Mystery Genres Have Many Faces
In April I attended the 30th anniversary of Malice Domestic, an annual conference held in Bethesda of mystery authors and fans. I’ve...
The Golden Age of Mystery Writers
I just finished a three-hour class on Dorothy L. Sayers and her book, Gaudy Night. This is the book where Lord Peter Wimsey proposes to...
Malice Domestic 2018
April is here, and while I’m still waiting for warm spring weather, I do have a sure thing coming up--this year’s Malice Domestic...
Learning to Foil Criminals
As a mystery writer, I am fortunate to live in the Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area with its plethora of agencies involved in...
The Leaden-Eyed Worker
Traveling broadens the mind and the soul, I’ve heard, and it has certainly made me aware of the desperate lives many people around the...
Be Careful With Conflict
I once read a biography of Earl Stanley Gardner, an attorney and prolific author who wrote close to 150 novels. His most popular books...
Ghosts, Mediums, and Seances, Oh My!
In researching my latest cozy mystery, I wanted to find out how mediums make ghost knocks. I googled “magic knocks,” “ghost knocks,” and...
From Fact to Fiction
When I wrote my latest novel, Rembrandt’s Shadow, which alternates chapters set in 1999 with chapters following a painting’s provenance...
Book Review: Inherit the Bones
I’m an avid mystery reader, and this debut traditional mystery will keep you guessing until the end. Inherit the Bones by Emily...
Fact or Fiction and Who Says So?
My first encounter with an unreliable narrator—that I recognized, that is—was years ago when I first read Agatha Christie’s notorious The...
