Murder, She Wrote: Killing in a Koi Pond by Jessica Fletcher & Terrie Farley Moran is the 53rd entry in the long-running series, where a friend’s husband dies while Jessica Fletcher is in town visiting, turning her much-needed vacation into a murder investigation. The indomitable Jessica Fletcher has a new writing partner: Agatha Award-winner Terrie…
Hello everyone. I’m Terrie Farley Moran and I write cozy mysteries including the Read ’Em and Eat series. In those cozies, Sassy Cabot and Bridgy Mayfield own a café and bookstore in Fort Myers Beach, Florida. At the Read ’Em and Eat book lovers can find such luscious treats such as Old Man and the…
Galway Girl by Ken Bruen is the 14th book in the Jack Taylor series—as sharp and sardonic as it is starkly bleak and violent, it shows the master raconteur at his best: lyrical, brutal, and ceaselessly suspenseful. I have long been a fan of Ken Bruen’s writing, particularly his Jack Taylor novels. I will confess…
Earlier this year at the always exciting mystery conference, Malice Domestic, I was fortunate enough to meet author Marty Wingate. Although our conversation was brief, I found her quite engaging. And since Marty writes cozies, which are my all-time favorite reads, I could not understand why it is that I have never read any of her…
I have been lucky enough to co-write the four most recent books in the New Orleans Scrapbooking series by Laura Childs. I started on Parchment and Old Lace which was lucky (for me) number 13 and now the newly released Mumbo Gumbo Murder, which is the most fun ever, is being stacked on bookshelves in…
I’ve read several books each from Laura Childs’s Tea Shop and Cackleberry Club mystery series, but Mumbo Gumbo Murder, written with Terrie Farley Moran, is my first exposure to her New Orleans Scrapbooking mysteries. Set in the Big Easy, this 16th book in the series follows our heroine, craft store owner Carmela Bertrand, and her…
The Pawful Truth by Miranda James is book number eleven in the Cat in the Stacks cozy series featuring college librarian Charlie Harris and his Main Coon cat Deisel. The Cat in the Stacks books are written by Miranda James, who is also the author of the charming Southern Ladies mysteries. So, naturally, I was…
Scot & Soda by Catriona McPherson is the second book in the Last Ditch Mystery series featuring Lexy Campbell, where the Scottish-born California transplant sails into trouble when her houseboat party ends on a deadly note. I started reading the Dandy Gilver cozies by McPherson years ago. Dandy is a bored, upper-class housewife in 1920s…
No Sunscreen for the Dead is Tim Dorsey’s twenty-second book about Florida life. Once again, wild and wacky Serge Storms rides with his consistently stoned sidekick, Coleman, this time diving into an infamous sex scandal between a retiree and her younger beau in one of the largest retirement villages in the world. If you have never…
Fractured Truth is the second book in the Bone Gap Travellers Mystery series written by Susan Furlong. “Travellers?” you ask. “Travellers,” I reply. As an Irish-American, I have always been fascinated by Irish Travellers, people who have lived in Ireland for centuries and stay by themselves away from all others. They follow their own sets…
