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Kassandra Lamb

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in Baltimore, Maryland, The United States

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Mystery & Thrillers, Psychology, Romantic Suspense

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Sue Grafton, definitely Janet Evanovich, J.D. Robb (yeah, I know she's ...more

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January 2012

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Psychology and writing (or writing and psychology) have always vied for the number one spot on my list of greatest passions. I am now a retired psychotherapist and can afford to spend as much time as I want on my writing.

I am in Heaven! (Well, actually I live in Florida now.)

Some people have asked me if my protagonist, psychotherapist Kate Huntington, is me. I wish! She's much more consistently kind and compassionate than I am.

I was born and raised in Maryland and lived there most of my adult life. In addition to my psychotherapy practice, I also taught at Towson University for a decade. It was my favorite job of my entire lifetime, so I decided to base my first series, the Kate Huntington mysteries, in Towson, Maryland. My newer series, a ...more

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	Multiple Motives (Kate Huntington Mysteries #1) 4.06 avg rating — 2,467 ratings — published 2011 — 7 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
	To Kill a Labrador (Marcia Banks and Buddy Mysteries #1) 4.30 avg rating — 1,429 ratings — published 2016 — 6 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
	Arsenic and Young Lacy (Marcia Banks and Buddy Mysteries #2) 4.31 avg rating — 290 ratings — published 2016 — 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 Call of the Woof (Marcia Banks and Buddy Mysteries #3) 4.36 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 2017 — 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 Mayfair Christmas Carol (Marcia Banks and Buddy Mysteries #4) 4.29 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Ill-Timed Entanglements (Kate Huntington Mysteries #2) 4.15 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 2012 — 6 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
	Patches in the Rye (Marcia Banks and Buddy Mysteries #5) 4.46 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	The Marcia Banks and Buddy Mystery Collection I: (Books 1-4) (The Marcia Banks and Buddy Mystery Collections Book 1) 4.58 avg rating — 111 ratings — 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
	The Legend of Sleepy Mayfair (Marcia Banks and Buddy Mysteries #6) 4.37 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	Family Fallacies (Kate Huntington Mysteries #3) 4.32 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 2012 — 5 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’m Thankful I’m a Clumsy Gardener (an Encore)

by Kassandra Lamb ~ I wrote this post originally in 2019. It’s still a fun post (and a true story), so I thought I’d run it again. Here’s why I’m thankful I’m a clumsy gardener.

As a follow-up to a previous post, When Your Garden Tries to Kill You, I had promised to tell the rest of the story of how my garden tried to kill (or at least maim) me and why I’m thankful that happened.

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Kassandra Lamb rated a book it was amazing Nowhere to Run (DS Peter Gayle, #1) by Jack Slater (Goodreads Author)	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
If you like character-driven police procedurals, this is a great series. Set in Great Britain, it follows the cases of Detective Sergeant Peter Gayle, head of one of the major crime units in the Exeter police station. In Book 1, Pete is just coming ba ...more
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Kassandra Lamb rated a book it was amazing Smoky Mountain Tracks (Raine Stockton Dog Mysteries, #1) by Donna Ball (Goodreads Author)	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
After a tragic loss, Raine had given up her work in search and rescue in the Smoky Mountains. However, she reluctantly returns to duty when a child is kidnapped. But Raine's young golden retriever, Cisco, isn’t ready; he’s too inexperienced and their ...more
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Secret Service agent Katherine “Kat” Smith is sent to a small town on Maui, Hawaii to be the postmaster, while the hoopla over an unfortunate encounter with a handsy politician dies down. She’s thinking she just has to lay low for a while and then sh ...more
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Seren Star Goode takes the fresh-start-in-a-new-town trope and turns it on its head with a couple of great twists. First, when Amanda Warren comes to the coastal town of Ocean Wood to reunite with her twin sister, she discovers her twin missing and a ...more
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I read A LOT. And most of the time, if you’d ask me the storyline of a book I read a few weeks ago, I wouldn’t remember it. But every once in a while I read a story that touches my heart and lingers in my mind. This is one of those stories. Divorce, si ...more
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This story starts out a bit slow, even for a quaint English village cozy. The author took a tad too long (for my taste) introducing the setting and the characters. Some of the latter could have been brought in later. That’s my main complaint, because ...more
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“and maybe he was a good cop until he got promoted to detective. Now he thinks he’s got enough power, he can do whatever he wants. But sometimes that’s the very thing that brings men like him down. They get so arrogant they make mistakes,”
― Kassandra Lamb, Multiple Motives

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“Grief is never just about the person who’s gone. It’s about what their loss means to us.”
― Kassandra Lamb, To Kill a Labrador

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“definition of trauma is something so overwhelming that we can’t process it emotionally at the time it happens. Even the strongest people may struggle with processing those emotions later. Indeed, stronger people are more likely to push aside their feelings so they can act to get themselves out of the bad situation. Which is exactly what you did. But those feelings don’t just go away, not until we let ourselves feel them, so we can get them out of our systems. And telling ourselves it’s over or that we shouldn’t feel that way doesn’t work.” The waitress chose that moment to bring their food.”
― Kassandra Lamb, Multiple Motives

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