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Tonight! Harvard Book Store Zoom event
HOW GENEROUS IS THIS? I can't do my own event for the launch of "To Conjure a Killer," but an extremely talented bunch of my fellow/sister authors are doing one for me! (Thank you so much to Sisters in Crime New England's Kate Flora for organizing!) Won't you join us...
Happy CONJURE day!
Today's the publication day of my new Witch Cats of Cambridge cozy cat mystery, To Conjure a Killer! When Becca chases a stray kitten into an alley and stumbles over a body, you know things will get tense... especially when she brings that stray kitten into the...
CONJURE in the house!
They're here! TO CONJURE A KILLER, the fourth witch cats of Cambridge cozy cat mystery, officially comes out next week – Nov. 14 – but you can pre-order yours here or here!
Thank you, Booklist!
The first review for my upcoming (Nov. 15) TO CONJURE A KILLER is from Booklist, which gives a fun synopsis of the book before concluding: "Becca is a likable sleuth, though her successes are due to her feline companions. Readers who live with cats may find the cats’...
What about the cat cozies?
WHAT'S UP WITH THE CAT COZIES? While I'm so proud to have announced that Severn will be publishing my psychological suspense THE BLUE BUTTERFLY and the rookie reporter-turned-amateur sleuth BAD BOY BEAT (which we're hoping will launch a new series), you might be...
I got to interview Jill Lepore!
From the Sunday Boston Globe. This is maybe a quarter of our conversation. She's a genius! AUTHOR PROFILE Jill Lepore has seen the inside of time By Clea Simon Jill Lepore, professor at Harvard University and author of "The Deadline," a new collection of...
Announcing BAD BOY BEAT and THE BLUE BUTTERFLY
I'm so excited about this and it's finally real! This week, I e-signed the contract – and my new publisher did too. And so it is official: Both my THE BLUE BUTTERFLY and THE BAD BOY BEAT will be published by Severn House, which is now the genre imprint of UK giant...
To Conjure a Killer!
Kitten season can be murder... When Becca spies a tortoiseshell kitten dodging traffic and chases the tiny tortie down an alley she doesn't expect to find a dead body. But that's only the beginning of her troubles in the upcoming TO CONJURE A KILLER, the fourth in the...
Hold Me Down a Mass. Book “Must Read”!
Absolutely thrilled to find out that my HOLD ME DOWN has been named a Massachusetts Center for the Book "Must Read"! This wonderful list means my psychological suspense novel is a finalist for the MassBook fiction award, which will be announced in October. In the...
Hilary Mantel’s “Learning to Talk”
If you know me at all, you know I love Hilary Mantel. It was an honor to review this new (old) collection of autobiographical stories, in large part because it was so much fun to dissect what she did with language. Also, I love the illustration that Eva Vazquez did...