Vicki Delany and Crime Writers of Canada

May 06, 2015

Friend and author, Vicki Delany, is the President of Crime Writers of Canada. I’m sure most of you don’t know as much about that organization as you do about Mystery Writers of America. So, Vicki agreed to an interview so we could discuss the organization....

Day Shift by Charlaine Harris

May 05, 2015

I loved the unusual characters Charlaine Harris introduced in Midnight Crossroad, the first in her Midnight, Texas series. But, Day Shift is even better. This time, readers really get to know the characters, finding out who most of them really are. The residents...

Don’t Go Home by Carolyn Hart

May 04, 2015

By the 25th Death on Demand mystery, fans know what to expect. It’s a traditional mystery set in Broward’s Rock, South Carolina, and, if everything is perfect, there will be the comfort of all those mysteries in Annie Darling’s bookstore. There will...

Dark Chocolate Demise by Jenn McKinlay

May 03, 2015

My sister, Christie, and I talk about characters in cozy mysteries the way some women used to talk about characters in soap operas. These are people we know, and we get upset with them when they do something that makes them TSTL, Too Stupid To Live. And, as much as we...

Ruined Abbey by Anne Emery

May 02, 2015

Fascinating. Absolutely fascinating. Anne Emery’s Ruined Abbey is totally over my head, but it’s a  fascinating mystery. Because I haven’t read any of the mysteries about the Irish Troubles, or any of Emery’s previous Collins-Burke...