Price Slashed for Murder on Madeline Island

Tuesday, May 3 Murder on Madeline Island is only 99 cents in a Kindle Countdown! Read the first book in the Emily Swift Travel Mystery series. Emily expects a romantic weekend on a Northwoods island but when she finds a lawyer’s body her adventures as an amateur sleuth begin. You’ll find romance, intrigue, travel tips, …

Price Drop for Homicide in Hawaii

Today Thursday, March 24, Homicide in Hawaii, An Emily Swift Travel Mystery is only 99 cents in a Kindle Countdown. Hawaii is a travel writer’s paradise until Emily’s friend is found dead on a sacred mountain top. Emily delves into family secrets and Hawaii’s past to find the killer. The closer she gets, the greater …

March in the Cotswolds

When I visited the Cotswolds one March to gather information for A Killing in the Cotswolds, an Emily Swift Travel Mystery, I expected daffodils and sunshine, not snow. What a horrible surprise! As a writer, I had a choice to make. Should I describe the weather the way it really was? Or the way I …

Listen to my Radio Talk on Writing

You can still tune in to my interview about writing on KDWA radio. Maureen McNeary and I talked about how I began my Emily Swift Travel Mystery series, why I chose travel as my theme and how I write my books. Click here to listen to the radio interview. (There’s a long musical intro) https://kdwa.com/wireready/indepth/73441_BookstubeLorrieHolmgrenFeb_0217.mp3

You are invited to a Bookstube Zoom Event

Dear Reader, You are invited to a Zoom Bookstube talk on Thursday, February 17 at 7 p.m. Click here to register https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZAodeusqjMvGtfcMDAnq-AK7A2V… I’ll talk about why I chose travel as my theme and how I went about writing my three Emily Swift Travel Mysteries: Murder on Madeline Island, Homicide in Hawaii, and A Killing in …

I’m a Guest Chick on the Case Today!

In my guest blog on Chicks on the Case today, I talk about my trip to England to gather information for A Killing in the Cotswolds, an Emily Swift Travel Mystery.   It was Springtime and I was looking forward to sunshine and daffodils. To my horrible surprise it was snowing in Chipping Campden. As a …