Welcome to What's Your Next podcast?

Thank you so much for having me. I am so excited to be here.

I,

We both have been trying to do this for a while.

we have, so listeners, we tried to do this last year when I was reading all Darcy Hannah's books and I was like,

Oh

need to talk to

my God.

And unfortunately there was a hurricane and live, live life and then we're just. Trying it again this year and I am so excited because we got, as I was telling her, I discovered that she has a third series. 'cause I've been reading all her series and I was like, I need to talk about this. So we've been talking before we got started and I was like, Hey, actually we need to record this. So Darcy,

I,

I was a little bit by yourself,

I live in a small town in Michigan. I consider myself a mom first, so a lot of times, like I'll talk about things, but it's usually about my kids. I write mystery novels. I started out writing historical fiction when my kids were little. I think I started writing because I loved reading. I read everything. And then one day I was pregnant with my third, didn't know it was a boy at the time. And one day as a young mother, you don't get much sleep. And so, I would just getting five hours of sleep a night. And one day I was like. Why don't I write a novel? And that's how like stupidly, it started. I had no background in writing novels. My background is in many other things, but I decided to stay home, raise the kids, and then just kind of work on novels and at the time I loved historical fiction, so that's what I started writing. I wrote this giant sweeping 18th century epic that was a thousand pages. And when I tried to sell it I learned that a thousand pages is just too big. So, so like all along, I feel like I just stumbled through the career that I'm in, which is kind of fun for me. I. So I ended up writing something smaller in the historical vein and that I was lucky enough to get that published and another historical, and then once that kind of dried up for me, it was funny that just kind of, I didn't sell enough, I don't think. And so the agent I had the time then said, Hey, just, write a mystery novel. You'd be good at that. I had no idea why she thought I'd be good at writing a mystery novel. But I took her advice and that's when I started writing cozy Mysteries. And I didn't even know they were cozy until I started writing 'em. So eventually I wrote the my Cherry, the first book in my cherry series, cherry Pies and Dudley Lies. And it was just kind of a fun spoofing series that in the most charming place in the Midwest that I know of. It's called Dork County in Wisconsin. So that whole little area is just gorgeous and I kind of make fun of my own family per in a fictional way. Just kind of inspired by my nieces and all that. And so they were in advertising. So I thought I'll make my fictional character in advertising and she run a really stupid ad that gets aired during the Super Bowl that should have never gotten. So it just kind of tumbles on and she ends up going back to the Cheer Orchard Indoor car, Wisconsin, because it was a murder. So I was lucky enough to write that book and sell that book and have some success. And that kind of launched my career. Kind of moving forward, if, in, in the cozy mystery space, and I tell you, I learned something almost every day about cozy mysteries. Like they're evolving. But I am so happy to be writing Cozy Mysteries because they're fun. I think they bring people out of, they're gentle enough that they. Anybody can read them. There's nothing in there that, that's gonna be too scary or too too sexual or too, bad language. And I just had a lot of fun writing them. So I feel very blessed to be doing that. But yeah, so that's, and I live in Michigan and I walk my dogs every day. So you, I can play, I take pictures of them a lot because they're with me so much.

so do you live by a hunter like house by any chance?

Well, I wish I did. I don't, we don't have any lighthouses in my town. So Door County, where I first wrote that book and I was explaining to Laura, I had gotten two books into the theories of the Cherry series, and then I got the. The publisher on its mystery division. I didn't get that third series and I really wanted to write a haunted lighthouse because there's a lot of lighthouses in door county and I spent a lot of time in them. I was originally from Illinois, Northern Illinois. I moved to Michigan about 20 years ago, so I was living in Michigan when I was writing about Wisconsin. But I realized we have so many lighthouses here and every time I go to one. I always ask for I, I always say who's still here? Who's still at the lighthouse? And they're like, nobody. And then they tell me the ghost story. Every lighthouse has a story. Even if they claim it's not haunted, they still have some good stories. So when I went to write the Beacon Bake Shop. That ghost captain Willie Riggs is a combination of some of my favorite haunted stories about Michigan lighthouses, and I wish I had written down the exact lighthouses that these occur, but there really is the ghost lights that appear in a, I think it's the lighthouse in the up that doesn't have a light in it. People and it's on an island, I think, and I can't remember which one it is 'cause there's so many. But they will see this eerie green light. And so I thought that is cool. And then I remember this one other one talking about the keeper, the first keeper who you still can be seen walking up and down the shoreline at night carrying his lantern. And I thought that is. Just a great image. So kind of combining, maybe that presence that, still on duty. I think a lot of places that claim to be haunted usually have a real person that had lived there, that had a sense of purpose or a job or maybe something a little bit traumatic that kept them on the job. And so I like to think about that. So, so I don't have any nearby, but they are two hours away.

