BOOK CLUB FRIDAY--MYSTERY AUTHOR DEBBIE DE LOUISE FINDS CLUES IN UNUSUAL PLACES

Debbie De Louise is a reference librarian at a public library. She’s the author of ten novels including the five books and four stories of her Cobble Cove cozy mystery series. Learn more about her and her books at her website.

Finding Clues and Lost Items in Unusual Places

Have you ever had the experience of finding something you’d been missing when you were looking for something else? It happens to me often. I can search for something high and low without any luck, but it usually turns up by accident when I least expect it or am hunting for a different lost item. My anniversary ring was missing for nearly a year when I found it in a drawer under some clothes I was looking through for something to wear. It took me a shorter time to find my library badge lanyard that I’d placed in a bag in my closet, but I also found it by accident when I was looking in there. 

 

When Alicia’s young daughter Carol finds a ring during an Easter Egg Hunt at the Cobble Inn in KittyKai’s Easter Mystery, my new short story featuring the Cobble Cove characters from my cozy mystery series, Detective Ramsay recognizes it as belonging to a missing woman. It isn’t long before the lady’s body is found buried on the construction site where workers had dug for the inn’s new bathroom. While Gretchen’s husband is relieved to finally know what happened to his wife, he’s devastated that she’s dead. But is he putting on an act? Gilly has heard him fighting with his wife. The arguments involve Gretchen’s brother, a rich man who supposedly stole her inheritance from her. 

 

Sneaky and KittyKai once again get involved in solving this mystery by following their ladies, Alicia and Gilly, to a doctor’s office where Gretchen had worked briefly as a receptionist. Sneaky ends up finding a clue by accident in the doctor’s drawer. But KittyKai is the one who saves the day and rightly so, because she’s the inn cat and the inn is where Gretchen Miller’s body was found.

 

While most people don’t find clues in their backyards that lead to dead bodies, according to Cision PR Newswire, the average American spends 2.5 days a year looking for lost items and the most common ones that are missing are: TV remotes (45%), phones (33%), car & keys (28%), glasses (27%), shoes (24%) and wallets/purses (20%). 

 

Rachel Hartman on the SpareFoot blog offers suggestions for finding lost items such as keeping those things you use daily in a regular spot, searching for misplaced objects in the most cluttered areas of your home, and using Smartphone apps that help locate missing items. Her post, “Where Did I Put That? 7 Tips for Finding Lost Items in Your Home” can be read in full here: https://www.sparefoot.com/self-storage/blog/14773-where-did-i-put-that-6-tips-for-finding-lost-items-in-your-home/

 

If someone is lucky, their lost item may turn up or be found by somebody and returned. There are people who swear by St. Christopher medals or psychics. In most cases, if you don’t find a lost object within a few days, you probably won’t recover it. However, there are always exceptions. I never thought I’d find my ring after almost a year, but after twenty years, I’m still looking for a special letter an author wrote to me. It disappeared somewhere between my move from my parents’ house to the one I share with my husband and daughter. That author, now deceased, was a great inspiration to me, and I know that letter would be treasured by me even more today as I continue on my publishing journey. I hope to find it one day, and maybe I will when I least expect it. I doubt it will lead me to a body but maybe the plot for another mystery.

 

KittyKai’s Easter Mystery
A Cobble Cove Stories, Book 4

 

During an Easter egg hunt at the Cobble Inn, a ring is found on the grounds by Alicia’s daughter, Carol. When the sheriff has it examined, he discovers it belonged to him and Gilly’s neighbor, Gretchen Miller, who disappeared the month before. An investigation leads to the discovery of Mrs. Miller’s body buried on the site of the inn’s new construction.

As Alicia and Gilly set out to solve this new mystery despite their husbands’ discouragement, Sneaky and KittyKai, the library and inn cats, secretly lend them a paw.

 

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COZY MYSTERY AUTHOR DEBBIE DE LOUISE TALKS ABOUT ADDING NEW CHARACTERS TO A SERIES

Debbie De Louise is a reference librarian at a public library and the author of cozy and traditional mysteries. Her latest release, No Gravestone Unturned, is the fifth book of her Cobble Cove cozy mystery series. Learn more about Debbie and her books at her website.

