Marty Donnellan writes the Hannah Scrabble Mystery series which started in 2014 and is set in 1978. Meet Hannah Scrabble, bullheaded farmer, entrepreneur, skating teacher, spy thriller author and town snoop. It's 1978, before cellphones and personal computers. Hannah overhears a snippet of conversation in the park which sets her and her longsuffering suitor, Melvin Pearl, on the trail of a ruthless killer.