It is so good. So the murder, the, is Murder a Become Bake Shop?

Yes. Yes.

Shop is.

Yeah.

So that's big become Big Shop series. It's the second series that you had,

Mm-hmm.

basically said Wall Street, wants to leave New York. Terrible relationship. Buys a big shop and a lighthouse sight unseen,

Yeah, well, you know that is funny 'cause when I was trying to come up, so I made that transition between the Cherry series,

yeah.

loved writing, and I was like, how am I gonna write another series? And I really didn't know. 'cause I was like, I really love the series I was writing. Because it was a little more personal. And so as I was thinking about the lighthouse, I knew I wanted a lighthouse. My husband would be on his computer, he'd be like, Hey. Come here. And he never tells me what he wants. He always just makes me get up and walk over to him. And I said, what are you doing? And he goes look, do you wanna buy a lighthouse? So in Michigan on the internet, we do have lighthouses that you can buy, and you don't really go to see them. And a lot of them need a lot of work. And so what he was doing this and I'm like, oh my gosh, what if somebody just bought a lighthouse and that? Yeah. And that's how that all came about. It was my husband like, let's put a lighthouse. Do you wanna live in a lighthouse? I'm like, not really.

Well, you know what it reminds me of, I think about Diane Keaton's older movies, baby Boom, where she sees the plate the Vermont housing on a snapshot of the New York Times, and she buys it and

Yes.

It's, I love that movie. That movie. It's like formative.

Oh my gosh,

Street, New York. You know the corporate girl and has a baby, and decided she just sees this random place in Vermont. In the newspaper.

is. So, yeah, it looks so quintessential. And there's something about we've all made those like ridiculous purchases,

Yes.

it's a dog, like you don't need another puppy, but you're like, oh my God.

The

And that was the other purchase that she made was a giant Newfoundland for a New York City living because they're so cute when they're puppies

They're

and then they grow.

I had a friend in New York City who had a new fee

god bless her.

a

God bless her.

apartment and the whole wall. This is not like in Michigan where you have a place to turn, run around.

Right.

New York City,

that is awesome that 'cause I have seen people in New York City, like walking giant, great Danes,

Yes.

and

actually.

like dog walking is a big, like they have walkers and they'll have many people that,

okay, so I spent a pandemic in Chicago, in the Lakeview area for about

Oh, I love Chicago. Yeah.

and so, and then next door there was a great Dane whose order did not clean their poop.

Oh,

be like. Disgusting because it's like a mountain, it's

it's, yes.

And so, and next door would be like, again, the guy, the poop, like looking, the poop. Watch, who's gonna clean it?

Yeah.

So it was like, who has a great Dane? And this very

Right.

Live in lake view. It's very, it's all high rises. Brownstones, like there's no spade.

I know, and you know what? It's like I'm such a dog lover, and I th they, they say, if you, I don't know, dogs can live kind of anywhere, but I would think you'd want something smaller and more maneuverable because of that reason. They need a lot of space.

