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         <title><![CDATA[Contest]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Help your friend win a book. Click on the link at the end of this sentence to send an email that says "My friend (name your friend) sent me to this website. In the subject just put "contest". &nbsp;RoundersMysteries@gmail.com
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         <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2014 16:33:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Rule of Mom]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The rule of mom
I’ve been struggling with whether or not to capitalize words that refer to a person, such as my mom, the sheriff, etc.
Up until I started consulting various grammar sources, I didn’t know that you capitalized ‘mom’ if you referring to your mom: “Yesterday, I told Mom I would be late coming home from school.” But, the authorities say, you would not capitalize it if there is a possessive [or an article] in front of it: “Yesterday, I told my mom I would be late coming home from...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2014 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[Thursday, August 21, 1952
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The Rounders met for coffee on Thursday mornings at Midway, a roadside cafe and gas station on the Lincoln Highway. Cedar Rapids was twenty miles east, and Belle Plaine was twenty miles west. The group’s name came from the round table where they sat.
Built in 1922 as a speakeasy and brothel, the small bedrooms upstairs where young women plied their trade weren’t used anymore. Mac—Mackenzie Brownlee, the owner of Midway—didn’t like to think about what went on up...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2014 12:58:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Chapter 1]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Late evening, Wednesday, November 11, 1953
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It was the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Armistice that ended World War I. Willard Carlisle always approached the anniversary with bad feelings. In 1918, he had been an officer in France when the Armistice was signed. It was a great day for the Western Allies, a day of incredible celebration.&nbsp; But on each anniversary of the day, Willard couldn’t help thinking about all the soldiers he had commanded who had died as the result of the...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2014 12:54:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Chapter 1]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Chapter One
July, 1925 to July 1954
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When she heard the shot, Jessie knew her mother had been murdered. She had been awakened by a noise and had gone downstairs to investigate. The shot had sounded like a bolt of lightning, and Jessie instinctively knew she was dead.
At 15, Jessie knew her life, as she had known it, was over.
She went to the top of the stairs and called. There was no answer. Frightened by what she knew she would find, she crept down the carpeted stairs.
Entering her...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2014 12:47:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Homer and the lumberyard]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Homer took his hired hand to the lumberyard. He stayed in the truck while the hired hand went in to get the stuff they needed. The hired hand told the man behind the desk he needed some four-by-twos.
‘You mean two-by-fours, don’t you?’ the man asked.
The hired hand said ‘I’ll go check.’ He went back out to Homer. When he came back in, he said, ‘Yeah, I mean two-by-fours.’
Then the clerk asked, ‘How long do you need them?’
The hired hand paused and said, ‘I’ll go check.’ After a while, he came...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2014 12:29:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[About the Rounders]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The Rounders are six friends from small towns in Eastern Iowa. They have been meeting once a week for coffee at Midway, a roadside cafe and filling station on the Lincoln Highway. They got their name from the shape of the old oak table where they sit. Accidentally, find themselves drawn into solving murders in their communities—much to the dismay of the county sheriff.
The books are what the publishing trade calls 'cozies.' They're not thrillers, suspense dramas, or true-life crimes. Just a...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2014 12:04:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Rounders]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The Rounders are six friends from small towns in Eastern Iowa. They have been meeting once a week for coffee at Midway, a roadside cafe and filling station on the Lincoln Highway. They got their name from the shape of the old oak table where they sit. Accidentally, find themselves drawn into solving murders in their communities—much to the dismay of the county sheriff.
The books are what the publishing trade calls 'cozies.' They're not thrillers, suspense dramas, or true-life crimes. Just a...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2014 11:54:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Book 3: Murder for Spite (published 2014, 220 pages)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Out of spite, the Alton brothers compete to build the most impressive house. When the bully of the pair is brutally slain, the surviving brother, an abused spouse, and two greedy nephews are all suspects in the murder.
