paranormal cozy

Cate Conte: Purranormal Activity

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Cat Cafe #10

Maddie James has added a new service to JJ’s House of Purrs cat café on Daybreak Island, MA: a mobile cat café for parties. When client Olivia McAllister sets up a meeting to plan a dual birthday party for her daughter and granddaughter, Maddie soon learns that Olivia was her mother’s best friend when they were teenagers – and that Olivia mysteriously disappeared decades ago.

When Maddie and her mom arrive at Olivia’s house to discuss party plans, they find the door ajar and no sign of Olivia. Fearing the worst, they enter the house and find a cat who leads them to Olivia’s dead body. Who could want the grandmother dead? Is her death related to her mysterious disappearance as a teen? What about the rumors that the city wants her historical home for a museum? Could her family disagree with her secret plans to turn their ancestral home into a B&B? Is the cat the ghost cat of Daybreak Island and does it really herald life-changing events? read more

Molly MacRae: All Shell Breaks Loose

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Haunted Shell Shop #3

In Molly MacRae’s Haunted Shell Shop series, Maureen Nash runs the Moon Shell shop on Carolina’s Ocracoke Island. Other than selling shells in a lovely island location, Maureen also is part of a mystery solving team with her landlords and friends Glady and Burt Weaver. The two siblings are always ready to bring a flare of theatrics and drama to every investigation, and just everyday life on the island. The final member of their team is an eighteenth-century Welsh pirate, Emrys Lloyd. Only Maureen can hear and see Emrys. read more

Elizabeth Penney: Dungeons and Danger

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Ravensea Castle #2

Above the village of Monkwell, Yorkshire, sits Ravensea Castle, home of the Asquith family since 1138. The current family includes herbalist Nora, her sister popular TV actress Tamsyn, mead-brewer brother Will, amateur historian and father Arthur, Rolf the English Mastiff, Ruffian the cat, and several ghosts, including the ghost of ancestor Sir Percival. What more could one ask for in a castle-turned-B&B?

It’s almost Halloween and Will is hosting a Viking Fest at the castle to promote his mead. Hundreds of visitors in Viking costumes turn up, along with actual B&B guests: a history professor (with the hilariously appropriate name of Tweedy) and a group of ghost hunters filming an episode of Britain’s Got Ghosts (just in time for ghostly Halloween appearances). Tweedy convinces Arthur to let him search Ravensea for a lost Viking treasure while the ghost hunters hope to capture images of the ghost of Rusla, a Viking shield maiden known to haunt the battlements. read more

Darci Hannah: A Spirited Supper at Dundoon Castle

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Food & Spirits #2

In Darci Hannah’s second Food & Spirits mystery, famous chef Bridget ‘Bunny’ McBride had thought she was finally getting her big break in her televised culinary career when she joined up with the Food & Spirits team. She learned the hard way that one should always read a contract in its entirety, especially the fine print. But because she didn’t, she is now stuck on a ghost hunting team that serves meals specifically tailored to the period and tastes of the ghost they are hunting. Her gift for communicating with said spirits is definitely helpful, and now Bunny is embracing her role as part of the ghost hunting team and exploring her abilities to better help spirits find peace. read more

Esme Addison: A Brew for Chaos

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Enchanted Bay Mysteries #3

Disclosure: this is the first book of this series I have read. I loved it so much I’ve already added the others to Mount-to-be-Read. If you like the magical mysteries of Heather Blake and Madelyn Alt, you need to read this series!

It’s fall and seaside Bellamy Bay, NC is getting ready for Oktoberfest. Aleksandra (Alex) Daniels is busy filling orders at her aunt’s apothecary shop, including secret herbal ingredients for newspaper editor Jonah Fox who is brewing up his special beer for the Oktoberfest beer competition. Alex is getting used to her recently-discovered magical heritage while keeping it a secret from her no-nonsense boyfriend police detective Jack Frazier. read more

Molly MacRae: There’ll be Shell to Pay

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Haunted Shell Shop #2

Molly MacRae’s Haunted Shell Shop series returns with There’ll be Shell to Pay. Our shell shop sleuth and malacologist, Maureen Nash, is settling into her new home on the island of Ocracoke. The shell shop is named Moon Shell after a beautifully and intricately carved shell on display – a shell that is also the tether for accidental pirate ghost Emrys Lloyd. While Maureen’s introduction to Ocracoke in the first book in the series was possibly the most disastrous one any new resident could dream of, she has now made plenty of friends around the island, including the Weaver siblings that live across the way, Bert and Gladys, and is settling in nicely to make the Moon Shell her own. read more