Mystery 
A Cold Day for Murder
First, a young national park ranger has gone missing in Alaska. Then an investigator sent to find him has disappeared, too. Will it be a case of search-and-rescue or murder? The mystery begins with two men ski doo-ing their way to an isolated homestead, a log cabin that looked “more as if it had grown… Read More ›
Live Read: Dead Man Walker
The Poisoned Martini‘s is privileged to be reading Duffy Brown’s forthcoming mystery novella, Dead Man Walker. This 4th book in the Consignment Shop Mystery series releases as an ebook on February 3, 2015 from Penguin books and their Berkley Prime Crime imprint. A dead body is discovered in a bathtub and the discoverer turns to… Read More ›
Top 10 Mysteries in 2014?
2015 has certainly arrived, along with the cold. But I still find myself reflecting on the year that was. What were the most popular mysteries of 2014? Based on circulation figures at the library where I work, these were the most checked out mysteries in 2014. *** 10. Dust by Patricia Cornwell — Kay Scarpetta… Read More ›
12 Murder Mysteries for Christmas
Recommended Reads: 12 Murders for the Holidays In the mood for a little murder this holiday season? Stories set around the Christmas holiday season have a tendency to be lighthearted affairs with an “all’s well that ends well” conclusion. Many cozy authors churn out at least one Christmas story, and the season certainly lends itself to… Read More ›
Deleted Scenes
You’ve seen them. Check out a DVD (or Blu-ray) film or TV series and more likely than not, there’s a deleted scene(s), commentaries by the director or cast, behind-the-scenes featurette(s) and more. Why aren’t there such extra features in books? After writers pen their novel (or short story), revisions and edits may more often than… Read More ›
First Book Launch
Today, I fulfilled a long held dream, publishing my first murder mystery novel! Published through Soul Mate Publishing and now available as an ebook on Amazon.com, Death on Stoneridge is set in Syracuse, New York, and is the first of a planned series. Neighbors living on Stoneridge Drive are alarmed when a suicide and a… Read More ›
The Bone Collector
“Everybody’s nightmare … you get into a cab and turns out there’s a psycho behind the wheel.” That’s how The Bone Collector begins. A man and woman fly into JFK. Weary from their travels, they get in a yellow cab. Their intention was to share the ride home to their respective addresses. Instead, they’ll share a… Read More ›
The Old Man in the Corner
“There is no such thing as a mystery in connection with any crime, provided intelligence is brought to bear upon its investigation.” An old man sits down at a table beside news reporter Polly and makes this startling observation at the beginning of this collection of twelve short stories. Throughout one may wonder what kind… Read More ›
The Purloined Letter
“He had called to consult us, or rather to ask the opinion of my friend, about some official business which had occasioned a great deal of trouble.” The shortest of the Dupin tales, The Purloined Letter is perhaps the most ingenious. The Prefect of the Parisian police pays a visit to Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin… Read More ›
Mystery of Marie Roget
“The extraordinary details which I am now called upon to make public, will be found to form, as regards sequence of time, the primary branch of a series of scarcely intelligible coincidences, whose secondary or concluding branch will be recognized by all readers in the late murder of Mary Cecilia Rogers, at New York.” In… Read More ›
The Poisoned Martini 