A Day in the Life of Jules Ainsley by Sally Goldenbaum

May 5, 2014 | A Day In My Life

It looks like a seaside cottage—probably a hundred years old—and has to be the friendliest looking shop I’ve ever seen. The front window is filled with amazing yarn, some draped over branches, some floating on a pile of autumn leaves. The whole thing teasing, coaxing,...

Patchwork Peril by Lois Winston

May 4, 2014 | My Musing

Patchwork Peril by Lois Winston is the third mini-mystery in the “Anastasia Pollack Crafting” series. Publisher: Lois Winston, April 2014 After rescuing her elderly neighbor Rosalie’s quilts from a rainstorm, craft editor Anastasia Pollack discovers Rosalie...

Boiled Over by Barbara Ross

May 4, 2014 | My Musing

Boiled Over by Barbara Ross is the second book in the “Maine Clambake” mystery series. Publisher: Kensington, May 2014 For Julia Snowden, the Founder’s Day summer celebration in Busman’s Harbor, Maine, means helping her family’s clambake company to...

Catnapped by Elaine Viets

May 4, 2014 | My Musing

Catnapped by Elaine Viets is the 13th book in the “Dead-End Job” mystery series. Publisher: Obsidian, May 2014 No more pussyfooting around! Husband and wife PI team Helen Hawthorne and Phil Sagemont have barely scratched the surface of the world of show cats when a...

Spending Time With Daisy Buchanan by Cate Price

May 3, 2014 | A Day In My Life

As I peered through the wavy glass windows of the Victorian dollhouse that I’d purchased at auction for two hundred dollars, I brushed angrily against the tears streaming down my face. Too bad I could never set foot inside. Within its rooms was a perfect little world...