When People Around You Keep Dying…

Mary Ann Cotton, an English woman who lived during the Mid 1800’s in County Durham, had a habit of marrying men and then collecting the insurance policy when they died. Which they invariably did. At 20, Mary Ann married her first husband, collier laborer, William...

Florence Maybrick: Murderer or Misunderstood?

This is perhaps the most interesting—and juiciest—entry in my murderous women series. Florence MayBrick was an eighteen-year-old American girl who married an Englishman, James Maybrick, many years her senior. At first, the couple seemed happy, despite their...

Dealing with a Cranky Boss, Kate Webster Style…

Welcome to the start of a new blog series that was so much fun to research and write. And by fun, I mean I discovered things that totally creeped me out and kept me up at night. See, fun! And don’t get me wrong, As much as I love scary books, I do NOT like scary...

My 2025 Reading List

It was hard for me to make out this list of my favorite books of 2025. Not because I read so many but because this is the sum total of all the fiction I managed to read last year. I did read about five or six non fiction books, but as a life long reader, this list is...