Choose a Job for this Amateur Detective

After counting the votes, I found readers chose the photo above as our amateur sleuth for a cozy mystery. Now she needs a job. What an amateur detective does for a living has a huge impact on him or her. In order to qualify an amateur detective, she can’t have any official standing in law enforcement. No cops or lawyers. My sleuth Rae Riley works as a check-out clerk in a small town library. With the public coming in and out, she gets to learn what’s going on in the county. Since she’s twenty and living at home, she also has time to investigate mysteries. So choose a job for this amateur detective from the list below. I’m keeping the jobs broad so you can specify what kind of a job it is. Such as if you pick “teacher”, tell me what grade and subject.

• Teacher
• Small-business owner (Lots of these in cozy mysteries)
• Medical job
• Works with animals

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