SMFS Member Publishing News: Unmasked by Edith Maxwell

 

SMFS list member Edith Maxwell reported that her short story, Unmasked, was published at Kings River Life Magazine. You can read it for free online here.

SMFS Member Publishing News: Bye-Bye, Jojo by Edith Maxwell

SMFS list member Edith Maxwell’s short story, Bye-Bye, Jojo, appears in Black Cat Weekly #139. Published by Wildside Press, the issue is available here in digital format.

SMFS Member Publishing News: Murder Uncorked: A Cece Barton Mystery by Maddie Day/Edith Maxwell

 

SMFS list member Edith Maxwell’s new book, Murder Uncorked: A Cece Barton Mystery has been released. Writing as Maddie Day, this is the first read of a new cozy mystery series published by Kensington Books. The book is available in audio, digital, and print formats. It is available from Amazon and other vendors.

 

Publisher Description:

Raise a glass to Cece Barton, a widowed single mom and recent L.A.-to-California-wine-country transplant who suddenly finds herself at the center of a murder investigation in this sparkling new mystery series from Agatha Award-winning author Maddie Day.

As the manager of Vino y Vida Wine Bar in Colinas, Cecelia “Cece” Barton’s first Alexander Valley harvest is a whirlwind of activity. Her twin sister, Allie Halstead, who owns a nearby Victorian bed & breakfast, is accustomed to the hustle and bustle of peak tourist season. But Cece barely has a moment to enjoy her new home in between worrying about her estranged college-age daughter, juggling her responsibilities at the bar, and navigating the sticky politics of the local wine association. Just when it seems things can’t grow any more intense, Colinas is rocked by a murder within the wine community . . . and Cece is identified as a possible suspect!

With her reputation and her livelihood on the line—and the Sonoma County deputy sheriff breathing down her neck—Cece has no choice but to open up her own murder investigation. Tensions are already high in the valley, as a massive wildfire creeps toward Colinas, threatening homes, vineyards, and the vital tourist trade. And now, with a murderer on the loose, and Cece’s sleuthing exposing the valley’s bitterest old rivalries and secret new alliances, Colinas feels ready to pop! But with Allie’s help, Cece is determined to catch the killer and clear her name before everything she’s worked so hard for goes up in flames . . .

SMFS Member Publishing News: A Questionable Death and Other Historical Quaker Midwife Mysteries by Edith Maxwell

 

Today is publication day for SMFS list member Edith Maxwell’s new book, A Questionable Death and Other Historical Quaker Midwife Mysteries. Published by Crippen & Landru Publishers, the short story collection is available in print format from the publisher, Amazon, and other vendors. Top of Form

 

Publisher Description:

One of the rising stars of the last several years has been author Edith Maxwell, who also writes as Maddie Day. Her works in traditional mystery have included a number of series characters, including Rose Carroll, a Quaker midwife of the 19^th century, whose complete short works appear in this Crippen & Landru collection for the first time. Maxwell has added new stories to this book, which include mysteries from the perspective of other characters near and dear to Rose.

Edith Maxwell writes the Agatha Award-winning and Macavity-nominated Quaker Midwife Mysteries and Agatha-nominated short crime fiction. As Maddie Day, Maxwell pens the Country Store Mysteries, the Cozy Capers Book Group Mysteries, and the Cece Barton Mysteries. She’s a proud lifetime member of Sisters in Crime and a member of Mystery Writers of America.

Maxwell lives north of Boston, where she writes, gardens, cooks, and wastes time on Facebook. Find her (and Maddie) at EdithMaxwell.com, wickedauthors.com, Mystery Lovers’ Kitchen, and on social media under both names.

 

SMFS Member Podcast News: Peril in Pasadena by Edith Maxwell

 

The current AHMM podcast features SMFS list member Edith Maxwell's short story, Peril in Pasadena.  The story originally appeared in the September/October 2022 issue of AHMM. The podcast is available here for free.

 

Website Episode Description:

Edith Maxwell, who also writes under the name Maddie Day, is the Agatha-winning author of the Quaker Midwife Mysteries. Here, she reads her story "Peril in Pasadena" (AHMM Sept/Oct 2022), which features 1920s private eyes Dorothy Henderson and Ruth Skinner in a case involving a woman astronomer.

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SMFS Member Publishing News: Four Leaf Cleaver: A Country Store Mystery by Maddie Day/Edith Maxwell

 

Today is publication day for SMFS list member Edith Maxwell’s new book, Four Leaf Cleaver: A Country Store Mystery. Writing as Maddie Day, the book is published by Kensington Books. The book is available in print, audio, and digital formats, from Amazon and other vendors. This is the eleventh book in the series that began with Flipped For Murder.

