The Cat Sitter and the Canary is the 11th book in the Dixie Hemingway series (Available December 20, 2016). Depending on the number of feline clients you can accrue, being a cat sitter can be a lucrative activity. It’s a worthwhile and harmless profession, but you will inevitably need an actual human being to invoice—cats…
The Cat Sitter and the Canary is the 11th book in the Dixie Hemingway series (Available December 20, 2016). This time, Dixie finds a tall, handsome tourist loitering around the home of one of her long-time clients. He tells her he’s just arrived from Scotland and that he’s lost his glasses, which presumably explains why…
Discover (or remember to order) your next cozy with a delightfully convenient shopping list of upcoming soft-boiled mysteries! Last month, we gave thanks for the great list of books that was November's releases; this month, the holidays come early with some amazing December reads! Let us know in the comments how you like it and…
Discover (or remember to order) your next cozy with a delightfully convenient shopping list of upcoming soft-boiled mysteries! Last month, the books were just as nice as the weather with May's releases; this month it just keeps getting hotter with amazing June reads! Let us know in the comments how you like it and what…
The Cat Sitter's Whiskers is the 10th cozy in Blaize Clement's series, now written by her son John, following Dixie Hemingway, a retired cop turned pet sitter (available March 31, 2015). Set in the sleepy beach-side town of Siesta Key, Florida, Dixie Hemingway heads off for work as a pet sitter one morning in the…
The Cat Sitter's Cradle by Blaize & John Clement is the eighth in the cozy mystery series featuring Florida pet sitter, Dixie Hemingway (available July 9, 2013). Dixie Hemingway (no relation to you-know-who) is back! Dixie is a cat sitter on the gorgeous but sleepy Florida barrier island of Siesta Key. It was not so…
There are few things I enjoy more than the changing of the seasons. When the leaves start to turn, I dream of roaring fires and snowflakes falling from the sky. I make sure my favorite blanket is within reach of my armchair and that the reading lamp is in working order. My fireplace may be…
I met Blaize Clement in 2006, a little more than a year after her first book in the Dixie Hemingway series, Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter, was published. She was a presenter on a panel for new writers. I was a new writer and very impressed with her advice. In a kind yet firm voice…
We’ve learned that one of our bloggers, Blaize Clement, passed away recently. Author of the Dixie Hemingway Cat Sitter mysteries, if you read what the Sarasota Herald-Tribune has to say and her charming, funny posts here, you may have some idea of what an upbeat and warm (not to mention hard-working!) person she was…
