Twin Cities Mystery
Chicks-on-the-Case Blog on Fathers, Humor, Dry Wit, and WHEN THE HOUSE BURNS.
Enjoy this blog which I wrote for Chicks on the Case! And here’s a picture of my stoic father of few words. I miss him very much.
Read MoreGuest Blog for JungleRedWriters on Home, Homelessness, Comfy fires, and Arson
Greetings: Please check out my guest blog on my latest, When The House Burns, for the wonderful JungleRedWriters.
Read MoreA New Mystery, Fun, Pain, and WHEN THE HOUSE BURNS
Today is Valentine’s Day and pub day for my latest, When The House Burns–sex, death, real estate. The writing of this book during the worst of the Covid Pandemic and a year of multiple traumas was not easy. I’m sharing here the blog I wrote for Women Writers, Women’s Books: Writing When Hurt, Writing to…
Read MoreApril, Domestic Violence Books, a Survivors Memorial, Hope and Beauty Reborn
It’s spring. Rebirth abounds in the cold north, songbirds celebrate their return, and flowers dare display their pastel heads. It is not all bouquets since tragedy persists in a pandemic not fully conquered, international strife, and the killings of people of color. Homo sapiens cannot seem to learn live-saving lessons. At the best we are…
Read MoreHeroes, Alfred Hitchcock, Pandemics, Cary Grant, and Formulas
That crop duster. The cornfield. Watch it. Isolated at home during the Covid-19 pandemic and a dreary rainy spell, I watched in Technicolor glory Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 film North by Northwest. Its lumens were intensified by the star power of Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason. Cinematic thrills when my day was…
Read MoreFairy Tales, Lake Superior, Minnesota Writer Leif Enger, and a Fish
I happen to read VIRGIL WANDER, by Minnesota writer Leif Enger, at the same time I was reading about fairy tales in The Sleeping Beauty and Other Essays, circa 1955, by Ralph Harper. Harper was a reverend, a theologian, and a philosopher so his thoughts run deep. Harper led me to review classic illustrations in…
Read MoreBook Launch: Publication and Party
This is the week when my family and friends gather to celebrate the publication of my mystery, Where Privacy Dies. It is a celebration of the community support it takes for a book to come forth from an author’s hand, and there’s nothing like the feeling of holding the actual thing in hand—joy. And the tremendous…
Read MoreFood: What Do Sleuths Eat
Fight and flight requires fuel. The pursuit of murderers requires strength. Those who investigate must feed their appetites. What will my detectives Erik Jansson and Deb Metzger consume so they can dodge death’s harvesting? Noir private eyes, the Sam Spades and Philip Marlowes, survive by downing hard liquor and bad coffee. Hardboiled doesn’t refer to…
Read More