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Author Interview: Stacy Green

I’m thrilled today to welcome Stacy Green, author of INTO THE DARK and TIN GOD, to the website this week. Stacy was born in Indiana and raised in Iowa, where she earned degrees in journalism and sociology from Drake University. After a successful advertising career, Stacy became a proud stay-at-home mom to her miracle child. Now a full-time author, Stacy juggles her time between her demanding characters and her supportive family. Today, Stacy talks about her early writing influences, her deci...

Fan Favorites: Celebrating Trixie Belden and the Mysteries of Youth

This Monday, I’m very excited to begin a new series called Fan Favorites. Each week, authors will talk about the mysteries and thrillers they can’t get enough of across the genres: books, movies, television; comedy, romance, edge-of-your-seat suspense, and everything in between. I invite fellow readers to share your experiences of the mysteries that keep you glued to the page, screen, or even game board! To kick things off, this week I’ll talk a little about the pint-sized heroine that got me...

Mystery Madness: Celebrating Trixie Belden and the Mysteries of Youth

This Monday, I’m very excited to begin a new series called Fan Favorites. Each week, authors will talk about the mysteries and thrillers they can’t get enough of across the genres: books, movies, television; comedy, romance, edge-of-your-seat suspense, and everything in between. I invite fellow readers to share your experiences of the mysteries that keep you glued to the page, screen, or even game board!

I was never a fan of Nancy Drew. She seemed too… girly, somehow, and—though my actual mem...

Book Review: Into the Dark, by Stacy Green

Title: Into the Dark

Author: Stacy Green

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Serial or Stand-alone?: Stand-alone

Rating: 4 Stars

Review: Another world exists in the tunnels beneath Las Vegas — a world of darkness and depravity. In INTO THE DARK, a deranged stalker known as The Taker lurks in these tunnels, attempting to lure Emilie Davis into a life with him. Fighting her own demons and in the thrall of an irresistible SWAT team hero who will do anything to keep her safe, Emile must summon the courage to fac...

Author Interview: Joanne Sydney Lessner

One of the best things about this little writing career I’ve carved for myself is the amazing writers I’ve met along the way. Joanne Sydney Lessner is definitely one of those amazing writers. Her Temporary Detective series captivated me from the start, and I was delighted when she contacted me about reviewing the second novel in the series, BAD PUBLICITY, and even more delighted when she said she would appear for an encore interview here on the website. If you haven’t met Isobel Spice, Joanne...

Excerpt-ional Tuesday: BAD PUBLICITY, by Joanne Sydney Lessner

This week, I’m delighted to welcome Joanne Sydney Lessner to the website as she promotes the second novel in her Temporary Detective series, BAD PUBLICITY. You can check out my 5-star review of the mystery here, and be sure to come back tomorrow for my exclusive interview with the author. For now, here’s a glimpse into Joanne’s delightful mystery featuring aspiring actress Isobel Spice.

“Do you have any particular reason to think the coffee was poisoned?” asked Detective O’Connor, a towering...

Book Review: Bad Publicity, by Joanne Sydney Lessner

Quirky, hapless aspiring actress Isobel Spice returns this month in Joanne Sydney Lessner’s latest murderous romp, Bad Publicity. The second novel in Lessner’s Temporary Detective series, Bad Publicity finds would-be actress Isobel Spice once again in the middle of a murder investigation, this time when she’s temping at Dove & Flight Public Relations– a job she got through an old school friend who is soon a central suspect in the investigation. Isobel, of course, is the first to find the vict...

Author Interview: Darcy Scott

I’m delighted to welcome Darcy Scott to the website for the second time, as she launches REESE’S LEAP, the second novel in her stellar Island Mystery series. You can go here to read a free excerpt from the novel, and here to read my five-star review of this scintillating mystery. Darcy is a live-aboard sailor and experienced ocean cruiser who’s sailed to Grenada and back on a whim, island-hopped through the Caribbean, and been struck by lightning in the middle of the Gulf Stream. Her favorite...

Excerpt-ional Tuesday: Reese’s Leap, by Darcy Scott

It’s been far too long since the last excerpt-ional Tuesday, but I’m delighted to get things kicked off once again with a wonderfully chilling, sexy, witty, and gorgeously written mystery by the fabulous Darcy Scott, who returns for an interview on the site tomorrow. You can read my 5-star review of the novel in this post. In Reese’s Leap, botanist Gil Hodges– first introduced in Matinicus, the first Island Mystery– finds himself unwittingly trapped on a remote Maine island with five women wh...

Book Review: Reese’s Leap, by Darcy Scott

Darcy Scott’s mystery REESE’S LEAP is a pressure cooker of a novel, starting out slow with rich, evocative imagery, a cast of intriguing—and occasionally maddening—characters, and a one-line treatment that can’t begin to convey the twists, turns, and back-stories Scott has deftly woven together. That treatment? Two men are stranded during a Women Only retreat weekend on Mistake Island, Maine, and get more than they bargained for when an unwelcome outsider insinuates himself into the fold.

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