Posts by LesleyADiehl
Playing Pranks
I’m now beginning the second week of my blog tour for Failure Is Fatal. If you haven’t stopped by yet, you’re missing the opportunity to win a free ebook. Here’s the schedule for the tour: May 8 – LibriAmoriMiei – REVIEW May 9 – Brooke Blogs – CHARACTER GUEST POST May 10 – Island Confidential –…
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 MoreShe’s Baaaaaaack!
Failure Is Fatal, the second mystery in the Laura Murphy Mystery Series is out and available in a variety of ebook formats and in paper. Here’s what our donut eating, snoopy gal with the hot flashes is up to this time: Someone at Professor Laura Murphy’s college appears to be playing a joke on her…
Read MoreCats and Spies and World War II, Oh My!
Here’s a woman I’ve never met but who I know I love. She writes about cats who solve mysteries using the memories of their ancestors, and now she had a new series with a protagonist who loves to stick her nose into what’s going on on the home front during the second world war. What’s…
Read MoreStalking isn’t cozy, but it’s in a cozy mystery
Author Cathy Perkins Stalking? In a cozy mystery? You bet. It’s one of the serious themes that mystery writer Cathy Perkins used in her book, So About the Money. An award-winning author, Cathy works in the financial industry, where she’s observed the hide-in-plain-sight skills employed by her villains. She writes predominantly financial-based mysteries but enjoys exploring…
Read MoreMen Write Cozies, too
Author James R. Callan I’m excited to have Jim Callan as my guest blogger. After a successful career in mathematics and computer science, receiving grants from the National Science Foundation and NASA, and being listed in Who’s Who in Computer Science and Two Thousand Notable Americans, James R. Callan turned to his first love—writing. He…
Read MoreSmall town issues in a cozy mystery: Author Judy Penz Sheluk
Where do writers find their inspiration? Judy Penz Sheluk looked at her town and found the heart of a cozy mystery. Judy Penz Sheluk’s debut mystery, The Hanged Man’s Noose (Barking Rain Press) was published July 2015. Her short crime fiction is included in The Whole She-Bang, World Enough and Crime, and most recently, Flash…
Read MoreCozies Get Serious: Author Linda Hengerer
I am so excited to have Linda Hengerer as my guest blogger today. Linda and I became friends through Mystery Writers of America Florida Chapter. My husband and I have had the pleasure of working with Linda the years she was the major force behind organizing the Sleuthfest conference. When I invited writers of cozies to talk…
Read MoreCozy Mysteries with Serious Themes: Author Lynn Cahoon
Several weeks ago I wrote in a blog that I inserted serious issues into my cozy mysteries indicating that I wanted my work to be more than “fluff”. I then invited other writers of cozy mysteries to visit this blog to talk about how they used serious themes in their work. Today author Lynn Cahoon…
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…
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