Edie Roones

My pen name of M.A. Lee has just published book 8 in the Hearts in Hazard series. The Key for Spies Spies and traitors.   Lies and treachery.   Unexpected love where bullets fly. One traitor destroys loyalty.   What will two traitors destroy? The British spy Simon Pargeter scouts the terrain for Wellington’s army in French-controlled Spain.   Miriella de Teba ye Olivita, the famed Doñabella, wants to give him aid, but she must first find the traitor lurking in her band of guerillas. Can Simon escape the French patrol hot on his trail?   With Major Pierre LeCuyer actively seeking Doñabella’s identity, can Miri hold her guerrillas together long enough to get the information Simon needs?   Can she locate the traitor before she is unmasked? Or will the traitors reap the reward while Simon and Miri swing from a gallows? The Key for Spies clocks in at 98,000 words.   Set in the Regency era, the Hearts in Hazard series combines s...

Dagger Meets Wizard ~~ Here's the opening of a story that's currently intriguing me.  Rabbit holes are problematic. Foolish. Or magicked. He’d asked Faldo and his cronies about the Keirne.   That question was going to get him killed. Which was a shame, for he was a fine specimen of a man. He’d walked in like he owned the tavern, never stopping on his way to the bar.   He stopped beside Faldo and his cronies.   The tapster waited for his order, but the fine specimen ignored him.   He leaned an elbow on the scrubbed plank that had to be sticky from spilled liquor and broke into Faldo’s conversation, a conversation that Dagger had listened to, hoping to get information about which brothel the men were headed for their night’s entertainment. “Keirne?” Faldo repeated.   “I don’t know no Keirne.” “The Keirne of Kirchwald,” the fine specimen clarified.   “You’re Faldo, aren’t you?   You were there for the charge on the Red Tower.  ...

Actually, I just finished this book.  And I have to recommend it.  It's well worth your time and money. I love a good mystery.  I love a good snarky voice.  I especially love a local well-drawn setting that is necessary to the story. Last October I purchased a first book by one of our classic mystery writers Christianna Brand.  I'm on a mission to read the first outings by writers who became great.  Brand authored two dozen mystery novels. Death in High Heels was Brand's first mystery, inspired by an irritating co-worker that she dreamed about killing.  No lie!  It's in the biography. I didn't get to the book until New Year's, and I've just finished it.  And I was surprised--pleasantly so.  Why? Well, for a book that was dreamed up as a fantasy about killing a co-worker, it was hilarious! The puzzle was even better.  For most mysteries, I can figure out the puzzle before the first third of the book is complete.  I ...

For an Afternoon Cuppa to keep you Warm I brew my coffee (freshly ground, filtered water, slow perk) every morning and limit myself to 2 cups of caffeinated daily. Sometimes, though, I just want coffee in the afternoon. One cup, that’s all. Prerequisites: Organic. Decaf. Quick. Good tasting. This hits those four marks, and the taste is better than good. I like my coffee black, but sometimes a bit of cream is an indulgence. This stands up to the cream: the coffee flavor becomes smoother but isn’t overwhelmed. It also is a great base on which to build Irish coffee (a spoon of whipped cream, a few crystals of turbinado sugar, a splash of Makers Mark, and this: now that’s Irish coffee!). The coffee flavor doesn’t get lost; all the flavors come together for divine relaxation on a winter’s evening. This is a repeat buy. If traveling and needing decaf (or caffeinated), Mount Hagen offers little convenience packets as well. Thank you, Mt Hagen, for making travel still organic! Oh, and ...

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