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Dead to the Last Drop Featured on Mysteryrat’s Maze Podcast

Y’all, I had so much fun answering a few questions for the King River Magazine Mystery Rat’s Maze podcast. If you’re not familiar with the podcast, it’s a ton of fun for all y’all sleuths!!!

This cool feature is actually a the first chapters of various cozy mysteries that’s read by an actor. I hope y’all enjoy our little broadcast of DEAD TO THE LAST DROP.

I love how it turned out and the southern accent is perfect for Roxy!!!!

Let me know in the comments what you think about the broadcast to enter to win a print and signed copy of DEAD TO THE LAST DROP!

I’ll pick a winner on Monday!

xoxox

Happy Sleuthing!

T.

Inside Tonya’s Head

Hey y’all!! Remember the video of me walking in the dark and I was telling y’all how I had a plot thought and I would let y’all know about it when I write it? Well, I was out hiking today and the first scene played out in my head.

I guess I should tell you it’s POST MORTEM, Mail Carrier Cozy Mystery, which will be released in 2021. I’m not even writing it yet, but I know I’ll be thinking about it super soon and my head knows it.

When I’m hiking my mind just lets go and does whatever it wants. Today it just went right past the next two books in line and straight to Bernie. I practically had the entire book written before I was even finished with the hike.
I didn’t have my phone on me so I was unable to do what I normally do which is to use the notes section of my phone. This is the hardest part because I had no idea my creative brain was going to give me the whole mystery so the last part of my hike I continued to talk to myself and tell myself the story so when I got home I could write it down in my bullet journal where I keep all my notes for my books.

I thought I’d give you a glimpse at the first scene and I’m sure you can see where this is going!

Iris has a feeling!

Have a wonderful day!
xoxoxo

Clues Come In All Shapes & Sizes

I’m super excited to share with y’all how real life objects turn my brain into a mystery clue.Clues come in all shapes and sizes during the writing process. The killer’s motives and clues are always plotted before I write the mystery, but the other suspects motives and clues are sprinkled in. This one particular clue was so fun to use and I couldn’t wait to use it.

I knew it was perfect for this book in the A CAMPER & CRIMINALS COZY MYSTERY. Enjoy!

Instead of me writing about it, I thought I’d take a video so you can see what I mean for yourself.
I love y’all!
Happy sleuthing!

CHARACTER GUEST POST: BUNNY BOWOWSKI

I love this throwback character post of Bunny Bowowski!!! I hope you do too!

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Hi-do! Good morning! Welcome to The Bean Hive. I’m Bunny Bowowski.

You can grab a regular coffee from the coffee bar or a tea. But you look like you want one of them fancy drinks like a latte, or one of them caramel macchiato. You know, they are filled with sugar. Don’t take my word for it. I’m just an employee that’s making those Killer Lattes, ummm, Star Studded Lattes since Lemon Productions is here filming a movie.

But I bet you’re here to check out all the noise about the #killerlatte. I mean, really. Just because that Hollywood actress, Daisy Lemon, came in here to get a Star Studded Latte but was kidnapped in the process, doesn’t make it a #killerlatte.

But you’d have to ask Roxanne Bloom, Roxy if you know her, about any sort of particulars. She was the one who seen Daisy last. I probably shouldn’t tell you this, but she’s asked me to look after the coffee house while she headed down to the police station.

Mmmhmmm. Now I did hear the ransom note was accompanied by a photo of Daisy. She was dripping in diamonds. And not just any diamonds. All the diamond jewels used in the movie. I bet that’s got to be heavy around her neck.

I heard Low-retta Bebe. . .huh? Oh! You don’t know Loretta. We call her Low-retta because when she says her name, her southern accent, well, you know what I mean.

Anyways, Low-retta owns Diamond’s downtown and she offered all her jewels for the production company to use while they were filming. Daisy Lemon had all them on. Ain’t that strange?

Oh no…the police didn’t leak the photo. Maxine Bloom did. She’s got her sneaky ways to getting things. She write Sticky Situation, the gossip column in the Honey Springs Newspaper. But claims she’d doing a piece for People and she got her hands on the kidnapper photo.

Now that’s just hearsay because I ain’t seen the photo.

I’ve rattled on enough. You enjoy your Killer Latte, I mean. . .you know what I mean. Y’all come on back. Remember that around these parts, the gossip is just as hot as the coffee. Toodles!

Readers: Do you like recipes in your cozies? Do you ever make the recipes?