Another emotional day in Cozy Mystery Land..... Jim Lavene has reunited with his wife, Joyce. Together again Forever......

I woke up this morning and got on Facebook on my new phone and the first thing I see is that Jim Lavene passed away suddenly yesterday.  I thought it was a cruel joke or something.  How is that possible ?  He just sent me the latest book, The Last to Remember, to review 4 days ago.  He posted on Facebook yesterday morning !!!  But the deeper I got, the more it became real.  Everyone was posting condolences on his page.....

How can someone that you haven't even met have such an affect on you ?  I didn't have the pleasure of meeting Jim Lavene or his amazing wife Joyce.  But we had a connection, like some many other people, when we read their books.  

Jim and Joyce were a team....but more than that they were so strongly connected to each other, it was like they were one.  We were all emotional when we learned of Joyce's sudden passing last fall but for Jim it was devastating.  He lost his other half.  They say that when 2 people are totally connected and so deep in love that after one of them passes away, the other will most likely pass soon after.  I cannot imagine the pain that Jim felt every minute of every day after Joyce passed.  

Everyone is saying that Jim is now with Joyce where he belongs.  They are back together as they should be.  I understand that and I agree.  I just cannot help but feel alittle selfish and wish that he didn't have to go so soon.

But Jim will never be gone, just like his wife, he will live forever in the stories that he wrote and the stories that thay wrote together.  It may be a little sad when I pick up a book to read but while I read it I know that they will be looking over my shoulders.....together again at last.

My condolences go out to the Lavene family.... No words can even express the deepness of their loss....  May they find some comfort in knowing that Jim and Joyce are together again and are as one....

RIP Jim Lavene....I, myself, will miss you deeply.  

Jim & Joyce Lavene.....

May they fly high over the clouds together...