Former Sheriff's Office detective Ray Davenport now owns the Wood U gift shop on Victoria Square, but it’s his talented younger daughters who steal the show with their displays and packaging...
https://lornabarrett.blogspot.com/2021/05/coming-june-18th-davenport-designs.html
NOW AVAILABLE! Katie Bonner’s business in on the line after her friend Jamie is poisoned at her tea shop. First she must locate the mysterious woman he was dining with, and next...
Angelica's carrot cake recipe was featured in A FATAL CHAPTER, including her recipe for maple buttercream frosting (which is super yummy). Check it out! Haven't read the book? Read it ...
https://lornabarrett.blogspot.com/2021/02/bake-this-cake.html
Have you pre-ordered your copy? Read an excerpt of DEAD MAN'S HAND on my website. Just click this link. PRE-ORDER NOW! Kindle US | Kindle Worldwide | Nook | Apple Books | Kobo | Sm...
I did some more decorating over the weekend. I'm running out of doorknobs and wall space to hang things, so this Santa pillow is now hanging from the welcome sign just inside my front door.�...
https://lornabarrett.blogspot.com/2020/12/we-need-little-christmas-right-this.html
Happy Saturday. Mr. L always teases me because for just about every tune I've ever heard, I have a favorite part. Just a few notes. I grew up in a musical home. My Dad played the trumpet...
https://lornabarrett.blogspot.com/2020/12/whats-your-favorite.html
To celebrate Cyber Monday, TODAY and tomorrow, I'm offering seven of my books at 50% off from Nook and Smashwords. Why these books? Why not? Don't have a Nook? Get the free app. Click this lin...
https://lornabarrett.blogspot.com/2020/11/cyber-monday-book-sale-at-nook-and.html
KATIE’S BEEN DEALT THE DEAD MAN’S HAND … It’s all fun and games when Katie Bonner and her friends play poker for chocolate-covered peanuts, but the very next day Jamie Seifert c...
https://lornabarrett.blogspot.com/2020/11/coming-february-5th-dead-mans-hand.html
Happy Sunday! When you're skipping a meal (every day for months on end. It's called intermittent fasting), you start to become obsessed with food. (Starting?) I start planning lunch the mi...
https://lornabarrett.blogspot.com/2020/11/a-lovely-lunch.html
Thanks to Covid-19, we're getting in the holiday mood a little early this year. My brother and his wife bought a pop-up trailer three years ago. Since then, they've upgraded twice t...
https://lornabarrett.blogspot.com/2020/11/its-little-things.html
Today is National Pieorgi Day and Mr. L will be having them for lunch. Buffalo has a big "Polish" population. Mr. L's mother was a first generation American of Polish descent and made all kind...
https://lornabarrett.blogspot.com/2020/10/ready-for-something-different.html
Nothing says "hire me" like a sales pitch that starts out "your website is crap." Really, NOTHING. I can't tell you how many of these pitches I get in a week. Most of them from other countri...
https://lornabarrett.blogspot.com/2020/10/if-you-want-my-bucks-dont-insult-me.html
Happy Book Day to my Victoria Square co-author, Gayle Leeson. Check out her latest Down South Cafe Mystery, Fruit Baskets and Holiday Caskets on sale now. (Don't worry, the Amazon paperback ed...
https://lornabarrett.blogspot.com/2020/09/happy-book-day-to-gayle-leeson.html
YAY! It's been almost six months since I got a call from my agent telling me that Berkley was interested in at least two more Booktown Mysteries. But then the pandemic hit and everything went on...
https://lornabarrett.blogspot.com/2020/08/a-deadly-deletion.html
As most of you know, I write the Lotus Bay Mysteries (and not often enough). When I started the series, I based it on a real place. Over about a decade, I'd watched what I began to call "Kat...
https://lornabarrett.blogspot.com/2020/07/saving-kathys-house.html
Yesterday we opened our pool for the summer. It's always a potentially frightening event. Will the water be clear or murky? Will the bottom be full of dead worms who wiggled their way under t...
https://lornabarrett.blogspot.com/2020/06/welcome-to-pool.html
It's only been 15 years in the making. Back in the day (which means before I was published in novel-length), I experimented with several different genres. I started out with hard-boiled s...
https://lornabarrett.blogspot.com/2020/06/give-sabina-chance_9.html
Last week, I got a note from a reader of my Booktown Mysteries . She wrote: "I can't bring myself to read on. In every good series there are twists and turns, good & bad,,but killing off (SPO...
https://lornabarrett.blogspot.com/2020/06/saying-good-bye-to-reader.html
Just about everyone around the world has had their lives impacted by Covid-19. Here's my list of things that we won't be doing or having done. No flowers: we usually go to the local nursery and...
https://lornabarrett.blogspot.com/2020/06/summer-with-good-and-bad.html
It's Tuesday. I have to look at the calendar or the computer to remind myself what day it is. I also find that I'm forgetting to do stuff I want to do because--SQUIRREL!--I get distracted, w...
https://lornabarrett.blogspot.com/2020/05/mixing-things-up.html
Welcome to WONDERFUL Wednesday. Are you baking today? I think instead of baking, I'll be roasting (which is kind of the same thing as the oven is involved.) All last fall, I saved my squash s...
https://lornabarrett.blogspot.com/2020/04/squash-seeds-roasting-in-hot-oven.html
I'm on a recipe roll. Mr. L and I save the newspaper to read in the evenings. After a day at the computer, we just want to chill out with an adult beverage and the paper. We don't read our loca...
https://lornabarrett.blogspot.com/2020/03/love-those-slow-cooker-recipes.html
A few weeks ago, Mr. L and I tried a new-to-us restaurant for lunch. I ordered a Cuban sandwich on our first visit. It wasn't the best I'd tasted. Needless to say, I wasn't impressed. Mr. L c...
https://lornabarrett.blogspot.com/2020/01/love-me-good-spud.html
It's National Chocolate Cake Day. Wouldn't you like a slice?
https://lornabarrett.blogspot.com/2020/01/couldnt-you-go-for-slice-right-now.html