Archive | Cozy Mystery

RAMBLING THOUGHTS ON BEING AN AUTHOR OF A “COMFORT FOOD “ SERIES by CHRISTINE WENGER First, let me explain that wild title above.  My series for Penguin/Obsidian Books are all cozy mysteries and each one has a comfort food theme. You might ask, “Hey, Chris, what is COMFORT FOOD? “  Well, dear reader, it is […]

Guest Post for NO GHOULS ALLOWED by Victoria Laurie The Sandman I spent a whole lot of my childhood and perhaps more than a bit of my adulthood being afraid of things that go bump in the night. Like,…terrified to the point of keeping a light on at all times and sleeping on a platform […]

With a needle and thread, Harlow Jane Cassidy is capable of magic. Her neighbors in Bliss, Texas, on the other hand, are capable of murder…. Any garment Harlow stitches together has the power to grant the deepest desire of whomever wears it. So when she’s asked to sew aprons for a local women’s group, Harlow […]

Questions readers asked Beverly Allen about the Bridal Bouquet Shop Series How did you come up with the characters? Are they based loosely on some folks you know? Perhaps I had a little inspiration. Audrey Bloom’s Grandma Mae is patterned loosely after my own wonderful grandmother. But that’s probably the closest parallel. Much of the […]

Sisters Lucinda and Ricarda Ricardo—better known as Lucy and Rikki—are at each other’s throats over the family business, Roble Foods. Lucy wants to sell and Rikki is against it. Rikki asks medium Emma Whitcastle to contact their deceased father, Felix, to help her convince Lucy not to sell, but the ghost of Felix Ricardo has […]

Welcome to my blog tour stop for Meet Your Baker by Ellie Alexander. This is a cozy mystery that released December 30th. Be sure to check out the schedule for the list of reviews, interviews and guest posts by the author! The tour starts January 5th and runs through the 16th.   About MEET YOUR BAKER: […]

The Ghosts of Sweet Pepper From a story in the Sweet Pepper Gazette By Pat Smith Sweet Pepper isn’t exactly the ghost capitol of the world or even on the most haunted places tour. The people exploit their peppers, but not their ghosts. Ghost are too personal – even family – and no one would […]

Guest Post by Elizabeth Lee You know how you’ve been around a guy forever and then one day you get mad at him and your whole world seems to blow up?  That’s what happens to Lindy Blanchard when even Deputy Hunter Austin, her sometimes lover and sometimes adversary, and sometimes plain pain-in-the-neck, comes to suspect […]

Another murder in small town Cold Creek has tensions rising. Clive Johnson, the groundskeeper at Cold Creek College, is a convenient scapegoat for a police chief who seeks an easy solution. Convinced Chief Pfeiffe has it all wrong, professor and psychologist Sheridan Hendley sets out to help prove Clive’s innocence. But not everyone is pleased […]

Guest Post for FETA ATTRACTION by Susannah Hardy I love mysteries! You’re here visiting this blog because you do too. Did you ever solve a real mystery? Not ones like what that smell is emanating from your teenager’s bedroom, or who put the toilet paper on the roll backwards. Not that those aren’t important or […]

It’s an old adage that too many cooks spoil the broth. But when a tour of the White House kitchen by a group of foreign chefs ends in murder, it’s Olivia Paras who finds herself in the soup…  Due to a government sequester, entertaining at the White House has been severely curtailed. So executive chef […]

About the Snow Globe Shop Mystery Series by Christine Husom We’re in the season of winter and I live in Minnesota, the Land of 10,000 Frozen Lakes. Christmas 2014 is now part of our memory banks, but I know there are people of all ages who were given a snow globe as a gift and […]