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Cookie House Mystery Series

A Tale of Two Cookies by Eve Calder: New Excerpt

By Crime HQ

April 26, 2021

Chapter 1 Kate McGuire felt the spray of the saltwater against her face, as the boat plowed through the choppy water. Beside her, pup Oliver peered over the railing into the teal blue sea. Instinctively, she reached down and stroked the soft, caramel-colored hair on the back of his neck, just above his orange life…

5 Fascinating Lost Treasures

By Eve Calder

May 4, 2020

“Find my heart, and you will spy my treasure.”   —”Gentleman George’s Lost Hoard” from Sugar and Vice  Lost treasure. The phrase conjures up chests of gleaming gold, crates of sparkling gemstones, and every wish granted. In Sugar and Vice, the discovery of a pirate skeleton—one who was rumored to have been buried with a…

Sugar and Vice by Eve Calder: New Excerpt

By Eve Calder

April 13, 2020

Chapter 1 As schooner-sized white clouds sailed high across the turquoise South Florida sky, Kate McGuire tugged at her green gardening gloves. Despite what the label proclaimed, one size definitely did not fit all. “So what happens if I ditch the gloves?” she asked, pausing, as her friend rhythmically scooped wet sand. “Nothing super horrible,”…

Book Series Binge: Q&A with Eve Calder on Cookie House Mystery Series

By Crime HQ

April 7, 2020

Describe the first time you pictured Kate McGuire in your head. In my mind (and my very first, toss-away draft), I showed a bit of Kate’s life in Manhattan—including that one momentous day when the restaurant where she’d worked for two years shuttered (embezzlement), she lost her tiny, homey apartment (gone condo), and she broke off…

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