Julie B. Cosgrove is our guest today.

She wrote a book called Threes Sixes & Thieves.

Today, she will share the story behind her story.

Sunset Acres isn’t safe.

Thieves are targeting homes with threes and sixes in their house numbers.

Caught in the act, one robber is arrested, but later found hanged in his jail cell.

The police claim it’s a suicide.

Janie and her Bunco Biddies worry there might be dirty cops in Alamoville…but who can they convince?

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What inspired you to write this book?

Have you ever gathered around a group of elderly ladies who have known each other for years? My mother had a “crowd” who called themselves The Bridge Club. They were so different in social backgrounds, lifestyles and financial security, yet loved each other intensely, bound by years of companionship. Back during WWII, they would gather to play cards once a week to help keep each other sane while their hubbies were in service to their country. By the time I came along, the activities had grown to include barbeques and shared vacations at the beach with the husbands and kids. Yet, the ladies still played Bridge weekly…for decades!

Although all are now deceased save one, growing up around these amazing women became the inspiration for my Bunco Biddies Mysteries about twelve active senior citizens living in a retirement community. They play Bunco every Thursday while sharing recipes and mild gossip. When crime begins to encroach their small town of Alamoville, Janie, the widow of a renowned Austin detective, decides they can help the struggling police department—much to the chagrin of her son-in-law, Blake, who has recently become Chief Detective.

Threes, Sixes, & Thieves is the third one in the series. It is actually based on an experience I had as a church secretary. We were on lockdown for six hours as swarms of police conducted a manhunt for a person who’d shot a patrol officer. Our church became their command center. Of course I had to write about it!

This sounds like a very complex story that’s a real page-turner! Thanks for sharing.

When she isn’t writing or editing faith-based fiction, Julie is a digital missionary with Cru Canada, a.k.a Power to Change. She edits and guides 22 volunteer writers of daily devotionals as well as edits and writes articles for their two websites,

She edits and guides 22 volunteer writers of daily devotionals as well as edits and writes articles for their two websites, The Life.com and Issues I Face.com, which encourage readers to contact well-trained, free confidential online mentors. IIF is now being translated into French, Spanish, Hindi, and Arabic. In 2017, the sites received over 14 million clicks, over half a million were exposed to the Gospel through online mentors, and The Life.com Facebook page received over 63K likes.

Julie loves cozy mysteries, and not only writes them but reads them and watches them on TV. She is active in the ministry and mission councils of her church as well as the women’s ministries. A professional speaker for the past eight years, Julie leads women’s and writers’ retreats. Now widowed, she lives in Texas with two spoiled housecats she calls her Beastie Boys.

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