Oct 3, 2020 | A Day In My Life
Footsteps crunch through the underbrush. I freeze to listen, despite the patter of rain overhead, and wipe my hands down my frosting-speckled apron. “Violet?” Laurel breaks my concentration as she comes out of her birthday party to check on me as I take a break....
Oct 1, 2020 | A Day In My Life
“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,” or as I would write in steno, SKWRA*EUPBLG. What’s steno you ask? My immediate response is to say it’s the curious little language that has earned me a front row seat to my town’s most heinous crimes. But in actuality, steno—also...
Sep 30, 2020 | A Day In My Life
Women’s Club Manager, Amateur Detective, Reluctant Medium I never thought it would be simple to run the business side of a grand women’s club in an old mansion. Scheduling activities from card games to book discussions, handling the restaurant open to members and...
Sep 29, 2020 | A Day In My Life
The first thing you might be wondering is how I ended up in Christmastown. Typical story, really. Widowed thirty-something running her own business—in my case the charming Coast Inn located on the Oregon coast—meets tall, broodingly handsome stranger on vacation. They...
Sep 28, 2020 | A Day In My Life
Robbie Jordan here, waving hi from South Lick, Indiana! I’m feeling blessed our little town hasn’t had a murder in a whole year. Sure, I got involved in one last winter in California, but here we are in early December and life is peaceful. I’ve been decorating my...
Sep 26, 2020 | A Day In My Life
I do not like the cold. Hi! I’m Lucy Berberian, and I signed up for this year’s Polar Bear Plunge in my hometown of Ocean Crest at the Jersey Shore. You might be wondering why I would do such a thing if I don’t like chilly weather, let alone freezing ocean water....
