"Hotel For Dogs" Has ABQ Roots

Joline Krueger had an interesting article about the new movie "Hotel For Dogs". It was written by Lois Duncan who was a favorite author of my daughter's when she was growing up. She did scary mystery books for kids. Apparently, Lois wrote the book which is now a movie when she was living in ABQ and pregnant with her fifth child, Kaitlyn. The movie is a Dreamworks production set to open today. Another connection is that Emma Roberts, Julia's neice, stars in it and Julia, of course, lives here in New Mexico. But the more interesting piece is that Duncan no longer lives in NM because when Kaitlyn was an 18-year old student at UNM she was shot to death. The death was classified as a random shooting but there were complaints of poor police work. Who knows. The fact is that the story had it's roots here when the author was pregnant with child and a rare warm fuzzy story, for her. We regret that her tragedy happened here and wish her much success on this film. Thank you, Lois.