Learning from a bestselling mystery author.
It’s always a thrill to hold a new book in your hands.
Names can speak to personality, culture, and history.
New Gideon Stoltz mystery on the way.
Blurring genres in a mystery.
An autumn woods walk, and news about two books.
“And am I born to die? To lay this body down?”
Feeling sick? Flee to a fictional world.
Unintentional dismounts, fictional and real.
How to be an author’s real friend.
Nature, history, and solace in a special place.
Politics, wars, pandemics, and more.
Focusing on fugitives from slavery.
A mystery’s villain is just as important as its hero.
“A picturesque looking Glass for the mind.”
In the 1830s, canals were all the rage.
A Danish tale helped inspire a Pennsylvania mystery.
Hero stories offer solace from grief.
When a picture is worth at least a thousand words.
How people made a joyful noise in the 1800s.
A good title is important, and an epigraph sets the mood.
Life expectancy in the 1830s was 45 years.
“You may read Pedant in his very phiz.”
Horses in the Gideon Stoltz mysteries.
“Things confusedly seen, and little understood.”
Historical novels that inform, inspire, and entertain.
Sayings by plain-seeing, plain-speaking people.