Today is release day for my newest novel, NO SAFE PLACE! It may not be as dramatic as giving birth to a real-live baby, but it is pretty exciting for this author to see the characters I imagined and created slowly come to life in their own suspenseful, nail-biting story. Sometimes a story nearly writes […]

A book deadline to die for…
Bookblurb: An acclaimed mystery writer finds her words brought frighteningly to life… After her fiancé is violently murdered walking home from the gym one night, celebrated author L.E. Stanfield flees the crime-ridden city of Minneapolis to settle in the comparative safety of smalltown rural Wisconsin. Dealing with agoraphobia and a crisis of faith related to […]

The fear within
There are a lot of phobias in the world today. Special names have been thought up, so we tend to believe they are problems out of our control and therefore unmanageable or unfixable. Acrophobia: fear of heights Aquaphobia: fear of water Dentophobia: fear of going to the dentist Glossophobia: fear of public speaking I have […]

Lake Superior never gives up its dead…
I was recently asked by Shepherd.com to recommend a list of my favorite books set in the same/similar genre as my Double Barrel Mysteries series. I’ve read quite a few books set in Minnesota, Wisconsin, or Michigan on the Banks of Lake Superior or in the Upper Peninsula. These are probably my favorites so far, […]

About Barbara
A few things you may not know about me… 1. I love God, family, and friends, and I’ve harbored a long-time love affair with Tom Selleck and his contagious laugh. 2. I have an aversion to food items marked “fat-free,” and in spite of what the food pyramid teaches, I stay perfectly healthy with the three C’s: Coffee, Chocolate, and Chinese food. 3. I love to read mystery/suspense with everyday people solving crimes or thrillers with evil serial killers that inevitably get payback in the end. 4. … Read More about About Barbara