Ashley, Mike
The Mammoth Book of Locked Room Mysteries & Impossible Crimes ***
Fiction. Anthology of locked room mysteries.
Berry, Steve
The Museum of Mysteries *****
Fiction. Cassiopeia Vitt is on the hunt for a man who stole a priceless Sabbat Box containing vials of liquid hundreds of years old. When she accidentally inhales the vapors of one of them, she is transported back in time to the days of Arthur and Morgan la Fey.
Best, Morgana
Broom Mates ****
Fiction. First in the Sea Witch cozy mysteries series set in Australia. Goldie Bloom loses her boyfriend at the same time she inherits a house on the Gold Coast. She sees this as a sign and travels to this small town, where she discovers not only is she a witch, but she has a familiar named Persnickle.
Broom with A View ****
Fiction. Second in the Sea Witch Paranormal Cozy Mystery series. Goldie is called to the retirement home when her friend Oleander is accuse of murder. With her trusty familiar at her side, Goldie is able to communicate with the deceased to find out who really did kill her.
Christmas Spirit ****
Fiction. Prudence is a clairvoyant medium, not a fortuneteller, but she has never seen a corporeal ghost before until this Christmas. She’s a bit sad at spending Christmas alone until she develops feelings for this deceased police officer who needs her help in solving two murders.
Dizzy Spells ****
Fiction. Second in the Kitchen Witch paranormal cozy mysteries. A new self-proclaimed witch has moved into town and set up shop, but it’s Amelia’s house she wants. When a man dies on Amelia’s front porch, she learns that he is a realtor. It’s up to Amelia and her friends to connect the dots and find out who killed him and why.
A Ghost of a Chance ****
Fiction. First in the Witch Woods Funeral Home paranormal cozy mysteries. Laurel Bay can see and hear ghosts. When she inherits her father’s funeral home business, her first funeral is interrupted by a dead body in the casket. On top of the dead body supposed to be there. The young woman lying on top of the other body appears to Laurel
Miss Spelled ****
Fiction. First in the Kitchen Witch paranormal cozy mysteries. Amelia loses her boyfriend and her job and her apartment all in the same day. But she also receives a letter telling her that her aunt has left her a house and a cake shop in her will. Surprised and bewildered, she travels to the small town and to her new home, where she finds a group of people who were very good friends of her aunt and who become her good friends. But when a man arrives in her cake shop and dies moments later, she is worried that the town and the police will suspect her.
Witches’ Brew ***
Fiction. Pepper moves to Lightning Bay to help her aunts run their bed and breakfast. Unbeknownst to her, there are vampires and witches and werewolves living there. When Pepper arrives, the body of a dead man falls from the roof right in front of her, and she has to figure out who killed him and why.
Bowen, Rhys
The Tuscan Child *****
Fiction. Hugo was a British flyer in WWII. When his plane went down, he was rescued by a lovely Italian woman who kept him hidden in a ruined monastery. Joanna is a modern young English woman studying to be a lawyer. When her father dies, she returns to his home to dispense with his belongings. She finds an old letter written by her father and decides to put her studies on hold to travel to Italy to discover about the father she realizes she never really knew.
Finsilver, Janet
Murder in the Mansion ***
Fiction. Second in the Redwood Cove cozy mystery series. Kelly has been hired as the fulltime manager of the B&B, but on her first day back at work, a guest at a nearby B&B has been killed, and Kelly was the one who found her. While trying to solve that case, Kelly finds herself in dangerous when she draws too near the solution, and she has to fight her way to safety.
Galenorn, Yasmine
Oak and Thorns ****
Fiction. Second in the Wild Hunt urban fantasy set in Seattle. The Wild Hunt agency is on a case on Whidbey Island. A series of murders and missing people has lasted for decades, and Herne, Ember, and the others are investigating the case and find themselves facing off with one of the Ante-Fae.
Geary, Debora
A Hidden Witch ***
Fiction. Second in the Modern Witch series. Witchcraft and technology collide in this tale of a group of witches who use a computer game to keep in touch and a woman with no skills who finds out she is one powerful witch.
