Janet Rudolph
@janetrudolph.bsky.social
Bookwoman, Gardener, Photographer, Animal Lover, Chocoholic
MysteryFanfare, Editor-Mystery Readers Journal, Rose Aficionado, DyingforChocolate, Behind My Garden Gate, Chocolate Judge
MysteryFanfare, Editor-Mystery Readers Journal, Rose Aficionado, DyingforChocolate, Behind My Garden Gate, Chocolate Judge
St Hilda's Crime Fiction Weekend #Oxford #crimefiction mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2026/01/st-h...
St Hilda's Crime Fiction Weekend: September 4-6, 2026
St Hilda's 33rd Crime Fiction Weekend announced its theme: Bad Apples: crime fiction's enemies and anti-heroes. St. Hilda's College, Univ...
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January 6, 2026 at 3:42 PM
St Hilda's Crime Fiction Weekend #Oxford #crimefiction mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2026/01/st-h...
Chocolate Shortbread Fingers: #ShortbreadDay dyingforchocolate.blogspot.com/2026/01/choc...
CHOCOLATE SHORTBREAD FINGERS: National Shortbread Day!
Today is National Shortbread Day . Since Shortbread is all about butter , use the very best butter in the following recipe! A few years...
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January 6, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Chocolate Shortbread Fingers: #ShortbreadDay dyingforchocolate.blogspot.com/2026/01/choc...
Lefty Award Nominations: Left Coast Crime 2026 mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2026/01/2026... #crimefiction
2026 Left Coast Crime “Lefty” Award Nominations
Left Coast Crime 2026 will be presenting four Lefty Awards at our 36th annual convention, to be held this February in San Francisco: Humo...
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January 5, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Lefty Award Nominations: Left Coast Crime 2026 mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2026/01/2026... #crimefiction
Mystery Readers Journal: Mysteries set in Northern California II (41:4) is out! Check out the table of contents here. mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2026/01/myst.... Essays and reviews by your favorite authors.
Mystery Readers Journal: Northern California Mysteries II (41:4)
Mystery Readers Journal: Northern California II (41:4) is now available. Buy this back issue! Available in hardcopy or as a downloadabl...
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January 4, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Mystery Readers Journal: Mysteries set in Northern California II (41:4) is out! Check out the table of contents here. mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2026/01/myst.... Essays and reviews by your favorite authors.
Cartoon of the Day: TBR mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2026/01/cart...
Cartoon of the Day: TBR
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January 4, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Cartoon of the Day: TBR mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2026/01/cart...
Shetland, Season 10 mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2026/01/shet...
SHETLAND: Season 10
Shetland, Season 10, episode 1, is now available on BritBox in the U.S. There will be 6 episodes. If you have Britbox Premiere, you can wa...
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January 3, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Shetland, Season 10 mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2026/01/shet...
Chocolate Covered Cherries: History, Recipe, & Vintage Ad dyingforchocolate.blogspot.com/2026/01/life...
LIFE IS JUST A BOWL OF CHOCOLATE COVERED CHERRIES: History, Recipes, & Vintage Ads for Chocolate Covered Cherry Day!
Life is just a Bowl of Chocolate Covered Cherries ! Because there's nothing quite like a chocolate covered cherry , I thought I'd post 4 ...
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January 3, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Chocolate Covered Cherries: History, Recipe, & Vintage Ad dyingforchocolate.blogspot.com/2026/01/life...
A Crime Novelist Steps Back into the Real World: Guest Post by Keith Raffel mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-cr...
A Crime Novelist Steps Back into the Real World: Guest Post by Keith Raffel
Over two decades ago, I turned to writing crime fiction as a way to escape the world as it is. I loved my family and my friends and sometime...
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January 2, 2026 at 6:46 PM
A Crime Novelist Steps Back into the Real World: Guest Post by Keith Raffel mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-cr...
Chocolate Cream Puffs: #CreamPuffDay dyingforchocolate.blogspot.com/2026/01/choc...
CHOCOLATE CREAM PUFFS: National Cream Puff Day
Today is National Cream Puff Day. Cream Puffs are one of the easiest pastries to make, and incredibly versatile. You can stuff them...
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January 2, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Chocolate Cream Puffs: #CreamPuffDay dyingforchocolate.blogspot.com/2026/01/choc...
Reposted by Janet Rudolph
Today on my blog: I Guess It’s You and Me* – Crime Writer Margot Kinberg share.google/qA36V25Fa5it...
I Guess It’s You and Me*
It’s a new year, and that’s got me to thinking about new beginnings. To be more specific, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at how some famous fictional partnerships began. Sometimes…
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January 1, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Today on my blog: I Guess It’s You and Me* – Crime Writer Margot Kinberg share.google/qA36V25Fa5it...
Reposted by Janet Rudolph
Rabbits! Rabbits!
