Where would you find an interior decorator, her tea-leaf reading best friend, and a hot fudge sauce recipe to die for?In Darling Valley, of course! Today my guest, Cassie Page, shares with us her motivation and inspiration for writing the Darling Valley cozy mysteries, featuring amateur sleuth and interior designer, Olivia M. Granville (OMG).We talk about her love of cooking (and her over 500 cookbooks!) and why she chose not to write culinary cozy mysteries, but instead created the fictional Darling Valley just outside her home of San Francisco.I also want to mention that Vered Ehsani, who was my guest on It's a Mystery Podcast episode 21, has a fun giveaway she wanted my listeners to know about. To celebrate the launch of her new Cozy Tea Shoppe Mysteries, she's giving away three handmade African tea cozies. Click here to learn more and enter the giveaway.You can find out more about today's guest, Cassie Page, and all her books on her website CassiePage.com. Follow her on Facebook at CassiePageBooks.Links and resources mentioned in this episodeClick on any of the book covers to go to Cassie's books on AmazonFor the recipe for The Salted Caramel's delicious hot fudge sauce, go to CassiePage.com and sign up for Cassie's newsletterWikipedia page about the town of Darling and Sir Charles Henry Darling, who it was named afterPress play (above) to listen to the show, or read the transcript below. Remember you can also subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts. And listen on Stitcher.You can also click here to watch the interview on YouTube.Transcription of Interview with Cassie PageAlexandra: Hi, Mystery Readers. I am Alexandra Amor. This is It's a Mystery Podcast and I am here today with Cassie Page. Hi, Cassie.Cassie: Hi. How are you, Alexandra?Alexandra: Very well, thank you. Thank you so much for being on the show.Cassie: It's my pleasure.Alexandra: Let me just give our listeners a bit of an introduction to you. Cassie Page is a writer living in San Francisco. She has published more than 50 books including hard backs and paperbacks, but most of her work is available as e-books. She's written in several genres, but focuses on her favorite--Cozy Mysteries--and that's why she's here with us today.She has two series, the "Darling Valley Cozy Mysteries" set in the fictional upscale town of Darling Valley in Marin County and the "Tuesday Tea Leaves Cozy Mysteries." The second of which is due later this year, 2017, and is set in Hollywood. Apart from writing, Cassie love the food scene in San Francisco, especially the one taking place in her kitchen where she loves cooking and researching recipes. This blows me away, her cookbook collection numbers over 500. So I might have to ask you a little bit about that.Why don't you start by telling us a little bit about Olivia Granville and her world in Darling Valley?Cassie: Well, Olivia M. Granville, OMG for short.f my alter ego. When I decided to write Cozy Mysteries and I was looking at the various characters that were populating that world, there were so many food cozies and food cozies would seem like a natural for me because my background is in food. I have written many cookbooks, I've had a cooking school, caterer. I had my very first cookbook many many years ago. My very first book was a cookbook and I have a great love of cooking and food. As you said, I have collected in my life well over 500 cookbooks. But it just seems like there were so many food culinary cozy mysteries and I wanted to do something different. And another love of mine is decorating and antiques, and the decorative arts which if you can get a little bit of a glimpse of my living room here, it shows.So I thought I would create a character who liked the decorative arts. Olivia became an interior decorator and architect, with a love of antiques.