A mysterious stranger, a hint of the past, and a search for a missing friend: these are the elements of suspense in Cross My Path, the toughest case yet for Care and Blackie, the feral cat who loves her.  The third Blackie and Care mystery isn't out in the States...

January was horrid this year. Much of the East Coast was caught in a polar freeze, with temperatures far below normal. Luckily, an astute animal lover in West Virginia was on the alert. During the icy snap, she rescued one pregnant mama cat and two litters of new...

This month marks the start of kitten season, when intact cats in the Northern Hemisphere tend to have the first of their year's litters. That also means our shelters and rescue groups go into overdrive. What can you do to help? Spay or neuter your kitty, of course,...

Celebrating the UK release of Cross My Path, Severn House has spilled some of my secrets on the house blog here. For example, there is that convicted murderer I worked...

Do you have cats? How do you research your mysteries? Do you have a day job? I got to meet a zillion* librarians and their colleagues last week at the Public Library Association's bi-annual conference last week in Philadelphia, and it was  a blast. My publisher Severn...

Imagine my surprise when, while watching Emmy Blotnick's standup on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," I heard one of my own books mentioned – twice! Blotnick, who is also the head writer on "The President Show," was riffing on her sad life and she mentioned her...

We crime fiction (mystery) writers like to describe ourselves as either "plotters" or "pantsers." Plotters figure everything out ahead of time. Pantsers, well, don't, preferring to fly by the seat of our pants. But it's never quite that simple. I've long considered...