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COYLE?

 
To read Cleo's
essay "Brewing
up Murder"

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appeared in
the Quarterly
Issue of Mystery
Readers Journal  


 

 

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Cleo Coyle's
WIki Entry
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Interview
here

 

 

 What is a
cozy mystery?
The Cozy
Mystery
List tells you

click here

 

 

 

  

Gumshoe
Review
Interviews
Cleo Here

 

  

LIBRARY
THING

Hosted a chat
with Cleo.

 

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Fun Foodie
Book Resort
Interview
with Cleo
Here.

 

  

 

 

 

 


 

 

How to Clean
Your Drip
Coffee Maker...

Your best tasting
cup of java will
come from a clean
coffee maker!


 


Just for fun, see actor
Al Pacino's coffee
commercial below.
It was shot in New
York's West Village,
the home of
my Clare Cosi's
Village Blend!

 
  


 


 

 

NYPD DET. 
MIKE QUINN'S 
BEAT

   

Click »  NYPD: Official Website for New York's Finest

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Click »  Police Blotter (NY Post)

 




 

Want to
know
WHY
I write?


  

 Wait for the last line
of this movie preview.
~ Cleo

 

 


 


 

 

 



 


 RISK


 


EVERYTHING


 

 

 


 

 

 How to Make
Cuban Coffee

 

 

For more
info on the
Moka Express
stovetop pot
used in the
above video,

Click Here

 

 

 


 

 

 

On Opinions...

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

So you're
scared

and you're
thinking that...


 ...maybe
we ain't that
young
anymore.

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

How
about
remembering
your...



divinity.


 

 


 

 

  



MEMBER
OF...

 Click the logo
to learn more
about
Sisters in Crime

  


 



 



Colonial
Cranberries

 

 To read my
HOLIDAY GRIND
guest post
at Fresh Fiction.com
and get 4 of my
holiday recipes,
 
CLICK HERE.


 

 


A BLOG
POST
FOR
WRITERS:

Read Cleo's
Guest Post at
Mystery Writing
Is Murder

"Genre Blending
and Your Character's
Love Life"

Click here to read.

 

 

 

 

Cozy Murder
Mysteries Blog
Interviews
Cleo

Part 1
click here

Part 2
click here

 

 

 


  
 

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PLUG!

NOW
IN
PAPERBACK!

 

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Mystery
Besteller

  

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~Library Journal


 

  

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excerpt!

Introduced by
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   Only Love...
 
  

        
 

 


 


 

Every week,

Cleo Posts 

Recipes

& Tips

 

Where?

 

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Kitchen

  

Mystery
writers
cooking up
crime...
and recipes!

  

 


 

 

 

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It brings us into the moment...


 

And then the moment is gone.

 

    


 


 

How to Make
Coffee in a
French Press


 
 

For more
info on the
French Press pot
click the photo
below...

For more coffee
tips, scroll down
this left column...



 


 

 

 

 

Cleo's Past 
Coffee Pick was...

Kafe Lespwa
"Coffee of Hope"
from Haiti

Read more in
Cleo's archives or

click here to
visit Just Haiti.org

 

See more of
Cleo's past
coffee picks
by scrolling
down the 

right column.

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

HOLIDAY
GRIND


Cleo's TOP-9
National
Bestseller in
Hardcover
is

now a

bestseller in
paperback!

 

“Fun and gripping…”
~ Huffington Post

 
 

 "Some of the most
vibrant characters
I've ever read."
~ Mystery Scene


"This one will keep
your cup
piping hot."
~ Kirkus

vif   

  

 

 

 

 
 

To order this very special entry in Cleo's series, click on one of the links below:

 

 
 

 

 

indiebound

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Bookstore
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⇑  Click on the photo to get the recipe! ⇑

Welcome
to my *virtual* coffeehouse!

 
The coffee is brewing, the
fireplace is crackling, and the muffins
are baking.
So come in to my virtual
Village Blend to
warm your
bones and hang out for a little while.
 
 
~ Cleo Coyle


Contact at: 
CoffeehouseMystery@gmail.com
 


 

Click here to learn about Cleo's
Coffeehouse Mystery book series set
in a landmark coffeehouse in New York's
legendary Greenwich Village.

