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Barbara Emodi
Barbara Emodi has written sewing how-to books and now writes cozy mysteries set in Nova Scotia, Canada. Gasper’s Cove doesn’t really exist but it will seem awfully familiar to anyone who lives where she does. The community is based all she believes matters in life - extended family, companion animals, good food, and more sewing, crafting, quilting, and knitting projects than any reasonable person would take on.
Barbara writes what she likes to read - whimsical, witty, warm books that reflect her belief that there is nothing ordinary about ordinary people. She also likes clever surprises, important in mysteries, and promises one at the end of each book. To visit Gasper’s Cove yourself you can read Barbara’s novels in her Gasper’s Cove Mysteries series or her Gasper’s Cove Quick Cozies novella series.
Barbara Emodi has written sewing how-to books and now writes cozy mysteries set in Nova Scotia, Canada. Gasper’s Cove doesn’t really exist but it will seem awfully familiar to anyone who lives where she does. The community is based all she believes matters in life - extended family, companion animals, good food, and more sewing, crafting, quilting, and knitting projects than any reasonable person would take on.
Nobody warned you about this part. When you were younger, you figured it out as you went. You always did. But this stage — the post-retirement, post-children-at-home, post-being-the-most-relevant-person-in-the-room stage — turns out to require its own entirely separate manual. One that didn’t exist. Barbara Emodi writes about that. How to Be an...
Heidi MacDonald is not qualified for her new job at the Legislature with Official Opposition.
She has never voted, or can’t remember when. Her research experience amounts to one letter published in a sewing magazine. She lives in her parents’ basement with a cat named Gilbert. Her direct supervisor considers her a useful fall guy, her chief of...
It’s winter in Gasper’s Cove, Nova Scotia. All Valerie Rankin wants is a life of her own and for her dream of a sewing school to come true. But when murder steps into the picture, Valerie and the Seaside Sewists have no choice but to stop their stitching and start detecting. It’s clear to them the Royal Canadian Mounted Police needs help, and...
For anyone who ever went looking for the So You Want to Be an Older Woman manual and came up empty: here it is, more or less. How to Be an Older Woman for Beginners is a collection of essays about getting older, drawn from my Substack of the same name. Written on dog walks and posted from a kitchen table in Nova Scotia, these are dispatches from the far bookend of life, the one nobody hands you instructions for, delivered with humour and a strong suspicion that karma is, in fact, a thing....
Meet Heidi Macdonald: twenty-seven years old, living in her parents' basement, unable to drive, and somehow just hired as a research and communications officer for the Official Opposition in a Nova Scotia legislature that has no idea what it has let in. Memo to Murder is the first book in the Unintentional Sleuth Mysteries, a comic Canadian cozy mystery series set in the world of provincial politics, where the memos are dull, the politicians are duller, and an accidental amateur sleuth is...
Christmas has come to Gasper’s Cove. Krista Willett only meant to deliver poinsettias, not to be talked into sewing forty-seven elf hats for the school concert, and certainly not into another murder. Across town, Kenny McQuarrie has a resized ring, a plan to propose, and three credit cards that have all, somehow, just been declined. Here is the first chapter of this festive Nova Scotia cozy mystery.
