Cooking With Crimespree: Kathleen Ernst

The plot of my latest Chloe Ellefson mystery takes place at Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum in Decorah, Iowa. When considering a murder weapon, I decided to use something fundamentally Norwegian—a lefse pin. Lefse is a round flatbread made with mashed or riced...

Recipe for Confusion

“Recipes?” editor wants me to write about that? What do thriller-writers know about recipes? We can cook up a metaphor – a recipe for success, disaster, or confusion.   We can use one as a clue. “As he examined the blood from the chef’s wound, Detective Poirot...