Some Insights into My Characters—Sam

Sam Daily is Bob’s father, and at the beginning of the series, he is a commercial airline pilot who owns his own air freight company.

Samuel James Daily is in his early 50s and was formerly a policeman. He is widowed, having retired from the force around the time of his wife, Janet’s death. He has four children: Lauren, the oldest, is a lawyer who lives and practices law in Florida with her husband, Derek Webster; Barbara, who is just three years younger and looks so much like her mother, is married to a Protestant minister named Douglas Alexander; Susan, blonde and blue-eyed, is six years younger than Barb and attends State University; and Robert, Bob, who is 17. Sam calls his two youngest his two towheads, since they both have blond hair like their father.

The Christmas before Janet’s death, she gave him a gift of flying lessons. Sam had always loved the idea of piloting an aircraft; he just didn’t think the family could afford to spend the money on that kind of hobby. When his wife died, he used the insurance money to invest in the air freight business that his flight instructor, Jack Dodds, owned. He is now the senior partner in the company.

Sam is very close friends with the Flaugherty twins’ mother, Mary Elizabeth, and has often helped her around the house with jobs she felt she could not tackle alone. Sam has also been a father figure to the twins, teaching Pat how to defend himself, taking Patty to the father-daughter school dance, even having the “birds and the bees” talk with Pat at the same time he talked to his son, Bob.

Sam still keeps close ties with his former partner at the police precinct, Kevin Murphy, and was greatly appreciated by his former boss, who is still chief of police, Shamus Dulan. He has often helped the twins when they have needed advice about police procedure, or aid from the local police force.

Watch for more of Sam Daily in later books in the series.

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