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 …
A day in the life of Dodie O’Dell by Suzanne Trauth
Project Y is a community of artists, designers, and playwrights devoted to developing new work through staged readings, online video projects, workshop productions, and fully produced world premieres.
Toronto was a blast! Bouchercon 2017 was a wonderful opportunity to renew acquaintances, meet new folks, and to get introduced to unfamiliar writers. I even met a detective from the Toronto Police Forensic Identification Services. His specialty is footprints and footwear! Hmmmm…wouldn’t be surprised if my next Dodie O’Dell mystery features some clues from 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 …
It’s been ten days since the Bouchercon Mystery Writers Convention ended but the terrific memories are still with me: meeting other writers on panels, seeing wonderful mystery novelists interviewed, and having the opportunity to read from my book Show Time. Of course there is always New Orleans and all it has to offer by way …
Dodie is at it again when the Etonville Little Theatre produces Arsenic and Old Lace and life imitates art. The guest director dies over a plate of knishes at Dodie’s 1940s theme food festival. To save the reputation of the Windjammer restaurant, she sets to work, foils a dangerous plot, and saves Arsenic and Old …
Q: What are you currently working on? Tell us about it. Currently I am working on an e-book mystery series called the Dodie O’Dell Mystery Series. I signed a contract with Kensington Publishing for the initial three books in the series with a July 2016 release. So, I am copyediting the first, revising the second, …