Yes. And the

Yeah. We used to have a Newfoundland years ago and I mean, that thing ate and yeah, they're just, they're such good dogs, but they need space or at least, get 'em out a lot. And I always, like, when I walk, I have this fanny pack. I look like ridiculous. I also sometimes I think, talk to myself, 'cause I'm working in storylines, so I chew gum. So I look like, like I, I don't look great when I'm out walking my dogs, but in that fanny pack, my kids are like, why are you wearing a fanny pack? Why don't you sling it over your shoulder? It's got, my, all my dog poop bags and my treats and all that stuff, everything I need, so we, I'm one of those who like obsessively pick up whatever they leave, whatever they do,

so

that's just what you do.

yeah, so Lindsay buys the lighthouse and decides to open up a bake shop, and it's a haunted bake shop, and she has to solve murders with her influencer friend and a host of people, and a really cute Irish next door neighbor,

Oh yes. Rory Campbell.

So we have

It does help. Yeah, it does help to have a really, because I live in Michigan. It's so funny 'cause there's such a hunting woodsy culture here. You know what I mean? And so everybody, my husband will joke, so he's in November, I forgot what day it is, when it's hunting season opens. It's nobody's at work. Everybody leaves work. They even cut down work because everybody goes north and does this. And so they're all like, I picture these just really outdoorsy men. And so I thought, well, if Lindsay, the city girl's gonna come into, the most beautiful part of Michigan, she's gonna have a really attractive neighbor, but he's gonna be a little outdoorsy.

Yes.

of her comfort zone a little bit. You know what I mean?

Yes. He's get outta your comfort zone. You're not in city life anymore. You're not in New York anymore.

And it's so, yeah, it's so fun to do that to Lindsay and her friend. Lindsay's a good sport, but her friend Kennedy is the one that ha I have the most fun with. 'cause some people just hate her and she's just, she is who she is. She loves her friend, but she definitely is a indoor girl or a fancy girl. And it's just fun because I'm not a fancy girl.

Yeah. So talk to us about, the book that's coming up next year is it next year

You mean the other Beacon Bake shop?

The

So we have lemon berry tea is out now. Oh. I'll show you a pink

Sorry. I

lemon berry.

Wait.

And Wally is under the, oh gosh, she's so cute.

One to set up the Food and Spirits right.

No. The one that set up Food and Spirits I think was murder at the pumpkin pageant. My Halloween, because Brett Bloom from

the out of order. That's probably why. 'cause

Oh,

I read lemon berry and then I just read back. I was like, okay, so let's talk about lemon berry first and then talk about the pumpkin patch.

Okay. And then the one that's coming, which I don't. Yeah. So, murder, the lemon berry tea is so much fun because, this is the sixth book in the series. By now, the girls are, Lindsay got her big shop, going great, and her friend Kennedy is a PR person. She had a podcast. She's just, cones stir the pot for Lindsay, but she really wants Lindsay to be successful. She wants to bring all this stuff into the Beacon Bake Shop, this little town in Michigan. She hooks Lindsay up with this British lifestyle, kind of diva Vivi, lemon berry, and Vivi. Lemon berry was the hottest thing in the uk. But she had a troubled path. She did some stuff and she's trying to make a comeback career, and she's got a new book out called Nibbles from Across the Pond. So she wants to start, relaunching her career in America where she feels like the, public will be a little nicer to her. So of course Kennedy swoops in and the first place she's gonna go to is the Beacon Bake Shop in Beacon Harper, Michigan. So Lindsay's like very excited about it because she gets a bake with this famous woman who she does. She doesn't really know much about Livie lemon Berry, but she does know that. Her specialty is the Bakewell Tart. So that's after Lindsay's last name is Bakewell. So she thought, how fun would that be to do, they were doing a live cooking segment and then this fancy tea everybody wants in and Kennedy, her entire, the females of her family all descend on the lighthouse from the uk. They all traveled to America. They're staying with Lindsay. So Lindsay's boyfriend is I'm not coming anywhere near the lighthouse because there's this way too much estrogen right now. If he and Kennedy have a love, like a brother, sister, love, hate relationship. All these women are descending. The Grandma Kennedy's mother and Kennedy's younger sister, who's a little sassy. And then they, they've got Vivi berry coming and Vivi comes and she swoops into town. All I can say is she just brings the drama with her. She's got her film crew. She's just, she's very beautiful and alluring Lindsay really likes her. She doesn't know about her checkered past. She starts learning about her checkered past and this, has affairs with people and dating a-list actors and doing all these naughty things and stealing recipes. So anyhow, that kind of sets up the story. So they're having this this. Just giant, larger than life person coming to town. And she, as the adventure goes, Lindsay realizes that, she's pretty, she's got some issues and she's a little naughty. And so then they're hosting the tea, this beautiful tea in her honor where she's gonna be signing her books and Vivie just doesn't show up for it.

