Download or read book Witching Murder written by Jennie Melville and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-12-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charmian Daniels (last seen in Murder in the Garden), chief metropolitan police superintendent of Central London, interrupts a medical leave when beautiful Vivien Charles, member of a witches' coven, is found fatally stabbed in her home, her corpse surrounded by cult objects. An autopsy reveals that Vivien was pregnant and the fetus deformed. Vivien's fellow witches, still reeling from the shock of her death, are dumbfounded by the finding, but sexy Joshua Fox, the lone male in the coven and laughingly called its warlock, is unsurprised. When Charmian learns that the primary duty of a warlock is to impregnate witches, the hapless man becomes the prime suspect--until he, too, is stabbed in his home. Every clue leads to the coven, but Charmian is unconvinced, and digs into Vivien's past to discover a more pedestrian kind of sorcery that might conjure up a killer. Melville serves up a balanced brew of career politics, the occult, and the psychology of murder.
Download or read book Witching Murder written by Jennie Melville and published by Chivers North America. This book was released on 1991-11-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wicked Witch Murder written by Leslie Meier and published by Kensington. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Halloween around the corner, and a mysterious murder close to home, Lucy’s Stone’s fall is off to a sinister start . . . When the bewitching Diana Ravenscroft comes to quiet Tinker's Cove and opens Solstice, a quaint little shop offering everything from jewelry to psychic readings, Lucy Stone writes her off as eccentric but harmless. Even after Diana gives her a disturbingly accurate reading, Lucy can’t help but befriend the newcomer. But not everyone in town is so enchanted. And when Lucy stumbles upon a dead body near her home, she can’t shake the feeling that something ominous is lurking in the crisp October air . . . Convinced Diana is an evil witch, prominent businessman Ike Stoughton blames her for a series of recent misfortunes, including Lucy’s gruesome discovery and his own wife’s death, and rallies the townsfolk against her. But after Lucy learns the murder victim was a magician and close friend of Diana’s, she starts to wonder who’s really stirring up a cauldron of trouble. By Halloween, her suspicions lead her to a deadly web of secrets—and a spine-chilling brush with the things that go bump in the night . . . “The warm, small-town ambiance and the persevering Lucy Stone make this a winner for cozy fans.” —Library Journal
Download or read book The Witching Place Murder by Manuscript A Curious Bookstore Cozy Mystery Book 2 written by Sophie Love and published by Sophie Love. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The perfect romance or beach read, with a difference: its enthusiasm and beautiful descriptions offer an unexpected attention to the complexity of not just evolving love, but evolving psyches. It's a delightful recommendation for romance readers looking for a touch more complexity from their romance reads.” --Midwest Book Review (For Now and Forever) THE WITCHING PLACE: MURDER BY MANUSCRIPT is book #2 in a charming new cozy mystery series by bestselling author Sophie Love, author of The Inn at Sunset Harbor series, a #1 Bestseller with over 200 five-star reviews. When Alexis Blair, 29, is fired from her book publishing job and breaks up with her boyfriend on the same day, she wonders if life is urging her to make a fresh start. She decides it’s time to pursue her lifelong dream of opening a bookstore of her own—even if that means leaving Boston and accepting a job in a curious bookstore in a small seaside town an hour away. When Alexis is dispatched to scout out some books in an estate sale in a gothic mansion, she finds something she does not expect: one book is incredibly rare, the only one of its kind in existence, worth millions of dollars. She also soon finds something else she does not expect: a dead body. Thrust in the middle of the crime, will Alexis be able to clear her name? And will she discover the mystery at the heart of her very own store? A page-turning cozy, rife with the supernatural, mystery, secrets and love—and centered around a small town as odd and endearing as its shop—A CURIOUS BOOKSTORE will make you fall in love and keep you laughing out loud as you turn pages late into the night. “The romance is there, but not overdosed. Kudos to the author for this amazing start of a series that promises to be very entertaining.” --Books and Movies Reviews (For Now and Forever) Books #3-#5 are also available!