To solve the case, six quirky friends, the Rounders, must also solve the real-life 1925 murder of a female Prohibitionist who was shot as she was about to reveal the names of local bootleggers. When the sister of the murdered Prohibitionist takes a job with one of the Rounders,...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2014 11:32:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Book 2: Murder in Three Acts (published, 2013, 201 pages)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[In 1954, Willard Carlisle retires to Belle Plaine after earning a fortune on Wall Street. He’s persuaded his young wife to come with him on the promise she can turn the town’s old movie theater into a community playhouse. At last she will be a star! But trouble ensues when he goes to find her at the end of the dress rehearsal for the first play, “Our Town.” She’s been brutally murdered. Was she killed by her ex-husband when she wouldn’t give him money to keep him from exposing her secret? Was...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2014 10:26:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Book 1: Murder is Broadcast (published, 2013, 197 pages)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[It’s 1952 and John Truesdale is found murdered on his own farm. Six amateur sleuths are on the case. Calling themselves the Rounders, they are friends who meet for coffee every Thursday morning at a roadside cafe on the Lincoln Highway in Eastern Iowa. They’re together when the radio announces the untimely death of Truesdal
With strikingly different backgrounds and personalities, the Rounders have one thing in common: a nose for crime. They discover a lot of folks wanted Truesdale dead. Rumor...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2014 10:23:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Ruthie's Easy Chocolate Cream Pie]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Don't tell Lawrs how easy this was for Ruthie to make. Buy a frozen piecrust (yes, they were available in the fifties), or use a prepared graham cracker crust. Pre-bake the piecrust (not the graham cracker one) at 375 until golden brown. (Use a fork to make small holes in the crust before baking so it won't buckle.) Cool. Prepare one large package of chocolate pudding mix (or two smaller ones) --Ruthie used the cook-and-serve kind, but today she'd use instant, sugar free pudding mix). Add one...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2014 17:04:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Lawrs' Chili]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Lawrs is no cook, but he can make chili. Here's the easy recipe:
1 can kidney beans (drained), 2 cans diced tomatoes, 1 sauted onion, 1 lb loosely fried hamburger, chili pepper and ground cumin seed to taste. (You can add a small amount of water--but Lawrs never does; he likes it thick. When serving, top with grated cheddar cheese. Have it with peanut butter on crackers or nestled inside celery sticks.
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         <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2014 16:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[About 'Cozies']]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Traditional cozies are light, sometimes humorous, and slow-paced compared to the other mystery categories. The murder is usually quite civilized and (along with sex—if there is any) happens off scene. Solving the crime is a battle of wits between a reluctant amateur sleuth and the villain. The setting is most often in a small town or community and the subcharacters are quirky and fun. The sleuth falls into the mystery by accident or circumstance and uses common sense and ‘gray cells’ to solve...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2014 16:46:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[On corpses]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA["There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better." 
04/08/2013 19:51 —S.S. Van Dine
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         <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2014 16:44:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Not So Simple 50s]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[



Many people think of the 1950s as a simpler time. I Love Lucy, Father Knows Best, Leave it to Beaver, Ozzie and Harriet. That's the way today's media portray the decade.
But the 1950s were much more a precursor to everything we struggle with today. Mass consumption and mass production began. People wanted things to be standardized as they zipped across country on the new Interstate Highway system. McDonalds and Holiday Inns were popping up everywhere. Everyone was in a rush. Quality control...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2014 16:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[A 50s Trivia Quiz]]></title>
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1. What was Kefauver's trademark?
2. Who was Charles Van Doren?
3. What happened across from the White House in 1952?
4. Who was Checkers?
5. What killed 4000 people in London on December 5th, 1952?
6. What was Chevy's response to the Volkswagen?
7. Who visited Roswell Garst's farm near Coon Rapid,s Iowa in 1959?
8. What famous children's art tool was invented in 1959?
9. What was a DA?
10. Who was Betty Furness?
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1. The coonskin cap: He defeated Truman in the Democratic...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2014 16:39:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[A Preview of Book 4: (to be published in late 2014)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A young artist, Rafe Jessup, comes to town to work as a teacher in 1955. He wants to become a professional artist, but he has to have a source of income while he develops his style and creates a sufficient body of work he can show in a friend’s New York gallery.
He looks for a private place to live where his oil paints will not smell up the typical bedroom most first-year teachers rent from homeowners in town. Pansy, one of the Rounders, lets him have an old house for next-to-nothing, provided...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2014 11:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Murder for Spite is now available]]></title>
         <link>https://rounders-mysteries.webnode.page/news/murder-in-three-acts-has-gone-to-press/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[The third mystery in the Rounders series, Murder for Spite, is now available. You can find it on Amazon as a softback or for Kindle. It can also be ordered through www.CreateSpace.com.&nbsp; An autographed copy can be ordered directly from the author. (See below)
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         <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2014 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[New Book]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[As I've written elsewhere in this blog, writing is more fun than editing. But getting the second in my Rounders Mystery series was made easier with the help of two people. One, an old friend, Jean Robinson, who now lives in Brazil. She was kind enough to give me some helpful feedback on the characters and plot.
I was lucky enough to find a new friend, Hope Sankot-Rogers. She completed a word-by-word proof reading in three days! Talk about long shots. In high school, I dated a great girl, Pat...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:08:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Writing is fun, proofing is not]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Proof reading isn’t my notion of fun. All those periods, commas, and quotation marks. [Notice that the preceding words “All those . . . marks.” do not a sentence make—there’s no verb.] It’s okay for a novelist who's trying to create rhythm and variety to write like that. But you’d better not turn it into your English teacher.
