Author Guest Post How I Write Dear Readers, When it comes to writing books, particularly mystery books, authors generally fall into two basic camps – those who plot their books and those who more or less fly by the seat of their pants. (Let’s call these folks pantsers). I, myContinue Reading
Round Up the Usual Peacocks is the thirty-first book in the Meg Langslow series! Meg’s brother, Rob, is getting married in the social event of the season. And Meg has finally, well mostly, extracted herself from the endless set of pre-wedding chores her mother has in mind for her. Meg’sContinue Reading
About The Fragrance of Death Restaurateur Sally Solari has a nose for trouble, but when her sense of smell goes missing, it’s not just her career on the line . . . it’s her life. Restaurateur Sally Solari is a champion, both in the kitchen and on the case, butContinue Reading
Lily is the owner of a tea shop on the grounds of her grandmother Rose’s elegant Cape Cod B&B. In Murder Spills the Tea, Rose and Lily’s bestie, Bernie, enter Lily’s tea shop in a reality TV show competition. While not happy at losing four days of paying customers, LilyContinue Reading
In Coached Red-Handed, coach Cat has a new client. Scarlet Rubi is a fabulously rich romance author who is sick of supporting her extended family. Her sister, nephew, two grown children, and two granddaughters have never done anything in their lives but suck money away from her. Cat and ScarletContinue Reading
Muddled Through is the tenth book in the Maine Clambake cozy mystery series. The small coastal Maine town of Busman’s Holiday is discussing closing four blocks of main street to cars on the weekend during the summer months. Phinney is vehemently opposed to the idea. When he is found deadContinue Reading
My Review Drop your cares and enter the fantasy world of hidden fairies and visible murder suspects in A Hint of Mischief. Sometimes the past comes back to haunt you. Farrah is a famous actress who is in town to attend an informal sorority reunion. When out on a spaContinue Reading
My Review Sarah is her mother Maybelle’s chaperone on a reality show in Five Belles Too Many. Tiny Wheaton Alabama is host to the Southern Belle Perfect Wedding Competition, a reality show offering a free wedding to the winning couple. Five couples are competing including older generation Maybelle and herContinue Reading
Don’t miss the largest giveaway I have ever hosted including a brand-new Nook and Kindle ebook reader! See all the prizes below. Excerpt From Lost and Hound by Victoria LK Williams Archie’s body shook as the pace of their progress slowed to a crawl. The wind stilled, not even theContinue Reading
Author Guest Post The Ultimate in Kitchen Envy One of the great joys of writing cozy culinary mysteries is, of course, writing about food. But even better is engaging in kitchen envy without any shame. In the Cape Cod Foodie mysteries, our heroine, Samantha Barnes, is a disgraced but resilientContinue Reading
In Death by Beach Read, librarian Lucy and her boyfriend Mayor Connor are fixing up their recently purchased beach house. The house is rumored to be haunted but it is a real corpse that Lucy finds on their kitchen floor. Death by Beach Read is my least favorite book inContinue Reading
Author Guest Post What do you do if you’re a writer having a wonderful time on vacation, especially if you’re a mystery writer? Your mind gets moving, and you come up with a plot. Several plots, possibly for a series. A series in which you murder people in the delightfulContinue Reading
The Marlow Murder Club has an engagingly different pair of amateur sleuths. Becks is a middle-aged vicar’s wife in the small rural English town of Marlow. She is frustrated with how her life is so structured and rule based. Judith Potts is a free-spirited crossword creator who doesn’t let herContinue Reading
Seventy-something widow Nonna Maria lives on a small Italian island. She is famous for helping her friends and neighbors with their problems. In Nonna Maria and the Case of the Missing Bride, she looks into the curious case of a soon-to-be bride, who doesn’t remember how she became engaged. ItContinue Reading
Author Guest Post What makes a good murder victim? Some questions only get asked in certain professions. I confess (pun intended), that my work as a mystery author often leads me to ask some…unusual…questions. How long do certain toxic gasses need to take effect? If you only intended to harmContinue Reading
Sixty-something Poppy runs the Desert Flowers Detective Agency in Palm Springs along with Violet, Iris, and out-of-work actor Matt. Poppy was a popular television actress in the 1980s. In Poppy Harmon and the Backstabbing Bachelor, Poppy goes undercover trying to catch a thieving in-home elder care assistant. Poppy has aContinue Reading