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I I’m delighted to share that Mermaids of Bodega Bay was named by Library Journal as one of SELF-E’S TOP 20 BOOKS worldwide for 2016. Here’s the link to the list.  take a look at the list

Book 2 in Terrence Reid/Anne Michaels Mystery Series is now available FREE this Friday – Sunday on Amazon (Jan 8-10)! The other two books in this British Detective style series; Mermaids of Bodega Bay (Book 1) and Less Than a Treason (Book 3) are also available everywhere. P.S. Have you read one of my books?

Just in time for the holidays, the third Terrence Reid/Anne Michaels mystery, Less Than A Treason, set at Christmas in the Scottish Highlands, is being released this Thursday, October 29, 2015. Here’s the story: Scottish Police Superintendent Terrence Reid tears himself away from a murder investigation in Glasgow to return to his family’s ancestral home

I first met Dorothy Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey, through of all things, a food column. Mary Cantwell, who wrote for Mademoiselle magazine in those days, had an incredible gift for dropping the reader into a different world by describing the food in that world. Her column “Eat” became the first thing I read in Mademoiselle

I was sitting down tonight to write my blog, and a friend texted me. I said I had to work because I’d wasted my long Memorial Day weekend (meaning I didn’t get as much work done as I’d planned). The question came back, “How did you waste it?” I thought about that. I went over

What makes us want to follow a mystery or detective series isn’t just wanting to see what new crime the detective solves; it’s wanting to follow the path of the detective through the challenges of their life. Questions abound: did the detective’s career tank as a consequence of the last escapade in which they defied

Enough is enough. In Colorado, Mother’s Day is supposed to be the safe day to plant tender annuals. But it snowed all day today, and is supposed to be below freezing for the next two days. My house is full of flowers and vegetable plants waiting to make their debut in the garden. I’m all

Why are so many old movies remade? Is it because the moviemakers think they have a better take on the story, because they believe the technology available now will make a more compelling production, or because they have a vision that drives them? Whatever drives them, I enjoy seeing the different treatments. Last night I

Why do weekends seem to go by so fast? Of course, these days the weekdays go by fast as well. But the difference is that the weekdays seem to catapult forward driven by outside forces: commuting to and from work, getting what we need to get done on our workday calendar, responding to what other

Yes, we had snow last week, temperatures in the low twenties, but this  weekend it was spring. Denver has over 300 days of sunshine a year, and today is one of them. No sweater necessary, no wind, just perfect. Of course, everything is still winter-brown with the exception of a few brave tulip leaves that