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...

A Day in the Life of Meg Reed by Kate Dyer-Seeley

It had to be mud. Mud—gooey, sticky, oozing mud. Mud squished in the soles of my cute pink kicks that had turned the color of chocolate. Come to think of it, I could go for a pound or two of dark chocolate about now. Instead I huffed and puffed my way up the hill past...