by Jackie Elliott | Sep 30, 2022 | Hephzibah's Homestead
Harry always has a couple of prawn traps he drops once in a while. The best way to eat them is on the back deck of the Pipe Dream, after he has boiled them for a few minutes in seawater. If there are any left, I have lots of recipes for BC Spot Prawns, and this is one...
by Jackie Elliott | Aug 7, 2021 | Coffin Cove, mystery, Vancouver Island, West Coast
My Coffin Cove mystery series is set in an isolated fishing town of the same name. The town is an independent municipality with it’s own Mayor and City Council, RCMP detachment, pub, café and Government dock. Years ago Coffin Cove was a boom town. First coal...
by Jackie Elliott | Jul 23, 2021 | Hephzibah's Homestead
23 July, 2021 “Andi was drawn to the owner of the cafe, a tall angular woman who seemed comfortable in her own skin. Hephzibah appeared to know everyone and everything that was going on in Coffin Cove. None of her gossip was malicious, and Andi recognized a...
by Jackie Elliott | May 29, 2021 | Coffin Cove, Vancouver Island, West Coast
“You ever walked much in the bush?” Clara asked her. Her voice was gravelly, as if she were a heavy smoker, and she was abrupt. “No. Just that trail. From our house to the beach. Dad always told us there were abandoned mineshafts and it was too dangerous.” “He was...
by Jackie Elliott | Apr 28, 2021 | Coffin Cove, Storytelling, Vancouver Island, West Coast
Port Renfrew is a tiny remote community on the West side of Vancouver Island. If it might seem to readers of Coffin Cove, the first in a series of crime novels set on the Island, that Port Renfrew was the inspiration for Coffin Cove – well, they’d be partially...
