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K.L. Murphy

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K.L. Murphy is the award-nominated author of Her Sister’s Death, a 2023 Silver Falchion Finalist for Best Mystery and the January 2023 Once Upon a Book Club Pick. She is also the author of the Detective Cancini Mystery Series: A Guilty Mind, Stay of Execution, and The Last Sin. Her short stories are featured in Deadly Southern Charm and Murder by the Glass. Last Girl Missing, the first book in her new crime series, will be published in July of 2024.

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K.L. Murphy If I were writing a cozy mystery, I would include the mystery of the missing blender. Returning home from a trip, I found that our blender was gone. A…moreIf I were writing a cozy mystery, I would include the mystery of the missing blender. Returning home from a trip, I found that our blender was gone. Although my kids and various aunts/uncles were here during that time, no one could explain how it disappeared. A few weeks later, my sister-in-law said she had taken it because she thought it was hers???? (We both had old and dated blenders!) Oddly, she never thought to mention that she'd taken it although it sat right on the counter and was used almost every day. I didn't mind as I bought a much better blender before the mystery was solved. In the meantime, I had quizzed everyone and it became a fun question. "Who has the blender?" I wonder...could a blender be a blunt force object used in a "mixing" murder? Hmmm....
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K.L. Murphy I haven't had any extended periods of writer's block (yet) but for short term dead periods, I like to take walks with the dogs. For some reason, it's …moreI haven't had any extended periods of writer's block (yet) but for short term dead periods, I like to take walks with the dogs. For some reason, it's one of the times when I just let my mind wander from story idea to story idea. Works for me!(less)
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So happy to have Heather Weidner visiting today. Although she’s stopped by before (as one of the Mutt Mystery authors), I’m thrilled to have her here today. Heather is the author of a brand new, truly fun and clever cozy mystery series set in an upscale trailer resort, called the Jules Keene Glamping Mysteries. Glamping is all the rage and this book with its plucky heroine will be, too. VINTAGE TR

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