 

 


Last Updated

Friday
May 18, 2012 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And now…

 

 

 

 

 

from

 

 

 

 

 

New
York City

 

 

 

 

 

it’s…

 

 

 

 

 

Cleo’s 
Free Coffee
Drawing!!!!

 

 

(Okay, calm down.
It's just free coffee.)


 

 

THIS WEEK'S
CLUE!

 

Last evening, I randomly selected this week's winner
of my FREE COFFEE DRAWING. The winning e-mail
address begins with the letter G. If your address begins
with that letter, then check your e-mail box!

You must reply to my notifying e-mail by next
Friday to win the package of my
latest coffee pick. Scroll down to learn more
about this coffee and the roaster I’ve chosen…

 

Drink with joy!
~ Cleo 

 

 

 

Join me for my next
FREE COFFEE 
DRAWING


Next - Thursday
May 24th
 
@ 10 PM Eastern * 9 PM Central
8 PM Mountain * 
7 PM Pacific
 
  
 
To enter next week's
Free Coffee Drawing and all of 
my future drawings, simply 
send an email that says
"Sign me up" to 
CoffeehouseMystery@gmail.com
 

 

 

 

This week's prize is a package of
my latest coffee pick, Poco Fundo
a premium coffee from Brazil.

Scroll up to learn more about
this coffee and the artisanal roaster
I’ve chosen…

 

 

 

 

Congrats to the
previous winner of
my Coffee Drawing:
Margery of Princeton,
New Jersey!

 

To see the names and towns
of past Coffee Drawing winners 
keep scolling down this page.
 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Free
Recipe PDF

 

 

 

 

Cleo Coyle's
Easy Honey-Glazed
Peach Crostata

 


Download a free PDF of this 
recipe by reading my new blog post 
at Mystery Lovers' Kitchen, just...

 

Click Here.

 

 

See you there!

~ Cleo 

 



To see more of my recipes,
simply scroll down 
this page
or jump to the Recipe Page
of this site by clicking here.

 

egg

 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Set a new course.
There's coffee

in that nebula.

 


 ^ Click me

~ Captain Janeway,
Star Trek: Voyager

 

     

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Free 
Recipe PDF

 

 

Cleo Coyle 

Bakes Up an 
Urban Legend

Download a free PDF of this famous 
cookie recipe and my thoughts 
(and advice) on baking it by...

 

 

CLICKING
HERE

 

 

As the urban legend goes, one day a Neiman Marcus customer asked the store if it wouldn't mind sharing its famous Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe. The store staff provided it, and billed the woman for $250.00! To prove this story was not true, Neiman Marcus shared its recipe with the the public, and now I'm sharing it with you (along with my thoughts and some two-penny advice on baking it).

 

 

Eat (cookies) with joy!

~ Cleo Coyle

 

 

 


To see more of my recipes,
simply scroll down 
this page.
You can also visit the Recipes page
on this website by
 
clicking here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

Cleo's
Mother's Day
Recipe Post

 

 

Insanely Easy
Cherry Streusel
Coffee Cake

 

Download a free PDF of this recipe
by reading my new blog post
at Mystery Lovers' Kitchen, just...

 

Click Here.

 

 

See you there!

~ Cleo 

 



To see more of my recipes,
simply scroll down 
this page
or jump to the Recipe Page
of this site by clicking here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Win the
Coffeehouse
Mystery Pin!

 


 

My May
Contest is On!


Learn how to enter
by 
clicking here.

 

This limited edition Coffeehouse Mystery pin 
is handcrafted by Pattie Tierney Designs
To learn more about the pin, 
click here.

 

You can win the pin from me
by entering my 
contest.
You can also purchase the pin 
from
Pattie. All profits go
to the artisan. :)

 
 
 
 
Wear it with joy! 
~ Cleo
 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some Caffeinated
Video Fun...

 

 

----------------------------------------

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A fun Cleo post from
earlier this year...


Chinese New Year
Recipe Post!

 


 

Take a Trip
to New York's 
Chinatown!

Get a free PDF of my new recipe 
and join me on a virtual trip to
Chinatown to celebrate the
Lunar New Year! Simply jump to
my new recipe blog post by...