Download or read book The Witching Hour written by Anne Rice and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved author of the Vampire Chronicles, the first installation of her spellbinding Mayfair Chronicles—the inspiration for the hit television series! “Extraordinary . . . Anne Rice offers more than just a story; she creates myth.”—The Washington Post Book World Rowan Mayfair, a beautiful woman, a brilliant practitioner of neurosurgery—aware that she has special powers but unaware that she comes from an ancient line of witches—finds the drowned body of a man off the coast of California and brings him to life. He is Michael Curry, who was born in New Orleans and orphaned in childhood by fire on Christmas Eve, who pulled himself up from poverty, and who now, in his brief interval of death, has acquired a sensory power that mystifies and frightens him. As these two, fiercely drawn to each other, fall in love and—in passionate alliance—set out to solve the mystery of her past and his unwelcome gift, an intricate tale of evil unfolds. Moving through time from today’s New Orleans and San Francisco to long-ago Amsterdam and a château in the Louis XIV’s France, and from the coffee plantations of Port au Prince, where the great Mayfair fortune is made and the legacy of their dark power is almost destroyed, to Civil War New Orleans, The Witching Hour is a luminous, deeply enchanting novel. The magic of the Mayfairs continues: THE WITCHING HOUR • LASHER • TALTOS
Download or read book Witch Way to Murder written by Shirley Damsgaard and published by Avon. This book was released on 2005-08-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bewitched meets Murder She Wrote in this delightful new cozy mystery series featuring Ophelia Jensen, small town librarian and reluctant psychic, and her grandmother Abby, a benevolent witch. Thirty something Ophelia Jensen wants to live a quiet life as a small town librarian. She's created a comfortable existence with her kooky, colorful grandmother Abby, and if it were up to her, they could live out their days—along with Ophelia's dog Lady and cat Queenie—in peace and quiet. But, to Ophelia's dismay, she and Abby aren't a typical grandmother/granddaughter duo. She possesses psychic powers, and Abby is a kindly witch. And while Ophelia would do anything to dismiss her gift—harboring terrible guilt after her best friend was killed and she was unable to stop it—threatening events keep popping up, forcing her to tap into her powers of intuition. To make matters worse, a strange—yet devastatingly attractive—man is hanging around Ophelia's library, and no matter how many times she tells him she's sworn off men forever, he persists. Soon this handsome newcomer reveals he's following a lead on a local drug ring, and then a dead body shows up right in Abby's backyard. And much as Ophelia would like to put away her spells forever, she and Abby must use their special powers to keep themselves, and others, out of harm's way.
Download or read book The Witching Season written by Stephanie Work and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natalie McClellan lives with her mother, Claire, in the small town of McClellan, Tennessee. Claire has worked her whole life to keep Natalie from discovering that she is part of a family that has a dark past. One fateful afternoon in October, Natalie and her friends unwittingly unleash an evil witch. Two centuries earlier, a mysterious group calling itself The Circle had trapped the witch in a mirror. For hundreds of years, the mirror safely jailed the witch, until Natalie and her friends, Edward and Lucy, unwittingly unleash her evil. Despite the best efforts of the adults surrounding them, the children find themselves racing toward a fateful confrontation with forces far more dark and powerful than they can imagine. The children become convinced that they must somehow trap the witch again, as had been done years ago, before the witch finds a way to destroy The Circle and them.
Download or read book The Last Witch of Langenburg written by Thomas Willard Robisheaux and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring one of Europe's last witch panics, historian Thomas Robisheaux brings to life the story of an entire world caught between superstition and modernity in a high-stakes drama that led to charges of sorcery and witchcraft against an entire family.
Download or read book Witch Trials written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This chronological reference compendium traces accusations, punishments, and the investigation of occultism from sorcery inquiries in 323 BCE Athens to the modern day. The text provides detailed information on actual hearings, torture, and death sentences for cases both famous and unknown. Primary sources--media, correspondence, adjudication--reveal the appalling injustices of government, church, and mobs toward the accused. Extensive appendices include a glossary, chronology of examples, and a list of legal proceedings, their locations, and outcomes.
