... can be catching up beforehand?

beforehand?100%.

Well, book three's coming out in the beginning of August, so I'm very excited.

Um, so the Hygge House Cozy Mystery Series, I've been writing historical fiction and creative nonfiction for a very long time.

And, uh, a year ago, I was at a writing retreat, actually, not my own, but somebody else's, which was beautiful, and always love those kinds of settings where you can just have those conversations.

And I was thinking, I'd been playing around with, like, writing some genre fiction as sort of a break from the historical.

I love writing historical fiction, but it's years in the making, years of research and digging and all kinds of things.

... get your best work.

Did writing about the mysterious death of the sister change the way you personally think about justice or truth?

Oh, I love that question so much.

Well, yes, I think it did.

Because when I was researching the 1930s and the kinds of relationships that different communities had with the police and, you know, what they would, like, for instance, they weren't really willing to, you investigate Hannah's death because they thought it was an accident and she's just an immigrant girl and who care? Like, right.

Like just kind of this, you know, like we're going to take the big cases.

We don't really care about this.

Maybe she, you know, it was an accident or, or she did it to herself or whatever.

and the other tea you gave me was nordic cozy and mystery those three words tell us a little bit about those words