 

CLICKING
HERE

 

See you there!
~ Cleo

 

 

 


To see more of my recipes,
simply scroll down 
this page.
You can also visit the Recipes page
on this website by
 
clicking here.

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

Free 
Recipe PDF!

 

 

Cleo Coyle's
Coffee Shop
Doughnut Muffins

 


 


Tender and sweet, these
cinnamon-sugar dusted muffins
taste like old-fashioned
cake doughnuts, the kind you might 
order at a diner counter with a fresh,
hot cuppa joe...  

 

 

 

Yes, Coffeehouse readers,
these are the very muffins that
Clare Cosi bakes in 
Roast Mortem 

(now an official national
bestseller in paperback!)... 

Download a free PDF
of my recipe by ...

 

CLICKING
HERE

 

~ Bake with joy! 
~ Cleo


 

To see more recipes 
featured in 
Roast Mortem
click here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

Question 1. 
 

"What do you consider to be
literary caffeine – the ingredients
that give your readers that extra
jolt of adrenaline?"

 

 

Cleo's Answer?

Below...

 

 


Hartford Examiner 
Interviewed

Cleo Coyle

 

To read the interview..

Click Here!

 

See you there!

~ Cleo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Audio News!

 


Decaffeinated
Corpse


A past #1 bestseller of
the Independent Mystery
Booksellers Association 


Just produced as
an audiobook from AudioGo
(BBC audiobooks America)

 

Coffeehouse Mystery titles
now available in audiobook
form include:

 

#1 On What Ground
#2 Through the Grinder
#3 Latte Trouble
#4 Murder Most Frothy
#5 Decaffeinated Corpse

and

#10 Murder by Mocha 

 

More releases to come.
Stay tuned!

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Announcing
my new Coffee Pick... 

 

 

 

Poco Fundo

 

Grown in the 
Minas Gerais region
of Brazil.

 

The roaster calls Poco Fundo "almond joy in a cup" because of its soft chocolate, coconut, and almond flavor notes. 
 

To read more or purchase 
for yourself click here.

 

 

 

 

Now I honestly wouldn't expect
an "almond joy" candy bar here, but this
is one delightful coffee! To my tongue, 
this light roast is sparkly bright and
smoothly drinkable with lovely hints
of nuts and chocolate. It's roasted and 
sold by . . . 

 

 

Seattle 
Coffee Works


This small roasting operation is located next to Pike Place Market in the heart of the world's coffee capital--Seattle. The place is run by Sebastian Simsch, a German-born man with a PhD in history, who (like Clare Cosi and Matteo Allegro) is obsessed with finding, roasting, and serving the perfect cup to his customers. You can read more about Poco Fundo here. Read more about Seattle Coffee Works roastery here, where you can also purchase online and...

 

Drink with joy!

~ Cleo Coyle

 
 
 
 
 
 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

Book Review

 

Have you seen
this review of...

Murder by Mocha?



CLICK HERE
TO READ

...the reivew of
Lesa Holstine, a respected 
library manager who is also an
award-winning book reviewer
for Library Journal.

 

 

 
 
 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Newly
Published!

 

My spring newsletter is out! 

See a copy in your
browser by...

 

CLICKING
HERE



To join my subscriber list,
send an e-mail that says 
"Sign me up" to

CoffeehouseMystery@gmail.com

 

Read with joy!

~ Cleo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cleo
Recipe Post

 

 

 

 

A MAD MEN
Comfort Food Dinner
from Cleo Coyle

 

Get my special recipe for 
perfect Breaded Pork Chops 
and revisit the era of beehives and
rotary dial phones in my new 
blog post...

 

 

 

CLICK HERE
TO GET MY RECIPE.

 

 

 

See you there!

~ Cleo

 

 

 


To see more of my recipes,
simply scroll down 
this page...

 

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News for
Cleo's Readers!

 

 

Cleo Coyle 
just appeared at 
Murder 203...

(...and had a wonderful time!)

 

 

To learn more 
CLICK HERE

 

To see Cleo's
Murder 203 profile

CLICK HERE

 

 

Murder 203 is an annual Mystery Festival 
held by Easton Public Library in Easton, Connecticut.

The married writing team of Cleo Coyle 
(Alice Alfonsi and Marc Cerasini) appeared
on panels, signed books, and had a delightful
time
meeting readers!