Why Authors Add New Characters to Their Series and Change the Ones You Know

 

If you read cozy mysteries and follow a series, you’ll notice that new characters are often added, and the main characters change in sometimes subtle and occasionally major ways. Characters are added for a variety of reasons:

1. As victims, suspects, or perpetrators of a crime.

2. As romantic interests to one of the other characters.

3. To aid the detective or amateur sleuth in the investigation of the crime.

 

There are several ways that new characters can be introduced:

1. They can visit the town on vacation or for another reason.

2. They can move into the town.

3. They can already have lived in the town but not been featured in any of the previous books or known to all the characters in the series.

 

In my new release, No Grave Unturned, the fifth book of my Cobble Cove cozy mystery series, I’ve added human characters and also a cat character. The humans are the cousins of John McKinney, the husband of Alicia, the main character. They and their spouses come to Cobble Cove to attend the funeral of their mother, John’s aunt. 

 

Another character added to the story is Ruth Carver, the mother of Edith and Rose. While Ruth’s daughters have been regular characters in the series, she hasn’t been featured in previous books. 

 

There are a few other new characters who, while also residents of Cobble Cove, have yet to play a part in a story. These include Nathaniel Burroughs, the caretaker and his son Noah, and Warren Strand, the town’s banker. There are also characters from the past who are shown in flashback chapters – Kurt McKinney, John’s grandfather; Lydia McKinney, Kurt’s wife; Warren Strand, Sr., Warren’s father; and Rosalie Carver, Edith and Rose’s grandmother. 

 

The new cat character is Salem, a black cat who belongs to Suzanne, one of the cousins who brings him with her from Florida. 

 

The reason for the additions of these new characters is because they play parts in the mystery of who killed the caretaker’s son on Halloween in the Cobble Cove cemetery. They also fulfill the roles mentioned above for why new characters are added to a series. 

 

As far as how regular characters change from book to book in a series, just like people in real life, they age and gain new knowledge from their experiences. Alicia is a very different woman than when she was introduced in A Stone’s Throw, the first book of the series. She arrived in Cobble Cove, her husband’s childhood hometown, as a grieving widow, searching for answers to the strange hit-and-run accident that killed him. Now, five years later in the 5^th book of the series, Alicia is director of the Cobble Cove Library, married to John McKinney, and the mother of twins. She also co-writes a mystery series with her husband and has been investigating murders in the town.

 

Sneaky, the Siamese library cat, was also introduced in the first book. At that time, he was depicted as a normal cat who helped Alicia find clues by ordinary methods such as scratching at a box where secret letters were hidden. In the 4^th book of the series, Love on the Rocks, Sneaky is joined by Kittykai, a calico kitten. Both cats, while pointing to clues, are shown as regular felines. Following that book, there are two short eBooks, Sneaky’s Christmas Mystery, and Sneaky’s Summer Mystery that feature them and allow readers to “see” their thoughts. This change in their characters continues in No Grave Unturned, where Salem is introduced. 

 

New characters and changes in regular characters add depth and interest to a series. After all, variety is the spice of fictional as well as real life.

 

No Gravestone Unturned

A Cobble Cove Mystery, Book 5

It’s October in Cobble Cove, and Alicia is busy preparing for the library’s Halloween party when she learns that John’s aunt from Florida has died and that John’s cousins and their spouses are coming to town to bury their mother. The day after the funeral, the caretaker’s son is found dead by John’s grandfather’s gravestone, from a blow on the head. The only witness seems to be Sneaky the library cat, who, having left the library, turned up at Alicia’s door with blood and dirt on him. 

 

As Alicia, Gilly, and Sheriff Ramsay investigate, a generation of family secrets is uncovered. Are one of the guests staying at the inn a killer? Will the humans solve the crime, and can Sneaky, Kittykai, and Salem, the inn’s guest cat, team up to help?

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HOLIDAY READING WITH AUTHOR DEBBIE DE LOUISE

Today we welcome back award-winning author Debbie De Louise, who also works as a reference librarian at a public library on Long Island. Debbie is the author of seven novels, including the four books of her Cobble Cove cozy mystery series. Learn more about her and her books at her website. 

Holiday Reading: So Many Choices, so Little Time

As most of you know, the holiday season is upon us. It started way before Thanksgiving. Black Friday featured sales and free offers for all types of gifts, including books. For those who like to read holiday stories to get in the mood for Christmas, Chanukah, or whatever special day(s) you celebrate in December, there are an abundance of choices. How does one choose reading material during such a busy time? One solution is to treat yourself to some holiday stories. These quick reads won’t take up too much of the time you need to spend buying and wrapping gifts, cooking, attending parties, etc.

