A Best of 2011 Pick and an Appearance on Poe's Deadly Daughters

Wow! Another avid mystery reviewer has placed a book of mine in her Top Reads for 2011 list, this time Deadly Currents! To be on the same list as Louise Penny and to have her pass over Craig Johnson and Nancy Pickard (whose books I love) for mine is almost frightening. See Juliet's Top Picks for 2011.

Also, Sandra Parshall, one of the Poe's Deadly Daughters bloggers, interviewed me about my thoughts regarding fiction with a message for her post yesterday. Read it HERE.

A Real Basket Case is "Year's Best Mystery"!

I'm thrilled that book reviewer Lori B. Caswell has selected A Real Basket Case, the first book in my Claire Hanover gift basket designer mystery series, as the Best Mystery that she read in 2011! Since she is an avid reader and reviewer of cozy mysteries, this is an especially exciting honor.

See the whole list of her year's best picks on her "Escape with Dollycas Into A Good Book" blog.

A Real Basket Case was re-released in trade paperback and ebook in 2011, and is also available in hardcover and large-print editions, so you can pick your favorite format. And I hope that anyone who hasn't read it yet does indeed pick it up and read it! A Real Basket Case was a finalist for the Best First Novel Agatha Award when it came out in hardcover, and it has been well-reviewed by Amazon and Goodreads readers as well as by professional reviewers.

Deadly Currents in a "Year's Best Books" List!

I'm thrilled that Colorado Country Life magazine picked Deadly Currents as one of their "Year's Best Books"!!! And they gave it a lovely review, too. :-)