My friend Joy recently said she might want me to write her obituary. She said this jokingly as a compliment. “Well, after all,” she said, “you are in the cemetery business.” Gravely speaking, I guess I am, but it’s only in a fictional way. I’ll have to admit that all three Darcy and Flora books […]
Jun 6, 2016
Heart, Help, and a Chilling Mystery
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Yesterday was a near-perfect day, recalling the James Russell Lowell poem, What Is So Rare As a Day In June. Matt and Dawn, Sara and Nathan came, bringing a lot of heart-healthy foods for lunch and later. Dawn and I packed serving-size lunches and put them in the freezer. Nemo was glad to see everyone together […]
May 28, 2016
Happy Mentions
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Tweets and twitters and they’re not even birds! However, they are music to my ears. And joyful. Two beautifully-worded mentions of two of my cozy mysteries: Special Novel Ties is a new site by Earl Chinnici. This is a fun concept Earl developed with a tie or something in common one book has with another. In The […]
May 27, 2016
A Bushel Basket of Cozies
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It is exciting to see the cover of my fourth Darcy and Flora cozy on my publisher’s website. It’s on the page called “Coming Soon” and, sure enough, Grave Heritage will be released in a few months. I hope you enjoy it. Sometimes people ask me where I get the ideas for my books. Let […]
May 20, 2016
A Question of Murder
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As you know, I’ve written four cozy mysteries, some with co-author Barbara Burgess, some, alone. Below are things that happened in the four cozies, The Cemetery Club, Grave Shift, Best Left Buried, Moonlight Can Be Murder. See if you can match the scenes below to the appropriate book. Her uncle lay in the laundry room […]
May 18, 2016
A Mighty Mysterious Moon
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This weekend we are supposed to have another of those blue moons. Now, a blue moon isn’t really blue; it’s what the second full moon in a month is called. Of course, this brought to mind my first Ned McNeil adventure, Moonlight Can Be Murder. I’ve re-read one of the Amazon 5-star reviews: Blanche Day Manos […]
