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S.C. Perkins

Once Upon a Crime: “Sweet Voodoo Magic”

By Crime HQ

August 20, 2020

We teamed up with five cozy mystery writers to create a short story in real-time. The end result was “Sweet Voodoo Magic” which you can read in full below! A special thank you goes out to the participating authors (in order of appearance): Hannah Dennison, S.C. Perkins, Donna Andrews, Diane Kelly, and Ellie Alexander. The…

Genealogy at the Root of Crime Fiction: Seven Novels that Explore Genealogical Connections

By SC Perkins

July 20, 2020

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. —Ralph Waldo Emerson No matter the type of crime fiction, familial relationships are often the key factor in understanding why a bad deed is committed.…

Lineage Most Lethal by S. C. Perkins: New Excerpt

By Crime HQ

June 22, 2020

CHAPTER ONE “Stop,” I begged. “Please.” Her trancelike gaze swiveled my way, curly tendrils of graying brown hair sticking to her damp forehead. My eyes darted from her round, blotchy face to the mound of white powder she held in her gloved hand. “No,” she said. Despite the cool day, sweat trickled down her temple,…

Cozy Mystery Sweepstakes

By Crime HQ

April 13, 2020

Start your spring reading with six cozy mysteries! Enter below for a chance to win: one ARC of Lineage Most Lethal by S.C. Perkins one mass market paperback copy of Hems & Homicide by Elizabeth Penny one mass market paperback copy of Egg Drop Dead by Vivien Chien one hardcover copy of The Stolen Letter…

Book Series Binge: Q&A with S.C. Perkins on Ancestry Detective Series

By Crime HQ

March 30, 2020

Describe the first time you pictured Lucy Lancaster in your head. Lucy first popped into my head when I was at a writers’ conference in Austin, Texas. I was listening to a panel about writing characters with interesting day jobs and this idea for an amateur sleuth who was a professional genealogist kept going around…

Book Review: Murder Once Removed by S.C. Perkins

By Alex Calamela

March 20, 2019

S.C. Perkins’ Murder Once Removed is the first mystery in the Ancestry Detective series, in which Texas genealogist Lucy Lancaster uses her skills to solve murders in both the past and present. Murder Once Removed, S.C. Perkins’ debut cozy mystery, is the perfect first in a new series and I’m eager to continue. Good-hearted, inquisitive and intelligent,…

Seven Fun Genealogy Facts

By SC Perkins

March 18, 2019

Join S.C. Perkins, author of Murder Once Removed—the first in a new cozy mystery series starring Lucy Lancaster, a Texas genealogist who uses her skills to solve murders in both the past and present—as she shares a list of genealogical facts guaranteed to impress at your next dinner party! Somewhere, years ago, I heard the term…

Murder Once Removed by S.C. Perkins

Murder Once Removed: New Excerpt

By SC Perkins

S.C. Perkins’ Murder Once Removed is the cozy debut in the Ancestry Detective series, in which Texas genealogist Lucy Lancaster uses her skills to solve murders in both the past and present. Except for a good taco, genealogist Lucy Lancaster loves nothing more than tracking down her clients’ long-dead ancestors, and her job has never been…

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