Very excited to be leading off Season 9 of Mysteries to Die For: Stuff that Can Kill You with “Phidias Quinn and the Butterfly’s Wing.” Mel Moskowitz didn’t get to be called the King of the Drive-In Movie by cheaping out on special effects. But surely an actual butterfly couldn’t have trapped hunky Hank the […]
“Phidias Quinn and the Butterfly’s Wing” Now Playing at M2D4
The Dreadful Assault upon Sophronsia Morgan’s Cranberry Aspic is now live on MysteryRat’s Maze Podcast, read by the talented Donna Beaver. You can give it at listen here.
Twelve tales of misdeeds and mayhem — everything but murder. But if you can’t wait, you can listen to Was It the Vermeer? right now!
Very excited to find out that The Pevensie Codicil has been named a top pick in the 2024 Killer Nashville Claymore Awards for Fantasy.
The Pevensie Codicil is Now a Claymore Top Pick!
A Harlequin stealing lawn signs is the kind of thing you expect in a sleepy Hudson Valley town like Morgansburg, NY. But when the Harlequin stabs a guest in the middle of a masked ball, Morgansburg’s annual Jane Austen conference will never be the same. Would you like a ticket to the dance? You, too,
Come Bid on Being a Character in The DeCoverley Riddle at the Staatsburgh Summer Soiree
I am delighted to report that The Pevensie Codicil, my tale of the girl who was left behind when the four Pevensie children returned to Narnia, has been shortlisted in the Fantasy category of the Historical Novel Society’s First Chapters Competition. Not that I needed any reassurance that my recent trip to Oxford was more
Oh, Yes, There will be Lampposts. A Witch and a Wardrobe Too.
To announce my debut at Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine with “The Problem of the Vanishing Sopranos,” a new Watson and Doyle story. You can find a copy here. And if you’re interested in finding out more about the world Watson & Doyle live in, you may enjoy my related blog post here.
What, you may ask, is an exquisite corpse? It is a game much like Mad Libs or the old-fashioned parlor game of Consequences, in which a series of artists or writers each adds a paragraph or picture part in sequence, knowing nothing or very little of the previous contributions. The name comes from a sentence
It’s… Alive! The Woodstock Library’s First Annual Exquisite Corpse
Mysteries to Die For (M2D4 to many of us) has just released its latest anthology,Things That Go Jack in the Night. To quote the official description: In the English language, there are a few, very special words that can function as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. One word goes further, creating new words from old.
New Story Up at Mysteries to Die For
Thrilled — and more than a little gobsmacked — to report that my latest standalone mystery, The Last Riddle of Ransome Peake, has just been nominated for a Claymore Award for Best Comic Novel. Harmony Dalgleish is a Woodstock native and British rock star’s son. Harmony has just flunked out of graduate school after losing
The Last Riddle of Ransome Peake is a Claymore Finalist!