Cozy Edits & Vacation Reading
Writing I’ve been working on editing/retyping my cozy mystery. I outlined and wrote the first draft in 2021. I tried editing a couple of...
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hknovielli
- Mar 3
- 3 min
Writer's Colony at Dairy Hollow
Last month, I spent two weeks at Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. This was my first residency and I didn’t...
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hknovielli
- Feb 14
- 2 min
Murder by the Book
If much of the action is set in a bookshop or a library, it is a bibliomystery, just as it is if a major character is a bookseller or a...
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hknovielli
- Jan 4
- 2 min
Littered with Trouble
“Take Eleanor Roosevelt’s advice and treat your curiosity as the most useful gift you were endowed with,” he’d said and then had sent a...
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hknovielli
- Nov 15, 2022
- 2 min
Murder in an Irish Churchyard
Siobhán O’Sullivan was up at the wee hours of the morning, combing through her new employee handbook, when Father Kearney discovered a...
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hknovielli
- Oct 30, 2022
- 2 min
The Cheltenham Square Mystery
It strikes me that we might as well put a list of names in the hat and draw for it! The Cheltenham Square Murder, John Bude ~ ~ ~ I’m...
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hknovielli
- Oct 15, 2022
- 2 min
The Beckoning Lady
It was no time for dying. The summer had arrived in glory, trailing fathomless skies and green and gold and particoloured as fresh as...
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hknovielli
- Sep 30, 2022
- 3 min
Death Makes a Prophet
If there are many roads that lead to perdition, then there are as many that lead to salvation; and England probably houses more diverse,...
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hknovielli
- Sep 15, 2022
- 2 min
Antidote to Venom
“If only he could be rid of this feeling of guilt; if only he could feel clean and honest with people he could face anything.” Antidote...
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hknovielli
- Aug 30, 2022
- 2 min
Continental Crimes
After reading some Wimsey and Poirot short mystery stories not too long ago, I thought I’d take a break. But, another collection of short...
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hknovielli
- Aug 15, 2022
- 2 min
Checkmate to Murder
Many a time he had based a case on disconnected fragments put together from seemingly useless conversations. In the present case, he was...
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hknovielli
- Jun 30, 2022
- 2 min
Traitor's Purse
There were cold waves playing up and down his spine. This was truly frightful. Some terrible responsibility rested upon him and not only...
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hknovielli
- Jun 15, 2022
- 2 min
Bats in the Belfry
“It was a queer-looking building to find among the prosperous houses of the pleasant-looking road, and Grenville was aware of a feeling...
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hknovielli
- Jun 7, 2022
- 2 min
Death of Anton
Death of Anton was better than I expected. I wasn’t quite sure how a mystery centered around a traveling circus would work out. I...
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hknovielli
- May 25, 2022
- 3 min
Bye Bye Baby
I just finished Bye Bye Baby, the latest in Robert B. Parker’s Spenser series. (By “just finished” I mean that I stayed up last night...
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hknovielli
- May 4, 2022
- 3 min
Poirot & Wimsey shorts
I spent the last couple weeks reading Golden Age short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Peter Wimsey. For two sleuths written at the...
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HK Novielli
- Apr 26, 2022
- 2 min
Have His Carcase
I just finished reading Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers. It’s a Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane romp and it’s fantastic. It’s one of the...
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