How do you find holiday stories? Many of your favorite authors who write books also write holiday stories. These might be found in collections or as standalone eBooks. If you are a Kindle Unlimited subscriber, you have your choice of free holiday stories. If not, you can still read them on any of your devices with the free Kindle app. for less than the cost of a vending machine snack. 

One way to locate holiday stories on Amazon.com is to search the Kindle store. You’ll also probably see plenty of recommendations on Facebook, twitter, author and book blogs, and anything you subscribe to. You can also check out this video from my publisher about their holiday stories, including two of mine. 

If you like cozy mysteries and/or have read any of my Cobble Cove books, you might enjoy my holiday story, Sneaky’s Christmas Mystery.

Sneaky’s Christmas Mystery

Another death has occurred in Cobble Cove near the holidays. This time, it’s the owner of the new pet store in town who was felled by a case of cat food that crushed his skull. Was it an accident, or murder? While the townspeople including the sheriff are divided in their opinions, Sneaky and Kittykai, the library and inn cats, sniff out the truth.

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BOOK CLUB FRIDAY--AUTHOR DEBBIE DE LOUISE ENTERS THE REALM OF HORROR

Debbie De Louise is a reference librarian at a public library. Her novels include four books in her Cobble Cove mystery series, a romantic comedy novella, a paranormal romance, and two standalone mysteries. And now she’s dabbling in horror. Learn more about Debbie and her books at her website/blog. 

The Value of Knowledge

My horror story, Knowledge is Power, is about a witch whose spell to bring back her dead cat goes terribly awry. The witch, Margaret Goodley, is also a librarian. Since she has knowledge of both librarianship and witchcraft, she believes she is powerful but learns the hard way that knowledge alone may not be enough to grant what she desires.

The saying “Knowledge is Power” was coined by Frances Bacon in the late sixteenth century. Bacon was regarded as the father of scientific methods of inquiry. In my story, besides telling a horror tale, I wanted to demonstrate that knowledge, used in the wrong way, can render one powerless rather than powerful which is what happens to Goodley.

When we look at successful people, not all of them have earned college degrees. Many have gathered knowledge without going to school, such as those who have “street smarts.” Society offers less monetary compensation to most educators and artists than it does to those with less schooling such as star athletes and certain trade workers like plumbers. This is because knowledge can’t be measured by schooling alone. Talent and hard work with a bit of fate combined with knowledge can create a powerful and successful person. But no matter how hard you study, if you don’t take advantage of the knowledge you’ve assimilated, you won’t get far. 

Poor Margaret Goodley thought her spells were magic and her library books the answer to everything. She never bothered to consider the consequences of the power she conjured through them.

Knowledge is Power

On the one-month anniversary of the death of her beloved cat, Librarian Margaret Goodley uses her excellent research skills to cast a spell to bring Bluebell back to life. Unfortunately, there are unexpected consequences when two other women who have lost their own loved ones on the same day interrupt the ceremony.

Knowledge is Power, while telling a lesson, is also a great Halloween story. It’s free from October 29 through November 1 on Amazon and permafree for KindleUnlimited.

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AUTHOR DEBBIE DE LOUISE ON RESEARCHING MURDER IN A LIGHTHOUSE

Debbie De Louise is a reference librarian at a public library. Her novels include four books in her Cobble Cove mystery series, a romantic comedy novella, a paranormal romance, and two standalone mysteries. Learn more about Debbie and her books at her website/blog. 

Shedding Light on a 20-year-old Mystery

When I first came up with the idea of writing a novel about a murder at a lighthouse, I knew I would need to do some research about lighthouses. As I wrote the book, I discovered a unique way to add in this research that readers will understand once they finish the story. I included numerous facts about lighthouses and maritime lore and asked my publisher to feature photos and drawings to illustrate each point.

Take this short quiz to see how much you know about lighthouses. Answers are included below. No peeking or Googling allowed. These are only a few of the facts featured in Sea Scope.

1. What was the first lighthouse built in the United States?

2. What is the term for the study of lighthouses?

3. What date do we celebrate Lighthouse Day?

4. Which lighthouse was the first built in New York State and was visited by a slave ship and a pirate?

5. Which lighthouse was manned by a female lighthouse keeper?

Answers

1. The first lighthouse built in America was Boston Lighthouse in 1716 on Little Brewster Island. It was destroyed during the American Revolutionary War and rebuilt in 1783.

