Forget Me Knot by Mary Marks

Forget Me Knot by Mary Marks is the first book in the new “Quilting” mystery series. Publisher: Kensington, January 2014 Welcome to San Fernando Valley, California, where Martha Rose and her coterie of quilters are enjoying life on the good side of...

Paws For Murder by Annie Knox

Paws For Murder by Annie Knox is the first book in the new “Pet Boutique” mystery series. Publisher: Obsidian, January 2014 Izzy McHale wants her new Trendy Tails Pet Boutique in Merryville, Minnesota, to be the height of canine couture and feline...

A Conversation With Mira James by Jess Lourey

A year ago, I moved from Minneapolis to Battle Lake, Minnesota, population 787 and dropping. Specifically, I’d developed a distasteful habit of discovering one corpse a month since arriving here in May. A lesser woman would think herself cursed. I’d been raised by a...

A Day in the Life of Suzanne Dietz by Laura Childs

So there I was, churning up the hill toward Memorial Cemetery, the wrought-iron gates looming up through swirling fog like disapproving sentinels. My BFF Toni was riding shotgun, while stuffed in the back seat were four enormous baskets of flowers. Somehow, we’d been...