(The former Bunny Museum, Altadena. While taking these photos I met the owner, who said the museum would be back in two years.)
(The former Bunny Museum, Altadena. While taking these photos I met the owner, who said the museum would be back in two years.)
January 1, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Rabbits! Rabbits!
(The former Bunny Museum, Altadena. While taking these photos I met the owner, who said the museum would be back in two years.)
(The former Bunny Museum, Altadena. While taking these photos I met the owner, who said the museum would be back in two years.)
Resolution Cake: Happy New Year dyingforchocolate.blogspot.com/2026/01/reso...
RESOLUTION CAKE: Happy New Year!
Have you made your New Year's Resolutions ? This Retro advertisement from 1952 begins, "Here's a resolution you can make from this minute on...
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January 1, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Resolution Cake: Happy New Year dyingforchocolate.blogspot.com/2026/01/reso...
Book Poster of the Month: January mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2026/01/book...
Book Poster of the Month
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January 1, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Book Poster of the Month: January mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2026/01/book...
Champagne Stiletto: New Year's Eve cocktail from #CaraBlack mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2025/12/cham...
CHAMPAGNE STILETTO: NEW YEAR'S EVE COCKTAIL
Happy National Champagne Day: Toast the New Year with Cara Black's recipe for Champagne Stiletto . Cara Black's Aimee Leduc mystery serie...
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December 31, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Champagne Stiletto: New Year's Eve cocktail from #CaraBlack mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2025/12/cham...
Champagne Truffles: Ring in the New Year! #Recipe #Champagne dyingforchocolate.blogspot.com/2025/12/cham...
CHAMPAGNE TRUFFLES: Ring in the New Year!
New Year's Eve is National Champagne Day , and I thought I'd post this recipe in advance, so you'll be able to make sure you have all the i...
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December 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Champagne Truffles: Ring in the New Year! #Recipe #Champagne dyingforchocolate.blogspot.com/2025/12/cham...
Mysteries set at the New Year mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2025/12/myst... #crime fiction
Mysteries set at the New Year: New Year's Eve and New Year's Day!
Wishing you the best for 2026! May Mystery and Mayhem only happen in crime fiction! Today's holiday list features Mysteries, Crime F...
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December 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Mysteries set at the New Year mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2025/12/myst... #crime fiction
Champagne Brownies Recipe dyingforchocolate.blogspot.com/2025/12/cham...
CHAMPAGNE BROWNIES: New Year's Eve
Time to plan ahead. Here's a great recipe for Champagne Brownies for your New Year's Eve party! What better way to ring in the New Year ...
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December 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Champagne Brownies Recipe dyingforchocolate.blogspot.com/2025/12/cham...
Cartoon of the Day: Fruitcake
Today is National Fruitcake Day ! Celebrate!
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December 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
National Fruitcake Day: Vintage Ads dyingforchocolate.blogspot.com/2025/12/nati...
NATIONAL FRUITCAKE DAY: Vintage Fruitcake Ads
Today is National Fruitcake Day ! It's a bit late for this year since Fruitcake needs to ferment a bit. In past years, though, Fruitcake wa...
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December 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
National Fruitcake Day: Vintage Ads dyingforchocolate.blogspot.com/2025/12/nati...
Candy Cane Day: History of Candy Canes & What to do with Leftover Candy Canes dyingforchocolate.blogspot.com/2025/12/cand...
CANDY CANE DAY: History of Candy Canes & What to do with Leftover Candy Canes
December 26 is Boxing Day , but it's also Candy Cane Day . Do you have a lot of candy canes left over? Are they still hanging on the tree...
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December 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Candy Cane Day: History of Candy Canes & What to do with Leftover Candy Canes dyingforchocolate.blogspot.com/2025/12/cand...
Christmas Mystery Round-Up. Over 600 titles. mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2025/12/chri...
CHRISTMAS MYSTERY ROUND-UP!
If you read this blog, you know I post lists of crime fiction with all the holiday settings from New Year's Day through New Year's Eve (Hall...
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December 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Christmas Mystery Round-Up. Over 600 titles. mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2025/12/chri...
Scones for the Holidays! dyingforchocolate.blogspot.com/2025/12/scon...
SCONES FOR THE HOLIDAYS!
Scones are the perfect pastry for the holiday season! There are so many varieties, but being that we're in the holiday season, I thought I...
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December 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Scones for the Holidays! dyingforchocolate.blogspot.com/2025/12/scon...
Decadent Eggnog Brownies #EggnogDay dyingforchocolate.blogspot.com/2025/12/deca...
DECADENT EGGNOG BROWNIES: Eggnog Day!
Christmas Eve is also National Eggnog Day. Let's celebrate! If you're like me, you have eggnog around this time of year, and Santa d...
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December 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Decadent Eggnog Brownies #EggnogDay dyingforchocolate.blogspot.com/2025/12/deca...