The Virtue of Minding Your Own Business was a runner-up in an Ernest Hemingway Short Story competition. A tale of madness, murder, and regret . . . it is also the first of two...
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The chill of finishing a great mystery is in my bones. And it’s a very good thing Kipling can’t get to them with her tiny puppy-teeth! Kiplings’s first snow experience…traversing the...
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Hortense Daigle: Children can be nasty, don’t you think? I caught a showing of the classic suspense film The Bad Seed this past Halloween week on TCM the other night. There were no commercial ads...
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My mum and I lived in a cottage about half an hour outside town. So begins Gordon Reece’s first suspense novel, and new release, Mice. Shelley and...
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Zippy is out with the robin redbreasts as the cherry and pear trees bloom – I swear he’s looking at one right now Jo Nesbø’s The Redbreast So much reading and so little...
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It’s raining again and there’s a lot of indoor working/revising/catching up…curl up with a good book like In the Woods by Tana French. Zippy watches over his new charges: Ajax The Gray &...
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Hello and happy reading . . . here are the last five books that really got me moving, pushed me into overdrive, and inspired my creative flow. Ready to write, Muse? The last...
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In the hectic world a good book can take me into a less stressful place even if it’s a suspense-filled mystery. This is the Southern Oregon coastline at dusk. Oregon has the most...
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