I'm baaaaaaaak!!! It's been a long time, hasn't it? First problem was - as usual - me. I had trouble with changing to my Google password; a few Microsoft problems (doesn't everybody??); and been busier than a cat on a hot, chiseled-in-stone publisher. My new cozy mystery, RECEIPE FOR TROUBLE is now out in hardback from Five Star Publishing and it's gorgeous. When you get tired of admiring it, read it, it's the third in the Maryvale series and all those characters are busy, busy, busy, too :-)

This one starts off with a bang - an explosinon in Mattie Carrington's home as she starts writing her second cookbook; puts up with her sister and her sister's boyfriend's hovering (which is about equal parts aggravation and comic relief); then when she rents a cabin on the lake to work in peace, someone poisons her. Then her cousin,Miss Minnie, a friend of Sheriff Cas Larkin and his wife Connie, is accused. Sounds like a recipe for truble, doesn't it? It is, that's the spot Cas is in, with Mattie in a coma; Minnie afraid for herself and Mattie; and the headline-hungry DA pressing for an arrest as Cas hunts for the would-be murderer.

Another book, a romance-suspense novel titled SPANISH EYES is scheduled for September, 2007. Watch for it - gotta go. Break's over (for now :-))