Malice Domestic 2023 Pop Up Interviews

Dark and Stormy Book Club

Popup Show Notes
On this episode we visit with six authors who visited our room during Malice Domestic.
Lynn McPherson, is a Canadian author. She is a cozy mystery writer and author of The Izzy
Walsh Mystery Series. Her books are fun, light-hearted whodunits. They pair well with a strong
coffee or a light chardonnay, and are a recommended way to spend a relaxing afternoon. She
also writes under the name Sydney Leigh. Her newest book, The Girls Dressed For Murder...
When Izzy gets a killer dress for her birthday, she isn’t expecting to accessorize it with murder...
It’s 1958 in the cozy coastal town of Twin Oaks and amateur sleuth Isabelle Walsh is armed with
a fresh perspective, two years after tragedy strikes. The first stop on her journey back to joy is
the best little dress shop in town—introduced to her by best friend and fashion fiend, Ava
Russell.
Izzy falls in love with the store and its style. So, when the boutique is marred by murder, Izzy
wants to help. But with more suspects to choose from than a spring collection, she isn’t sure
where to start. Can Izzy unravel the twisted truth or will she become the victim of a deadly
trend? Find out in the third book in the Izzy Walsh Mystery Series! Lynn's website is
Sydneyleighbooks.com
Olivia Blacke joined us to talk about her Record Shop Mysteries.
She is the author of the Record Shop Mysteries, beginning with Vinyl Resting Place, and
the Brooklyn Murder Mysteries (Killer Content and No Memes of Escape), finally found a way to
put her criminology degree to good use by writing quirky, unconventional, character-driven cozy
mysteries. Olivia is a little nerdy, a lot awkward, and just the right amount of weird. She is a
recovering ex-Texan who resides with her husband, Potassium, and Baileycakes, their roly-poly
rescue puggle. When not writing, reading, or spending way too much time on social media,
Olivia enjoys amigurumi crochet, scuba diving, collecting tattoos, watching hockey, and baking
dog cookies. She wants to be a unicorn when she grows up. Her website is oliviablacke.com
Desmond P. Ryan is a friend of the show from Canada. He is an ex-police detective and
wsrites the Mike O'Shea mysteries. One of the main characters in his books is Mike O'Shea's
motheer, Mary Margaret. She is a typical Irish woman who rules the household with an iron fist
and takes no prisoners. She so encompassed the Mike books that we (that's right WE)
suggested that she needed a series of her own. That brought Desmond to Malice this year. He
has a contract for both Mike O'Shea and Mary Margaret books. He can be found at the website
realdesmondryan.com
We then talked with Marilyn Levinson who writes under the name of Allison Brook. She has
the Haunted Library Mystery series; Allison Brook is a former Spanish teacher who grew up in
Brooklyn, New York, then Long Island, off the coast of New York. She has studied in Mexico and
Spain to become fluent in Spanish, and has written in the genres of mysteries, romantic
suspense, and young adult fiction. She can be found at Crooked Lane's website .
We then talked with Sue Anger, a delightful author. We talked about her book Last Known
Port. While growing up in Beaufort, North Carolina, she often heard rum-running stories from
the Prohibition era. Although fern bars, yachts, and supermarkets may have replaced the old
working-boat waterfront, the town still values its unique Southern history. Since she became a
freela nce writer in 2014, She's written short stories, essays, magazine articles, content, and
blogs.She is also a bona fide, dyed-in-the-wool fan of historical fiction and mysteries. She's also
a long-time member of Sisters in Crime and the Triangle Area Freelancers in Raleigh, North
Carolina.Her website is sueanger.com
Finally, we talked with Vicki Delany. She is a friend of the show and a prolific author. She has
over 40 books out and writes the Tea By the Sea, The Sherlock Holmes Bookshop, The Year-
round Christmas, The Lighthouse Library mysteries as well as several others. Her latest book is
The Game Is A Footnote. Gemma Doyle and Jayne Wilson are back on the case when a body is
discovered in a haunted museum in bestselling author Vicki Delany's eighth Sherlock Holmes
Bookshop mystery.
Scarlet House, now a historical re-enactment museum, is the oldest building in West London,
Massachusetts. When things start moving around on their own, board members suggest that
Gemma Doyle, owner of the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium, might be able to get to
the bottom of it. Gemma doesn’t believe in ghosts, but she agrees to ‘eliminate the impossible’.
But when Gemma and Jayne stumble across a dead body on the property, they’re forced to
consider an all too physical threat.
Gemma and Jayne suspect foul play as they start to uncover more secrets about the museum.
With the museum being a revolving door for potential killers, they have plenty of options for who
might be the actual culprit.
Despite Gemma's determination not to get further involved, it would appear that once again, and
much to the displeasure of Detective Ryan Ashburton, the game is afoot.
Will Gemma and Jayne be able to solve the mystery behind the haunted museum, or will they
be the next to haunt it? Her website is Vickidelany.com