 

Thanks to everyone at
Easton Public Library
for a fantastic event!

~ Cleo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Lunar
New Year!

 

 

May this 

Year of the
Dragon

 

Bring You Much 
 

Happiness

and Prosperity!

 

 

~ Cleo Coyle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coffee IQ
Blog Post!

 

 

A Thousand
Perfect Sips



Kona is the only coffee grown in the United States.
It is also one of the rarest and most prized coffees
on Earth, a "champagne of the coffee world."

Come with me on a virtual trip to Kona, Hawaii.
I'll take you on a video visit to a Living History Farm 
and give you some great tips on buying and
enjoying Kona coffee.

 

To read my past blog
post on Kona coffee, 

 

CLICK 
HERE

 

...and jump to the
Mystery Lovers' Kitchen blog, 
where crime writer are cooking up 
something new every day.

 

See you there!

~ Cleo

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

Congrats to these recent
winners of my
FREE COFFEE DRAWING

 

 

Margery of Princeton, New Jersey

Nancy of Pelham, New Hampshire 

Lisa of Staten Island  New York, 

Candace of Sharon, Pennsylvania

Rae of TemeculaCalifornia

Sarah of Lino Lakes, Minnesota  

Whitney of Spartanburg, South Carolina

Renee of Fernandina Beach, Florida

Adrienne of Rochester, Minnesota 

Tamara of Lexington, North Carolina 

Tom of Grand Rapids, Michigan

Mitzi of Norman, Oklahoma 

Kathy of San Marcos, California 

Julia of Sidney, Nebraska

Maggie of  Peoria, Arizona

Andi of  Sheridan, Wyoming,

Sandra of Midlothian, Virginia

Kelly of Grand Forks, North Dakota

Margo of  Capitola, California.

Donna of Santa Barbara, California.

Sally of Anaheim, California

Carol of Coralville, Iowa 

 

Geneen of Manalapan, New Jersey  

Maureen of Floral Park, New York 

Colleen of Edina, Minnesota 

Caroline of Weedsport, New York 

Roxanne of Redwood City, California 

Marylin of Clinton, Michigan 

Karen of Ridge, New York 

Pat of Lindenhurst, Illinois

 Sheryl of Stevensville, Montana

Judy of Corona, California 

Michelle of Antioch, California 

Tina of Coker, Alabama

 

 

 To see more of my winners
jump over to my Web archives
by 
clicking here.


(Note: The archives will take
a few moments to load.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

It is inhumane, in my opinion, to
force people who have a genuine 
medical
need for coffee to wait  in line
behind people who apparently view it as
some kind of 
recreational activity. 

I bet this kind of thing does not happen to 
heroin addicts. I bet that
when serious heroin addicts go to purchase
their heroin, they do not tolerate

waiting in line while some
dilettante in front of them

orders a hazelnut smack-a-chino
with cinnamon sprinkles! 

 

 ~ Dave Barry

   

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 Cleo says: "I've come to think of this
as Mike Quinn's theme song..."

 

Click the arrow in
window below

 

 

To read Cleo's article
on the birth of
modern
coffeehouse
culture...

Click Here.

 

(This is an archived
article and may take
a moment to load.)

 
 

 

 

 




 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Coffee Pick
for Summer 2011 was...

 


My Summer 2011 Coffee Pick was
Cops Coffee
"Midnight Shift," dark roast.
Cops Coffee (Your safest cup of brew)
comes from Cops & Doughnut Bakery in
Clare, MI, owned and run by actual,
working police officers...

 

 

To learn more about these officers,
their bakery, or to order their smooth,
dark cuppa joe for yourself,
click here or on the photo above.

 


Take a very special Field Trip
to Cops and Doughnuts Bakery
with a Michigan woman who is
also a reader of the
Coffeehouse Mysteries...

CLICK HERE TO
TAKE THE FIELD TRIP


 

 

You can see
more of my past
COFFEE PICKS
by scrolling down
the right column
of this site...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 


 


 

Special
Video Post!





Click the arrow in the window below
 to watch a U.S. Barista Champion 
make you a cappuccino...

 

 

 

Drink with joy!
~ Cleo

 

 

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 SWEET NEWS!