Gilbert, Victoria
A Murder for the Books *****
Fiction. First in the Blue Ridge Librarian mysteries. Amy is a librarian who moves to a small town in Virginia to care for her elderly aunt and manage the local library. She comes across an old mystery when she stumbles over a dead body, and with the help of her handsome next door neighbor, she sets about trying to solve both cases.
Gimpel, Ann
Tarnished Beginnings ***
Fiction. Prequel to the Soul Dance shifter series set in Egypt. Tairin, a young Romani girl, hits puberty and discovers she’s a wolf shifter. Her mother is killed by the Romani for marrying a shifter, and her father has gone back to his people, leaving Tairin to live on her own. She escapes the Romani and travels across Cairo, finally choosing to live as a wolf rather than a vulnerable girl.
Harkness, Deborah
The All Souls Real-time Reading Companion ***
Fiction. Playlists and links to paintings of the All Souls world.
The World of All Souls Compendium *****
Non-fiction. Writing notes for the All Souls trilogy.
Jaffarian, Sue Ann
Sh*t I’d Kill For ***
Fiction. Short story about a woman who is solicited by a stranger to kill in order to get things.
Johnson, Erin
Seashells, Spells & Caramels ****
Fiction. First in the Spells & Caramels paranormal cozy mystery series. Imogen is having a hard day when she is handed a flyer for a baking contest to be held in France. Something tells her to take a chance for once in her life and go for it. When she arrives at the unusual town, she falls in love with it, but the contest is fraught with danger, and she is the prime suspect when one of the contestants is poisoned.
King, Kerry Anne
Whisper Me This ****
Fiction. A woman returns home when her mother is found unconscious, and her father has slipped into dementia. While going through the family papers, she discovers an old secret that shatters her to the core.
Locher, Wes
Braving Britannia *****
Non-fiction. From the beginning of development through the various expansions of Ultima Online, this book tells the stories of behind-the-scenes creation of the game.
Marcum, Diana
The Tenth Island ****
Non-fiction. Memoir of a journalist’s trips to the Azores.
Milligan, Molly
What the Cat Dragged In ***
Fiction. First in the Celtic Witch mysteries series. Bronwen, a hedgewitch, lives with her elderly aunt and a mystical cat. When her cousin arrives for a visit from America to learn about her own powers, the two of them work to solve a haunting and a mystery.
Wine, Witches and Song ***
Fiction. First in the Wildham-on-Sea paranormal cozy mysteries. Jackie finds a body under a pile of stones on the beach and uses her magic to help solve the case.
Omer, Mike
A Killer’s Mind ****
Fiction. A forensic psychologist consults for the FBI and is sent to Chicago to work on a case of a serial killer, one who possibly has ties to her past.
Phipps, C.A.
Apple Pie and Arsenic
Fiction. First in the Maple Lane cozy mysteries. Maddie returns from New York to take care of her ailing grandmother in Oregon. Her dream is to ope a bakery in New York, but she hasn’t considered opening one in her home town. Her grandmother talks her into buying an empty shop, and her business is going well. She even has time to enter a pie in a local contest, but when she finds a dead body, she feels she needs to solve the mystery herself.
Robinson Holly
Sleeping Tigers ****
Fiction. A teacher on summer break travels to San Francisco to visit a friend and to look for her brother. She finds him, a drug addict, living in a flophouse with others. When she finds out he has fathered a baby on a homeless teen, she tries to get him to assume responsibility, but he flees the country, and she follows hoping to bring him home again.
Shaffer, Andrew
Hope Never Dies ****
Fiction. Obama/Biden mystery. Biden’s old friend, a conductor on the Amtrak train is run over by one of the trains, and Biden promises the man’s daughter that he’ll try to help find out what happened to her father. She is convinced he didn’t kill himself, but the police have a different point of view. Obama comes along for the ride, though his relationship with Biden is a bit tarnished.
Swain, James
The King Tides *****
Fiction. First in the Lancaster and Daniels mystery series. Lancaster is hired by a Miami doctor to find out who is targeting his daughter. When Lancaster finds pornographic videos portraying someone who looks exactly like the girl, he realizes the case involves pedophilia. He tracks down the girl’s aunt who works for the FBI and realizes the similarities between the two are causing the problem.
