Lora Roberts

Hi, everyone! You might not know who I am. I write mystery novels (listed here somewhere)–nine so far, and another one in gestation stage. And I do other things. I’m a medical editor, I procrastinate, and I think about my garden.
Now I’ve got this spiffy new page, with some old stuff on it. I’ll do […]

Mrs. Isabella Beeton was an intrepid young woman who saw her numerous younger siblings to adulthood on the untimely death of her mother, married and produced her own family, and found time to write and publish a thousand pages on every domestic issue known to woman before suffering an untimely death of her own. She […]

Long ago, children, before there was such a thing as AOL, I wrote my first mystery. I was inspired by local events in the quaint hamlet of Palo Alto, where a real estate frenzy raged and folks were tearing down nice old houses to build ugly monstrosities. (This was long ago, but some things never […]

You have a reason other than parental burnout for locking yourself in your room where the kids can’t get at you.
It’s okay to eavesdrop on the conversations of others.
You can save by getting red pens by the gross.
Your name is on the spine of a book, and you didn’t have to take out a Sharpie […]