps! It's an incredible coincidence but this sharp writer and her boyfriend kept their wits about them and followed the thief!

I loved this description: “I step out of the bathroom and the cashier is staring at me,” she said. “His eyes are huge. There are two customers in front of him and there’s something electric in his energy.”

Story from Washington Post, no paywall link below.

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Sarah Pekkanen is a best-selling novelist who writes the sort of thrillers where a female protagonist thinks she has a pretty good life, then discovers that there’s something not quite right about her loving husband or the new neighbor.

And so if Sarah wrote about what happened to her in September of 2021, the scene would probably start cheerily, but with a vague sense of dread. In her case — spoiler alert! — what began as a literal walk in the park ended with her chasing down the man who allegedly took her purse.

“It was a beautiful day,” Sarah, 55, told me. (Uh-oh.) “My boyfriend and I decided to go for a picnic.” (No!)

Sarah needed a break from the research she’d been doing for her new book. So on that sunny Sunday afternoon, she and her boyfriend, Roger, packed some sandwiches and traveled in her Toyota Highlander to a park in Friendship Heights with her rescue dog, Lila.

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No paywall link.

What an experience!!