Back in March, I sold Do It Yourself mystery #6 to Berkley Prime Crime on the following couple of paragraphs: When Derek and Avery first get the inside track on a distressed condo in Josh Rasmussen’s complex, it doesn’t seem like a very exciting project. But the price is right, and they can turn the Read More …
The other day I had a question on my Facebook page from Patti St Marie Wilson, one of the fans of my alter ego, Jennie Bentley’s Do It Yourself home renovation series: Who do you think of when you write about Derek? I figured the name came from Derek Morgan – but, your Derek is blond. Read More …
Of all the Victorian house styles, Queen Anne is the most elaborate as well as the most eccentric. The style is often called romantic and feminine, yet it is the product of a most unromantic era – the machine age. Queen Anne became an architectural fashion in the 1880s and 1890s, when the industrial revolution was Read More …
Pale green in color, with gleaming white gingerbread trim, and surrounded by velvety grass and masses and masses of flowers, the house we were visiting was another impressive Victorian confection, such as I envisioned Aunt Inga’s house might one day look like. The doorbell rang with a somber, tolling sound that reverberated in the recesses Read More …
In keeping with the new log line on my blog – courtesy of Lyda Phillips, whose review of A Cutthroat Business in the Nashville Scene last year included the sentence “…a frothy girl drink of houses, hunks and whodunit,” – I thought I’d say a few words about houses. More specifically, one house: Aunt Inga’s Read More …
