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Winner of Best Cozy Mystery 2021, BIBA

best indie book award winner for cozy mystery 2021

When cousin JJ’s husband goes missing on an archaeological dig in the middle of ancient Mayan ruins, the Alvarez Family springs into action and heads for Guatemala’s El Mirador Basin. Even though ace detective Lee Alvarez tries not to go anywhere she can’t plug in her hot rollers, she can’t help but follow the clues in a foreign land filled with earthquakes, wild animals, deadly gods, stolen artifacts, villains, and yuk! snakes. But can she find the missing man? Or will she, too, become another casualty of this alien world, beautiful but deadly?

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  • Sheltering in Place – Day 44

    Sheltering in Place – Day 44

    Today I started the final chapter of the latest Alvarez Family Murder Mysteries, Casting Call For a Corpse. This novel has taken a really long time, probably close to 18-months. It’s not any more complicated than the others, but I’ve been a little busy, what with one thing and another. Let’s face it, just trying…

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  • Sheltering in Place – Day 43

    Sheltering in Place – Day 43

    Today was Ellie, my cat’s,10th  birthday. I looked on the internet to see what else happened 10 years ago on April 28th. Absolutely nothing else of significance. Apparently, the highlight of April 28, 2010, was Ellie’s birth. I’ve always suspected this. No wonder she thinks of herself as a queen (note the crown). I know…

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  • Sheltering in Place, Day 42

    The governor of California has extended the shelter-in-place mandate until the end of May! Good grief! I have committed myself to nattering on about my thoughts and feelings until the shelter-in-place days are over. But what am I going to drivel on about? Because, let’s face it, drivel I do. Let me marshal my options…

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  • Sheltering in Place – Day 41

    Sheltering in Place – Day 41

    Today Hubby and I went to Lucky’s at midday on a Sunday. Nutso, right? We were driving up to San Francisco to have a sidewalk visit with hubby’s 95-year-old mother and her granddaughter, our niece. How did we wind up at Lucky’s? Niece asked up to bring up some milk. That’s what it started with.…

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  • Sheltering in Place – Day 40

    Sheltering in Place – Day 40

    In a few days’ time, it will be my cat, Ellie’s, birthday. On April 28th she will be 10 years old.  I never thought I would see her live that long, what with her asthma and all. I thought I would be lucky to have her reach her 6th birthday. But there you are. You…

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  • Sheltering in Place – Day 39

    Sheltering in Place – Day 39

    Today I had a Zoom meeting with other board members of Mystery Writers of America or MWA. I’d had my first Zoom meeting several months ago, pre-COVID19, but, that doesn’t count. Anything PC19 doesn’t have the sincerity or desperation about it that AC19 (after Covid19) has. Yes, nowadays it’s just you, me, and our chitty-chatty…

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  • Sheltering in Place – Day 38

    Sheltering in Place – Day 38

    I don’t know how to order online. I have to admit it. I thought it would be simple, but it isn’t. And I’ve made a few faux pas, which is French for you blew it. Fortunately, I have a very understanding husband. He gets that while I have many virtues, ordering online is not one…

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  • Sheltering in Place – Day 37

    Sheltering in Place – Day 37

    Today I was out shopping and saw something horrific.  A woman was actually out in public looking slovenly and unkempt. Good grief, she hadn’t even brushed her hair. Even the mask on her face couldn’t hide her lack of regard for the social mores we have come to expect from people who step outside their…

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