Miriam’s first trip to Ephesus, in “The Black Pearl”, a story in The Deadliest Returns , was to return a singular black pearl to the...

My Miriam bat Isaac stories are set in Roman-occupied Alexandria during the first century CE. My job as a writer is to make my readers...

In “The Bodyguard”, a story in The Deadliest Returns , Professor Jason asks Miriam to help him solve the drowning death of  his old...

“The Betrothal”, set in first century CE Roman-occupied Alexandria, is about a young woman who disappears just before her betrothal to...

The bodies of these fresh water, one-celled animals are horn-shaped when attached to other organisms. Accordingly, they have been...

Our word “stentorian” is from Greek mythology. Stentor, mentioned in Homer's The Iliad , was a herald in the Trojan War. Homer wrote of...

Recently, June was the Guest Blogger on Ladies of Mystery . Who was her inspiration for the Miriam bat Isaac stories, and how did she...

Twenty miles southwest of Rome, obscured by agricultural fields, woodlands, and the modern infrastructure of one of Europe’s busiest...

The Amphitheatre of Pompeii was once capable of holding up to 20,000 spectators. Central to the life of the city, it featured animal...

Professor Jason, a character in the Miriam bat Isaac Mystery Series, grew up among the wealthy on the Palatine Hill. He spends his life...