Who’s Sinning and Who’s Settling Old Scores?

by | Oct 31, 2017 | Black Opal, cozy, Dying for the Past, Dying to Know, Dying to Tell, great escape, historical fiction, Historical murder mystery, murder mysteries, New Sins for Old Scores

New Sins for Old Scores is my latest murder mystery with a paranormal twist—the twist is that one of the lead characters is dead. Yup, read it again. He’s dead. And this story is packed with a band of characters, each with their own agenda, and each trying to either...

The Real Sins in New Sins for Old Scores

by | Aug 3, 2017 | Black Opal, cozy, Dying for the Past, Dying to Know, Dying to Tell, great escape, historical fiction, Historical murder mystery, murder mysteries, New Sins for Old Scores

Murder, like history, often repeats itself. And that, my friends, is the premise for my new murder mystery, New Sins for Old Scores from Black Opal Books. My fourth mystery follows similar footsteps of my last series—a murder mystery with a paranormal twist that...

A Good Detective Can Be A Dead Detective

by | Jul 20, 2017 | Black Opal, cozy, cozy mysteries, Dogs, Dying for the Past, Dying to Know, Dying to Tell, Ghost Gumshoe, great escape blog, Gumshoe Ghost, murder mystery, New Sins for Old Scores

Since publishing my first paranormal mystery, Dying to Know, I’ve published three more. Two in the Oliver Tucker Gumshoe Ghost series (I loathe that moniker), and recently with New Sins for Old Scores. Both these series include a lead character that has some unusual...

New Sins and Late Nights

by | Apr 6, 2017 | Black Opal Books, cozy, Dying for the Past, Dying to Know, Dying to Tell, Gumshoe Ghost, Historical murder mystery, mystery novels, New Sins for Old Scores, Paranormal Mystery, Tj O'Connor

Nighttime belongs to mystery and intrigue—evil, too. I could say it belongs to love, but I write mysteries and thrillers, not romance novels. For me, I do my best thinking around midnight. I also do my best panicking and second-guessing. Don’t we all? It’s not...

Dying To Kill My Darlings … kill ’em all.

by | Nov 2, 2016 | Black Opal, Dying for the Past, Dying to Know, Dying to Tell, Kill your darlings, Midnight Ink, Monster mania, Monstermania, murder mystery, mystery, Tj O'Connor, William Faulkner

Kill ’em! Kill ’em all! Die my darlings, die!Phew, now that I got that out. Let me explain.William Faulkner—you know, that slouch author—is famed for many things like his 1949 Nobel for Literature and The Sound and the Fury not least among them. He is also noted for...