Thanksgiving

Nov 2017 18

Secrets and Pies By Jenny Kales: Review/Giveaway/Guest Post & Recipe

2017 Articles, Food Fun, Kathleen Costa, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Kathleen Costa
& Jenny Kales

It is such a delightful experience connecting with a favorite author, talking about their book, their motivation, style, and process, but when you are lucky to become part of that process, it just adds to the wonderful experience. I “e-met” Jenny Kales over a year ago, you know meeting someone online, when I read and reviewed her Callie’s Kitchen Mystery series highlighting On the Chopping Block and Spiced and Iced. She has been such a delightful Facebook buddy, and when she took me up on my offer to help in anyway I could with her next book, I was thrilled to become a beta reader for Secrets and Pies.

Nov 2017 18

A Chinese Thanksgiving

2017 Articles, Food Fun

by Tiana Matson

Thanksgiving Day is a particularly big holiday in North America, especially for Canadians and Americans. It’s a special and festive time that brings families together, reminding them to be thankful, giving perspective and encouraging thoughtfulness in life. It’s so important that folks in foreign lands will rush back to be with their families for this holiday season.

Nov 2017 18

Surviving the Feast: A Thanksgiving Mystery Short Story & Recipe

2017 Articles, Mysteryrat's Maze, Terrific Tales

by Joan Leotta

I hate turkey. So, it is easy to understand why Thanksgiving's meal is not my favorite. The idea of giving thanks for bounty is great. I simply do not see the point in overstuffing one's self with dry turkey meat and stale bread stuffing along with cranberry juice reduced to a can-shaped gelatin.

Nov 2017 18

Dipped By Elaine Macko: Review/Giveaway/Guest Post

2017 Articles, Kathleen Costa, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Kathleen Costa
& Elaine Macko

Elaine Macko starts us off with Alex Harris posing an interesting query…is it good to be passionate over something that involves the death of another? Well, Alex Harris sure has a knack for falling into murder mysteries, and this time, when she gets up covered in chocolate and finding a body also “dipped” in chocolate, it puts her right back into…what else, murder! I love it, but what a way to ruin all that chocolate!

Nov 2017 4

Turkey Trot Murder By Leslie Meier: Review/Giveaway

2017 Articles, Mysteryrat's Maze, Sandra Murphy

by Sandra Murphy

Anybody who knows Lucy, realizes her life revolves around her family—husband Bill, daughters Elizabeth, Sara, and Zoe, and son Toby. Thanksgiving usually means a full table and everybody home for the meal. This year, Elizabeth’s working in Paris, Toby and family are in Alaska, Sara’s going on a field trip to Greenland, and Zoe has decided to visit a friend in Montreal.

Nov 2016 23

The Thanksgiving War: Thanksgiving Mystery Short Story

2016 Articles, Mysteryrat's Maze, Terrific Tales

by Warren Bull

Dad looked at me seriously and said we need ‘to talk.’ I knew it wasn’t that talk. We’d had that one months ago. I don’t know which of us had been more embarrassed and uncomfortable. In my mind I ran through the possible screw ups that I’d done that were major enough to warrant a talking to. Dad had already found the fireworks I was keeping hidden in the garage for Jimmy.

Nov 2016 22

White Lies and Green Bean Casseroles: Thanksgiving Mystery Short Story

2016 Articles, Mysteryrat's Maze, Terrific Tales

by Bern Sy Moss

There I was at Sam's Club using the one-day pass I found on the internet when my backside took aim. I bent over to retrieve paper towels and bumped the shopper across the aisle bending over for paper napkins. I'm a big girl and what seemed to me like a slight bump apparently was much more to her. It sent her flying to the floor.

Nov 2016 21

They eDone Him Wrong: A Thanksgiving Mystery Short Story

2016 Articles, Mysteryrat's Maze, Terrific Tales

by Gail Farelly

74-year-old Uncle Jack would have survived Thanksgiving if only he had kept his big mouth shut. Why didn’t he just use it for eating instead of opening it wide and inserting his foot right into it?

Nov 2016 19

Holiday Summons: Thanksgiving Mystery Short Story

2016 Articles, Mysteryrat's Maze, Terrific Tales

by KM Rockwood

Duncan Montpelier flicked a nonexistent bit of lint from his deep rose shirt cuff and straightened the fiber optic cufflink, the latest from Thomas Pink’s. He frowned at the letter on the brushed steel surface of the hall table.

Nov 2016 19

Pumpkin Pie in Japan

2016 Articles, Food Fun, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Lorna Collins

In August of 1998, we moved to Japan to build the Universal Studios Japan theme park in Osaka. Prior to our move, we had hosted six Japanese students in our home. One of the perks of living there was the opportunity to see our ‘kids.’