My Most Recent Blog Posts

All Maria de Silva has ever wanted is to fly, but when her dream job turns into a nightmare, all she can do is run! Cy Sheridan's animal sanctuary seems like a safe place when Maria crashes the car she hired to escape from armed drug smugglers, but can she really trust him to protect her?

Scottish policeman Hamish MacBeth has more trouble with women!  First, he gets engaged to an illegal alien, allegedly from Turkey.  When her employer, Mrs. Gentle, ends up dead, the girl is the prime suspect, along with Hamish, but then her body is found in a trunk in the basement... 

Latest in the Celtic talking cat mystery series.  When a man is murdered at Christmas while holding his little girl in his arms, the cats have to track down a killer, figure out a mystery concerning Kit's friend Lucinda, and try to avoid discovery by any more humans. 

Tara LeBlanc is really upset when her sisters, both Christians, have somehow convinced Grandmere to leave voodoo behind and become a Christian, too.  Who's going to teach her voodoo now?  When both her grandmother and the lady who steps into the breach in her training are struck down into mysterious comas, Tara is willing to do anything in her power to find out who is behind their illness.  Will Sheriff Theriot help or hinder her as she tries to figure things out?  And why is he so good-looking and attractive all of a sudden? 

Felicia Trahan never dreamed that volunteering at the Christian Crisis Hotline could put her life in danger.  Pastor Spence Bertrand has secrets of his own that he's hiding.  Falling more and more in love with Felicia, he feels unworthy of her.  When Felicia's best friend Jolie is murdered and her own home trashed by an intruder, life becomes dangerous in the bayou...

This is the first Sookie Stackhouse "Southern Vampire" mystery.  I've read others in the series and was curious as to what started it all out.  Good for lovers of vampire fiction who wonder what it would be like if the Japanese invented synthetic blood and they could "come out of the coffin," so to speak.  When barmaids who date vampires start getting killed, Sookie becomes a target.  Could it be her Casanova-like brother, Jason, as the police suspect, Sookie's new boyfriend, Bill the Vampire, or is it someone else? 

When Sarah Booth Delaney's old actor boyfriend from New York shows up in town with a touring company of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" begging her to understudy prima donna Renata Troviola, she never dreams getting another shot at stardom could put her on the fast track to a conviction---for murder! 

Alyssa LeBlanc loathes the bayou town of Lagniappe.  It represents the nightmare of her parents' death in a fiery car crash, the crash in which she almost lost her own life.  Forced to return by her Grandmere's unexpected trip to the hospital, Alyssa is greeted by witnessing the attempted murder of the Sheriff.  Her quick thinking saves his life, but puts her in danger, along with fellow reporter Jackson Devereaux, the man who unknowingly got "her" job.  Her natural prejudice against him keeps her from acknowledging her increasing attraction to him. 

Jo Tulip, continuing on in the grand tradition of her grandmother's helpful hints column, suddenly has more trouble than she can handle.  Not only is she left standing at the altar by the man she thought she loved, but her unless she does something to attract a younger audience to her helpful hints column, she'll be out of a job.  Not only does she start thinking about doing television spots in addition to her weekly radio show, but she finds a body!  Who could have murdered Edna, and why would anyone want to?  The reasons go much deeper than anyone, even Jo herself, can guess, although her best friend, Danny, is there to help her every step of the way.