In the meantime, on Monday I'm headed off on vacation with my sisters for the first time in three years. Which inevitably get shoved to the back of the line, even though it's kind of crucial to know where the ship is ultimately headed. But I need a chunk of time to focus on some translation stuff, some audio projects, some other things I'm toying with, as well as long term strategizing. THEN I'll start work on the final Holmes & Moriarity.Īnd THEN I'm taking a break from writing. I love, love, love country house murder mysteries and that's kind of what we have going on with that one: snow, secret passages, sinister strangers. The usual stuff that happens while staying with friends. It's coming.Īs soon as Lament at Loon Landing is safely launched, I'll fully dive into Corpse at Captain's Seat, which I anticipate going as quickly as Death at the Deep Dive did. I'm not going to guestimate the actual release because the book is clearly cursed and if I dare to name the release date, doom and disaster will follow. Coz that's how that works.īut we're closing in on finishing up. I guess part of the problem is with all the delays (and all the bitching about the delays) it has turned the book into A Thing in my mind, which inevitably slows everything down even further. I'm not exactly sure what the hold-up has been, because as I'm working on it, it's pretty much like every other book in the series: cute, charming, fun. Lots of laughs, good sleuthing, friction in several kinds of relationships, and another fine cozy mystery in a great series! Loved it! Matt Haynes is the laid back voice actor who really knows how to underplay the laughs.I'm currently back to working on Lament at Loon Landing. Oh, and Ellery's actress mother and producer stepfather are visiting. It only gets wackier and more dangerous from then on. That is soon followed by a request (with money for needful things) for Ellery to find out who is trying (ineptly) to murder one of the wealthy misfits. Meanwhile, while diving, bookseller (and sometime amateur sleuth) Ellery and Police Chief Jack (they might be becoming a couple) come across a vintage diving suit which just happens to have a more recent skeleton inside. A wealthy family of misfits have invaded near the end of the season for the yearly regatta (and waaay too much work for Pirate's Cove PD) and have brought a lot of craziness.

Amateur-sleuth, bookseller, family, family-dynamics, friendship, island-life, law-enforcement, m-m-cozy-mystery, murder, murder-investigation, relationship-issues, situational-humor, small-town, small-business, verbal-humor, silver-sleuths, puppy***** It seems that Pirate's Cove is having more mysteries, but the Silver Sleuths can't help because the main suspects are from away, not locals.

Body at Buccaneer's Bay by Josh Lanyon