Consigned to Death Selected as a
NH State Library Book of the Week
& Featured on NH Public TV

Unpublished Fact About Josie

Josie likes sitting on a rock at the beach. “I do some of my best thinking listening to the ocean. It’s almost hypnotic to me.”

Finding Stolen Art:
A Detective Takes on the Nazis

On April 23, 2007, Jane will speak at the Midtown Manhattan branch of the New York Public Library. Art stolen by the Nazis is a theme in Consigned to Death. For details, check out the library’s flyer.  

Deadly Appraisal
Available April 17, 2007!

In the second Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery, Josie is hosting a charity gala. Midway through the event, the executive director of the charity drops dead. The police don't know if maybe the poison was intended for Josie. She uses her knowledge of antiques to solve the crime. Read or listen to Jane read an excerpt!

"Josie is a multifaceted, vulnerable character... the story is framed with details of the antiques business, and numerous well-developed secondary characters populate the book." Booklist

Pre-order your copy today or attend one of Jane's events.

Jane’s Good Friend, Karen Quinn

Jane credits her good friend, Karen Quinn, with both professional support and personal inspiration in a recent BLOG entry. Read or listen to it now.

Karen’s new book, Wife in the Fast Lane, is the story of Christy Hayes, a case study in successful living. She’s won two Olympic gold medals, built a multimillion-dollar business, and landed a gorgeous and powerful CEO husband. But Christy’s dream life begins to unravel when she inherits custody of an eleven-year-old girl named Renata. Suddenly she finds herself battling three formidable opponents: a treacherous business partner bent on ousting her from the company she founded, a ruthless stay-at-home mom who’ll stop at nothing to maintain her PTA power base, and a stunning single woman scheming to steal her husband. Throw in the demands of one high-maintenance spouse and it’s clear: something’s got to give. But what? Her marriage? Her career? Her sanity?

Doesn’t that sound wonderful? It does to
me, too! I’ve bought the book, and I encourage you to do so, too. Read an excerpt at Karen’s website.

Cooking Tip from Josie’s Mom

“Sauté onions first in butter. Then add any other vegetables you’re using.” Josie mom said that softening the onions before adding other vegetables adds a subtle essence to the entire dish that you simply can't get in any other way. “And the flavor of butter can’t be reproduced.”

Josie’s mom used sautéed onions in ratatouille, for instance. To the onions, she added tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, summer squash, garlic, basil, oregano, salt and pepper. Sometimes, she scooped the mixture into hollowed out tomatoes. Yum.

Other recipes from Josie’s mom are on Jane’s website.

Mystery Lovers Festival

The wonderful and innovative mystery bookstore, Mystery Lovers, in Oakmont, PA is sponsoring its 12th annual Mystery Lovers Festival on Monday, May 7, 2007. Fans get to meet more than fifty authors in one intensive evening event. "I went last year and it was great," Jane said. "“Richard, one of the owners, interviews each author."

Mary Alice, the other owner, said, "I stayed up all night with Deadly Appraisal. Loved it. I think your protagonist is very smart. A cool and realistic portrayal, and the neighbor is a rich minefield, as well as funny."

Antiques Collecting Fact:
Did You Know?

“Hutches evolved from sideboards,” Josie says. “By the end of the seventeenth century, craftsman had begun to produce hutches with drawers for storage.”

Josie explains that you can often date pieces by the front legs. (The rear legs are usually plain.) The baluster leg (rounded and straight) was common in the early- to mid- eighteenth century.

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In the late eighteenth century and the nineteenth century, the cabriole leg became popular.

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