Memo to Murder

Heidi MacDonald is not qualified for her new job at the Legislature with Official Opposition.She has never voted, or can't remember when. Her research experience amounts to one letter published in a sewing magazine. She lives in her parents' basement with a cat named Gilbert. Her direct supervisor considers her a useful fall guy, her chief of staff plays solitaire all day, and the MLA she's been assigned to, spends most of his time at the Legion.Then an anonymous message appears on Heidi's office whiteboard. A minister resigns. A politician falls from the public gallery, and the only anarchist in the House is found dead in a parking lot.Heidi didn't set out to investigate anything. But it turns out that people in power will say anything in front of staffers they don't see. Set inside a Canadian legislature, this cozy political mystery shows what when happens when those who keep the machinery of government running pay attention. Barbara Emodi lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada with her husband, and near her daughter and three of her grandchildren, She also has sons and their families in Berkeley, California and Austin, Texas and is just at home in those cities too.

Barbara has worked as a journalist, a public relations prof., a political communicator, and a commentator on radio. She makes all her own clothes and has published two books on sewing.

These days Barbara writes cozy mysteries for people who make things. She writes about what she knows and a few things she has suspected. To keep in touch with her upcoming releases, and for more stories of Barbara's life and world, sign up for her reader newsletter