Okay,

Launches a murder mystery from there. It's a lot of fun.

It's a lot of fun. I was like, I remember 'cause they had Kennedy's family and it was like a tatted to Brit, like

Yes.

family and just the whole town coming together and the murder is fun.

Thank you.

I love murder. I love the solving.

I like the puzzle a bit. For me too one of the things I always make fun of, like what I do is plotting murders and you're like, I am the type of person, like, how, why would somebody wanna murder somebody? And that takes a big leap of my imagination, but I always want it to be like some interesting reason, not just, blackmail or,

gas. And so then we got a pumpkin. That's fine 'cause I read pumpkin patch after that. And pumpkin patch has a ghost hunting aspect. 'cause you're

Yes.

Spirit of the white house.

Right.

And there's actually a treasure hunt. And it's the ghost hunting goes wrong. It really comes up.

That was such a fun one too, because I was trying to think of what would my vision of Halloween in Beacon Harbor look like? This little town, this beautiful little town and everybody's very close and so I like to involve a lot of the town with it. So I thought it'd be fun to reach into my cherry series and actually introduce. Whitney Bloom's brother Brett Bloom, who is this like iconic light like iconic ghost hunter. So he's part of this thing called the ghost guys, and they're kind of ridiculous. But Kennedy has this cast called Kennedy's Crusades. And so she ropes Lindsay once again into hosting a live ghost hunt at the lighthouse. And Lindsay and her ghost have a very nice relationship. It's very respectful. He stays in the light tower is really his domain. And she goes up there a lot. That's like their favorite place to hang out because it's just spectacular and gorgeous. And so, when it's his time to take over they leave and stuff. And so she likes that relationship. She doesn't wanna stir it up, but Kennedy does not like captain Willie Riggs at all scares the living daylights out of her. So she hires this team. So on Halloween night, I think it's Halloween night, they do this ghost hunt. Yeah. I can't remember if it was like before Halloween or during Halloween. And before then, Kennedy they're doing a lot of events at the Lighthouse. They're having, a group of kids in carving pumpkins and doing all kinds of fun. Apple cider dony things, and just really fun pumpkin Halloween events. And

Yeah.

Lindsay's mother is a and I just loved giving her a mom like this. She's an aging eighties supermodel.

Yes. I love that. I love, it's because she has a take of an eighties aging supermodel.

Yeah. She's like a beautiful woman, but like her daughters bakes baked goods and she, like all her life, didn't eat carbs. And now her daughter, has this thing. So she's gotta, eat these carbs. And then she comes up with this line of women's clothing, with expandable waist spans, but are still fashionable. Then she has two ridiculous little dogs that she loves named after her, supermodel rivals.

Yes.

to dress them in matching clothing. And so she ends up opening this boutique and they're the ones that host this pumpkin pageant like costume contest in the town. So there's just a lot of fun going on. But then during the Ghost hunt, and this is part of why Brett Bloom appears in Food and Spirits, is because they're doing the Ghost Hunt, they actually go up into the light tower. Unbeknownst to them, A murder happens. And whenever murder happens in Beacon Harbor, the ghost lights appear and the ghost lights go on while the team is up in that lighthouse and it freaks them out. So they all go running, but it's Kennedy with the live feed camera. She goes running outta the lighthouse out of her mind, and then crashes in to this thing, this dummy hanging at the in the tree that the kids keep cranking the lighthouse with this dummy in the tree. It turns out that it's not a dummy, it's a woman from the town. So she catches a murder on livestream and it's not a good thing.

No, they get canceled,

yeah,

Spirit, so we have to go to a different network can actually do something different.

yeah. So the ghost guys lose their job.

they lost their job. And so now we got a travel food network, ghost hunting, really funny, friendly ghost because we're gonna have dinner. We're not gonna hunt that. We're gonna have dinner with the ghost.

