To all my visitors along the east coast, please stay safe and warm this weekend. Don’t take chances with Old Man Winter’s frigid blast.
Weather fascinates me. That’s why I weave weather into my cozy mysteries. That, and the fact that you, the reader, deserve to know what Darcy and Flora and Ned are dealing with. I want you to see what they see, feel what they feel.
In Moonlight Can Be Murder, Ned arrives in Ednalee along with a December snowstorm. All during December, the snow falls, off and on. It is an unusually snowy month. Ned’s fireplace in her uncle’s Victorian house keeps the chill off until she is able to find that the furnace is workable. And, there is snow at Christmas time. Snow and candles and carols at church. I loved writing about that snowy December!
The Cemetery Club begins with a violent storm. It doesn’t help any that rain makes the highway slick when bad guys are pursuing Darcy and Flora out of town and certainly impedes their flight through the soggy countryside, just one step ahead of two killers.
Autumn is a time of weather changes and change happens in Grave Shift. Darcy and Flora drive to Amarillo and the day after they return to Levi, Amarillo is hit with snow.
Best Left Buried finds our sleuths dealing with winter again and snow as well as a secret dug from an old well which certainly heats up their lives. In Levi, just as in real-life Oklahoma, weather can turn on a dime. Interesting.
Yesterday, I went with Darcy and Flora through a flood. Terrible time. Water all over the place and there they were, out in it! Wouldn’t you hate to be stuck in a cave with a flooded river coming in? Well, they were! I was exhausted by the time I finished writing that chapter of Grave Heritage.
So, I watch with interest and best wishes how weather is affecting you folk in the East. It looks to me like the perfect time to stay indoors, fix a pot of coffee or tea, get comfy on the sofa and read your favorite cozy mystery. That’s the best and safest way to deal with Old Man Winter.
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