Posts Tagged ‘Lesley A. Diehl’
Stories from the Hayloft: The Red Mitten
When I was a kid, I loved following my dad around on the farm as he went about his chores. He milked the cows both morning and evening and both times, I accompanied him to the dairy barn where I fed hay to the young calves housed in one of the pens. One evening during…
Read MoreBook Blog Tour: Giveaways, Reviews, Interviews and A Few Secrets
Beginning in May, Failure Is Fatal will go on tour. Someone at Professor Laura Murphy’s college appears to be playing a joke on her by planting sexually explicit stories in her research results, but the joke turns deadly when one story details the recent stabbing murder of a coed. Laura’s close friend, Detective Derrick Pasquis from the…
Read MoreSerious Stuff, not fluff
Cozy Mysteries and Serious themes by Lesley A. Diehl I’m aware that readers like cozy mysteries because they usually provide a lighter read than thrillers, suspense or more traditional mysteries. But does that mean cozies cannot entertain more serious concerns even national and international ones such as environmental, social and political issues or even matters…
Read MoreWhat did you do this year?
It’s already the middle of December, and I’m trying to figure out where the year has gone. Well, I know part of the answer to that question. I spent last winter with vertigo, the summer in the dentist’s chair when I wasn’t watching hubby build a new porch, a project that took summer and fall,…
Read MoreI Don’t Know What’s So Funny About Murder
It’s me, Lesley, blog owner, and it’s my turn to chime in about writing funny stuff in murder mysteries.I’m one of the writers whose humorous cozy mystery (Murder Is Academic) is included in the boxed set of mysteries What’s So funny About Murder. I really don’t know what’s so funny about murder. Don’t you think I’d know…
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