If you’ve ever experienced the frostiness of winter, you can appreciate the coziness that the photo in this post generates. It’s no wonder that on this snowy January day I’m bundled in a warm comforter while I tap away on my keyboard.

I have news: I’m working on Book 4 in the Megan Scott/Michael Elliott Mystery series. It will include the usual murder (or murders), suspects, witnesses, and whatever else I decide to throw into the “plot” to spice up the storyline. More on this later!

In the meantime, I’d like to share a passage from Icy Silence that captures the mood of this latest mystery novel in the series. In it, Megan is a weekend guest at a private college school located miles from the nearest city. She describes the ice storm that has isolated her and everyone else on campus from the rest of the world.

“I gazed out the window to survey the damage. The icy silence on campus was deceiving. Tree branches had expanded with ice overnight and intertwined their frosty tentacles with those of neighboring trees. Sheets of ice had slid off rooftops and shattered into jagged shards on impact. The campus was strewn with broken branches and debris, a testament to the damage such a storm can inflict and to the challenges facing the school in days ahead. Even in the aftermath of a destructive path, the tempest showed no sign of abandoning its hold.”

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