Paranormal Cozy Mystery
What Is a Paranormal Cozy Mystery?
Magic can change the rules of a world. It should not remove the pleasure of solving the crime.
Read articleThe Journal
Mystery, magic, and the craft between them.
Evergreen essays for readers who like their supernatural stories grounded in real clues, lived-in places, capable women, and mysteries that still have to earn the answer.
Midlife Mysteries
Why Midlife Witches Fit Cozy Mysteries So Well
A magical awakening feels different when the heroine already knows who she was before it happened.
Read articleMystery Craft
Mystery First, Magic Second: Fair-Play in Paranormal Cozy Mysteries
The supernatural can make a clue stranger. It should never make the solution cheaper.
Read articleObjects & Evidence
Why Old Objects Make Such Good Mystery Clues
An old object can carry three histories at once: what happened to it, what the records say happened to it, and what a family needs everyone to believe.
Read articleFrom Hawthorne Reach
Prefer stories to essays?
Start with Murder, Itemized, the first Hawthorne Reach Echo Mystery.