I know it's so funny because what I do is like I'm not the type of person who would ever go into haunted house and stir up trouble, right. I love to me it's always like more spiritual being visited or getting signs or I've seen, things, and it's always fascinates me. It's what is it? But nothing. I don't like the man, the evil, or man, I can't say it today.

Security.

People

Yes.

And scary and evil. So that is funny because they lose their job. I really wanted to write another cherry series. If I do, it's like on my own time because Kensington doesn't, it's kind of owned by me, but I would've loved to have Brett Bloom go back to the Cherry Orchard. Like without a job. I still might write something in that vein, but I just thought, and then there's another character from the Cherry series Gifford McGrady.

Yes, the.

and he's just a ho hoot. Yeah, he's just a hoot. He spends too much time at the church, or not in Chicago doing his advertising job. And so he ends up getting fired too. So the backstory is that Brett, loses his job. Brett Bloom loses his Ghost guy's job because they caught a body on camera and filmed alive. And then. Gifford McGrady lost his job, and so they're, both moping around the Cherry Orchard and Cherry Orchard Inn bugging Whitney. And she's just do something else. And she gives him the idea of a food baiting ghost hunting show. So then we have the Food and Spirits Mystery series, which is based on that premise. So we have two characters from the Cherry series, but Brett has appeared in Beacon Harbor too, and that was so much fun because in my mind they're all why reinvent the wheel? I already have one. I can just pluck this person from here and go there, so anyhow it all kind of fell together in a fail feast at Bransford manner. I introduced Brett Bloom, Gifford McGrady, and then a new character because they wanted me to tell it from a female perspective. So the foodie is Bridget Bunny McBride. Yeah, bunny and Bonnie has like a long history with bunnies and rabbits, which is super funny. And the idea came from it. 'cause when I was little, I had a pet rabbit pet bunny. I was a white rabbit. And there's something traumatic that happens to her rabbit when she's young. She was like five years old. She has this bunny, they live on a farm. They have all these other animals, but she wanted this rabbit. That happened to my rabbit. So I was like, it was like my childhood trauma. And so I give that to Bunny and then as you meet her and you go through her story, you realize that there's a lot going on in Bunny's life. But she ends up so she is funny. She's such a fun character. 'cause they make her Scottish by nature. She came to America a very young age, but she's very talented with food. And she, was working her way up in the rest of New York City, got discovered by. Mary Stobart of Mary's memorable meals. And in my mind, Mary is kind of a little bit like a, maybe a Martha Stewart. Like an aging, yeah, like an aging foodie who's done everything. And she, gives her this assignment to do a really spooky Halloween theme, cupcakes and whatever. And she gets a little pushback from Bonnie because Bonnie's let's do fun. Not spooky. Don't wanna scare the children 'cause she just doesn't like spooky. And anyhow, she gets offered her own travel cooking show called Food and Spirits. And she gets to do, she's the food part of the Food and Spirits and she's so excited and in her mind she's I'm gonna be traveling the world and meeting these gorgeous men and making food and just in her mind it's gonna be this great thing. And so she goes to her production meeting and thinking she's gonna meet the person who's gonna be in charge of the mixology or the spirits. And she realizes she got teamed up with Brett Bloom and his boys. The Ghost Boys. The ghost guys,

It's actually literal spirits, not

It's like, why ghost no, it's not Go show. It's not a go show. And so that's kind of the promise of it. And it's just a lot of fun because she's does not like Ghost, doesn't like Spooky, doesn't wanna go back to the uk. And of course they take her back to the UK to a very haunted manner. She has the most haunted bedroom in the manner. And she realizes as it goes on, that she has some gifts and she's been kind of running from these, most of her adult life.

Yeah.

