In Uncivil Defense, the latest book in my mystery series featuring 1940s private eye Maggie Sullivan, a woman wears a snood. It prompted one early reader to ask, “What’s a snood?” My first impulse was to say it’s sort of like a fancy hairnet. Half a second’s reflection, however, made me realize that many under […]
Continue readingby M. Ruth Myers Maximum Moxie, shiny new addition to the mystery series featuring the 1940s detective with great legs, Maggie Sullivan, has just landed in digital bookstores. This fifth book in the series opens when the private eye takes on a new case days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, and provides an unusual […]
Continue readingWhen M. Louisa Locke and I discovered we’d be promoting books in our respective historical mystery series at the same time, we had an idea: Wouldn’t it be fun to ask our two women detectives — one a proper lady in Victorian San Francisco, the other a gritty young private eye in 1940s Dayton, Ohio […]
Continue readingThis week is a busy one for 1940s private eye Maggie Sullivan. First, read her answers in Part I of an interview today on M. Louisa Locke’s blog where we jointly interview our two characters. Part II will appear here tomorrow (Jan. 21). Then learn more about Maggie Sullivan and the series in this […]
Continue reading“A Concrete Garter Belt”, a new Maggie Sullivan short story, has joined the four novels and one other short story currently in the mystery series. It was previously published in the Private Eye Writers of America anthology Fifty Shades of Grey Fedora, but is now available as a stand-alone. The private eye’s search for […]
Continue readingThe Shamus Awards dinner, hosted by Private Eye Writers of America, is my favorite part of the annual Bouchercon world mystery convention. All those authors of P.I. fiction, from the big names to a sprinkling of newbies, crowded into one room. They’re not quite as seedy as their print creations, but they do have a […]
Continue readingCome on over to my Facebook page for a chance to win BOOKS, CHOCOLATES, and CD’s of traditional Irish music. We’re celebrating the launch of Shamus in a Skirt, fourth book in the Maggie Sullivan series. It’s now available from most ebook retailers. Besides periodic prize drawings, there also are assorted videos of Irish music […]
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