Julia Spencer-Fleming

In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming

In The Bleak Midwinter: First in Series Excerpt

By Julia Spencer-Fleming

December 26, 2011

It’s a cold, snowy December in the upstate New York town of Millers Kill, and newly-ordained Clare Fergusson is on thin ice as the first female priest of its small Episcopal church. Chief of Police Russ Van Alstyne dismisses her as a naive do-gooder and her blunt manner, honed by eight years as an Army…

Freddy the Detective by Walter R. Brooks

Julia Spencer-Fleming’s First Detective: Freddy the Pig

By Julia Spencer-Fleming

May 6, 2011

For me, it was always Freddy. Other mystery lovers were given sets of Nancy Drew or the Hardy Boys, or stumbled upon a row of old Agatha Christies shelved between two beams in the summer cottage. Maybe they cracked open their dad’s John MacDonald paperbacks because the racy covers promised s-e-x. But my first detective…