Readers who have wanted a postscript to the story Gregg Olsen told in Loving You is Wrong will be happy to know that Mary Kay Letourneau is back in the news. She’s hosting a “Hot for Teacher” night at Fuel in Seattle’s Pioneer Square this weekend. The DJ is none other than Vili Fualaau.

Yup, that’s right. Hot for Teacher night.

Here’s a snip from KOMO TV news:

Fuel’s owner, Mike Morris, said he realizes having Letourneau host a “Hot Teacher” night could be touchy and might rub some people the wrong way.

But the way he figures it, “Mary’s done her time. She’s served her sentence. They’re now married; they have kids together.”

“It’s turned into sort of a love story,” he says. “I realize it had a sick twist at the beginning, but they’re both adults now. They’re both married by the state of Washington. So, it’s just go and have fun on a Saturday night - and if people are looking to have some fun, just come check us out.”

Morris said this is actually the third time that Letourneau and Fualaau have hosted a “Hot for Teachers” night at the nightclub. The first two events were low-key, and he said patrons really warmed up to the couple.

“We get lots of people who want to come meet them. And once they do meet them, they’re like, ‘Oh my God, she’s so down-to-earth and so nice, and he’s such a good DJ,’ that it’s creating like a stir or a buzz, and its bringing people back,” Morris says.

Letourneau’s role is to make people feel welcome and comfortable, he says.

“She meets people, she greets people, she dances to music, she hosts the party,” Morris says. “And she’s an absolute sweetheart. And everyone who meets her realizes that and is kind of flabbergasted by how nice she is.”

We don’t post here often, but with this update…who could resist?

Seventeen years ago a 14-year-old girl vanished after a visit to Western Washington’s grand dame of county fairs. Just disappeared. Was she a runaway? The victim of a serial killer as some loudly suggested?

Like so many others, I was haunted by the story and the events that followed – so much so that I conducted interviews for a true crime book.

I never wrote the book because it didn’t have an ending. But thanks to superb reporting by the (Tacoma) News Tribune’s Sean Robinson, there just might be justice for Misty and her mother, Diana Copsey.

Both deserve it.

Read the multi-part article and ask yourself: Did the police drop the ball? What do you think happened to Misty? And isn’t it a crying shame that this fantastic series is only available on the web and not to print subscribers of the News Tribune?

So, really, what do the critics say? When it comes to Gregg Olsen’s latest, Heart of Ice, it turns out some pretty nice things.

Joe Hartlaub over at Bookreporter.com posted a detailed review of the the new novel: Olsen does not pull punches with his descriptions, and the villains of his pieces are the stuff of walking and waking, nightmares. Those who walk among us as serial killers did not spring into being from whole cloth, and Olsen, whose research on such topics is matched by few, brings a believability to his subject that rings and resonates long after you’ve finished reading.

Rick R. Reed, book columnist for Dark Scribe, wrote:  Olsen offers something a lot of crime thrillers can’t: a unique background view into the very real world of crime…and that makes his novels ring true and accurate, lifting readers (or perhaps lowering them) into a nightmare world that’s as frighteningly common as today’s headlines.

J. Kaye Oldner, who tirelessly and thoughtfully blogs about books almost every single day had this, in part, to say about Heart of Ice: Olsen has a rare gift of adding strong multiple sub-plots to the story without confusing the reader. Each adds a new twisted addition to a tightly woven tale. Without a doubt, he is one of the best writers in this genre.

We pray.

We hold our breath.

And now we wait to hear if the child’s body found in Orlando is the remains of Caylee Anthony, America’s little girl lost.

Here’s a snip:

ORLANDO, Fla. - The skeletal remains of a small child were found Thursday in woods less than a half-mile from the Orlando home of a missing 3-year-old girl, but officials could not immediately say whether they belonged to the toddler.

A utility worker found the body in the outlying middle-class suburb about 9:30 a.m., Orange County Sheriff’s spokesman Jim Solomons said. There was nothing that immediately indicated that the remains were the body of Caylee Anthony, he said.

Caylee’s mother, 22-year-old Casey Anthony, insists that she left the girl with a baby sitter in June, but did not report her missing until July. Anthony has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with her daughter’s death.

If the remains are Caylee’s, maybe Casey’s parents will stop their incessant media campaign for their daughter.

We hope.

But we don’t hold our breath on that one.

Few Americans know much more about Revolutionary War patriot Nathan Hale than his famous last words: “I only regret that I have but one life left to give for my country.”

Who was the real person of Nathan Hale, however? Did he actually utter this seemingly scripted and poetic final line? How was Hale captured? Did he get drunk and give himself up? Did he set the City of New York on fire? Did Gen. Washington shun Hale?

In this presidential election year, the political climate has become extremely hostile and cantankerous. The mudslinging has made for a democratic system in a state of absolute turmoil. What better way to celebrate the political season, which has become historical in and of itself, than by taking a look back at what started it all.

Nathan Hale is considered the idyllic symbol of patriotism—as red, white and blue as you can get. Ask most who this important man in American history is, however, and you’re apt to get a litany of wild and whacky answers.

“ ‘Wasn’t he that guy who chopped down a cherry tree,’ one man I asked told me,” author M. William Phelps says. “I heard other answers, too, even more bizarre. The most obvious conclusion I drew from this was that no one truly knows who Nathan Hale is, what he did, and why we should honor his memory.”

Now, NATHAN HALE: The Life and Death of America’s First Spy (published September 16, 2008; Thomas Dunne Books), answers those questions and sets the historical record straight.

Booklist raves, saying “… Phelps has written an informative, interesting biography of Hale that effectively reveals the flesh-and-blood human behind the iconic image. Clearly an admirer of Hale, he has written nothing that detracts from Hale’s reputation; instead, he has provided a nuanced portrait … using Hale’s own correspondence, [Phelps] clears up some of the murky details surrounding Hale’s spying, arrest, and execution. This is a well-done, balanced account of a short but interesting life.

Kirkus Reviews says, “Phelps delves deeply into the comportment and character of Nathan Hale … [and] provides useful perspective on 18th-century mores that made spies like Hale initially reviled by both sides .”

Do yourself a favor…check out a terrific book about a real American hero.