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Game of Thrones in the Garden
My husband calls our garden Hell’s Two-and-a-Half Acres. I choose to ignore this insult to our little Colorado Westeros, as he does the (mountain) lion’s share of the hard work. Secretly, I totally get it. All winter, though, everything looks great, so long as it

Perfect Fall Weekend – Roasted Green Chiles
Today David and I made our annual trip to Nick’s Garden Center, our favorite place to get our yearly supply of roasted green chiles. (We usually get five to six bushels, mixing up the varieties each year, though our favorite are probably Ancho chiles.) Skipping

Mermaids Gets Picked by Library Journal as Top Book for 2016
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

The First Cut – Book 2 in Terrence Reid/Anne Michaels Series
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

Less Than A Treason – Available Thursday, October 29th!
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

Lord Peter Wimsey, or Falling in Love with Mystery
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