Download or read book The Witching Tree written by Alice Blanchard and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Burning Lake, a small, isolated town with a dark history of witches and false accusations. Now, a modern-day witch has been murdered, and Detective Natalie Lockhart is reluctantly drawn deep into the case, in this atmospheric mystery from Alice Blanchard, The Witching Tree. As legend has it, if you carve your deepest desire into the bark of a Witch Tree, then over time as the tree grows, it will swallow the carvings until only a witch can read them. Until now. Detective Natalie Lockhart gained unwanted notoriety when she and her family became front and center of not one, but two sensational murder cases. Now she’s lost her way. Burned out and always looking over her shoulder, Natalie desperately thinks that quitting the police force is her only option left. All that changes when a beloved resident—a practicing Wiccan and founder of the town’s oldest coven—is killed in a fashion more twisted and shocking than Natalie has ever seen before, leaving the town reeling. Natalie has no choice but to help solve the case along with Detective Luke Pittman, her boss and the old childhood friend she cannot admit she loves, even to herself. There is a silent, malignant presence in Burning Lake that will not rest. And what happens next will shock the whole town, and Natalie, to the core.
Download or read book Witching Hour Dead A Westwick Witches Cozy Mystery written by Colleen Cross and published by Slice Publishing Mystery and Thriller Books. This book was released on 2022-12-18 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merlot, Magic, and Murder... The annual Westwick Corners Wine Festival is a time for the popping of corks and, Cen hopes, time for Tyler to pop the question and propose. But when a festival goer turns up dead, its clear that merlot, magic and murder dont mix! Witching Hour Dead is book 5 in the Westwick Witches Paranormal Cozy Mystery series. All books can be read standalone but you'll love the books more if you start with book 1, Witch You Well.
Download or read book The Witching written by Chet Hagan and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Murders and Witches written by Rachel Swenson and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-07 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bundle contains two consecutive books, which are: Behexed and Baffled: Luna is a young woman in her twenties with a spark of innocence, but not without wits and intellect. She also happens to be a witch, a trade that has been passed on through generations. However, she knows not to use magic for the wrong reasons, and to always use it within reasonable boundaries.Her life with her black cat seems to be flawless, and her new gift shop is, however challenging, successful enough for her to make a decent living. But trouble is in the air. During a festive parade, she is pointed towards a dead body by a little girl. The girl's father, a detective, sees something in the future amateur sleuth and asks her to accompany him in his investigation of the murder.Moreover, Luna takes advice from a witch with a nose for darkness, Agatha, who is trying to put her on the wrong path.Will Luna helps solve the case?Will she fall for the single father, the handsome detective?Will she succumb to the temptations of her fellow witch?Witch in the Woods: Sheriff Kaife hasn't seen anything, he claims. The girl that's missing could have very well been killed already. When Luna arrives in the woods, she questions his methods but at the same time, tries to learn from the sheriff to become a better detective.The two team up and go on a search. They see shadows, freaky people, and become puzzled by the many different options. What happened on that rock, the day that girl seemed to have vanished into thin air?Make this your lucky day by getting this 2 in 1 bundle now
Download or read book A Canine Casper Cozy Mystery Bundle Books 5 and 6 written by Sophie Love and published by Sophie Love. This book was released on 2021-06-16 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bundle of books #5 (THE GHOSTLY GROUNDS: SCANDAL AND SUPPER) and #6 (THE GHOSTLY GROUNDS: DISASTER AND DESSERT) in Sophie Love’s Canine Casper cozy mystery series. This bundle offers books five and six in one convenient file, with over 150,000 words of reading. In THE GHOSTLY GROUNDS: SCANDAL AND SUPPER (Book #5), when Marie is hired to cleanse a unique and massive hotel in a nearby town, the scope of it is beyond anything she has encountered before. Just as she wonders if she has finally met her match, she learns that her local Mayor is trying to re-zone the downtown—and to shut down her B&B while he’s at it. Having a murder in the mix—for which she is pinned—hardly helps matters, either. In a multi-front war for her survival, can Marie manage to purge the ghosts, stay out of jail, and keep her livelihood? In THE GHOSTLY GROUNDS: DISASTER AND DESSERT (Book #6), the series finale, Marie finds her own future on the line as a murder occurs near her premises, and she is forced to solve it or else be implicated. With her rival innkeeper involved, it could hardly get any worse. As if that is not enough, this series finale brings to a head many questions: will Marie finally find her mother and what will happen between them? Will Marie end up with Robbie? With Brendan? Will she finally be able to claim her gifts, without Boo's help? And will she decide to stay and run the B&B—or be forced to leave this small town that has become her life? A page-turning cozy, packed with mystery, love, hauntings, travel, pets and food—anchored around a small town and a B&B in need of renovation that will capture your heart—THE GHOSTLY GROUNDS is an un-putdownable cozy that will keep you turning pages (and laughing out loud) late into the night.
