Vivien Belcher from Cooking to Death: Stirring the Pot, A Ghost Texter Paranormal cozy mystery, is visiting Ascroft, eh? today to tell us a bit about what happened when her dead ex-boyfriend asked her to help solve a murder.

Welcome, Vivien. I’ll turn the floor over to you –

Hi. My name is Vivien Belcher. The kids in my kindergarten class call me Ms. B, for obvious reasons. I’m in my second year of teaching. Teaching is H-A-R-D! I love it, though. I guess you can say that teaching is my passion. Things are interesting this year. Yesterday I had to interrogate my students after we found the fish in our fishtank floating belly up. I’m an excellent interviewer, though, and before long I had figured out the culprit. All of my sleuthing skills come from my experience working with five and six-year-old children. Ask the right questions and be persistent, and you can figure most anything out. Kids say the cutest things. Did you know that the worst S word they know is shut up? They are adorable and exhausting, all rolled up into a big ball of energy.

Every day is different, but no day prepared me for the text message I received from my jerk of an ex-boyfriend.  Hearing from the jerk after five years would have been bad enough. But, the real kicker is this: Kasper’s been dead for years. Now he’s contacting me and asking me to help him solve a murder so that he can say he did something good and be freed from the Transitional World where he’s been stuck. I don’t want to help him. But he’s messing with my life and interfering in my relationships, especially with our school librarian Zeb Malone. The only way to get Kasper out of my life for good is to solve this mystery. Why must my life be so complicated?

To everyone else, Mrs. Green’s death looked like a simple heart attack of an elderly woman. This elderly woman just happens to be the old lunch lady from my high school who hated me and most everyone, for that matter, except for my then-boyfriend Kasper. Mrs. Green had a thing for the troubled kids.

Now, in order to get my life back, I have to do something nice for Mrs. Green and Kasper! UGH! Why must I always be the responsible one?

Thank you for sharing this with us, Vivien, and good luck to you and your author, Marcy Blesy, with Cooking to Death: Stirring the Pot, the latest book in the Ghost Texter Paranormal cozy mystery series.

Readers can learn more about Vivien and her author, Marcy Blesy by visiting the author’s website and her Facebook, Instagram and Goodreads pages.

The book is available online at Amazon

About Marcy Blesy: Marcy is the author of over thirty books including the popular cozy mystery series: The Tucson Valley Retirement Community Cozy Mystery Series. Her adult romance mystery series includes The Secret of Blue Lake and The Secret of Silver Beach, set in Michigan. Her children’s books include the best selling Be the Vet series along with the following early chapter book series: Evie and the Volunteers, Niles and Bradford, Third Grade Outsider, and Hazel, the Clinic Cat.

Marcy enjoys searching for treasures along the shores of Lake Michigan. She’s still waiting for the day when she finds a piece of red beach glass. By day she teaches creative writing virtually to amazing students around the world. Marcy is a believer in love and enjoys nothing more than making her readers feel a book more than simply reading it.