So it's been a lot of fun to do it. The second book spirited Separate Dun Castle comes out in Jan end of January for a February release. And I am so excited about that one because I used to write Scottish historical fiction and I get to kind of bring it back to Scotland and we get to introduce a little bit of Buddy's family. And then she is investigating with the boys. She's not excited about it, but she's, kind of resigned to the fact that she's doing this thing. Also, Brett Bloom's cute, so that's a little perk,

yes.

but they're investigating a, this, the legend of the haunted Piper during a bagpipe competition. So it's. Well, a lot of fun and a lot of folklore, a lot of Scottish folklores mixed in, so that's a good, it's a lot of fun.

Yeah, so I love the first, but because it's one of those that she literally goes to jail, buddy goes to jail on the

Yeah. Yeah.

It's oh no, she's going we, you have the murder weapon.

Well, they don't know much about her. The guys don't know, and she like just goes right to this thing and finds a body.

yeah, I love the other words like, wait, is it true you're the murderer? No, it doesn't make sense, so it's like a great set up. 'cause there's three stranger, well two are friendly, but they're kind of like strangers at the same

Yeah.

They're friends with the sister, but they're all three peers trying to put themselves in this, like building a village show that they don't wanna get to cancel. And then they have history of murders that they don't

Yes.

follow. And so it's like this incredible setup for a cozy mystery, but it's still it's a little bit like a touch more millennial mystery because

Yes. It's like a friends, it's three friends or three like people trying to do this thing together. Different personalities. Like my favorite is like Gifford McGrady. 'cause in the cherry series, he's just kind of outrageous. He's funny. He was a little bit like my brother was kind of, that kind of wild, outrageous person. Just always had a jingle like we would do. So he remembered everything from our childhood, like every crazy scene in a movie, and you'd be doing something and all of a sudden he'd just come out with a jingle and you're like, damn it. Like appropriately. So Gifford McGrady has a knack for jingles and. He's, he has no special talents, but

I love it. We love it.

He's a very good dresser and he decides that he's gonna be the medium on the show because the show actually needed a medium and he is I got it. I can become a medium. And so he has created the social media buzz around himself as he. The fashion icon of the medium world. So he has, he worked on this backstory, but you realize he has no talent. He's just faking it. And it's just a lot of fun because he's a bad actor, but it's the, everybody's what?

it's, this is how chronically online I am that I've been watching Sylvia Brown's old, she was a medium who go to stuff and it's just terrible. But she was like, you know it, so it reminds me of

Oh yes.

she's they're like, I wanna know what happened to the people over. And they're like, oh, this person lived there. And she's no, the house is like 10 years old. The lead honey, the lid, it's a lead. It's it's like I can see Gifford being in that same talk show being asked like,

you know some of the background

But

I love.

I'll include

Yes.

because it's honey, the lid, it's.

I don't mean the house. I know it was just built then. No, it, that is like the best thing. My brother would have me watch these like ghost hunting shows and one of 'em I think was called Kindred Spirits and there was this kind of, he was this guy named Chip Coffee and he would always wear an Ascot. And he was a medium, he'd walk in and he would just be like, oh. And just like the reactions are like the best, you know what I mean? Because you don't know if he has any talent or not, but it's just, there's a child over here staring at me, and you're like, how? We don't know is it true or not? It just, it's the best. But you're right, the mediums are like your favorite color's, blue, red, no purple. Just keep guessing until you get the right one.

Yeah.

is super funny so Gifford believes firmly that it's all Dec catering and

yes.

Bonnie kind of knows a little differently and Brett's just along for the ghost tech. He just wants to, hunt these things. Like he's just all in on ghost tech. And so it's kind of the three personalities are very fun. So that first one, that's the scene?

That is such a scene and we got a new book coming out next year. So

Yes.

good stuff. So Darcy,

you.

talk to us about some book recommendations

Yes. Okay. So I love kind of like I see, since I started historical, I have some historical fiction, but I also I just started reading a lot more Agatha Christie because, not coming, not like writing cozy missus with intent, I thought. Why don't I just start reading some of these? 'cause I do love Cozy Mysteries. I used to always read everything by Mc Beaton, and I highly recommend her. Do you know her,

actually

oh,

gonna, I'm gonna get started.

