Jul 1, 2024 | A Day In My Life
Hello, and welcome to the Secret Bookcase! I’m Annie Murray, your local mystery maven and event coordinator for the bookshop, and I can’t wait to show you around today. If this is your first time in the store, I should probably give you a little background about the...
Dec 31, 2021 | A Day In My Life
Do you ever have the sense that just as everything is starting to come together, something is about to fall apart? That’s the feeling I couldn’t shake on a late autumn afternoon in my sweet Shakespearean town of Ashland, Oregon. I should have been blissfully content....
Nov 14, 2020 | A Day In My Life
There’s a magical quality to the quiet season in my Bavarian village of Leavenworth, Washington. After a fall and early winter of weekend celebrations that filled our cobblestone streets with visitors from around the world who came to dance the chicken dance during...
Mar 23, 2018 | A Day In My Life
When people think of flowers they envision vibrant blooms, the fragrant smell of fresh-cut lilies, and dainty blushing pink petals cascading from a towering vase. They don’t typically think of murder. Neither did I. When I decided to leave my dead-end job working for...
Apr 19, 2017 | A Day In My Life
We are Not the Usual Suspects, a group of Pacific Northwest mystery writers who have banded together to contemplate life, mystery and of course, murder. Though not all of our mysteries are set in the Northwest, we all agree that living here inspires our writing. I’m...