Welcome to the home of country gals who stumble into sleuthing.  Like me, my protagonists choose to live their lives close to nature.  From the deep, green river valleys of upstate New York to the palm-treed pastures of the Big Lake Country in Florida, these women have found their homes and their hearts in rural America. 

Hera Knightsbridge, master brewer in A Deadly Draught, never wanders far from the Butternut River Valley where she and her fellow brewers craft lagers and ales.  Close to home doesn’t always protect her from danger as she discovers when her closest rival dies in his own brew barn.  Worse, the authorities think Hera is the killer.

In Dumpster Dying Emily Rhodes is a winter visitor to the Lake Okeechobee area in Florida.  She, too, lives in upstate New York in the summer and finds the rural life of “Old Florida” appeals to her country soul.  She sometimes talks to the horses and cattle in the field across the canal from her house when she’s not serving drinks at the country club or fishing bodies out of its dumpster.

Hera and Emily yearn for the simple, artless existence of hard work coupled with rustic pleasure.  That’s why they live away from big cities, but murder and violence have a way of stalking us, even Hera and Emily, who think they’ve avoided life’s perils.

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My short story, "Murder with All the Trimmings," has been published by Untreed Reads, both as a stand-alone story and also as part of their Thanksgiving anthology, The Killer Wore Cranberry. It can be purchased either way at Untreed Reads, Omnilit, or Amazon.