Chris Roerden received the Agatha Award for DON'T MURDER YOUR MYSTERY , which also became a finalist for the Macavity and Anthony awards...

Janet Rudolph is known as "The Mistress of Mystery." She is the writer/producer for Murder on the Menu ®, director of Mystery Read...

When we first moved to Boone in 1997,  I didn't have a job.  When applying for a mortgage, I was listed as a "trailing, unemployed...

Tony Burton has been writing poetry, fiction, and non-fiction for over fourteen years.  His published works include two cozy mystery novels,...

Margaret Maron is the author of twenty-six novels and two collections of short stories. Winner of several major American awards for mysteri...

Most of you have already heard by  now that I'm planning on retiring.  I haven't signed the papers yet - that's supposed to...

Louise Penny writes the Chief Inspector Gamache novels, set in Quebec.  She lives there with her husband, Michael, and their golden retrieve...

I have a few favorite books that also happen to be terrific books for Halloween reading. Scary books! But the fun, old fashioned kind of s...

Robin Minnick is proud to say she's a friend of Kaye Barley whose Meanderings and Muses blog has graced us for just over two years now. ...

I recently read THE BIG HOUSE, A CENTURY IN THE LIFE OF AN AMERICAN SUMMER HOME by George Howe Colt . Here’s an excerpt: “My family call...