Please welcome our guest today: our good friend, a terrific writer and a talent in the kitchen as well as on the page: Shelley Costa.
Shelley is the author of You Cannoli Die Once – a 2014 Agatha
nominee for Best First Novel -- Basil
Instinct, and most recently, Practical
Sins For Cold Climates. Her crime stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and
several anthologies, and in 2004 she was nominated for an Edgar® for Best Short
Story. Her latest novel, A Killer’s Guide to Good Works, was just
published.
She most enjoys writing fish-out-of-water stories, partly because
they’re a great source of humor, and partly because she identifies with them. Today she’ll talk about The Kindness of
Cookies and make us a gift of these fabulous Madeleines. And for you, there’s more than one giveaway: read
RIGHT to the end for details!
And now, The Kindness of Cookies:
They say you always remember your first
love. In terms of humans, mine was an affable, yellow-haired boy named Tommy
Haskell, and we were in second grade. I pined. When Valentine’s Day rolled
around, I gave all the other kids in the class those cheap and cheesy boxed
valentines that show a cartoon space capsule with