I’m so excited to have been invited to participate in a book signing event at Barnes & Noble’s new store in downtown Naperville. I’ll have copies of all five of my Bella Sarver mystery novels available for purchase, including the latest, The Butterfly Carpet Murders, and I’m so looking forward to meeting with and discussing the books with my readers. Bella Sarver is an artist and teacher who lives in a fictional Chicago Suburb called Deer Creek. She loves to participate in community events and to travel in Europe. She certainly doesn’t plan it, but wherever she goes, she somehow becomes involved with people getting themselves murdered, and is able to use her artist’s expertise to figure out ‘who dunnit.”

I actually hate the term ‘cozy mysteries,’ which is, unfortunately, the designation given to the genre my books fall into. It seems to impart a certain flightiness or shallowness to the work. But when I really think about it, if that term puts my Bella Sarver in company with such as Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple or Lord Peter Wimsey, well– who am I to complain?

Event details: Barnes & Noble, Naperville