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Meg Mims

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Historical Mystery, Cozy Mystery, Mystery

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Award-winning author MEG MIMS writes historical western mysteries and sweet romance novellas. She also writes cozy mystery (both series and novellas) as MEG MACY with rescue cats and dogs.

Meg is also one half of the writing team D.E. IRELAND along with another award-winning author, Sharon Farrow, for the Eliza Doolittle & Henry Higgins historical mystery series. Book 1, Wouldn't It Be Deadly, and Book 3, Get Me to the Grave on Time, were both Agatha Award finalists for Best Historical Mystery. Book 2, Move Your Blooming Corpse, and Book 4, With A Little Bit of Blood, round out the series.

Meg's western historical mystery, Double Crossing, won the prestigious Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best First Novel of 2012. The sequel Doub ...more

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	Double Crossing 4.04 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 2011 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Double or Nothing (Double, #2) 4.22 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2013 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Santa Paws 4.07 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Key to Love 4.10 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Santa Claws 4.13 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Home for the Holidays 4.40 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Cowboy Celebration 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I know, I know!! It's mid-August! Heat, humidity, beach or pool time -- who can think about Christmas now? But Halloween candy is already on the store shelves, and I'm sure some retailers have candy canes and wreaths, cards and wrapping paper, even trees, all ready to set up for displays.

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“Keep a spur handy.”
― Meg Mims, Double Crossing

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“Men of our age tend to dwell on wrongs of the past. It's not easy giving up lost dreams, as age creeps on us.”
― Meg Mims, Double or Nothing

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“My blood ran cold at the thought of being a widow before a true wife.”
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“About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.”
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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
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“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
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Good to connect here, Meg. Always great to meet another author, especially from the other side of the world.

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