 

Description:

The eleventh installment in Maddie Day’s deliciously popular Country Store cozy mysteries . . . It’s Saint Patrick’s Day in  South Lick, Indiana, but a holiday cooking competition at Robbie Jordan’s country store and restaurant Pans ’N Pancakes is put on the back-burner when a killer strikes.

There’s no mistaking Saint Patrick’s Day at Pans ’N Pancakes. Robbie may only be Irish by marriage to Abe O’Neill, but the shelves of vintage cookware in her southern Indiana store are draped with glittery shamrocks and Kelly-green garlands and her restaurant is serving shepherd’s pie and Guinness Beer brownies. The big event, however, is a televised cooking competition to be filmed on site.

Unfortunately, someone’s luck has run out. Before the cameras start rolling, tough-as-nails producer Tara O’Hara Moore is found upstairs in her B&B room, bludgeoned apparently by the heavy hilt of a cleaver left by her side. Now, not only does Robbie have a store full of festive decorations, she’s got a store full of suspects . . .

John A. Hoda Podcast: Edith Maxwell | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 167

 John A. Hoda Podcast: Edith Maxwell | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 167

Publication News: Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

 The March/April issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine has arrived.  Among the stories are:

Ralph Hornbeck. "Strangler Fig."

Edith Maxwell.  "Bye-Bye Jojo."

Josh Pachter (translator). Dominique Biebau. "Russian for Beginners."

Publication News: Bloodroot

 

Bloodroot: Best New England Crime Stories includes:

Bruce Coffin. "Murphy's Law."

Edith Maxwell. "Dark Corners."

 Clea Simon. "No Cities to Love."

As well as the Al Blanchard Award winner: Joseph S. Walker. "Herb Ecks Goes Underground"

Publication News Edith Maxwell

 

 

SMFS member Edith Maxwell has a story in the November/December edition of the Alfred Hitchcok´s Mystery Magazine. 

The story´s titled An Excellent Team and an excerpt can be read here.

Member Publishing News: Edith Maxwell

 Today marks the publishing of Edith Maxwell's seventh Quaker Midwife mystery, A Changing Light.

Read about it here. 

Wicked Authors: The Murderer and the Author #giveaway by Edith Maxwell

 Wicked Authors: The Murderer and the Author #giveaway by Edith Maxwell

SMFS Member Publishing News: Edith Maxwell

 

Today is publication day for SMFS list member Edith Maxwell’s new book, Candy Slain Murder: A Country Store Mystery. Writing as Maddie Day, the book is published by Kensington Publishing and available in print, digital and audio formats. This eighth book in her long running mystery series is available from the publisher, Amazon, and other vendors

 

Publisher Synopsis:

 

Christmas cheer has sent the griddle into overdrive at Robbie Jordan’s popular country store and café. And this year, there’s a new seasonal special to feast on: murder!

 

As December sweeps through South Lick, Indiana, Robbie’s life seems merry and bright like the string lights glistening around town. But strange happenings signal a bumpy ride into the holidays. First a man raises eyebrows at Pans ‘N Pancakes when he claiming to be the long-lost half-brother of Robbie’s assistant. Then a fire destroys the home of a controversial anesthesiologist, exposing skeletal remains in his attic. Helplessly intrigued, all Robbie wants for Christmas is to stop her winter wonderland from becoming a real nightmare. With a decades-old mystery taking shape, can she run as fast as she can in pursuit of a killer who’s harder to crack than a stale gingerbread man?

SMFS Member Publishing News: Edith Maxwell

Yesterday was publication day for SMFS list member Edith Maxwell’s new book, Taken Too Soon: A Quaker Midwife Mystery. Published by Beyond the Page Publishing, this is the sixth book in the series that began with Delivering the Truth. The read is available in both print and eBook formats from Amazon and other vendors.

Publisher Synopsis:

A new book in the Agatha Award-winning series by Edith Maxwell!

Quaker midwife Rose Carroll must turn her investigative skills on her own family when a young woman’s murder stuns a New England community . . .

Following a long betrothal, midwife Rose Carroll and her beloved David are finally celebrating their marriage with friends and relatives, when a most disturbing telegram interrupts the festivities: the young ward of Rose’s aunt has suffered a mysterious death, and Rose’s help is needed urgently on Cape Cod. Reluctantly agreeing to mix her honeymoon plans with murder, Rose embarks on an investigation that will expose family secrets and a community’s bigotry.

As Rose does her best to comfort her aunt in her loss and also learn as much as possible about the poor young victim’s death, she discovers that each new clue points to a confounding list of suspects: a close friend of the victim who may have harbored secret resentments, an estranged brother of David’s with an unsavory reputation, and the son of a Native American midwife who supposedly led the young woman astray. And as Rose grows closer to identifying the perpetrator, the solution will rattle her assumptions about her own family and faith . . .