Download or read book Just One Day A Porch by the Sea Book Five written by Sophie Love and published by Sophie Love. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Thanksgiving looming, Emma Gold has to put her B&B renovations into high gear, has to fend off her developer rival, and has to decide how serious she wants to get with her new boyfriend. Just when it seems like wedding bells might be looming, a huge misunderstanding changes everything. Has Emma been wrong all along? “The perfect romance or beach read, with a difference: its enthusiasm and beautiful descriptions offer an unexpected attention to the complexity of not just evolving love, but evolving psyches. It's a delightful recommendation for romance readers looking for a touch more complexity from their romance reads.” --Midwest Book Review (For Now and Forever) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ JUST ONE DAY is Book #5 in a charming new romantic comedy series by bestselling author Sophie Love, whose books have received over 5,000 five-star reviews. Emma Gold, a high-powered advertising exec from Los Angeles, is used to being in control of her life. She squashed her dreams of being an artist in order to get ahead, and she turned a blind eye to who her husband really was. But now, with everything falling apart, she realizes there might be more to life. When Emma is beckoned to visit her aunt, a funny and feisty elderly woman who smokes cigars, drives race cars and owns a massive, crumbling house in a beautiful, quaint seaside town, Emma thinks she is just coming for a weekend. Little does she know her life is about to change. With her sister living nearby and her aunt needing to move out, Emma wonders if maybe the idea is not so crazy. And when she meets the local antiques dealer, she even has to wonder if there might just be a second chance at love awaiting her. But Emma is new to renovation, to running a B&B, to dealing with a local zoning board—and to dealing with a distant, hostile relative who wants the house for himself and who will do anything he can to stop her. In a series of laugh-out-loud events, Emma learns that, sometimes, we have to let go of control. And, sometimes, a new love—and a new life—might just be waiting around the corner. JUST ONE DAY is book #5 in the debut of a funny and dazzling new sweet romance series that will make you laugh, make you cry, will keep you turning pages late into the night—and will make you fall in love with clean romance all over again. “The romance is there, but not overdosed. Kudos to the author for this amazing start of a series that promises to be very entertaining.” --Books and Movies Reviews (For Now and Forever) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Future books in the series will be available soon.
Download or read book The Inn at Sunset Harbor Bundle Books 4 5 and 6 written by Sophie Love and published by Sophie Love. This book was released on 2021-03-03 with total page 839 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bundle of books #4 (IF ONLY FOREVER), #5 (FOREVER AND A DAY), and #6 (FOREVER, PLUS ONE) in Sophie Loves’s The Inn at Sunset Harbor series. This bundle offers books #4, #5, and #6 in one convenient file, with approximately 200,000 words of reading. In IF ONLY FOREVER (Book #4), Emily is still reeling from Daniel’s proposal. As all seems to finally fall into place in her life, she looks forward to an exciting engagement year ahead, from shopping for a venue and a wedding dress, to creating her invite list, to setting a date. But all does not go as planned. The endless events of the engagement year add more stress than joy, putting pressure on their relationship as they are forced to make hard choices. Adjusting to life as parents doesn’t make it any easier, as Chantelle runs into problems at school and as a custody battle looms over them. As Christmas and New Years approach, the stress is only compounded. In FOREVER AND A DAY (Book #5), Emily is stunned to finally, after 20 years, meet her missing father—just a week before her wedding. Their reunion changes both of their lives, and unlocks the key to the house’s many secrets, and to Emily’s missing memories. Spring has finally arrived at Sunset Harbor, and with just a week to go until the big wedding date, the wedding preparations are busier than ever, including