I had an idea to write a mystery series set in an English village, but since I don’t live in England I had to travel to England. (It was a tough job, but someone had to do it!) I was able to visit Lyme Park, which was used as the exterior of...
My trip to the Derbyshire countryside inspired me as I wrote the Murder on Location series. I visited the famous village of Bakewell as well as two stately homes, Chatsworth House and Lyme Park. Because I’m an Anglophile at heart, I enjoyed the green scenery and...
by Sara Rosett According to Wikipedia, the first Sherlock Holmes story appeared 127 years ago in 1887. The novel, A Study in Scarlet, struck a cord with readers. The publication of a several short stories in 1891 in The Strand Magazine vaulted the main...
by Sara Rosett The sleuth in my cozy mystery series, Ellie Avery, is a professional organizer and is inordinately fond of lists. While I’m not an organizer, I do love to make lists. And, what could be better than a list about books? So here is a random sampling...
I’m not a trendy person. If something is hot…well, you can be sure I haven’t heard of it when it is at the peak of its popularity. Downton Abbey? I didn’t watch it until the end of the second season when speculation about Anna and Bates reached a fever pitch and...
Interesting and beautiful locations inspire me when I’m writing. For the fourth book in the On the Run series, Suspicious, I wanted Zoe to travel to the Austrian Alps. I was able to take a research tip to the Alps and visit both Austria (in the winter) and...
To research Suspicious, Book Four in the On the Run series of international mysteries, I visited quaint Bavarian villages and snowy mountain tops. If I have the choice between a mountain and a beach trip, I’ll pick the mountains every time, so I loved every...
Rome is my favorite European city to visit, so of course I had to include it in Suspicious, the fourth book in the On the Run International Mysteries. I always take tons of photos when I visit a new place because I know I’ll probably be writing about it later. I...
by Sara Rosett When I wrote the synopsis for the eighth Ellie Avery mystery, I knew my publisher would want to keep to the same format that we’d been using for a while: M________, M_________, and Murder. The first two words in the pattern have been related to the...
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