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
My Review With a name like Fab, he has to be an Italian womanizer. But now he’s dead. He either fell or was pushed from the roof of his apartment. Were his romantic entanglements Grounds for Murder? After being laid off her high-powered Miami journalist job and divorcing her two-timingContinue Reading
My Review Cassie and Lacy are orphaned sisters who have a special talent. They are bibliomancers, able to tell the future through books. They are also the owners of Books by Bequest, a bookstore within their lighthouse home on the Oregon coast. One day, nineteen-year-old Cassie has had enough. SheContinue Reading
My Review Library Manager Amy and dancer Richard are getting married! However, a pre-wedding reception at art gallery owner Kurt’s house is tragically interrupted when Kurt’s rival art collector, Oscar, is found murdered in the yard. Intrepid amateur detectives Amy and her best friend and library employee Sunny, of course,Continue Reading
My Review Emily has been searching for the perfect house for months. She finally finds it with the supposedly haunted Victorian, Hadley House. Unfortunately, a television flipping show wants it too. With a large budget and chutzpah to spare, how can Pemberton on Property fail to win? Meanwhile, Emily’s businessContinue Reading
My Review Ding, dong, the witch is dead! Which old witch? Odious Enid, I said. Enid is the owner of a resort and spa in beautiful Spirit Canyon, South Dakota. But Enid is anything but nice. She offers new hotel owner, Beth, $20,000 in cash to close up on theContinue Reading
Kate Atherton’s idyllic retirement is going well…if you don’t count the two murders, the mysterious drone, and her photographer friend who manages to poke a hornet’s nest of criminal activity, that is. Nestled in the scenic Texas Hill Country, the cozy town of Wheaton Creek seemed to Kate Atherton anContinue Reading
It’s beginning to look a lot like murder . . . And Cassandra is knee deep in . . . Suspects. Her boss is dead, and the police are calling it burglary gone wrong. But when the killer comes after her, it’s going to take more than a pair ofContinue Reading
All Four Authors’ Guest Post How our pets have adjusted to our working from home. Heather: Pre-COVID, I did some of my day gig at home. I’m an IT manager, so we do some night and weekend work remotely. The pandemic shifted everything. I now report to the office oneContinue Reading
Author’s Guest Post The Kidnapping of Nellie DiMaggio I’m always surfing the web or checking out news stories for odd bits of history or interesting locations to use in the Zodiac Mysteries. You just never know where you’ll find a perfect setting or plot for a murder mystery. My SanContinue Reading
Author Guest Post Other Duties As Assigned By Maggie Toussaint Other duties as assigned is a phrase that most of us near the bottom of the employment ladder know very well. It means that your job involves more than what’s listed in the job description. This often translates into personalContinue Reading