What am I reading?
Although I write mystery, I’m an eclectic reader. I love a tale well told in any genre. And beautiful writing stimulates my own creative...
The Land of Pleasant Living
One day in Miss Haver’s fourth grade class, I decided I was going to live in the State of Maryland when I grew up. We were studying the...
Please Pass the Salt.
While writing Death at the Day Lily Café, the second in the Rosalie Hart mystery series, I spent endless hours in my kitchen testing...
View from the North Rim
Ribbons of color: terra cotta, sienna, amber, and a red I never knew existed in nature, stretch before us like the layers of a cake that...
Italian Lesson
I gazed out the window as our plane began its descent into Florence. Firenze, I said softly, noticing how the Italian word tickled my...
A few lessons learned on the road to getting published...
Now that the first two novels in my Rosalie Hart mystery series have been published, Murder at Barclay Meadow and Death at the Day Lily...
The Writing Life
On the eve of my pub date for Death at the Day Lily Café, the second in the Rosalie Hart mystery series, I have been reflecting on the...
Sneak Peek!
A dense mist rose from the curving river adjacent to the road as I drove into the heart of Cardigan, Maryland, my recently adopted home....
Murder on the Menu
Ginger hurried in the door of Brio shaking rain off her umbrella and stomping her black pumps on the mat. We were meeting for a glass of...
