Scott D. Parker: Storyteller

It was a Christmas album that really turned me onto a band. In 2019, my son discovered the Cheap Trick Christmas album (2017). At that point...

If it's New Jersey, of course mobsters are involved. In this, the third book featuring lawyer Andy Carpenter and his intrepid pooch, Tar...

As an outsider looking in, there appeared to be certain cliches associated with cozy mysteries. Up until now, just a few books into what I&#...

It's funny how various things show up at around the same time. I'm reading the February book from Murder by the Book's Cozy Corn...

Note: this post uses television as an example, but the same could be said of books, movies, comics, and music. Most Saturday mornings, I go ...

Flush with a twenty-two million dollar inheritance, attorney Andy Carpenter seemingly has it made. Well, except for suffering from what he c...

We writers know all about the vicissitudes of writing prose, the good, the bad, the frustrating, and the glorious. Most of us know that for ...

It took only fifty years but I finally listened to Carole King’s Tapestry. If you read about my regulated reading a few weeks ago, you’ll r...

Back in the Christmas season of 2020, infused with a desire to read a Christmas mystery, I went to Houston's Murder by the Book and pick...

Well, that was something. As a native Houstonian, I used to look north at winter with a sense of missing out. Look, they had snow. That all ...

I’m going to school again, and I couldn’t be more excited. I call it Cozy College, a year-long look into cozy and traditional mysteries. And...