Dec 9, 2021 | A Day In My Life
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a mother in possession of two single daughters will not rest until both daughters are wed. Even if one of the daughters—me, Phaedra Brighton—is a professor of English Literature and a Jane Austen scholar with a satisfying...
Dec 8, 2021 | A Day In My Life
Hello, everyone! My name is Emma Starrs. My sister Lucy, aunt Nora, and I run Starlit Bookshop on the main street of Silvercrest, Colorado, which is a picturesque town full of artistic types—painters, writers, sculptors, musicians, and more. Starlit Books is a...
Dec 7, 2021 | A Day In My Life
Sleuthing 101 Am I the only one who doesn’t get young people these days? Take for instance, Emma, the young woman my late husband hired to have tea with me every Tuesday afternoon at three o’clock sharp. After watching Emma’s home-based travel agency go the way of...
Dec 6, 2021 | A Day In My Life
Occupation: Cook to the Gilvers of Gilverton It’s not like the old days when I was a kitchenmaid. It’s not even like the old days when I was a young cook with my own kitchenmaid. There’s no getting up at 5 to clear, clean, set and re-light the range for breakfast now....
Dec 4, 2021 | A Day In My Life
My name is Hubert, although you may called me Hughey, the neighbourhood kids do. My “owner,” Ashley Smeeton, twenty-something Montreal private investigator, thinks she rescued me in the third book in which she appears–April on Paris Street (2021). The author...
Dec 2, 2021 | A Day In My Life
You might ask how I ended up as mayor of Silver Hollow—a small town with a heart-of-gold community near Ann Arbor, Michigan. We’re into teddy bears here, due to my husband Alex’s teddy bear shop and factory. After he retired ten years ago, our daughter Sasha began...
