Thursday, July 3, 2025

Squashed: A Snack-Sized Mystery

Squashed: A Snack-Sized Mystery front cover

The fourth book of the bingeable Snack-Sized Mystery series is available on Amazon in both eBook and print versions. Read for free with Kindle Unlimited. From the back cover:

Where's Kimber? Does her cryptic message to Murph Murphy signal danger, or is she simply on holiday, as the local constables want to believe?

Murph rushes to ensure his sometimes-assistant is safe. Will he be able to track her down in a land as foreign to him as Quebec City, or is it already too late?

Ever-hungry food critic and amateur sleuth Murph Murphy rights culinary wrongs and serves criminals their just desserts in the
Snack-Sized Mystery series where Hallmark mysteries meets food TV. Each book offers readers quick and satisfying dips into the cut-throat world of an inquisitive foodie.

Journey with Murph as he seeks out perpetrators of crimes against food and man.

Saturday, April 12, 2025

The Other Side of the Mountain

The Other Side of the Mountain book cover

The fourth anthology of the Tales From the Pikes Peak Writers is now available, with 15 brand new short stories themed to the title, The Other Side of the Mountain. New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry has written an all-new Monk Addison Case-file exclusively for the anthology.

This latest anthology, as well as the previous three, will be available, along with a book signing, at Authorpalooza during the Pikes Peak Writers Conference on May 3, 2025, 6:00-7:00p.m. at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Colorado Springs. Authorpalooza will be open to the public.

All of the anthologies will also be available at Pikes Peak Library's Mountain of Authors at Library 21C on May 17, 2025, 12:00-4:30p.m.


Monday, November 13, 2023

Tossed: A Snack-Sized Mystery Cruise

Tossed Book Cover

Food blogger Murph Murphy is a fish out of water as a competition judge on a cruise ship filled with celebrity chefs, and at least one murderer (I mean where can you go where there are really no murderers). He's sure the wrong person is in the brig but he's running out of time to prove it. Once the luxury liner docks in the UK, the real killer will slip away.

The Snack-Sized Mystery series offers readers quick and satisfying dips into the cut-throat culinary world of an inquisitive foodie.

Set sail with Murph as he seeks out perpetrators of crimes against food and man.

The third book of the new mystery series, Tossed: A Snack-Sized Mystery Cruise, is available in bookstores and libraries, and on Amazon in both eBook and print versions.

 

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Hooked on Books

For those of us who don't want to send all our money to Amazon and like to support local businesses, we are happy to say that one of our local bookstores, Hooked on Books, carries the first two titles from our Snack-Sized Mystery series: Smoked, and Cracked.

Hooked on Books is located in downtown Colorado Springs at 12 E Bijou St, 80903, (719) 419-7660. It might be a good idea to give them a call to make sure they have them in stock (or just drop in and browse their many other titles) as I have found them to sell outwhat a problem to have!

 

Thursday, July 13, 2023

Cracked: A Snack-Sized Mystery

Food blogger Murph Murphy's goose may be cooked, this time—there's a fresh murder, Irma is in lockup, and that stalker knows where he lives. Murph's shattering world endangers everyone around him. He could make a run for it, but can he leave the life he's built behind?

The Snack-Sized Mystery series offers readers quick and satisfying dips into the cut-throat culinary world of an inquisitive foodie.

Ride along with Murph and Irma as he seeks out crimes against food and man.

Book two of the new mystery series, Cracked: A Snack-Sized Mystery, is available in bookstores and libraries, and in both print and eBook versions at Amazon.

And there's more to come in Tossed: A Snack-Sized Mystery Cruise.


Sunday, May 21, 2023

Book Signing at Hooked on Books, Saturday, May 27, 2023

Catherine Dilts, Jeff Schmoyer, CS Simpson and Robert Spiller will be signing the third Pikes Peak Writers anthology, Journeys into Possibility, along with others of their books, at Hooked on Books,12 E Bijou St, Colorado Springs, CO 80903 on Saturday, May 27, 2023 from 12-3p.m. Please join the authors for select readings and cookies! You may bring your own copies of the books, or purchase or order them from Hooked on Books.

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Smoked: A Snack-Sized Mystery

Smoked book cover

Why do so many of food blogger Murph Murphy's restaurant reviews go sideways? All he wanted was a good plate of BBQ. All he got was one lousy scallop and a demand not to leave town. Then there's that stalker...

The Snack-Sized Mystery series offers readers quick and satisfying dips into the cut-throat culinary world of an inquisitive foodie.

Ride along with Murph and Irma as he seeks out crimes against food and man.

Book one of the new mystery series, Smoked: A Snack-Sized Mystery, is available in bookstores and libraries, and on Amazon in both eBook and print versions.

And stay tuned for book 2, Cracked: A Snack-Sized Mystery.