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Anne Perry's Advice to Me: Make True a Major Character
Anne Perry's Advice to Me: Make True a Major Character

Learning from a bestselling mystery author.

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Dispatch from the Northeast Kingdom, 3
Dispatch from the Northeast Kingdom, 3

Is spring here yet?

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Lay This Body Down
Lay This Body Down

It’s always a thrill to hold a new book in your hands.

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Naming the Characters in My Mysteries
Naming the Characters in My Mysteries

Names can speak to personality, culture, and history.

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Great Review for “Lay This Body Down”
Great Review for “Lay This Body Down”

New Gideon Stoltz mystery on the way.

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Mystery, Thriller, Crime, or Suspense?
Mystery, Thriller, Crime, or Suspense?

Blurring genres in a mystery.

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Dispatch from the Northeast Kingdom, 2
Dispatch from the Northeast Kingdom, 2

An autumn woods walk, and news about two books.

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Ananias Davisson, Shape Note Composer and Enslaver
Ananias Davisson, Shape Note Composer and Enslaver

“And am I born to die? To lay this body down?”

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Reading Through Covid
Reading Through Covid

Feeling sick? Flee to a fictional world.

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Coming Off the Horse
Coming Off the Horse

Unintentional dismounts, fictional and real.

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On Buying Books
On Buying Books

How to be an author’s real friend.

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Forest Bathing at Alan Seeger
Forest Bathing at Alan Seeger

Nature, history, and solace in a special place.

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Historical Events During an Imagined Life
Historical Events During an Imagined Life

Politics, wars, pandemics, and more.

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A New Gideon Stoltz Mystery
A New Gideon Stoltz Mystery

Focusing on fugitives from slavery.

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Conjuring Up a Villain
Conjuring Up a Villain

A mystery’s villain is just as important as its hero.

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Lewis Miller's Art
Lewis Miller's Art

“A picturesque looking Glass for the mind.”

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Pennsylvania's Canal Fever
Pennsylvania's Canal Fever

In the 1830s, canals were all the rage.

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Dispatch from the Northeast Kingdom, 1
Dispatch from the Northeast Kingdom, 1

Why I live in Vermont.

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The Parson at Veilby
The Parson at Veilby

A Danish tale helped inspire a Pennsylvania mystery.

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Heroes and Grief
Heroes and Grief

Hero stories offer solace from grief.

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Eric Sloane, Artist and Resource
Eric Sloane, Artist and Resource

When a picture is worth at least a thousand words.

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Singing in My Mysteries
Singing in My Mysteries

How people made a joyful noise in the 1800s.

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Picking the Right Mystery Title
Picking the Right Mystery Title

A good title is important, and an epigraph sets the mood.

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Doctors and Medicine in the Early 1800s
Doctors and Medicine in the Early 1800s

Life expectancy in the 1830s was 45 years.

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Noah Webster's Word Books
Noah Webster's Word Books

“You may read Pedant in his very phiz.”

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How Far Can You Ride in a Day?
How Far Can You Ride in a Day?

Horses in the Gideon Stoltz mysteries.

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Is Second Sight Real?
Is Second Sight Real?

“Things confusedly seen, and little understood.”

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When Wolves Eat Wolves
When Wolves Eat Wolves

Sayings by plain-seeing, plain-speaking people.

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Who are the Pennsylvania Dutch?
Who are the Pennsylvania Dutch?

Why I made Gideon Stoltz Pennsylvania Dutch.

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Excellent Historical Fiction
Excellent Historical Fiction

Historical novels that inform, inspire, and entertain.

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