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About Barbara Ross
Barbara Ross is the author of twelve Maine Clambake Mystery novels and six novellas. Her books have been nominated for multiple Agatha Awards for Best Contemporary Novel and have won the Maine Literary Award for Crime Fiction. She lives in Portland, Maine. Readers can visit her website at www.maineclambakemysteries.comWelcome Maine Author Sandra Neily
by Barb, in her last post from Key West, beginning the long trek back to Maine at the end of the month Please welcome my guest, Sandra Neily. Sandra’s debut mystery, Deadly Trespass, is up on Kindle and will soon … Continue reading →
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What Keeps Me Reading a Long-Running Mystery Series?
Hi. Barb here. In book jail in paradise. It’s either a blessing or a curse. I can’t make up my mind. At the end of the month, when I hand in the sixth Maine Clambake Mystery, Stowed Away, I’ll be … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alexander McCall Smith, Deborah Crombie, Elizabeth George, Louise Penny
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Bikes of Key West
Hi. Barb here. Unfortunately I’m in book jail. Deadline near and far more writing road to travel. Then a proposal and a short story due after that. Like planes stacked up over an airport with a single runway open. Fortunately, … Continue reading →
The Seafarer Inn
Many of you already know that we lost my mother-in-law on January 27th. Here is her obituary in the Boothbay Register. The dedication in Fogged Inn, the fourth Maine Clambake Mystery, reads: This book is dedicated to my mother-in-law, Olga … Continue reading →
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Tagged Boothbay Harbor, Fogged Inn, maine clambake mysteries, olga carito
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The Professional Aunt
dispatched from Key West by Barb Over Christmas, my son Rob found a book in my mother-in-law’s apartment, titled, The Professional Aunt. He brought it to me because he found it funny. We have a long tradition of auntdom in … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barnhard Adelbert Clausius, Bertha Helena Smith, Edwin Luytens, George Wemyss, Mary C. E. Wemyss
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A Visit to the Thompson Ice House
Barb here. (Or rather there. I’m actually in Key West.) My latest Maine Clambake Mystery, Iced Under, explains how my protagonist, Julia Snowden’s family made their fortune in the “frozen water” trade. I had a lot of fun researching the … Continue reading →
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It's Twins–Liz Mugavero and Barbara Ross Celebrate New Releases
by Barb. Packing madly. Leaving tomorrow for Key West. My friend Liz Mugavero and I are celebrating a double book birthday today. Not only do we have the same agent (John Talbot) and the same editor (John Scognamiglio at Kensington … Continue reading →
The Real Eggnog Murder
by Barb. Tree up. Baking done. Cards in process. Now to wrap the presents. When Kensington Publishing Corp. asked me to write a novella for their anthology Eggnog Murder, I could have saved a lot of time had I but … Continue reading →
Thanksgiving Leftovers: Corn and Turkey Chowder
Hi All. Barb here. I know you are absolutely bursting after yesterday, and perhaps nursing a tryptophan hangover, or a real one. Also, perhaps you are wondering what to do with the turkey carcass? So I decided to rerun a … Continue reading →
Introducing Eggnog Murder and Christmas Traditions
by Barb, who’s finally admitting the days are getting shorter, the temperatures colder. Sigh. This is official Kensington release week for Eggnog Murder in hardcover, ebook and audiobook. The large print edition is coming in early December. Eggnog Murder is … Continue reading →
