Tag: cozy mystery
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Nancy Martin’s Miss Ruffles
A JKWryter Fav Long a fan of Nancy Martin’s Blackbird Sisters Mysteries, recently I came upon her stand-alone mystery, Miss Ruffles Inherits Everything while trolling the mystery section at my local library. I’m very glad I checked it out because this mystery has all the elements I’ve enjoyed in Ms. Martin’s other work, plus more.…
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Hollyhocks and Tomatoes
Like Hector Jones, a character in “The Barn Door,” my father always had tomatoes and hollyhocks in his gardens, no matter how large or small. He must have done this sketch from memory because it’s dated 11-16-39 in his neat civil engineer’s hand. “The Barn Door,” a prequel story to my calendar mystery series set…
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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 the sum of $1,380 for a loan made to her late husband. If you keep…
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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 her family, Minty led Daniel into the parlor and told him about her intention of…
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Great Read only $0.99
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 electric car at St. John and Jackson Avenues, almost directly in front of her own…
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January Jinx, special price
JANUARY JINX The First Book in the Calendar Mystery Series by Juliet Kincaid The first chance Minty Wilcox gets in January 1899, she sets off to find a stenographer’s job in Kansas City. But her search is jinxed from the start. And in spite of her efforts to clear her name, eventually bad luck spreads…
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Encouraging Review of January Jinx
Hey, gang! I just had to share the encouraging review that Judge 16 wrote for January Jinx that I submitted to the Writer’s Digest contest for self-published books this year. Structure, Organization, and Pacing: 4 Spelling, Punctuation, and Grammar: 2 Production Quality and Cover Design: 2 Plot and Story Appeal: 3 Character Appeal and Development:…