Author Guest Post Inspiration from Movies As any author would tell you, inspiration for stories comes from all sorts of places. Mine began one evening while watching the Cary Grant movie, Arsenic and Old Lace. The Brewster sisters are a bit quirky and dark. Mortimer (Cary Grant) stumbles upon theirContinue Reading
My Review In A Game of Cones, Browyn is the manager of her family-owned ice cream shop in small town Chagrin Falls, Ohio. During a town meeting, a big city real estate developer mentions his plans to build a vertical mall in the historic town triangle. Later that day, heContinue Reading
My Review Just when you thought reality shows couldn’t get any cattier than RuPaul’s Drag Race, enter the world of Opera Divanation! In Double or Muffin, Merry and her business partner Pish host a competition show for aspiring opera singers in her castle in upstate NY. If you, like me,Continue Reading
Author Guest Post-To Eat or Not to Eat, That is the Question If I have a patron saint, it is surely Julia Child. After all, it was St. Julia of Child who famously said, “People who love to eat are always the best people.” I like that quote so muchContinue Reading
Guest Post-Short Wave Radio in World War II Short Wave Radio was used many different ways during World War II. This is as true for the U.S. and Britain as it was in the occupied countries, Berlin, and Tokyo. With today’s big screen TVs, cellphones, internet, and streaming video, weContinue Reading
Character Guest Post Oh, hello. It’s nice to see you here. I’m Lois Stone and I came to live in the small town of Fenwater last summer. My best friend, Marge, was already here and she encouraged me to come. She said I’d love the pace of life after theContinue Reading
Author Guest Post-From the Recipe Book of Nora Charles! Nora Charles, the heroine of the Nick and Nora mysteries, is not only a talented amateur sleuth, she’s also one heck of a cook! Here Nora shares some of her favorite recipes with you! Megan Fox (aka Monte Cristo) 3 slicesContinue Reading
Author Guest Post: A Renovation Adventure Okay, okay…as you can tell I normally don’t do guest blogs because other than write and take my kids to school—I have no life. Lol. I guess you can call the mom syndrome. Plus with the pandemic, I don’t leave the house. Even girlsContinue Reading
My Review: Perhaps it was my years as an Internal Auditor but it was obvious at first acquaintance which character at the bank was the bad guy. Be suspicious, very suspicious, of bank employees living beyond their means by way of unverified lottery winnings. However, I only suspected he wasContinue Reading
My Review At Suzanne, Petra and Toni’s restaurant, the Cackleberry Club, everyone feels as at home as I do whenever I read one of the books in this series. In Egg Shooters, Suzanne is bringing a meal of chili and cornbread to her fiancé Dr. Sam at the hospital. Suddenly,Continue Reading
Author Guest Post Chocolate, Community Coffee and Involuntary Autobiographical Memory If you’ve met me for five minutes, you probably know I’m really into coffee. I have an espresso machine at my house, and the first thing I do when I travel (pre COVID, and hopefully again someday soon!) is toContinue Reading
My Review What mystery fan wouldn’t want to go on a Mystery Lovers Tour around England? Though you may have to rethink that decision when the tour owner is found dead. It really is A Tourist’s Guide to Murder but in a completely unexpected way. Sam runs a mystery bookshopContinue Reading
My Review The Broken Spine is the start of a new cozy mystery series about a librarian. Whoever has heard of a bookless library? Not me. But apparently the first one opened in real life in 2014. Trudell is the assistant librarian at a small rural southern library. A newContinue Reading
About Murder Can Haunt Your Handiwork Murder Can Haunt Your Handiwork (A Haunted Craft Fair Mystery) Cozy Mystery 3rd in Series Publisher: Kensington (December 29, 2020) Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages ISBN-10: 1496721659 ISBN-13: 978-1496721655 Digital ASIN: B086R8YGLD A Gilded Age ghost helps psychic painter Celeste Cabot catch a killerContinue Reading
Author Guest Post CHANGE HAPPENS How I ever managed to write Wedding Bear Blues during 2020 was a true miracle. But it all began in 2019, with hopes that 2020 would lead to new beginnings and memories. Sometimes you get what you wish for, but in the wrong way. AfterContinue Reading
Author’s Character Guest Post My name is Nuala O’Flaherty. I arrived in America from Ireland a little more than a year before Meg. We met at a placement agency. My last employer had passed away and I was looking for another position. Meg was looking for her first placement. WeContinue Reading