Barbara NorthMystery Author
The Bottom Shelf, a basement bar at night: regulars at the counter under amber lamps, a red neon sign, and a figure heading down the steps
Mystery author. Funny letters. I write for you.

Come on downstairs.

Barbara North is a mystery writer at work on her first novel. Sometimes she gets bursts of energy to write short, funny letters to her readers. Sign up to receive them. They come out weekly.

A taste  ·  from letter No. 4

Botanical Crime

My neighbor’s yard looks like the kind of place Thomas Kinkade would set up his easel for inspiration. His rose bushes wave at me like they’ve been cast as leads in the school play. His black-eyed Susan vine snakes so high up his light post that her layup could bypass the college scholarship and send her straight to the WNBA.

Read the restThe full letters are for readers on Barbara’s list.
The novel

The Bottom Shelf

An Amateur Sleuth Mystery. Coming soon.

The author
A stencil-style portrait of Barbara North, looking down and smiling