Character Interview with Robbie Jordan Created by Maddie Day

Welcome to Matter of Inquiry!

This week's guest is Robbie Jordan, the main character of author Maddie Day's Country Store Mysteries.

It's nice to have you here, Robbie. Tell us something about yourself.

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Character bio:

​Robbie Jordan is the owner and chief chef of Pans ’N Pancakes, a country store breakfast-and-lunch restaurant in southern Indiana. She’s a native mid-coast Californian but loves living in the Midwest – until murder hits. She recently married her boyfriend of several years and combined households with him and his son in their town of South Lick in Brown County.

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INTERVIEW:

JLB:  Tell us, Robbie, are you happy with your name or would you have picked something else?

RJ_  When I was growing up, I didn’t much like the name Roberta, but I always went by Robbie, so that was fine. I discovered only after my single mom died – suddenly and too soon in her fifties – that my father is a professor in Italy named Roberto. Now I love my given name, although only he and my mom’s sister Adele address me as that.

JLB:  Did your author give you any hobbies or pets? 

RJ:  I guess my hobby is the same as my exercise practice – long, hard bicycle rides. I also do crossword puzzles.
I have a darling adopted tuxedo cat named Birdy. Since I’ve been married to Abe and become step-mom to his teen son Sean, we also have Sean’s chocolate Lab, Cocoa, in the house, plus a sweet black cat named Macedo. Luckily they all get along.

JLB:  Do you like the profession your author chose? Is there a career that would have been better?

RJ:  I love it. I’d wanted to be a chef from way back, and owning my own restaurant is even better. I’m good at carpentry, but that was my mom’s profession, not mine.

JLB: Are you hoping the series will continue?

RJ:  Gosh. Four Leaf Cleaver is book #11 in the series and my author said we’re going through at least #13. Hey, it’s my life. I want the series to go on forever!

JLB:  Were you satisfied with the ending  of your featured book?

RJ:  I was delighted to tie up the murder as well as something in my personal life. It’s all good.

JLB:  Who was your favorite supporting character?

RJ:  I’d have to say my seventy-something Aunt Adele. She’s a tough lady and a tender one, too. As my only relative on this continent, I feel so lucky to have her. She seems to feel the same way, although once in a while she gets in over her head in an investigation and takes it places I wish she wouldn’t. Still, as a sheep farmer she knows how to shoot and owns more than one weapon. She can take care of herself.
 
JLB:  Name three of your favorite things (whether mentioned in the book or not).

RJ:  

• I really like Four Roses bourbon.
• I love my hometown of Santa Barbara, the “California Riviera.” It’s sunny and beautiful and has both ocean and real mountains. Plus, I grew up there.
• My favorite things to do are hard crossword puzzles. Something in my brain clicks on and the words flow out. I even do them in pen.

 JLB:  Did your author put you in danger? Did he or she warn you first?

RJ:  Heck, she never warns me about anything. Yes, this book involved me being in danger, but I rescued myself. I don’t warn my author, either, and she’s the one following me around and writing down what I do. Sometimes she’s definitely surprised by what happens.
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JLB: I think our time is up for today, Robbie. Thank you for coming. Before you go, please show us your featured book, the latest Country Store Mystery.

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FOUR LEAF CLEAVER (A Country Story Mystery)
Genre: Cozy mystery

There’s no mistaking Saint Patrick’s Day at Pans ’N Pancakes, where  the shelves of vintage cookware in her southern Indiana store are draped with Kelly-green garlands and her restaurant is serving shepherd’s pie and Guinness Beer brownies. The big event, however, is a televised Irish cooking competition to be filmed on site.
Unfortunately, someone’s luck has run out. Before the cameras start rolling, tough-as-nails producer Tara O’Hara Moore is found upstairs in her B&B room, a heavy cleaver left by her side.
Now, not only does Robbie have a store full of festive decorations, she’s got a restaurant full of suspects . . .

Amazon Buy Link:
Four Leaf Cleaver

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Note: Check out the excerpt with the Book Spotlight on my Ally Shield' blog:  allyshields.com/blog/book-spotlight-on-four-leaf-cleaver-by-maddie-day

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About the Author:

Maddie Day pens the Country Store Mysteries, the Cozy Capers Book Group Mysteries, and the new Cece Barton Mysteries. As Agatha Award-winning author Edith Maxwell, she writes the Quaker Midwife Mysteries and award-nominated short crime fiction. Day/Maxwell lives with her beau and cat Martin north of Boston, where she writes, gardens, cooks, and wastes time on Facebook.

Find her at EdithMaxwell.com, Wicked Authors, Mystery Lovers’ Kitchen, and on social media: BookBub,Twitter, Facebook, Instagram

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