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We are the characters--major and minor--who inhabit the pages of some of your favorite cozy mysteries. We're coming out from between the covers and welcoming you into our lives. So grab a nice cuppa, settle in, and learn what happens when our authors aren't looking.
Killer Characters - Where the characters do the talking....
3y ago
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Singin' Hinnies Explained
We at Killer Characters found a draft that the late Sheila Connolly had written and had never published on our site.
So here it is, in fond memory of our colleague and friend, Sheila Connolly:
Have you ever had an experience where various pieces of your life, past and present, all seem to come together? I had one of those at the writers’ conference Malice Domestic ..read more
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3y ago
By Lauren Rousseau from Edith Maxwell's Lauren Rousseau Mysteries.
Greetings, dear readers. I'm a college professor of linguistics living in a small town on the New England coast. I'm also a peace-loving Quaker, so you can imagine my surprise when I got tangled up with a murder and a drug smuggler in my author's story, Speaking of Murder! The book came out a couple of weeks ago.
The book has a story, too. This was her very first published mystery. But the small press went out of business last year, and the publisher who puts out her other series, the historical Quaker Midwife Mysteries, wan ..read more
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3y ago
By Angie Turner from Penned In by Lynn Cahoon
Hi gang,
We're at the old Idaho State Penitentiary for this quarter's team building event. When Matt told me he was thinking about booking us into an overnight here, I thought he was kidding. What can I say, he wasn't.
The good thing is Dom, my St. Bernard, gets to come along with us. There's a courtyard in the middle of the lock in rooms and I can take him out for his business. We're eating a picnic dinner out near the gardens and waiting for the evening's adventure to begin. Ian came along too. He's a pretty great boyfriend. That's ..read more
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3y ago
It’s summer and the livin’ is easy (we hope). Here are our newest cozy releases for you to enjoy
Debra H. Goldstein
Three Treats Too Many
Sarah Blair mystery series -- #3
Publisher: Kensington
ISBN-13: 978-1496719492
When a romantic rival opens a competing restaurant in small-town Wheaton, Alabama, Sarah Blair discovers murder is the specialty of the house . . .
For someone whose greatest culinary skill is ordering takeout, Sarah never expected to be co-owner of a restaurant. Even her Siamese cat, RahRah, seems to be looking at her differently. But while Sarah and her twin sist ..read more
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3y ago
By Sophie Winston from Krista Davis’s
THE DIVA SPICES IT UP
and
Hayley Snow from Lucy Burdette’s
THE KEY LIME CRIME
Hayley: I am so glad we are finally getting the chance to meet in person. I’ve always thought we’d have a lot in common. And I want to hang out and eat with you and all your pals!
Sophie: It’s great to meet you too! I have a feeling you’re going to say that one of the things we have in common is dating cops. Just so you know, Wolfe and I are no longer in item. But you’ve ended up married to a detective. How’s that going? Does he get upset when you’re inves ..read more
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3y ago
By Lily Roberts from the Tea by the Sea series by Vicki Delany
Tea by the Sea is now open!
Selecting tea
My own place. My own tea room on Cape Cod is open for business and reservations for the foreseeable future look promising.
At Tea by the Sea we serve afternoon tea in the traditional style. Think fine china, starched and ironed lines, sliver cutlery, fresh flowers on every table. And arrangement of delicious teas. And, most importantly, light fluffy scones served with butter, clotted cream, and locally made jam. Delicate tea sandwiches, and delicious pastries. &nbs ..read more
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3y ago
Character: Cathy McCall
Series: Vintage Toyshop Mysteries
Author: Barbara Early
Well, if someone had asked me what 2020 was going to be like, I never would have predicted this. But it's not all bad. We're all safe and healthy here, and even getting back to work. Sort of.
Lewis Hulbert / CC BY-SA
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
Parker always had work at the wildlife center, since those animals still needed
care, but they were closed to visitors until just recently. Now I guess they are allowing families to visit by appointment. Very important since they need those do ..read more
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3y ago
A Victoria Town Mystery Novella
Book #1
Viv Barton
By Mollie Cox Bryan
One of my favorite things about working at Mourning Arts in Victoria Town, Va., is the jewelry. We have an amazing collection of authentic Victorian mourning jewelry, along with reproductions for those who can’t afford the real thing, but still enjoy the look and sentiment.
One of my favorite pieces is my Lover’s Eye pendant. It was a birthday gift. It’s not mourning jewelry, but it is Victorian. Mine is authentic. It inspires me to wonder who’s painted eye I'm wearing. Deep blue, with a tinge of jade. But the ..read more
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3y ago
by Nate Seward
from The Spice Shop Mysteries by Leslie Budewitz
I’d seen her in the Market, dashing up the stairs with her Airedale, Arf, on a leash, stopping at the Pike Place Bakery to grab coffee and a bite, then heading down the cobblestones of Pike Place to – well, I didn’t know where to. When I’m fishing in Puget Sound, I occasionally sell my stuff to the guys at Pike Place Fish – you know them, the men who draw a crowd as they throw fish through the air and laugh and sing and tell jokes – and I found myself less interested in the price they’d pay for my salmon and more interested in t ..read more
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3y ago
by Penelope Parish
from Peg Cochran's Murder in the Margins written as
Margaret Loudon
Penelope Parish here. You may have heard of Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court? Well, I’m a Connecticut Yankee in Upper Chumley-on-Stoke, England where I’m the writer in residence at the Open Book bookstore.
Would you like a tour of Chum as the natives call it? First there’s the Open Book where I imagine the first printing of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol was probably sold!
Across the street is the Pig in a Poke, the butcher shop, which Gladys Watkins ..read more