I’ve always loved a good road trip, and what better reason for an outing than book research? As a kid, one of my favorite class field trips involved going to San Francisco and visiting the fortune cookie factory there. When I started writing the Magical Fortune Cookie series, I knew it was time for a…

Life is never uneventful for Willow Creek, Pennsylvania’s most celebrated amateur sleuth, Daisy Swanson, who is eagerly anticipating her impending backyard wedding to her beloved fiancé, Jonas Groft. In the meantime, she’s busy running her tea garden while helping sort out the personal lives of family and friends. In just two examples, her aunt Iris…

If you enjoy reading mysteries and you follow national politics with interest, The Busy Body will head your must-read list. It’s a roman à clef. Imagine being a fly on the wall of Hillary Clinton’s home after the 2016 election—the mind boggles. Meet Dorothy Gibson, the most revered and/or vilified woman in the United States,…

Watch on YouTube Order on BookShop: About The Rumor Game by Thomas Mullen: Reporter Anne Lemire writes the Rumor Clinic, a newspaper column that disproves the many harmful rumors floating around town, some of them spread by Axis spies and others just gossip mixed with fear and ignorance. Tired of chasing silly rumors about Rosie…

The town of West Wilmer never really got over the death of Phoebe Dean ten years ago. Bright and popular, she was expected to go far and put her small town’s name on the map. Instead, the truck she was in crashed on the town bridge one rainy night. She bled out on the asphalt,…

Grady, known for his spy thrillers, takes an unexpected turn and delivers a coming-of-age novel set in a small town in Montana in 1959.   Ten-year-old Lucas has a dysfunctional family, to say the least, with an older sister in high school who knows more about the fatal car crash of a couple of students she…

Half-brothers Amir and Marcel Trudeau have never really gotten along. When restaurateur Martin Trudeau left his first wife Monica to marry his pregnant mistress Lily, the seeds were planted for a sibling rivalry that would last almost two decades. However misguidedly, Amir and Marcel grew up feeling that they had to compete for their father’s…

Fiber arts editor and amateur sleuth Pamela Paterson has joined her best friend, Bettina Fraser, and their neighborhood welcoming committee to greet Arborville, New Jersey’s newest resident. Tassie Hunt is an author whose latest book, A Sucker Born Every Minute, debunks spiritualism and the paranormal. Her new neighbors have not missed the irony in the…

Dunia Ahmed, like many other single New Yorkers her age, looks forward every morning to the mild flirtation she has going on with a cute guy who happens to take the same subway line as she does into work. Mostly, they just smile hello at each other, so the last thing she expects is for…

Welcome to New York City, where Carole McCann is the first female mayor, and now her 15-year-old son has gone missing. Normally one would expect that this situation calls for a citywide search with all NYPD precincts scouring the streets. However, McCann instead calls in the help of private investigator Bill Smith. And with that,…