2. The study of lighthouses is known as “Pharology,” named after the famed lighthouse of Alexandria. Pharos of Alexandria, the first known lighthouse, was built in Egypt between 300 and 250 BC and stood 450 feet high.

3. For the bicentennial of the United States Lighthouse Service in 1989, the U. S. Lighthouse Society petitioned Congress to declare National Lighthouse Day on August 7—the date in 1789 that the Ninth Act of the First Congress, establishing federal control of lighthouses, was passed and signed by President George Washington. The measure was signed by President Ronald Reagan as Public Law on November 5, 1988 but only for that day in 1989. A similar declaration was won in 2013, but efforts to add the day to the official national calendar have not succeeded.

4. The Montauk Point Lighthouse on Long Island was the first built in New York State and was visited by both the slave ship “Amistad” and a pirate.

5. Robbins Reef, also known as Kate’s Light, is named after the wife of a keeper who, after his death, tended the light from 1886 to 1919 and daily rowed her children to school in Staten Island.

Sea Scope

Sarah Collins needs an escape. Mourning her brother’s death and the impending breakup of her marriage, she returns to her childhood home in South Carolina, where her family operated an inn.

Sarah hasn’t been back to Sea Scope for twenty years; not since she and her brother Glen discovered a body by the nearby lighthouse. She never understood why her parents left Sea Scope so suddenly, or the reasons behind her father's suicide.

After Sarah returns to the inn, she faces long-buried memories, text messages and strange clues. Something is not right in Sea Scope. Reunited with people from her past, she tries to figure out what's going on in her childhood home.

When past and present collide, Sarah must face truths about her family, and what happened that summer day by the lighthouse. But will she survive to tell the tale?

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#TRAVEL TO COBBLE COVE WITH GUEST AUTHOR DEBBIE DE LOUISE

Debbie De Louise is a librarian and the author of the Cobble Cove Mysteries, short stories of various genres, a standalone mystery, and a paranormal romance. She lives on Long Island with her husband, daughter, and three cats. Learn more about Debbie and her books at her website. 

Cobble Cove: A Small Town You’ll Love to Visit but Might Not Want to Live in

Cobble Cove is a fictional, upstate New York town that is the setting for my Cobble Cove cozy mystery series, which currently includes four books. What readers may already know, or those seeing the book titles might guess, stones and rocks are big geographical features of the town. In fact, when Alicia visits there to find some answers about her husband’s strange death because he lived there as a child, she enjoys the quaint street names and the stone architecture of the buildings and houses. The Cobble Cove Library, where she ends up taking a job, is located on Bookshelf Lane. The man she meets and later develops a romantic relationship with but who she fears might’ve played a role in her husband’s death, lives on Stone’s Throw Road.

There’s a small group of shops known as Cobble Cove Square that house the newspaper office of the Cobble Cove Courier, the post office, bank, beauty parlor, gift shop, and other establishments. In the second book of the series, this area plays an important role in crimes that are committed near the holidays.

The only place to stay in Cobble Cove and where Alicia initially checks in, is the Cobble Inn. Alicia eats dinner at the Cobble Diner after arriving in town and learns some interesting information from the proprietor.

Cobble Cove is a small town with a lake running through it. After Alicia meets John, the newspaper publisher, he takes her on a picnic on Cove Mountain where they can view the lake and village from a special vantage point.

I live on Long Island where Alicia originally comes from. I based Cobble Cove on some of the upstate towns I’ve visited. In the books, I refer to the neighboring town of New Paltz, a real place that happens to also have stone houses and buildings.

Besides its charming setting, Cobble Cove is home to many quirky residents. There’s Dora the innkeeper; Casey who manages the diner; Postmaster Ed; Sheila and Mac who work at the library; Wilma, the hairdresser; and Irene, the gift shop owner. There’s also Sneaky, a library cat, and John’s golden retriever Fido, both of whom help solve mysteries in the books.

Despite the cozy image of Cobble Cove, danger lurks within. Several murders and other crimes take place in the town over the course of the series, and more are scheduled in the future. Come visit if you dare.

Join Sneaky for a Facebook Valentine’s Day Paw-ty celebrating Love on the Rocks on Friday, February 8 from noon to 9 pm EST. There will be cozy mystery authors, contests, prizes, and giveaways. Click here to RSVP and learn more about  the event. 

Love on the Rocks

A Cobble Cove Mystery, Book 4

It’s February in the small town of Cobble Cove. Love is in the air . . . but so is murder!

