A short story featuring characters from The Belinda & Bennett Mysteries. This story goes back to Belinda’s early adventures learning to drive the cupcake truck.   Bennett had deemed that day the perfect day for Belinda to practice driving the cupcake truck. In her opinion, no day was that day, but he insisted. And since he didn’t seem to have a lot of other things to do, she figured she should humor him. Driving the truck along the back roads near her house was not a big deal. A little scary at times, but nothing she couldn’t handle. It was downtown that […]

A short story featuring characters from The Belinda & Bennett Mysteries. In this story, we backtrack to the time of the box pyramid.   The box pyramid needed to go. While it made a statement as the first thing you saw in the carriage house, the arrangement of cardboard boxes, piled to the ceiling in back, had made finding anything to wear an absolute ordeal. And Belinda was done with ordeals. She balanced on top of the ladder next to the pyramid, reaching out for the top box. Poseidon and Aria, two of the kittens Belinda rescued from the roadside, watched with […]

  A short story featuring characters from The Belinda & Bennett Mysteries, a cozy mystery book series. In this story, Jonas gets some help with his wardrobe. Jonas folded a piece of gum into his mouth and offered one to Belinda, who passed absently. She was deep in shirt examining, her mouth twisted up and eyes all squinty. Jonas would pay good money to know what Belinda Kittridge was thinking when she made that face, and she often did, and for all sorts of situations. Case puzzlers, menu scanning, shirt shopping. You name it, and she’d made that face for it […]