Daniel’s surprise talk of a honeymoon. Will Emily and Daniel have their dream wedding? Or will someone appear to tear it apart? Meanwhile, Chantelle’s custody battle comes to a pitch, and as Memorial Day looms, they must figure out what to do with Trevor’s house. Yet amidst all of this, another issue weighs most heavily on Emily’s mind: will she herself ever be pregnant? In FOREVER, PLUS ONE (Book #6), 35 year old Emily Mitchell is still reeling from the surprise news that she is pregnant. Just married, she and Danielle have no time to process the news as they are thrust into doctor appointments, preparing for the baby’s arrival—and, in a surprise party, the revelation of their baby’s gender. Summer has finally returned to Sunset Harbor, and Emily and Daniel have their hands full with the overflowing inn, their gut renovation of Trevor’s house, the building of a new spa, and Chantelle’s reacting to the baby news. They barely have time to settle into life as newlyweds when Emily gets a call from her dad: he wants them all to visit him in England. Surprising herself, Emily agrees. A life-changing trip to England culminates in shocking news, and Emily finds herself reeling. Daniel withdraws, and as summer comes to a close and her pregnancy develops, she wonders: will she ever be able to settle into this new life? And will life with Daniel ever be the same again? THE INN AT SUNSET HARBOR is a dazzling new romance series that will make you laugh, make you cry, will keep you turning pages late into the night—and will make you fall in love with romance all over again. Books #7 and #8 are also available!
Download or read book A Canine Casper Cozy Mystery Bundle Books 1 2 and 3 written by Sophie Love and published by Sophie Love. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bundle of books #1 (THE GHOSTLY GROUNDS: MURDER AND BREAKFAST), #2 (THE GHOSTLY GROUNDS: DEATH AND BRUNCH), and #3 (THE GHOSTLY GROUNDS: MALICE AND LUNCH) in Sophie Loves’s Canine Casper cozy mystery series. This bundle offers books one, two, and three in one convenient file, with over 200,000 words of reading. In THE GHOSTLY GROUNDS: MURDER AND BREAKFAST (Book #1), Marie Fortune, 39, a successful dog groomer in Boston, has had enough of catering to the wealthy and their pampered dogs. Realizing it is time to make a change, she quits and heads to a small coastal town in Maine where she remembers fond summers as a kid. Marie expects to go for a brief getaway—and is shocked to learn that her great-aunt left her an inheritance: a dilapidated, historic house high up on a hill overlooking the harbor. Marie feels an instant connection. Although the locals tell her it would be folly, Marie decides to renovate and give it a second life as a B&B. But there is one thing she couldn’t have planned for: the house is haunted. Two things, actually: her great-aunt also left her a dog—and he is far from a typical dog. When an unexpected death occurs soon thereafter, solving the crime will be more than just a matter of curiosity for Marie—her very future may depend on it. In THE GHOSTLY GROUNDS: DEATH AND BRUNCH (Book #2), other B&B owners have heard of Marie’s ability to expel ghosts, and she finds herself, to her own surprise, in demand for her “services” from neighboring towns. It seems there are many B&Bs that need to have their ghosts cleansed. With her B&B failing, Marie, her trusted dog as her sidekick, has nothing to lose. But when she arrives to her first client—and someone unexpectedly dies—Marie realizes she may be in for more than she bargained for. Once again, she may have to solve the crime to save her own future. In THE GHOSTLY GROUNDS: MALICE AND LUNCH (Book #3), when Marie, her reputation for ghost-cleansing growing, is summoned to exorcise an old manor house, she finds more than she bargained for: an unexpected death occurs. Worse, her trusted dog gets so sick, he is sent to the vet indefinitely. Marie, on her own, must solve the murder and expel the ghosts all by herself. Is she up to the task? A page-turning cozy, packed with mystery, love, hauntings, travel, pets and food—anchored around a small town and a B&B in need of renovation that will capture your heart—THE GHOSTLY GROUNDS is an un-putdownable cozy that will keep you turning pages (and laughing out loud) late into the night. Books #4 and #5 are also available!