When Alicia helps plan a Valentine’s Day Party at the Cobble Cove library that also includes a surprise for her newlywed friend, Gilly, things go wrong when a mysterious box of chocolates addressed to the director turns out laced with poison.

Clues Lead to A Dead Suspect.

Although Alicia promised John that she’ll no longer meddle in crime investigations, she and Gilly set out to find the person threatening Sheila who murdered the courier of the deadly candy. The three people they suspect include the professor from California who’s been romancing Sheila while she assists him with research for his book; the obnoxious patron Rhonda Kleisman who threw coffee at the director after refusing to pay for a damaged book; and a visiting widow staying at Gilly’s inn who’s unnaturally curious about Sheila and earns the nickname of Madame Defarge for her interest in knitting.

New Cat in Town

While Alicia and Gilly are trying to solve this new Cobble Cove mystery, Sneaky is introduced to Gilly’s new kitten, Kittykai, a calico she brought home from her honeymoon in Hawaii. It’s not like at first sight, but the two cats eventually become friends. They also both play a part in foiling the killer’s murder attempts, but will Alicia and Sheila survive unscathed?

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BOOK CLUB FRIDAY--INTERVIEW WITH MYSTERY AND ROMANCE AUTHOR DEBBIE DE LOUISE

Today we sit down for a chat with cozy mystery, traditional mystery, thriller, and romance author Debbie De Louise. Learn more about Debbie and her books at her website. 

When did you realize you wanted to write novels?

I’d always enjoyed reading and writing. I wrote many stories as a child, and my family and teachers said I had a talent for creative writing. In college I wrote some full-length manuscripts that I still have in notebooks.

How long did it take you to realize your dream of publication?

My first publications were articles in pet magazines in the 1990’s. I published a short story in a mystery anthology in 1999. In 2008 I self-published my first novel (it will soon be reprinted with my publisher). My first novel published by a publisher that became the first book of my Cobble Cove mystery series was released in 2015.

Are you traditionally published, indie published, or a hybrid author?

I’m published with Solstice Publishing, a small Indie publisher.

Where do you write?

I write at the computer in my living room.

Is silence golden, or do you need music to write by? What kind?

I need silence.

How much of your plots and characters are drawn from real life? From your life in particular?

I’ve used a lot of my experiences and also created characters based on people I know or knew, but they’re all fictionalized, of course.

Describe your process for naming your character?

I don’t have a particular process. I just think up a name. If I get stuck, I look at a magazine, paper, or other printed material and choose a first and last name separately from those items. I’ve also had character naming contests that my readers enter.

Real settings or fictional towns?

Fictional but based on real ones. I sometimes list real places, but the main locations are fictional.

What’s the quirkiest quirk one of your characters has?

In my Cobble Cove mysteries, one of the characters, an elderly gentleman named Mac, loves to eat peanut butter sandwiches and even has special recipe for making one.

What’s your quirkiest quirk?

My fondness for Pusheen, the emoji cat.

If you could have written any book (one that someone else has already written,) which one would it be? Why?

This is a difficult question. There are many books I would’ve have loved to have written. One that stands out is Time and Again by Jack Finney. I love books with time-travel themes and also enjoy historical mysteries. This book has beautiful illustrations and depicts the early days of New York City so vividly.

Everyone at some point wishes for a do-over. What’s yours?

There are actually a lot of things I would like to have done differently, but I believe that things happen for a reason. That’s one of the lines in A Stone’s Throw, my first Cobble Cove mystery. Everything that’s happened to me was meant to be, so I wouldn’t do anything over.

What’s your biggest pet peeve?

When my husband tunes me out while he’s watching TV.

You’re stranded on a deserted island. What are your three must-haves?

A book to keep me occupied, a cat for company and comfort, and non-perishable food.

What was the worst job you’ve ever held?

Secretary in a pool at a large utility company.

What’s the best book you’ve ever read?

Another difficult question. There are many. As a librarian, I have a chance to sample a large number of books. One of my favorites that I read long ago is Katherine Neville’s novel, The Eight.

Ocean or mountains?

Ocean, even though I don’t swim.

City girl/guy or country girl/guy?

I’m a bit of both. I live in the suburbs on Long Island. I like the opportunities for entertainment in the city but also the quiet and closeness to nature that the country affords.

What’s on the horizon for you?

