Maybe it’s to prove a point that I’ve written about women who are not actually considered young any more but who still have the mental acumen and physical abilities to solve mysteries. Believe me, neither Darcy Campbell nor her mother Flora Tucker were over the hill when they tumbled down it. In The Cemetery […]
Jan 19, 2018
Guest Post By An Exceptionally Popular Writer
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I am so pleased today to introduce to you my special guest, Sharon Rose Mierke. Sharon is a Canadian author and has been a guest on this blog before, but she has, since that time, added new books. I can personally recommend her books and feel that they will give you hours of reading pleasure. […]
Jan 14, 2018
The Night Stole Softly Down the Hills
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The night stole softly down the hills and wrapped the town in darkness. Daylight fled, going with the sun as it slipped beneath the western horizon. Now, a sense of tranquility and the far away sounds of the forest blotted out the cares of the day. Down in the hollow, an owl hooted. Another answered. […]
Jan 13, 2018
Flu Figured in History and In Mystery Too
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Flu is hitting hard this winter, according to all reports. Seems it has plagued mankind for a long time and was especially bad in 1918. I remember my mother talking about that time. Interestingly, it played a strategic part in Darcy Campbell’s past and even figured in her genealogy. How? Well, it’s all there in […]
Jan 11, 2018
Just Ahead of the Storm
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I’m so glad the Cozy Critique was yesterday instead of today. This is the day when the temperature is forecast to take a nosedive. But yesterday, well, it was a pleasant day inside and out, and it may well have been the calm before a winter storm. Today is beginning cloudy and still, as if […]
Jan 9, 2018
That Dangerous State of Affairs, Retirement
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Retirement–that longed-for Utopian state for which I worked for decades. Lovely, unhurried mornings, peaceful, sunny days of travel, visiting coffee shops. Plenty of time for cleaning a house and keeping it sparkling, baking cookies, taking long walks. And, oh, my goodness, all that accumulated wisdom. Just a whole headful of good advice gleaned from years of […]
