Author name: Kari Bovee

A Mystery Writer Investigates – The Balham Mystery I present the case. You bring the verdict. A five-part serial A new marriage, an old scandal, and a household full of quiet resentments — and then one of them ends up

After the war and the influenza that followed it, a whole generation was in mourning — and the dead had never felt so close. All you had to do to reach them was sit in a dark room and pay

The moment someone died, a Victorian family hurried to drape every mirror in the house in black. And it wasn’t to shield themselves from their own grief. It was to shield themselves from the beyond. When death came to a

On the historical women who were silenced for knowing too much—and the fictional ones I built in their image. On the evening of February 1, 1922, Mabel Normand left the Los Angeles bungalow of director William Desmond Taylor in a

In the nineteenth century, knowing your plants was the mark of a well-bred woman. It was also, should she ever decide she needed it, one of the quietest ways in the world to commit murder. Botany was one of the

In the mid-1920s, a young woman named Louise Brooks left Kansas, danced in George White’s Scandals, and then joined the Ziegfeld Follies on 42nd Street. An infatuated Paramount producer named Walter Wanger signed her to a five-year contract after seeing

One of the occupational hazards of writing historical fiction is falling in love with details your readers will never believe. History does not care about plausibility. It simply happened. And some of what happened is so strange, so perfectly suited

What a cozy mystery actually is, where it came from, and why millions of readers are devoted to the genre. There is, more often than not, a murder at the center of every cozy mystery. Someone dies. Badly. Usually before

On the morning of June 18, 1860, the county sheriff arrived at the home of Elizabeth Packard. He was there to take her to an asylum. She had not been given a hearing. She had not been examined in any