It’s the Red Hot Murder Sliding Puzzle! See if you can solve the puzzle without peeking at the cover. To move the pieces, all you have to do is click on a square, you don’t have to try and drag it over or move it. It will move itself when you click it. And if …
I’ve got another beautiful new cover for you! It’s for Red Hot Murder, a standalone mystery in The Charlie Kingsley Mysteries, and we’re doing it with a puzzle! And, if you really want to challenge yourself, try solving the puzzle without checking out the cover first. (No peeking!) To move the pieces, all you have …
Hands down, the Secrets of Redemption series has been the most challenging of all my writing. It has also provided me with the most breakthroughs. (Isn’t that the way it always goes? We learn more from our challenges and failures than from our successes or what’s easy.) In March 2015, roughly six months after the …
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Chapter 1 “I can’t believe it.” Mia dropped her phone on the butcher block kitchen table with a clatter, a stunned look on her face. “Penny Schroeder is dead.” “Oh, that’s too bad,” I said. Admittedly, I was only half-listening as I stood behind the counter, measuring dried lavender for the custom tea blends I …
I’m often asked “What is a cozy?” Let’s start with the technical definition. The term describes a subgenre of mystery novels that are characterized by a lack of graphic violence, sex, drug use or foul language. They emphasize the puzzle aspects of a crime, rather than the darker elements. In addition, cozy mysteries typically take …
Who wants to play a The Murder of Sleepy Hollow word search puzzle? (No spoilers. Nor do you have to have read The Murder of Sleepy Hollow to play, although it’s always more fun, of course.) A couple of hints on playing: To “select” the word, click on the first letter, hold down the shift key, …
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Growing up, watching mystery and detective television shows, like Murder She Wrote and Matlock, was a staple in my house. And this time of year was always my favorite because they would usually incorporate some sort of ghost story or unexplained supernatural element to the mystery. (Of course, all the loose ends would also be …
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Chapter 1 This is NOT a date, I told myself again as I approached the doors of The Tipsy Cow, Redemption’s best, most happening bar. Yes, it was true I was meeting Officer Brandon Wyle in said bar. But we were meeting for lunch, not a drink. The Tipsy Cow had surprisingly good food. Besides, …
