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Saturday Trivia Contest

Stop by Shelley’s Bookcase today where Connie Archer is holding a contest and a giveaway.  See how much you know about the soup lover’s mystery series.  Leave a comment to win a free book! Continue Reading

A Roux of Revenge

The third book in the Soup Lover’s Mystery Series, A Roux of Revenge, will be released on April 1, 2014.  I’m very excited that release day is coming soon, and thought I’d post a short teaser about this upcoming book. A band of travelers has arrived in Snowflake, Vermont for the town’s Harvest Festival.  One of… Continue Reading

When the Dead Rise

A Broth of Betrayal opens with a very old crime — the murder of a Revolutionary War militiaman whose body is discovered in present day Snowflake, Vermont.  I needed to do some research on what the skeleton of a young Caucasian male would look like after more than two hundred years in the ground and… Continue Reading

Searching for Snowflake

The soup lover’s mystery series is set in the imaginary village of Snowflake, Vermont.  Needless to say, I’ve spent an awful lot of time in that village . . . in my mind . . . and I can only hope the village I’ve created for readers lives in their imaginations as well. This summer,… Continue Reading

September 11th

St. Paul’s Chapel at 209 Broadway in Lower Manhattan is the oldest surviving church in the city.    First opened in 1764, it survived the great fire of 1776 that destroyed most of New York at that time.  George Washington worshiped at St. Paul’s on his inauguration day in 1789 and for the two years that… Continue Reading