It’s horribly hampering to one’s detective work when one isn’t supposed to be detecting, because one daren’t ask any questions, much. But...

He was one of those fortunate people who are able to take life lightly, who never worry over the future and who have a sense of humor...

It has been a doozy of a year so far. In addition to a calendar that is always too full, my daughter has been involved with every school...

Writing I’ve been working on editing/retyping my cozy mystery. I outlined and wrote the first draft in 2021. I tried editing a couple of...

Last month, I spent two weeks at Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. This was my first residency and I didn’t...

If much of the action is set in a bookshop or a library, it is a bibliomystery, just as it is if a major character is a bookseller or a...

“Take Eleanor Roosevelt’s advice and treat your curiosity as the most useful gift you were endowed with,” he’d said and then had sent a...

Siobhán O’Sullivan was up at the wee hours of the morning, combing through her new employee handbook, when Father Kearney discovered a...

It strikes me that we might as well put a list of names in the hat and draw for it! The Cheltenham Square Murder, John Bude ~ ~ ~ I’m...

It was no time for dying. The summer had arrived in glory, trailing fathomless skies and green and gold and particoloured as fresh as...

If there are many roads that lead to perdition, then there are as many that lead to salvation; and England probably houses more diverse,...

“If only he could be rid of this feeling of guilt; if only he could feel clean and honest with people he could face anything.” Antidote...

After reading some Wimsey and Poirot short mystery stories not too long ago, I thought I’d take a break. But, another collection of short...

Many a time he had based a case on disconnected fragments put together from seemingly useless conversations. In the present case, he was...

There were cold waves playing up and down his spine. This was truly frightful. Some terrible responsibility rested upon him and not only...

“It was a queer-looking building to find among the prosperous houses of the pleasant-looking road, and Grenville was aware of a feeling...

Death of Anton was better than I expected. I wasn’t quite sure how a mystery centered around a traveling circus would work out. I...

I just finished Bye Bye Baby, the latest in Robert B. Parker’s Spenser series. (By “just finished” I mean that I stayed up last night...

I spent the last couple weeks reading Golden Age short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Peter Wimsey. For two sleuths written at the...

I just finished reading Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers. It’s a Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane romp and it’s fantastic. It’s one of the...