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Mary Reed and Eric Mayer are authors of modern and historical mysteries including the John the Eunuch series set during the Byzantine Roman Empire and the Inspector Dorj series set in modern Mongolia. They are also all-around nice people.

From my photos, you can see that I enjoy food. This is reflected in my writing. The Ed McAvoy Mystery Series and the Caitlin O'Rourke Mystery Series each feature two restaurants.

The Friday and Saturday-night crowds at Kehough's are substantial. Those two nights are ceili nights with an Irish band and dancers and poems and stories—the whole works. Irish and would-be Irish from all over the Greater Nashville area flock to the pub to receive an infusion of their heritage. Because the clientele is made up mainly of working people who have to rise early during the week, Monday-through-Thursday attendance is limited. On those four nights Kehough's is simply another neighborhood bar, catering to a more-or-less local patronage. With no band or dancers, the music on the Wurlitzer (as well as the food prepared by Mary Grace O'Rourke) reflects the varying tastes of the weeknighters—a fifty-fifty mix of country-western and Irish.

Located on Broadway near the West End split, Zakinthos, named after the Ionian Island of owner Nikolaos Panacopoulos' birthplace, is one of the few four-star establishments in Nashville. While the exterior looks like a Greek temple, the interior of Zakinthos resembles an ancient Greek theater, having tables set in three horseshoe tiers so that the patrons can look down onto a thrust stage. The ovens are set along the back wall of the stage, with the ranges down center. Although enormous exhaust hoods have been placed above each cooking surface to draw off the smoke and smells, enough of the aromas waft up to the tables to keep the patrons in a perpetual state of mouth-watering anticipation.

One lump-sum divorce settlement from Stevie Henderson, added to a life's savings from her brother Porky Jarvis, a retired Air Force Master Sergeant, combined with a general store for sale in the Catskills and the expertise of a talented building contractor, resulted in the finest English Pub this side of the Atlantic. Patrons drive from as far as Saugerties and New Paltz to soak up the warm, cheery atmosphere and indulge themselves with the culinary dinner creations from the pudgy pubkeeper of Peekamoose Heights.

The four-story, white stone block, European-style, two-hundred-and-seventy-five-room chateau stands in the center of one-hundred-and-ninety acres of woods and formal gardens on the northwestern slope of Balsam Mountain, overlooking Deep Notch, in Greene County, New York. Only the four five-story turrets poke their blue slate-roofed peaks above the tallest of the pines in the surrounding woods. Aside from that, nothing at all can be seen of the complex, except, for the sixteen-foot high electrified Cyclone security fence topped with razor wire that rings the compound or the armed guards who patrol the perimeter with Dobermans and German Shepherds. The guests at Garibaldi House-most of whom are old and retired or thought, by the Office of Immigration and Naturalization, to be out of the country-are fanatics about their privacy. Head Chef Carmine Bellafiore takes particular care to ensure that none of these special guests ever has a reason to be dissatisfied with the cuisine.

If you sign the guest book, every quarter I'll email you a recipe from Mary Grace, Nico, Porky or Carmine.

For a Black-Irish Setter, Stream of Death, Hickory, Dickory or Encore to Murder bookmark or an autographed Black-Irish Setter, Stream of Death, Hickory, Dickory or Encore to Murder bookplate, send a business-size self-addressed stamped envelope to:

Bill Stackhouse
P.O. Box 7
Brownsboro, AL 35741-0007

For the bookplate, be sure to let me know if you just want it autographed or if you'd like it inscribed as well (and either print or type how you want the inscription to read).