First time for Cleo Coyle
on the Publishers Weekly
bestsellers list!
Click to see.




Thank you to my very kind readers! 
You've put me in great comany
on that list. ~ Cleo

 

 


 

  

 


 

  

  

 

 

 

A VERY SPECIAL
PAST
COFFEE PICK

  
A humanitarian 
choice...


Grown in Haiti

Kafe Lespwa
"Coffee of Hope"

in Haitian
Creole 


This delicious coffee
is grown by subsistence
farmers in Haiti.



To purchase this coffee...
CLICK HERE
and jump to JustHaiti.org 

 

 To read Cleo's original
"Coffee Pick" post on this coffee,
read her archived post
by
clicking here. 



 

 

 BOOKS
& COFFEE!


Members of the
Public Library Staff in
Ringwood, New Jersey
,

recently enjoyed cups of Cleo's
past coffee pick, Kafe Lespwa!

 

Thanks to Elise (standing in the back) and to...
(from left to right)
Marilyn, Idalia, and Beth
for allowing me to share this wonderful photo!


Elise was a random winner
of my weekly
Free Coffee Drawing!


 


Thanks again, Elise!
And thanks for reminding us all
that the library is a great place
to find our favorite authors. :)

~ Cleo

 


 

To see the names and states of
many more coffee drawing winners,

scroll down this home page...

 

 

 

 


 

 


  


 

 

 

 

 

The note below was re-posted
from Cleo's e-mail box at
CoffeehouseMystery (at) gmail.com

 

Hello
Village Blend staff,
   

I am running a small coffee shop in Hiroshima, Japan. I read the Coffeehouse Mysteries in Japanese. They were fun to know about coffee...

 

From far Japan
~Masako

  

Above is a photo of Masako's coffee shop in Hiroshima, Japan. Below is Masako posing with two of her baristas, who were University students at the time the photo was taken.


Cleo's reply:  

Hello, Masako!

I am so happy that you wrote to me "from far Japan," and I am even more excited to learn that you are running your own coffeehouse, just like my Clare Cosi.
     For my readers here in America, I have posted some of the Japanese versions of my books that you are reading and enjoying. I am so proud of these beautiful, little Japanese editions of my books. The interiors are fantastic, too, and even include illustrations.

     Thank you again for writing, Masako. Please keep in touch. Send a photo of you and your coffee shop and I will post it for everyone to see.

Warmest java wishes,

~Cleo Coyle
"from far" New York City!




 

Japanese
cover for...


Coffeehouse
Mystery #1:

On What Grounds

by Cleo Coyle


Published in
Japan by
Random House

Kodansha

 








 



 Japanese
cover for...

Coffeehouse
Mystery #2:

Through the Grinder
by Cleo Coyle

 

Published in
Japan by
Random House

Kodansha

  








Japanese
cover for... 

 Coffeehouse
Mystery #3:

Latte Trouble
by Cleo Coyle


 

Published in
Japan by
Random House

Kodansha

 

 

 

 

    




 



 

 











Reader Spotlight
Coffee Break

with....

 

"The Coffee Guys"

Father and Son
Coffee Roasting Team of
Travis and Nick Bradburn
Home Roasters

of Ortonville, Michigan

 


   To visit their website,
click here.
   


 

Hi there. Cleo Coyle here. I've never met Travis Bradburn, but when he won my Free Coffee Drawing recently, we exchanged e-mails. He mentioned that he roasts his own coffee at home with his 6-year-old son, Nick, who loves the process.

Roasting green coffee at home used to be very common (about a century ago). Like brewing your own beer or making your own cheese, it is a culinary art and a wonderful hobby. The Recipes and Tips section of my new Coffeehouse Mystery, Roast Mortem, even contains a quickie guide to the stages of roasting green coffee. I asked Travis if he wouldn’t mind sharing his thoughts on the subject. Happily, he agreed. Thanks, Travis!


~ Cleo





TRAVIS BRADBURN: I'm a home roaster.  My 6 year old son and I love to roast coffee together. He's the one that named us The Coffee Guys. Home roasting can be a lot of fun. My son and I started with a pop-corn popper, then went to a Behmor roaster, and finally we were getting so many request that I purchased a little 2 kg commercial roaster a few months ago.

