Pamela Paterson is relaxing at the home of her best friends, Bettina and Wilfred Fraser, who conveniently live right across the street from her in their small New Jersey town of Arborville. The friends are celebrating yet another successful end to their town’s annual Halloween festivities when urgent screams unexpectedly disturb the night. Heading back…
Kensington Books’ latest trio of cozy seasonal novellas is a real winner, especially with an absolute stunner of a dessert recipe included to help properly celebrate St. Patrick’s Day! In the opening story that gives this collection its name, Carlene O’Connor sends the heroine of her Home to Ireland series on a hen party to…
Pamela Paterson is accompanying her best friend, local reporter Bettina Fraser, to a St. Patrick’s Day celebration at the Arborville rec center. The food is excellent, and the entertainment even more so—with glamorous 70-something singer Isobel Lister back in town and ready to wow the crowd. Several members of the audience seem less than eager…
Kensington Books’ latest seasonal collection of culinary cozy novellas is perfect for curling up with a hot beverage and taking a much-needed holiday break! Carlene O’Connor’s Ireland-set tale opens the book and gives the collection its name. Fans of her Irish Village Mystery series will be thrilled to see familiar characters here. Our heroine, Siobhan…
The eighth book of the Knit & Nibble Mystery series finds our heroine, Pamela Paterson, looking forward to enjoying the fruits of her labor at nearby Wendelstaff College’s fiber arts conference. She’s successfully convinced the magazine she works for to sponsor a knitting bee to be held all weekend at Sufficiency House, a historic home…
Halloween has come to Arborville, and Pamela Paterson’s main concern is whether she’s underdressed, as usual, for the town’s annual bonfire celebrations—especially in comparison with her friends Bettina and Nell, who have gone all out with their costumes. All thought of frivolity is swiftly pushed out of their heads, however, when two teenagers stumble across…
The fourth installment of the Knit & Nibble Mystery series came out right as the pandemic took hold here stateside, and I got a little lost in all the chaos. Fortunately, I was able to catch up with my favorite introverted cozy culinary sleuth before the latest book comes out later this month! It’s another…
The second book in the Knit & Nibble Mystery series opens with Arborfest, the New Jersey town of Arborville’s annual celebration of civic pride. Our heroine, Pamela Paterson, and the knitting club she founded have set up a booth to sell knitted aardvarks, the local high school mascot, with proceeds going to help fund Arborville…
Pamela Paterson is enjoying the lead up to Christmas, especially with her daughter Penny home from college for the holidays. Unfortunately, poor Penny is in for a terrible shock when she goes for a walk one day and stumbles across the dead body of Mildred Farthingale. Mildred had been not only a pillar of their…
Pamela Paterson’s weekly Knit & Nibble group—a collection of knitters who gather in the home of one of their own to knit for two hours a week while enjoying a tasty snack—has a new if somewhat disruptive member. Caralee Lorimer is an actress who’s just moved back to the town of Arborville, New Jersey, after…
