The first draft of my next novel, tentatively titled MURDER, PLUS OR MINUS 4%, is completed. It is now being read by friends and associates. A final draft is expected before year's end. Danny Donadio, PI, is working on two cases - the easier one being the suicide at a posh hotel he was hired to investigate. The brief note, written on a Palm Pilot, reads, "I'm sorry, Carol." There is an opened prescription bottle on the carpet and the corpse of Glen Markham on the bed. Everything about the scene spells suicide, except for one minor detail - Glen's wife spells her first name with an "e" at the end. The other, more troubling case, is one that has plagued Donadio for more than 25 years. He doesn't remember his mother, who died when he was fourteen. While trying to recover his lost memories, he tries hypnosis and EMDR (eye movement desensitization reprocessing), both of which produce images of his mother that morph into images of Markham's corpse. Is his subconscious playing games with him? Or is it trying to send him a message?