At one of our critiques, I mentioned to my friends gathered around the table that I should start a third mystery series starring them, the Cozy Critters! Everybody liked that idea and started choosing names for themselves and cautioning me not to kill them off in my book. “Well, why not?” Helen said. “You have […]
Jan 15, 2016
A Flurry of Fur and Feathers
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Outside my window, the maple stretches dark, mostly bare branches to the sky. Arching over my driveway, the slimmer, barer arms of the white mulberry entwine with the maple. At the edge of my container garden, the crepe myrtle’s limbs, twisted and bare of bark, rise past the eaves. These trees and shrub are a playground for squirrels […]
Jan 13, 2016
“Intense, Emotional Mystery”
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“This is an intense and at times emotional mystery. I could not put it down,” Deb Forbes wrote in her exciting review of Moonlight Can Be Murder. For the rest of this review and to visit Deb’s attractive and informative blog, click on her link: http://mysteryreadingnook.blogspot.com/2016/01/moonlight-can-be-murder-edge-of-your.html. This is an example of one of my favorite parts of Deb’s […]
Jan 11, 2016
One Step Ahead of a Killer
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Last night, the sky was clear and the temperature took a plunge downward. What does a cozy mystery writer or a cozy mystery reader do on a night like this? Read, of course, or write! In this slice of Moonlight Can Be Murder, Ned takes a wild, icy ride which nearly ends in disaster. A […]
Jan 10, 2016
Mocha Coffee and Flying Fingers
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The mercury shivers at fifteen degrees this morning. Yesterday morning I was so excited! Snow was falling in NW Arkansas. It was beautiful. However, it did not last; the cold did. The heater blower on my furnace went out a few days ago and I am very thankful that a few hours later, it was […]
Jan 9, 2016
A Shadow in the Night
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The weather is wet, cold, and forecast to get snowy and colder. It is, of course, perfect weather to go to Levi, Oklahoma and see what Darcy and Flora are doing in their current mystery, Grave Heritage. As usual, Darcy is setting out to find a bad guy but this time, she goes alone, in the dead of […]
