Belle, Book, and Candle

As noted a few weeks ago, as a Christmas gift to myself, I hired a professional organizer to help me get rid of the overflow of stuff ar...

The ever-popular Sue Grafton. Fans lined up all day to get her autograph in her latest Kinsey Millhone mystery, W is for Wasted. ...

Two literary events on tap for this weekend. On Saturday, I will be at the Kentucky Book Fair in Frankfort. Last year I had a blast mi...

The Kentucky Book Fair in Frankfort, which I have often attended, is coming up in a couple of weeks. This year I see that some of the re...

A follow-up to yesterday's post concerning Kinsey and Me by Sue Grafton: I bailed on the Me  group of stories. I really didn'...

I presented my research paper today for the Monday Afternoon Club. It was well received and I had fun giving it. The paper was on the hi...

Sue Grafton never fails to amaze me. Her writing is clear, her characters are lively and quirky but not in a forced way, her dialogue is...

Once again I am in thrall of the clever plotting and wicked dialogue as only Sue Grafton can mete out. V is for Vengeance has me turn...

Being a book collector and being a detective are surely one in the same thing - only one deals with perhaps more blood than the other al...