Terrie Farley Moran – An Interview

October 27, 2021

Terrie Farley Moran has been a cozy mystery writer for quite a while. She’s also written with author Laura Childs. But, it’s her current co-writer who may be most familiar to many of you. Terrie is co-author of the Jessica Fletcher mysteries. She took the...

Grave Reservations by Cherie Priest

October 26, 2021

Cherie Priest is known as a writer of horror, steampunk, and science fiction, including the Locus Award-winning novel Boneshaker. When she set out to write a mystery, she wrote a witty one set in Seattle, featuring a great cast of characters. Two thumbs up for Grave...

Lois Winston, Guest Author

October 20, 2021

I enjoy welcoming author Lois Winston back to the blog. She always has a fun article. Today’s guest post provides the background for her latest Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery, Stitch, Bake, Die! (Be happy you don’t know these women!) Thank you, Lois....

What Are You reading?

October 07, 2021

As I said, I haven’t read anything since I’m visiting with my Mom and sisters. I suspected I wouldn’t. Instead, we just enjoyed each others’ company and laughed a lot. I had the chance to see other family as well. We went to a small masked...

A Short Break

September 19, 2021

While I have more reviews from Sandie Herron, I’m saving them since I just used several. Instead, I’m taking a short break while I finish reading for a journal. I know this is unusual, but I had two deadlines in four days. I had to read four books so I...

Caroline Todd, RIP

August 29, 2021

Yesterday, author Charles Todd announced the death of his mother, Caroline Todd. Caroline was the other half of the mother-son writing team who wrote the Ian Rutledge and Bess Crawford mysteries. Here was Charles Todd’s announcement on Facebook. “It is...