And should there be a comma after a conjuction [e.g., 'and' or 'not'] when it begins a sentence and isn't the beginning of a clause? As I understand it, if you are 'comma...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:36:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA["There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel,  and the deader the corpse the better." ]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[—S.S. Van Dine
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         <pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:51:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA["The crime novel is the great moral literature of our time."]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[&nbsp;
—Jean-Patrick Manchette
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         <pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Setting up websites isn't much fun either]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[At Christmas, 2012, my daughter, Julie, presented me with a draft website—the precursor to this one. Unknown to either of us was that it wouldn't support e-commerce, the fancy way selling on the Internet is called. After several failed attempts with other providers, I went back to the same company Julie had used, except that I redesigned the site as an e-commerce site. (I had to retype everything; that resulted in lots of typos a friend of mine caught recently.)&nbsp;
Little did I know that all...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:32:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[
Charles L. Hutchins—most people know him as Larry—grew up during the 1950s in a small town in Iowa, the setting for the Rounders Mysteries. Educator, photographer, and genealogist, he summers in the Colorado mountains and spends the remainder of the year in St. Louis, Missouri. A widower with two grown daughters, he has read mysteries since he was eleven.
He has a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in theatre, television, film, and communications research.&nbsp;He worked in a research lab in...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:17:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Murder is Broadcast—Available Now]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Order now: click on the title of the book in the "Categories" section, above.
Murder is Broadcast is the first in the Rounders Mysteries.
Synopsis:&nbsp;It's 1952 and John Truesdale is found murdered on his own farm. Six amateur sleuths are on the case. Calling themselves the Rounders, they're friends who meet for coffee every Thursday morning at a roadside cafe on the Lincoln Highway. They're together when the radio announces the untimely death of Truesdale.
With strikingly different...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:06:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Murder in Three Acts—Available Now]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Order now: click on the title of the book in the "Categories" section, above.
Synopsis: Willard Carlisle retires to Belle Plaine after making a fortune on Wall Street. He's convinced his young wife to come with him on the promise she can turn the old King movie theater into a community playhouse. At last she will be a star! But trouble quickly ensues when he goes to find her at the end of the dress rehearsal for the first play, "Our Town." &nbsp;She's been murdered. Was she killed by her...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:06:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Murder for Spite—under construction]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Murder for Spite, the third in the Rounders series, will be available at the spring of 2013.&nbsp;
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Synopsis: Two brothers have built houses across the road from each other. When one brother adds a balcony, porch, or wing to his house, the other brother adds something to his just for spite. Why do they dislike each other so much? Then one of the brothers is found dead at the bottom of his basement stairs. Who killed him and why? His brother? Was it his estranged ex-wife? The hired-hand? A...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Mac's famous 'loose meat' sandwiches]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Mac refused to pay the fee to use the Maid-Rite logo, so she invented her own version. Everyone in town thinks hers are better!
2 pounds of ground round; 2 TBS vegetable oil; 1/2 cup of vinegar; 1/4 cup of Worcestershire sauce; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp pepper. (Add the seasonings, including the vinegar and Worcestershire sauce at the end, after you have rinsed and drained the meat.)
As you're frying the meat, keep breaking it up into crubles. It's essential that the meat be broken up into small...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Get autographed copies]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[To get an autographed of any of the books copy send a check for the amount of the book plus $2.50 for 'media mail' (or $5.50 for 'Express Mail) to C. L. Hutchins 2920 Eads Avenue, Saint Louis, Missouri. If you want an inscription to a specific person or persons, name the person.
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         <pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:26:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <category><![CDATA[The First Book Is Available]]></category>
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         <title><![CDATA[Homer and the fertilizer]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Homer was driving along the road with a load of fertilizer. A little boy, playing in front of his house, saw him and called out, "Mister, what've you got in your truck?"
"Fertilizer," Home called back.
"What are you going to do with it?" asked the little boy.
"Put it on stawberries," Homer replied.
"You ought to live here," the little boy advised him. "We put sugar and cream on ours."
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         <pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:21:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Mystery Series]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The Rounders are six friends from small towns in Eastern Iowa. They have been meeting once a week for coffee at Midway, a roadside cafe and filling station on the Lincoln Highway. They got their name from the shape of the old oak table where they sit. Accidentally, find themselves drawn into solving murders in their communities—much to the dismay of the county sheriff.
The books are what the publishing trade calls 'cozies.' They're not thrillers, suspense dramas, or true-life crimes. Just a...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 12:33:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[I would never have imagined]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[If you had told me I would be writing mysteries a few years ago, I would have said you were crazy. But I’ve read mysteries all my life, so I suppose what I now enjoy doing should not be too surprising. &nbsp;I enjoy a complex plot that is entirely probable but keeps you guessing. Maybe the fact that my father was a lawyer in a little town and would talk to me about his cases got me started.

	
		For two summers when I was in high school, I worked at the real Midway on the Lincoln Highway...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 19:37:00 +0200</pubDate>
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