Laura Caldwell - Red Hot Lies

“Okay,” I said, “that’s it. Tell me what in the hell is up.”

He gave me a guilty expression. “What?”

“You ordered Frango Mint pie? The most decadent dish in this city? And now you’re putting sugar in your tea? Q, I know you. You are always on a diet. So what’s wrong?”

Q pushed his tea away. “I’m thinking of leaving the firm.”

I exhaled loud and fast, as if I’d been suddenly pushed from behind. “You’re what?”

He nodded at my pie. “You eat. I’ll talk.”

I picked up my fork and cut off a bit of the Frango Mint. I chewed. The pie was smooth and minty and had the caress of dark, deep chocolate. But I was unable to enjoy it.

Laura Caldwell, who lives in Chicago with her husband, left a successful career as a medical malpractice trial attorney and a partner at a successful firm to follow her dreams of becoming a novelist. In the span of 18 months, she sold four chick-lit novels to the Red Dress Ink imprint and three suspense novels to the MIRA Books imprint, the first of which is Look Closely.

But in addition to her now-successful writing career Laura does have two other jobs. She’s an adjunct professor of law at her alma mater, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where she teaches Advanced Legal Writing. Laura is also a writer and contributing editor for Lake Magazine, a lifestyles publication based in the Indiana/Michigan area where Laura has a second home. Her freelance magazine work has been published in Woman’s Own, The Young Lawyer, Australia Woman’s Weekly and many other magazines.