Former Sheriff's Office detective Ray Davenport now owns the Wood U gift shop on Victoria Square, but it’s his talented younger daughter...

NOW AVAILABLE!      Katie Bonner’s business in on the line after her friend Jamie is poisoned at her tea shop. First she must locate the mys...

Angelica's carrot cake recipe was featured in A FATAL CHAPTER, including her recipe for maple buttercream frosting (which is super yummy...

Have you pre-ordered your copy? Read an excerpt of DEAD MAN'S HAND on my website. Just click this link. PRE-ORDER NOW! Kindle US | Kind...

 I did some more decorating over the weekend. I'm running out of doorknobs and wall space to hang things, so this Santa pillow is now ha...

  Happy Saturday.  Mr. L always teases me because for just about every tune I've ever heard, I have a favorite part. Just a few notes.  ...

  To celebrate Cyber Monday, TODAY and tomorrow, I'm offering seven of my books at 50% off from Nook and Smashwords. Why these books? W...

 

  Katie’s been dealt the Dead Man’s Hand …  It’s all fun and games when Katie Bonner and her friends play poker for chocolate-covered peanut...

  Happy Sunday! When you're skipping a meal (every day for months on end. It's called intermittent fasting), you start to become obs...

  Thanks to Covid-19, we're getting in the holiday mood a little early this year.   My brother and his wife bought a pop-up trailer thre...

Today is National Pieorgi Day and Mr. L will be having them for lunch. Buffalo has a big "Polish" population. Mr. L's mother w...

 Nothing says "hire me" like a sales pitch that starts out "your website is crap." Really, NOTHING. I can't tell you...

Happy Book Day to my Victoria Square co-author, Gayle Leeson. Check out her latest Down South Cafe Mystery, Fruit Baskets and Holiday Casket...

YAY! It's been almost six months since I got a call from my agent telling me that Berkley was interested in at least two more Booktown M...

As most of you know, I write the Lotus Bay Mysteries (and not often enough). When I started the series, I based it on a real place. O...

Yesterday we opened our pool for the summer. It's always a potentially frightening event.  Will the water be clear or murky?  Will the b...

It's only been 15 years in the making. Back in the day (which means before I was published in novel-length), I experimented with s...

Last week, I got a note from a reader of my Booktown Mysteries . She wrote:  "I can't bring myself to read on. In every good ser...

Just about everyone around the world has had their lives impacted by Covid-19. Here's my list of things that we won't be doing or ha...

It's Tuesday. I have to look at the calendar or the computer to remind myself what day it is. I also find that I'm forgetting to...

Welcome to WONDERFUL Wednesday. Are you baking today? I think instead of baking, I'll be roasting (which is kind of the same thing a...

I'm on a recipe roll. Mr. L and I save the newspaper to read in the evenings. After a day at the computer, we just want to chill out w...

A few weeks ago, Mr. L and I tried a new-to-us restaurant for lunch. I ordered a Cuban sandwich on our first visit. It wasn't the be...

It's National Chocolate Cake Day. Wouldn't you like a slice?