I’m so glad you’ve stopped by to browse. Under my “real” name, I write in two distinctly different areas. The first is about food and its history. I love to cook and I love to eat, and I’ve always wondered where certain foods originated, and how they traveled to dinner tables and kitchen gardens around the globe. It’s been a real adventure learning how different cultures have adopted these foods and then adapted them to suit their own circumstances.
My articles about food and its travels appear in the media as well as on my own blog, “A Moveable Feast.” Please check them out!
And then there’s my guilty pleasure: the mystery. Ever since curling up as a child with The Happy Hollisters and Nancy Drew, I’ve devoured dozens upon dozens of books in the genre. I love solving puzzles, and to my mind there’s nothing more puzzling than a murder mystery. How the author fits the clues together reminds me of the jigsaw puzzles we do on the dining room table. Sometimes I’m sure two pieces fit together, but then I realize they don’t. The ultimate red herring!
I also love the justice that comes at the end of a good whodunnit. The villain suffers the consequences for committing the crime.
So, I began writing and publishing short stories in the genre a few years ago, and now my first novel, The First Murder, is out. I’m really thrilled that it’s won a Readers’ Favorite 5-star rating, so I hope you’ll consider getting it. You can find it at your local bookshop or order it online.
Mystery writing also has its own podcast. In “Murder We Write” I talk with mystery writers about their craft, their process, and the business of writing. The links to both are to the right.