Book of the Day THE GOLDEN TRESSES OF THE DEAD By Alan Bradley Delecorte Press$26.00ISBN 978-0345540027Publication Date: January 22,20189 Buy it here! THE GOLDEN TRESSES OF THE DEAD Review by Liz Gatterer The Golden Tresses of the Dead Flavia De Luce is back and cleaver as always. This is the 10th installment by Alan Bradley […]
Book of the Day THE GRAVE’S A FINE AND PRIVATE PLACE By Alan Bradley Delecorte Press$26.00ISBN 978-0345539991Publication Date: January 30, 2018 Buy it here! THE GRAVE’S A FINE AND PRIVATE PLACE Review by Liz Gatterer Flavia de Luce is the absolutely spellbinding, precocious, 12-year-old, British, sleuth that has stolen my heart. She may have even […]
Killer Nashville Book of the Day Find What You See on Killer Nashville’s affiliate, Amazon.com* Hank Phillippi Ryan What You See by Hank Phillippi RyanReviewed by Kelly Saderholm In Hank Phillippi Ryan’s latest book, What You See (the fourth in her Jane Ryland series), almost nothing is what it appears to be. A man is stabbed in broad […]
Nancy Drew never cursed. She was always under duress in one manner or another, but she never let, even the occasional expletive, spill from her titian-colored head. In this week’s guest blog, author Penny Clover Petersen discusses what makes a cozy mystery, and the ongoing debate about the use of bad words. Read like they […]
Sometimes an idea needs time to mature, or in the case of this week’s guest blogger Rosalyn Ramage, the idea needs to find a genre. I think most authors would agree that stories have to come out one way or another. How they are received is another matter. Ramage explains how her latest book took […]
“I wrote a ‘cozy’ without knowing it. Well, actually, I knew I had written a would-be book, with interesting characters, dead bodies, and strange happenings, etc., but didn’t realize that my writing style was along that of a cozy mystery. Once I realized that, I decided to pitch it at the Killer Nashville conference in […]
“Killer Nashville was a wonderful experience. The staff and volunteers were kind and helpful. The breakout sessions were the perfect size for meaningful interaction between the audience and the presenters. The panel about why agents and editors reject manuscripts was both terrifying and incredibly helpful. I took advantage of having the first ten pages of […]
Beewitched by Hannah Reed Dead witches in a corn maze. What could be finer? Written by author Deb Baker under her “Hannah Reed” moniker, this is Book 5 in a series about a quaint town and a beekeeping business set in Moraine, Wisconsin. In this installment, a self-proclaimed witch moves into town followed by a whole […]
Books, Cooks, and Crooks by Lucy Arlington Down in Inspiration Valley, North Carolina – don’t you just love the name? – the kitchen blows up and the mystery hits the fan. The problem is not finding the killer, but eliminating everyone who would like to see the deceased dead. Ellery Adams and Sylvia May are the […]
Days of Wine and Roquefort by Avery Aames Murder, like Roquefort, stinks. I love it. Moving westwardly, we go to the fictional town of Providence, Ohio for the Agatha Award-winning Cheese Shop Mysteries. In this series, you have people who eat cheese and drink wine. For a guy (me) who thinks wine is for drinking, not […]