Spotlight on Molly MacRae – Trivia and a #Giveaway #SpotlightSunday

It’s my turn in the Mystery Lovers’ Kitchen spotlight, again, so let’s have some fun with MM trivia. There’s one correct answer for each question. 

Don't worry about getting the answers right. Just let me know your favorite question and answer in the comments for a chance to win one of three copies of Come Shell or High Water, book #1 in my new Haunted Shell Shop Mysteries. I’ll choose winners around noon on Tuesday 6/25.

MM Trivia

(You'll find the answers below.)

 

1.      What’s the most out-of-the-blue surprising thing a reader did after reading my Haunted Yarn Shop mystery series?

A.     Named a racehorse after the yarn shop

B.     Opened a haunted yarn shop with its own ghost

C.    Named their new baby girl Geneva after the ghost

D.    Painted a portrait of Geneva the ghost

 

2.      What’s the most surprising place one of my books has been mentioned?

A.     In a menu at a café in Scotland

B.     On the local six o’clock news

C.    In Murder, She Wrote: Domestic Malice by Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain

D.    During a funeral for a museum curator

 

3.      What do I love about freshwater mussels?

A.     Their beautiful shells

B.     Their freshwater pearls

C.    Their names

D.    Their role in alerting us to changing environmental conditions  

 

4.      What are my brother Andy and I doing in this pile of leaves?

A.     Having lunch

B.     Waking up from a nap

C.    Staying out of the way while the rest of the family rakes

D.    As budding mystery writers would, we’re looking for clues

 

5.      Why is this dog reading Plaid and Plagiarism book #1 in my Highland Bookshop Mystery series?

A.     He has an audience of puppies listening to every word

B.     He misses Scotland

C.    He’s in the book

D.    He’s killing time before his appointment at the vet

 

6.      What kind of pet traveled the farthest with her reader fan to visit me?

A.     Llama

B.     Chicken

C.    Hedgehog

D.    Iguana

 

7.      I play the bagpipes like a pro.

A.     True

B.     Kind of true

C.    Absolutely and completely false

 

8.      I knit like a pro.

A.     True

B.     Kind of true

C.    Absolutely and completely false

 

9.      I cook like a pro.

A.     True

B.     Kind of true

C.    Absolutely and completely false

 

10.  I can sing Old MacDonald in Gaelic.

A.     True

B.     Kind of true

C.    Absolutely and completely false

 

Answers:

1. The answer is A – there’s an honest to goodness racehorse out there named Weaver’s Cat because a reader likes the books so much.

2. The answer is C – in Murder, She Wrote: Domestic Malice by Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain, Jessica reads my book Lawn Order before bed.

3. All the answers are true to some extent, but the real answer is C for me and for Maureen Nash, the amateur sleuth in Come Shell or High Water. We love the names like Fatmucket, Sheepnose, Higgin’s Eye, and Purple Wartyback.

4. The answer is D – we’re looking for clues (and that early practice worked. We both write mysteries).

5. The answer is C – that’s the real-life Quantum on whom I based the dog in the Highland Bookshop Mysteries. Quantum was an amazing dog who herded sheep and ducks. He was also an internationally certified therapy dog, and he appeared in the Westminster Dog Show.

6. The answer is B – a chicken named Red traveled from Alabama to Illinois to meet me. What a nice chicken!

7. Absolutely and completely false - I can tootle on the chanter but that's about it.

8. Absolutely and completely false - my limit is knitting flat rectangular things.

9. Kind of true. I made my way through school as a cook, first in a delicatessen, then in a bar and grill, then in a dormitory for 2,000 students. I’ve ended up a pretty good cook.

10. True - Old MacDonald in Gaelic is a ton of fun to sing.

Thanks for playing trivia with me!  

For a chance to win one of three copies of Come Shell or High Water, let me know your favorite question and answer in the comments. I’ll choose winners around noon on Tuesday 6/25.

 

 Out next week!

When widowed folklorist Maureen Nash visits a legendary North Carolina barrier island shell shop, she discovers its resident ghost pirate and the mystery of a local’s untimely death . . .

 

If you'd rather visit Scotland, try my Highland Bookshop Mysteries. 

In the mood for yarn and cool, green mountains of Tennessee? Try my Haunted Yarn Shop Mysteries.

There are short stories and stand-alone mysteries, too.

And super-gentle cozy mysteries written under my pen name, Margaret Welch.

 

The Boston Globe says Molly MacRae writes “murder with a dose of drollery.” She’s the author of the award-winning, national bestselling Haunted Yarn Shop Mysteries and the Highland Bookshop Mysteries. As Margaret Welch, she writes books for Annie’s Fiction. Her short stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and she’s a winner of the Sherwood Anderson Award for Short Fiction. Visit Molly on Facebook and Pinterest and connect with her on Twitter  or Instagram.