A Day In My Life ~ Annie Murray by Ellie Alexander

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...

Juliet Montague Capshaw by Ellie Alexander

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....

A Day in My Life ~ Sloan Krause by Ellie Alexander

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...

Not the Usual Suspects organized by Cindy Brown

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...