Barbara Emodi

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Barbara Emodi has written sewing how-to books and now writes cozy mysteries set in Nova Scotia, Canada. Gasper’s Cove doesn’t really exist but it will seem awfully familiar to anyone who lives where she does. The community is based all she believes matters in life - extended family, companion animals, good food, and more sewing, crafting, quilting, and knitting projects than any reasonable person would take on.



Barbara writes what she likes to read - whimsical, witty, warm books that reflect her belief that there is nothing ordinary about ordinary people. She also likes clever surprises, important in mysteries, and promises one at the end of each book. To visit Gasper’s Cove yourself you can read Barbara’s novels in her Gasper’s Cove Myster
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Barbara Emodi Crazy but a true story. When I was an undergrad one of my profs had a strange smell coming out of the vent in the wall of his office. Finally they rem…moreCrazy but a true story. When I was an undergrad one of my profs had a strange smell coming out of the vent in the wall of his office. Finally they removed the grill and there upside down was a complete mummified body. The official verdict was that someone had gone to the roof of the building and jumped into an air vent and got stuck somewhere around the fourth floor in the wall of my prof's office, where the air flow mummified the body. I always thought there was more to this story....(less)
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How many of you owe it all to a library?

I grew up in a small town in the Canadian prairies, Brandon, Manitoba, "the wheat city". It wasn't a particularly exotic place to be a child but it had the most wonderful library. Downtown in an old bank building on the route of the number 10 bus. Children were allowed to travel by themselves in those days and every Saturday morning I did.

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Not really a mystery as much as a meditation on privilege. Two children go missing, years apart, at a heritage type summer camp. The conflict here is not between the killer/abductor (?) and the police but between the banker family who owns the proper ...more
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The Antique Store Detective by Clare Chase
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The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes
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Time of the Child by Niall Williams
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This book is so so rich, in language, in universal themes, in character development and heart. It felt like eating creme brûlée to me, best taken in small servings so it could be savored. The work of a master.
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The House of Hidden Mothers by Meera Syal
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Brilliant book. Set in the UK and India this book manages the impossible to tell a cross cultural story involving the young and old, privileged and poor, male and female, self-aware and indifferent from each of those view points while making the read ...more
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“I don’t need to meditate. I just look at the ocean.”
Barbara Emodi, Crafting a Getaway

“For a while, it had seemed that Rankin’s, like many family-owned stores in rural Nova Scotia, was doomed to be swept away by the Walmarts and progress. But then we noticed how people from away valued our traditional handcrafts. That led me to set up a retail space in the store’s underused upstairs. We call it Gasper’s Cove Crafters: A Community Co-op, a place where anyone in the community who made things (which described most of us) could sell on consignment.”
Barbara Emodi, Crafting an Alibi

“I didn't know how, but creating something always seemed to lift the worries and tension from my soul and take them away.”
Barbara Emodi, Crafting a Getaway

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