Mugshot! Death in the Time of Ice

See this lovely mug? (Ignore the cat).  I won it by commenting on a blog post by mystery author Kaye George.  I have secured the book itself on my iPod so that I can sip my tea out of this wondrous mug while I read it.

Kaye has three mystery series with a fourth (set in lovely Minneapolis) due out in September of next year.  Stealing descriptions from her home page, they are:

People of the Wind Novels - this series follows the Hamapa tribe as an Ice Age approaches.

Cressa Carraway Series - a mystery series featuring a musician and conductor.

Imogene Duckworthy Mysteries - these take place in modern day Texas, set in a fictionalized version of the Wichita Falls area.

Fat Cat At Large, first in the FAT CAT series, set in Minneapolis, coming in September 2014 from Berkley Prime Crime . Series features Quincy, pudgy and adorable cat who is always hungry on his diet. He gets into a lot of trouble, serving as a catalyst for murder and mayhem.

Her blog is called Travels With Kaye

Kaye's Home Page

Erin Hart's next book has title change from Serpent's Egg to The Book of Killowen

In Erin Hart's latest newsletter she reveals a title change for her next book in the Nora Gavin series set in the bog country of Ireland.  The tentatively titled Serpent's Egg is now the Book of Killowen.  We don't know much about the book except that this time a ninth century manuscript is released from the depths of the bogs. 

She is taking sign ups now for her annual September Ireland tours of the areas that her novels are set in.  She is an archaeologist at heart so expect an immersive experience in the music and ruins and mysteries of this ancient land.

Mystery of the Disappearing Pages

Author Trish Vickers wrote her novel longhand in a specially prepared notebook.  She was blinded by diabetes several years ago and uses writing to keep her mind active and to share the imagination that has not been hampered by anything in life.

When her son came to visit, she asked him to read the first twenty six pages of her novel for feedback.  He had to tell her that the ink in her pen had apparently run out soon after she began, and her work consisted of many blank pages.

Cleverly, they took the manuscript to their local police station to see if forensic experts could help recover the pages which had the impressions of her words lightly engraved upon them.

Forensics worked on their own time for five months using special lights and recovered the novel's beginnings.

You couldn't write a better story than that, could you?

Here is the story:   Police save words of blind author who wrote 26 pages after pen ran out