At the reading of her beloved father’s will, Kate, a divorced French professor, learns of his affair during World War II with a French artist named Emilie to whom he has left a substantial bequest. Kate, stunned to discover the existence of this woman who captivated her father, is determined to unravel the mystery of his …
The new Dodie O’Dell mystery coming June, 2020 (Kensington Publishing) With Halloween just around the corner, Dodie O’Dell is making preparations to transform the Windjammer Restaurant on the Jersey Shore into a haunted house, while the Etonville Little Theatre is staging Dracula. But casting the titular Transylvanian is proving challenging. The amateur actors in the …
It’s 1945 in the bar of the La Fonda Hotel, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, thirty miles from Los Alamos. People from the town meet to drink, gossip, and trade theories about the activity on the Hill, where the scientists of the Manhattan Project are developing the atom bomb. In the midst of the political …
Business is humming at Dodie O’Dell’s Windjammer Restaurant, where she offers theme menus connected to the Etonville Little Theatre’s amateur productions. This June, the theatre is collaborating with the neighboring Creston Players to stage Bye Bye Birdie under the stars—their first musical! There’s a contest in the play to pick a fan to receive rock …
Just in Time by Suzanne Trauth Just in Time is an engaging addition to this clever series. The best one so far in the entertaining series. Delightful characters. I look forward to reading the next one. This particular book captured my attention from the beginning and kept me engaged all the way through…an excellent cozy …
Restaurant manager Dodie O’Dell has found her niche in the cozy New Jersey town of Etonville, creating menus that make a delicious double-act with the community theater’s productions. Now she’s ready for a vacation at the Jersey Shore town she called home before a hurricane hit. Sun, salty air, and seagulls make for a nostalgic …
Restaurant manager Dodie O’Dell’s themed food ideas have been called cute, clever, and delicious, but never revolutionary—until now. Dodie’s Windjammer Restaurant is stocking the Etonville Little Theatre’s concession stand with colonial-era desserts and drinks and a local playwright has adapted Thornton Wilder’s Our Town into Eton Town, shifting the story to colonial America and the …
The cozy mystery world is seriously going to take over the world. I am finding new diamonds each time I open a cozy. Time Out is no different. Suzanne gives readers just what they need in a cozy, charm, wit and great mystery! Dodie, oh my new dear friend. You got yourself in a humdinger …
In 1991, Charlotte Cranford travels to the Soviet Union to direct a production of Streetcar Named Desire with a Ukrainian cast. She battles the language barriers and cultural customs, finds herself in a love triangle, and struggles to get the show up, only to become enmeshed in the military coup that toppled the old order …
It’s almost that time again…no not Christmas, although the holiday is approaching rapidly. No, it’s nearly time for the second Dodie O’Dell mystery- Time Out – to make an appearance January, 2017! I’ve been asked about the inspiration for my mystery series and where the characters and story originate. There have been a number of …