Really Really Dumb Criminals 7 is this week’s Mystery Question. Evidently, I’ll have to not be so funny with the dumb criminal scenarios… But first the photo and verse. Can you believe that three weeks ago we were without power because of Icemegaton, and two weeks ago we still had ice and snow in places? And now daffodils are in …
More Crazy Crimes 9 ~ Mystery Question
More Crazy Crimes 9 is this week’s Mystery Question. They keep getting crazier and crazier, but if they didn’t, I wouldn’t have a post! Also, I’m posting a day early because I want to post a Veterans Day blog. The photo is one my daughter sent me of the full moon last week. I hope you saw it–it was gorgeous! …
Back to Crazy Crimes 6 ~ Mystery Question
Back to Crazy Crimes 6 is this week’s Mystery Question. You wouldn’t believe how hard it is to come up with a plausible crime that is as crazy as the real ones! Now for the photo and verse. Saturday I took a research trip up the Natchez Trace to the Buffalo River for my next book, Deadly Connections. It was a …
Whispers of a Southern Moon ~ Reader Friday
Whispers of a Southern Moon by Priscilla Bettis is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the first line of this amazing collection of short stories and poems. “Emma Jean and me were fraternal twins, but we was nothing alike.” I can’t wait to talk about this amazing book, but first the photo that was taken by Priscilla Bettis back in June …
Story Magic ~ Reader Friday
Story Magic by Terri Lynn Thompson is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the opening: In Ireland magic was real. I knew if I could make it through the school year to summer, we would pack our bags and fly to that wonderful land of fantasy, where strong men fought dragons to save their fair ladies, where fairies lurked behind every …
More Funny Lawyer Gaffes #3 ~ Mystery Question
More Funny Lawyer Gaffes #3 is this week’s Mystery Question. It looks like I might have a good run of funny gaffs… But first the photo and verse. I was looking through my photos and found this nighttime photo I took when in St. Louis for a conference. We stayed within walking distance of the Gateway Arch, and I’m glad …
The Hemlock Aperture ~ Reader Friday
The Hemlock Aperture by Steve Hooley is this week’s Reader Friday post. I’ve had requests from readers for a book for their middle-grade reader and didn’t know where to point them. But once I read one of Steve Hooley’s Bolt Series books, I was hooked. I had someone to recommend. A little background on Steve. He’s a retired doctor who …
The Hunted Heir ~ Reader Friday
The Hunted Heir by Jayna Breigh is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the first paragraph: ANOTHER NEW YEAR’S Eve, and Nona Taylor’s prayer remained unanswered. Still. The digital clock on the microwave read 6:20. Five hours and forty minutes until midnight. Five hours and forty minutes until she begged God—again—to grant her one, her only, request. But first the photo …
More Crazy Laws #63 ~ Mystery Question
More Crazy Laws #63 is this week’s Mystery Question. I had fun with this one! And I think you did, too. One fun thing–the true crazy laws were all in the same state! But first the photo and verse. A very good friend emailed me the photo of this beautiful rainbow. Rainbows make goosebumps on my arms every time I …
A Will and a Way ~ Reader Friday
A Will and a Way (Mysteries of Cobble Hill Farms Book 11) by Johnnie Alexander is this week’s Reader Friday. here’s the first line: “One last tiny stitch, a snip of the thread, and the gentle application of a bandage brought an end to the lifesaving operation.” But first this week’s photo and verse. I took the photo at a …