We have a lot of fun and we're both learning a lot. Nick always tries one of the beans--he's too young to actually drink the coffee (or I risk my wife's wrath) :)

The other day I roasted some coffee and before he tried it, he said "Is this light or dark roast?" I told him dark.  He said "Good because I don't want all that caffeine from a light roast!"


Home roasting can create a lot of smoke so doing it outdoors to start is a good idea. SweetMarias.com has a lot of good information for the home roaster. Kenneth Davids' books were another must read for me before I started home roasting. I'm sure you've already read them but Home Coffee Roasting, Revised, Updated Edition: Romance and Revival is a very good introduction. As you can tell from his title I think you share a similar mindset about the romance of coffee. Once again I can't thank you enough for the wonderful books. They are such a joy to read.


~ Travis
 

Thanks again, Travis! I look forward to trying your coffee for myself. And I grinned when I read your note about Sweet Marias and Kenneth Davids books. I mention both of them in the addendum of Roast Mortem.

For anyone interested in reading about the Home Roasting process, below is the book that Travis (and I) recommend. Or you can click over to Sweet Maria's web site where they sell home roasting equipment, green coffee beans, and give plenty of advice to home roasters.

Drink with joy!

~ Cleo
 

 



 

 

 


 

 

    

  

 

Very excited! Why?
My publisher recently
sent me the cover art

for my next...

 

     HAUNTED BOOKSHOP
MYSTERY     

So many of you have been asking about the
new book in my "other" mystery series,
which I also write in collaboration with my husband.

Well, I'm happy to show you that it's on the way.

(Check out the new size of my name
on the cover . . . yowza!

A nice change and a long time coming. :)

 

From the heart, I thank those of you
who have been reading my "Ghost" series for
the past six years. I sincerely hope

you enjoy the new one.

 

~ Cleo Coyle
(aka "Alice Kimberly" - Alice Alfonsi)

 


Coming Later This Year
(Check back for the release month)!


The Ghost and
the Bogus Bestseller

 

 
 To learn more about
Cleo Coyle's bestselling
Haunted Bookshop

Mysteries click here.

 



Previous Bestsellers
in the "Ghost" Series... 

 

 






Book #1
The Ghost and

Mrs. McClure



 

 

 





 

 
 

Book #2
The Ghost and

the Dead Deb

 





 

 

 



 

Book #3
The Ghost and the

Dead Man's Library

 

 


 










Book #4
The Ghost

and the Femme Fatale


 



 

 

 


 

Book #5
The Ghost and the

Haunted Mansion

 


 







 

And coming
later this year...

Book #6
The Ghost and

the Bogus Bestseller 


 


 



   


 


 

A Coffeehouse Mystery reader from
Abilene, Texas

sends Cleo a "rattling" good pic... 

(Recipes follow...!)

  

Re-posted from Cleo's e-mail box
at VillageBlend@aol.com...

Hi Cleo,

I'm a big fan of your books and your Web site. My aunt sent me this picture of a rattler! I don't know if you are from Texas, but those rattlers (rattlebugs, that's what my grandmother and I call them) get huge!
     This picture reminded me...
      I once stepped on one by accident! My grandparents had a house out of the city and all of the family was visiting that day. Well, thank goodness my husband told me to wear my boots that day. It was dark and I was loading my son up in the car, I hear something rattle by my foot! Let me tell you it was a rattlesnake!
      Luckily, I had stepped on its head. Then, my little cousin came around the corner, and I was holding her away from it so my uncle could pick it up with a shovel and throw it in the pasture!

     That whole time I never lifted my foot until my uncle came! I was terrified! When we got home I looked at my boots, and sure enough there was an imprint of where it tried to take a bite of me. Thank you to my husband, uncle, and my thick boots. This is not the picture of my rattler. This one is from my aunt in Odessa!

Take care,
Tiffney

Abilene, Texas

Hi, Tiffney. Cleo Coyle here. Obviously, I love that picture and your story, too. I hope your aunt doesn't let that delicious rattlesnake go to waste. Because... although I'm not from Texas (I grew up in Western, Pennsylvania), even I know that rattlesnake is good eatin'!

  

 

     CLICK HERE
for Rattlesnake Recipes!
  

 
Till next time
~Cleo Coyle

 

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