THE STILETTO GANG: A Change of Scenery by Edith Maxwell

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SMFS Member News: Edith Maxwell/Maddie Day

SMFS list member Edith Maxwell, has participated as part of a panel on food cozies for “Bookmarked: The Under the Radar Book Club.”  Produced by WGBH Boston (NPR) and hosted by Callie Crossley, Edith Maxwell as Maddie Day was one of three authors participating in a discussion on food cozies. Under her Maddie Day persona, Edith read an excerpt from her latest book, Nacho Average Murder: A Country Store Mystery. The discussion can be listened to here.

Synopsis:

It’s our special August edition of “Bookmarked: The Under the Radar Book Club” and we’re talking with authors who leave the spicy and sweet on the page in a mystery sub-genre known as food cozies. On the plate — author Joanne Fluke’s Coconut Layer Cake Murders, Maddie Day’s Nacho Average Murder, and V.M. Burns’ “Motherless Child.” These mavens of full-stomach fiction join us for an hour-long conversation about this popular genre, perfect for a summer read.

Guests:

·         Joanne Fluke is the author of “Coconut Layer Cake Murder: a Hannah Swensen Mystery,” the 26th novel in a series.

·         Maddie Day is the author of “Nacho Average Murder: a Country Store Mystery,” the seventh in a series.

·         V.M. Burns is the author of “Motherless Child: an RJ Franklin Mystery, “ the second in a series.

SMFS Member Publishing News: Edith Maxwell

Today is publication day for SMFS list member Edith Maxwell’s new book, Nacho Average Murder: A Country Store Mystery. Writing as Maddie Day, the book is published by Kensington Publishing and available in print, digital and audio formats. This seventh book in her long running mystery series is available from the publisher, Amazon, and other vendors.

Publisher Synopsis:

Robbie Jordan is temporarily leaving Pans ’N Pancakes, her country store in South Lick, Indiana, to visit Santa Barbara, California—where wildfire smoke tinges the air, but a more immediate danger may lie in wait . . .
 
While looking forward to her high school reunion back in California, Robbie’s anticipation is complicated by memories of her mother’s untimely death. At first, she has fun hanging out with her old classmates and reuniting with the local flavors—avocados, citrus, fish, and spicy Cali-Mex dishes. But then she gets wind of rumors that her mother, an environmental activist, may not have died of natural causes. With the help of friends, Robbie starts clearing the smoke surrounding the mystery—but what she finds could make it hard to get back to Indiana alive . . .

KRL Guest Post: Not in Kansas Anymore by Edith Maxwell

KRL Guest Post: Not in Kansas Anymore by Edith Maxwell

SMFS Member Podcast News: Maddie Day (Edith Maxwell)

The latest KRL Podcast features the first chapter of Death Over Easy: A Country Store Mystery by Maddie Day aka Edith Maxwell. Published in July 2018, the read is the fifth book in the series. It is available in print, audio, and eBook formats as Amazon and other vendors. The KRL Podcast features the first chapter of the book as read by local actress Julia Reimer.  You can hear the KRL Podcast here.

From the site:

This episode features the first chapter of Death Over Easy by Maddie Day aka Edith Maxwell. It is read by local actor Julia Reimer. Death Over Easy was published by Kensington in July of 2018 and is part of the Country Store Mystery series. This book and others by Maddie/Edith are available for purchase. You can learn more about her writing on her website. In each episode, we share with you mystery short stories and mystery novel first chapters read by actors from the San Joaquin Valley. Julia Reimer has also read past podcast stories for us and they too are available here, and on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and most places where you listen to podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode please review or rate it as that helps more people be able to find us! Also, consider subscribing so you never miss an episode-both to this podcast and to the podcast newsletter. You can find more mystery fun on our websites Kings River Life Magazine and KRL News and Reviews.

2019 Agatha Award SMFS Winners

Established in 1989, Malice Domestic™ is an annual fan convention in the metropolitan Washington D.C. area that celebrates the traditional mystery, best typified by the works of Agatha Christie, containing no explicit sex, excessive gore, or violence. With the cancellation of Malice Domestic this year due to the pandemic, the awards were presented last night virtually by way of zoom.

Two SMFS list members were honored with Agatha Awards last night. The members are:

Tara Laskowski won an Agatha Award for the “Best First Mystery Novel” category for her book, for One Night Gone (Graydon House).

Edith Maxwell won an Agatha Award in the “Best Historical Novel” category for Charity’s Burden: A Quaker Midwife Mystery (Midnight Ink).

SMFS salutes our list members on this honor.  The winners this year will be honored next year at the planned in person event. Those details and more can be found at the can be found at the Malice Domestic website.