Winter 2025 edition of "Mystery Bound"
/Hello Mystery Lovers!
It was quite a year! I hope you had a healthy and rewarding 2025. I’m grateful to all of you who discovered my Chesapeake Bay Mystery Series, along with those who’ve been fans over the past five years. It is so exciting whenever I get an email, post, or review telling me how I’ve kept you or your friends up all night as you race through my mysteries.
What books did you receive over the holidays? I'd love to hear.
My two-year-old granddaughter has been carrying around a copyof my latest,
Villain in the Vineyard. Her father quickly snapped this photo. She's obviously too young for mysteries, but she tells me it's a real page-turner!
It’s amazing how many people spot my books in stores or on friends’ coffee tables and send me photos. Others snap photos as my mysteries travel around the worldunder their arms. While I’m at my laptop tapping away, you keep me inspired!
Book Clubs
Here on the Upper Chesapeake, a very generous book club, Girls Under Cover, worked with me to launch my fourth book, Villain in the Vineyard, to a sold-out crowd at the incredible Blue Elk Vineyard in Maryland. It was the perfect setting to discuss secrets, a cold case, and all our favorite characters that bring us such wit, humor, clues, and even a touch of romance to the Chesapeake Bay Mystery Series.
All the net proceeds from ticket sales were donated to the Dolly Parton Imagination Library, enabling children to receive free books in their mailboxes every month. It’s one of my favorite charities.
Thank you to those who post enthusiastic five-star reviews on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Goodreads, and others. Please keep inmind that Amazon allows readers who purchase my bookselsewhere to post reviews on their site. Even a short review hassuch a huge impact on my success. You make my day when I hearhow much you enjoy them.
If you would like to receive award seals for any of my books, don’t hesitate to email me with your home address. I’ll pop them in the mail to you with a personally autographed bookplate.
Wishing you a great start to the New Year. Travel safely and staywarm,
