Cozy Mysteries STORM STAYED with Yvonne Rediger

Maisy Wyatt, is on loan from Jane’s Eats & Treats to Mrs. Roque who has spared no expense with the food or service for the minor literary celebrities who will be their first guests.

Publisher/Author Ziola Nutt, announces she has a six-figure contract with a video streaming company. This news causes shock, disappointment, and anger among the rest of the writers when they find out she will not give them credit for their work, nor any of the royalties.

Worse still, the electricity goes out during a nasty storm. Cell phones are going dead, roads are blocked by fallen trees, and ferry traffic is halted. No one can get off the island. Not even the murderer.

Yvonne Rediger recently sat down with The Big Thrill to discuss her latest cozy mystery, STORM STAYED.

Yvonne Rediger

Can you pinpoint a moment or incident that sparked the idea for this book?

The storm I write about actually happened to us while we lived on Vancouver Island. I thought at the time, I have to use this experience in a novel.
No power for 3 days, nasty weather, hunkering down. I thought what it my setting of Musgrave Landing had a murder and no one could leave?

A novel is such a major undertaking; there’s the writing of it, of course, then you’re spending months and months revising, polishing, and then promoting it. How did you know this was the book you wanted to spend the next couple of years on?

I love the characters who live in my world in Musgrave Landing. The humour and community spirit makes me come back to this setting every year. I have another, book 5, I’m thinking about next.

When you first created your protagonist for this book, did you see an empty space in crime lit that you wanted to fill? What can you share about the inspiration for that character?

How does a cop operate on his own, with no support. The community steps up, always. Constable Tadmore has his own emergency, still, he must do his duty and his friends help him with his nephew’s unscripted adventure.

In addition to a great read, what do you hope readers will take away from this story?

A sense of helping each other in times of crisis. It is so important to plan for the worse but hope for the best. 72 hours of emergency supplies. A generator to help you with heat and light. Everyone needs to think of these things no matter where you live.

What can you share about what you’re working on next?

I am currently working on book 3, of the Adam Norcross Mysteries. Things have changed for Sergeant Beth Leith, you can never go home and expect it unchanged. Adam is contacted by his biological father after all these years, and the man is in trouble. Someone is trying to kill Silas River.