I write cozy historical mystery fiction and cozy fantasy mystery fiction. “Novel Basics,” my book on writing fiction, is available now.
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Recently, while working on a prequel story for my calendar mystery series called “The Barn Door” that takes place on the 4th of July weekend in 1898, I decided to give one of the characters a vegetable garden. And that…
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A Family Story
A Family Story Part of the backstory for my calendar mysteries explains how Minty Wilcox, her mother, and the two youngest members of the family came to live in Kansas City. This story focuses on Minty’s youngest brother, Eddie, born…
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The Registered Nurse
About a quarter of the way into January Jinx, the first book in my calendar mystery series, my heroine Minty Wilcox and the mysterious Daniel Price, who boards at her house, visit a cigar factory in the West Bottoms…
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The Business Girl
Earlier this year when I was working on Mischief in March, the third book in my calendar mystery series, I decided to find out if my heroine, Minty Wilcox, could have read the Ladies’ Home Journal in March 1900. So…
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M. Louisa Locke’s Maids of Misfortune
Maids of Misfortune by M. Louisa Locke, a review by Juliet Kincaid This historical novel, set in San Francisco in 1879, hooks you from the start with the widowed Annie Fuller receiving a letter claiming that she owes some gent…
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Edward Marston’s Exciting Railway Detective
The Railway Detective by Edward Marston A Review by Juliet Kincaid The first in Edward Marston’s Detective Inspector Colbeck Mystery series, The Railway Detective has lots to offer the historical mystery fan. Marston brings mid-19th century Britain to life with…
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Looking for Old Kansas City, Part 2
Inside the New England Building (See my blog post of August 25, 2016, for Part 1.) When I began researching and writing my calendar mystery series set in Kansas City around a hundred years ago, I decided to place the…
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Mischief in March is here!
This excerpt from Juliet Kincaid’s third calendar mystery, Mischief in March, presents some of what Minty Wilcox and Daniel Price come to call their “improper courtship.” Precisely four weeks before on Valentine’s Day, right after they announced their engagement to…
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Almost Done Doing Mischief
WiP Report # 19 This morning—I’m very pleased to say—I finished the current draft of Mischief in March, the third in my Calendar Mystery series featuring mystery and romance in Kansas City, a place that could get downright deadly a…
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From the Kansas City Star Tuesday, 6 February, 1900 A CAR KILLS A SCHOOL GIRL Little Hortense Petty Horribly Mangled On the Northeast Line Hortense, the 12-year-old daughter of Wilfred Petty of 4116 St. John Avenue, was killed by an…
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