Mudpies and Magnolias

By Maggie Toussaint On a recent trip to the North Carolina shore, I enjoyed seeing the snowy whiteness of field upon field of ripe cotton....

Whodunit is often-asked as readers settle into a murder mystery, but the challenge to figuring out whodunit is to first identify why the m...

Tis the catalog season I'd like to say it's the glossy pages or the stylish clothing or the unusual stuff, but the truth is, I do...

ATF agent Rick McMahan and Maggie by Maggie Toussaint When it comes to learning about police lore, the Writer’s Police Academy is a font...

by Maggie Toussaint Since my Cleopatra Jones amateur sleuth series focuses on Cleo's family, I tend to write scenes at her home, her o...

It was sobering to get on a plane this morning. In both the Philadelphia airport and the Atlanta airport, televisions broadcast the annivers...

 My labor of love: books!  by Maggie Toussaint Today, Sept. 5 is Labor Day, a holiday celebrating the end of summer in the U.S. ...