The Keisha of Death, Agatha Raisin and the Keisha of Death. She's just, so, it's a cult. Small settings, which is again, one of the most charming little places in England. And then she has another character, Hamish Macbeth, who was a little pokey. Laid back small town police policeman, and so he just kind of wants a peaceful little village and murder happens. And so his personality's totally different. Both of those series are wonderful. She, I think, passed away around 2000 or maybe a little bit after that, and she's got somebody else writing the series for her. And so I kind of like the original Amish Macbeth. I think his name is something green, but I think he's doing a pretty good job at the Agatha Raisin ones. The old ones that she wrote just bring you classic cozy. I just read the murder of Roger Aroy, which is one of the Agatha Christie's, most famous ones because of how the murder takes place. I loved reading it and just watching that. Develop and just how smart those are. They're really from a different time. I love everything by Krista Davis.

Yes.

she writes the I just am charmed by her domestic diva series.

Yes.

I just think that is.

I feel like

Yes, I know

is the

mother well, and she'll write about China patterns. I'm like, dang it. That's her. 'cause my mother collected China, so I know like when she's talking about it, I'm like, oh my gosh. I think I, I think my mom had that, just, you know what I mean? So she has this, just that entertaining spirit. I do love food and I do love, all that stuff too. If you like historical fiction, I'm gonna go back to old school, but there's a woman, Dorothy Dunt. Scottish historical fiction author who I think is like probably one of the best historical fiction authors I've ever read. For her incredible detail of the age, it's just incredible. So she's wonderful. I do love 18th Century Age of Sale. Patrick O'Brien, I don't know if you've ever read him f he's more of a guy writer, but some incredible detail about the historic period. They kind of relate him as the male version of a, jane Austen, like he liked Jane Austen. So his writing style, it's about two men who go to see a captain and a doctor, and their relationship, their friendship together. Two totally different people, but just the detail again there, the historical detail, the accuracy is just incredible if you like, they're both very long series, so those are very fun. But I'm trying to just read more, probably more mysteries and I've been reading a lot of them and I really enjoy it. I like fun. The funnier the better. I am still looking for something a little wacky too, so,

I would say, I haven't tried the Eleanor Dash. I think you might like that one. Eleanor

No.

Every time I go on vacation someone dies.

I've seen that. Okay. Every.

one. It's a very funny one. It's an author going on book tour and she has a long running Cozy se, like a series and was where her ex-husband and she literally has to kill him off and it's he's like

Okay. What?

too. It's a

Oh

it's just like it's greater audio. I think I found that audio much more enjoyable.

Perfect.

And stuff, but if you go with it, that's a funny mystery, and

We wouldn't. Everyone dies when I go on vacation.

time I go on vacation, someone dies.

Okay. I'm gonna look, that sounds hilarious. Every time I go on vacation, someone dies.

Yes. So it's a new series. There's two books out, but both books are excellent.

Okay.

in Italy, the second one's in Catalina Island.

Oh,

the

on.

cause mystery and there's a hurricane not supposed to, and there's like a mystery no that someone's gonna die and you're just like, what is happening?

I love it. God. Oh my God, okay. That is such a good recommendation. Thank you. 'cause I'll get a lot of books sent to me or things and they're all so good. It's just every once in a while, I kind of float between sometimes I like nonfiction, I don't know. I just, I'm always reading something. But that sounds like a great recommendation because I do love when I'm just, when it's just out of what field.

Yeah. It's oh, you're like, what kind of mood taste on here? And this is

Yes.

Like a book recommender in some ways is to curate

Wonderful.

you feel like you're looking at? Is there a book that actually, 'cause we wanna find the right book for that right mood and

Yes.

like you, you do a bunch of that's for you and you're not what you're feeling and sometimes just need something else. So yeah. So hopefully you

Oh, that's such a good recommendation.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Darcy, tell us we can find you online.

I just dar www.darcyhannah.com is my website and that will, I try to do more giveaways from my website now because of my Facebook issues. But I will still try to do so. I'm also at author Darcy Hannah on Facebook, and I still will try to do some more giveaways there. And at Author Darcy Hannah on Instagram, those are really the only places I haven't ventured out more. Sometimes I feel like I should, so I might try other things in the future. But for now,

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