In Thomas Perry's novels, killers stalk their prey and bodies pile up. Sometimes, the good guys have to go on the run. When they do, protagonist Jane Whitefield steps in to help.
Nobody does it better.
Morning was turning into afternoon, and the day's heat would soon make the sidewalks around his home in the San Fernando Valley hot as an iron, but that wasn't what bothered him. He had been reading the galleys for his next book. Here and there, some copy editor had changed the spelling of a word. Not in order to correct a mis spelling, mind you. The copy editor had revised Perry's text simply to make every word match whatever spelling the publisher's stylebook preferred.