Cozy Supernatural Mystery

Elizabeth Walton has always been very protective of her daughter Meg. In the past, she has begged Meg to leave the detective work to the professionals. But now things are different. Because this time, the victim is one of Elizabeth's good friends. So with the pressure on her, Meg sets out to bring the killer to justice.

Meg Walton hopes her days of sleuthing are behind her. So, when another murder occurs, the secret witch-turned-sleuth finds her life turned upside down. This time, the case is personal when Meg finds out one of her dearest friends is the victim. Even more, Meg's friend has made enemies of the most influential family in town. Somehow, Meg has to find a way to navigate her grief while cracking her hardest case yet. Is Meg finally in over her head?

Just as donut-shop manager and secret witch Meg Walton thinks her sleuthing days are finally behind her, another murder rocks her coastal, Northern California hometown of Enchanted Bay. The case strikes especially close to home when Meg finds out the victim is one of her mother's close friends, Hope Riddle. When the local police rule that Hope's death is a burglary gone bad, Meg sets out to prove them wrong and bring Hope's real killer to justice - with the help of a few good spells.

Carly James dream of opening her own jewelry shop is fast becoming a reality. The little shop with its crushed strawberry paintwork springs to life - filled with delightful things. The building’s history intrigues Carly, especially when she senses a spirit presence. Carly is a bit of a free spirit, which is evident by her outrageous clothing and vibrantly colored hair. Jazz and Evan - Carly’s friends who appear in The Secret of Chestnut Hall, the first book in the Blooms, Bones, and Stones Series, are about to be married.

Teenager Julia Beval was a four corner guardian. That meant she was one of the intermediaries between the supernatural and the everyday world. And this meant she was set to be one of the most important people on the planet. With the day she was set to gain her magical powers on the horizon, Julia faced her first challenge. Supernatural things were happening at her school and she sensed the new dean was behind it. And now in order to keep herself safe, and to protect her friends, Julia must find out what the dean is planning and put a stop to it before it is too late....

Ivy is the town's botanist, and she can cure what ails you with a touch of magic. Her family lives near the lighthouse that her uncle operates. Her cousin Blanche helps her at the botany store, and a flaming drag queen ghost interrupts her on a daily basis. Moira, the ghost, was Marvin in real life. After death she barged out of the closet with a martini in one hand and a long, sleek cigarette holder in the other. When Ivy's regular customer ends up missing, she becomes entangled with a private investigator who is also searching for her.

I have a perfect life. I recently rented the most adorable little apartment on top of my favorite bookstore coffee shop on Main Street in Holiday Hills, the charmingest of charming small southern towns. I spend my days ghostwriting a cozy mystery series for a well-known author, and maybe just a minute or two crushing on the town’s police chief. But of course, I’d never let that cat out of the bag.

Detective Jack Harker and Shadow Lake's resident witch Ivy Morgan are finally on the right romantic track - and they're officially going on their first date. While eating dinner in a neighboring town, a police officer is shot and killed on the street - and when the ballistics come back, Jack realizes his tortured past is still part of his tumultuous present. Jack's demons are on display, and he's in danger from an old enemy's grudge and a current enemy's vengeance.

No stranger to fear since meeting the unhuman Inspector Hobbes, Andy Caplet fears getting fired from his reporting job (again). His main concern, though, is a shady property developer who has designs on Sorenchester Common, and more annoyingly on his wife. Perhaps a trip to the mountains will help him relax, but this proves even more perilous with foul weather, inedible food, brigands, and a terrifying cruise. Fortunately, mountain leopards, Yetis and Flossy, the yak, take a shine to Andy.

Once upon a time, Hoagy had it all: a hugely successful debut novel, a gorgeous celebrity wife, the glamorous world of New York City at his feet. These days, he scrapes by as a celebrity ghostwriter. A celebrity ghostwriter who finds himself investigating murders more often than he'd like. And once upon a time, Richard Aintree was the most famous writer in America. But after his wife's death, Richard went into mourning...and then into hiding. No one has heard from him in 20 years.

Water witch Evian Brooks has plenty of problems - and a margarita-loving toad is the least of them. Her scooter is on the fritz, her radio show has three listeners per week (including her mother), and there’s a beauty pageant in town threatening to kill her with boredom. However, the promise of death becomes all too real when Evian finds herself accidentally off-roading into a crime scene where Marilyn Johnson - famed beauty queen - is dead in the water.

After a bitter divorce and a string of bad luck, Shay Graves seizes the opportunity to pack up her daughter and move back to the enchanted island of Mystic Key to work as a cosmetologist for her family's funeral business. With a teenage daughter about to come into her witchy powers, a family of eccentric witches only a stone’s throw away, and a job where the dead always have a say in their funeral arrangements, she’s certainly got her hands full.

Teenager Julia Beval is a four corner guardian, one of the intermediaries between the supernatural and the everyday world and one of the most important people on the planet. When she discovers that Dylan, the one person she thought she could trust, had been lying to her, she begins to doubt if she really is the person that that everyone thinks she is.

Natalie Taylor, high priestess of the coven in quirky Giles, Massachusetts, just wants to stop seeing dead people. With all the elements needed for the spell now in place, she can finally complete the ritual to push the ghosts away. But when a body is found in Corey Woods, giving her the opportunity to prove that her long-lost love wasn't guilty of the identical murders years ago, some of the answers she needs to clear him lie on the far side of the veil. She's going to need help from both the living and the dead to catch the real killer.

Aisling Grimlock is having a bad week. Well, actually, she's having a bad life - not that she's complaining. Okay, she's totally complaining. After being laid off from her secretarial position, she has no choice but to join the family business, and now she's a full-time grim reaper. That's right. She collects and transfers souls to the hereafter.

Jenna Sutton is nothing like Buffy—the iconic vampire slayer of TV fame. She’s the antithesis of a cheerleader. She’s not peppy. And she sucks at gymnastics. She has nothing in common with the fictional Buffy, other than being blonde and in high school. Oh, and occasionally she kills vampires for a living, as well as other things that go bump in the night.

Life isn’t all that easy when you’re a paranormal private investigator involved with a police chief who’s convinced the paranormal world doesn’t exist. When he sees it up close and first hand, Jack knows that Miranda hasn’t been entirely truthful about her profession. Not that great for a relationship in its early stages.

For Waverly Windswept, witch, fashionista, queen of snark—but also suffering pre-midlife crisis—that fatal day arrives when her estranged grifter sister goes missing. Waverly goes on the hunt to find her loved one where she was last seen—a tropical paradise home to a secretive people. But from the moment she arrives, Waverly is tossed into a murderous fray as she unravels secrets people will kill to hide. Then there are the ghosts, mermen, hidden treasure, and the rugged private investigator who all complicate Waverly's quest to find out the truth.

The Big Easy is about to be buried in big trouble. Again. For Ofelia Archer, that means she’s knee-deep in an investigation, even though she’s not quite sure how she got there. Zach Sully thinks he’s in for an easy night at Ofelia’s speakeasy. Maybe, a little flirting as a lead-up to a date included, when a scream in a neighboring abandoned building draws his attention.

Three full-length novels. Several hours of listening. Sweet Southern Magic includes the first three books in the Sweet Tea Witch Mysteries series: Southern Magic, Southern Spells, and Southern Myths.