I’ve just completed a reprint of my first self-published paranormal romance, Cloudy Rainbow, which my current publisher is reprinting with new edits, a few changes, and a different cover.

Anything else you’d like to tell us about yourself and/or your books?

I have a cozy mystery series that features a librarian and a library cat. The cat, Sneaky, has his own blog where he interviews other pet characters and also author’s real pets. I also have a Facebook group called Cobble Cove Character chat that is hosted by one of my characters each month.

Reason to Die

Someone is strangling disabled people in the small town of Baxter, Connecticut. Detective Courtney Lang and her ex-partner and ex-lover, wheelchair-bound Bill Thompson, are paired up again and put in charge of the investigation. During the course of their search, Courtney uncovers information that points toward a connection between the murders and an unsolved series of muggings by a masked man, the same man who shot and disabled Bill a year ago on the night he proposed marriage to her.

Complicating matters for Courtney is her guilt about Thompson’s shooting, her affair with her new partner, Mark Farrell, and her unresolved feelings over the deaths of her mother and sister who perished in a fire while she was away from home.

As the deaths accrue and the “Handicapped Strangler” as the killer is coined by the press continues to rampage the town adding victims of different ages, sex, and disabilities to the murder count, Courtney discovers a clue that could crack open the case but may put her and Bill’s life in jeopardy.

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BOOK CLUB FRIDAY--INTERVIEW WITH SNEAKY, THE COBBLE COVE LIBRARY CAT

Sneaky, the Cobble Cove Library Cat

Today we’re joined by library cat Sneaky from author Debbie De Louise’s Cobble Cove Mystery Series. Learn more about Sneaky, Debbie, and her books at Sneaky’s blog and Debbie’s website.

What was your life like before your author started pulling your strings?

I was a lost kitty looking for a home. It’s a vague memory for me because I was quite young before I found my way to the Cobble Cove Library where I was taken in as their library cat and later became Alicia’s furry friend.

What’s the one trait you like most about yourself?

I’m flexible, and I don’t mean that I can stretch out my paws and flip on my back. I can play a variety of parts and do justice to them all.

What do you like least about yourself?

I’m too much like a real cat. Even though I help with clues, I don’t talk like some of the other cat sleuths such as Midnight Louie.

What is the strangest thing your author has had you do or had happen to you?

Creating my blog was my own inspiration, but my author was the one who set it up. 

Do you argue with your author? If so, what do you argue about?

I always want juicier parts. I also requested to be on a cover. Debbie finally agreed to that, but it took her three books to do it.

What is your greatest fear?

That my series will end because Debbie will move on to another series. She already has one book of a new cozy started, so it’s a dark shadow hovering over me.

What makes you happy?

When people buy our books and write good reviews about them.

If you could rewrite a part of your story, what would it be? Why?

I’d like to be talking in some scenes or at least thinking and communicating with readers.

Of the other characters in your book, which one bugs you the most? Why?

I won’t say Fido, the dog in the series, because I don’t see him as a threat. He’s too dumb for that. I love Alicia and Laura, the children’s librarian who joins our crew in our second book. I can’t really say that I dislike any of the other characters. Sheila, the library director, was a challenge, but she came around.

Of the other characters in your book, which one would you love to trade places with? Why?

Possibly Sheila. I’d love to be a library director. I’d put in more sunny windows with seats for watching birds and sunbathing, and I’d also schedule a lot more Sneaky story times with the kids.

Tell us a little something about your author. Where can readers find her website/blog?

Debbie is a librarian and that’s why she can write so well about libraries. She also writes other books and stories besides our series. Most of them are mysteries (not necessarily cozies) but some are other genres. You can find out more about her on her website where she writes her own blog, too.

What's next for you?

Debbie has written a fourth Cobble Cove mystery which we both hope will be published soon, but she still has to edit and submit it to her publisher. If you look on YouTube, Debbie has some trailers for our series. The latest one gives a sneak peek to the upcoming book. 

A Stone’s Throw

A Cobble Cove Mystery, Book One

Widowed librarian, Alicia Fairmont, travels to the small upstate town of Cobble Cove, New York, where her dead husband spent part of his childhood. There she meets newspaper publisher, John McKinney, a widower. When she accepts a position at the Cobble Cove Library and becomes romantically involved with John, she learns some secrets that tie him and his father with her husband’s family. As strange events take place, Alicia begins to suspect that the hit and run accident that killed her husband may have been murder and that John is the prime suspect.

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