Fantasy New Year’s Eve
I’ve always dreamed of celebrating New Year’s Eve in Vienna, listening to the Philharmonic playing Strauss waltzes. Possibly waltzing around[…]
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I’ve always dreamed of celebrating New Year’s Eve in Vienna, listening to the Philharmonic playing Strauss waltzes. Possibly waltzing around[…]
Read moreThese holiday seasons seem just as much about food and sitting down with family and friends as they are about gifts or any religious significance.
As I looked at my bounty of treats that included a metric ton of Christmas chocolate and even an authentic Jamaican Rum Cake baked by a friend from her grandmother’s recipe, my thoughts turned, as they are wont, to murder weapons. Specifically, poison.
Read moreI’ve lived in New York all my life, but up until about a week ago, I had no idea that the original version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was in New York City, in the Morgan Library, which is a brief walk from Grand Central.
Read moreFinding a good illustration for a post about friendship is not easy, but, as always, the trees led the way.[…]
Read moreLast Sunday I returned from New England Crime Bake, my first in-person writers’ conference since the start of the pandemic. Gathering together with fellow authors was a joy. As wonderful as social media is, as wonderful as Zoom can be, we crave face-to-face with other human beings. That’s how we’re built.
Read moreDo you believe in love at first sight? I do, because it happened to me. Some time ago.
Read moreI’ve been watching all the tea-drinking online as people celebrate the launch of Lori Rader-Day’s Death at Greenway and thinking[…]
Read moreA weird thing happened when I started to write my new novel, Maggie Dove and the Lost Brides. (Coming on November 9!!!)
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