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Camilla Chafer
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I started out as a traditionally published author with non-fiction books, in the education/ self-help field, and have a background as a books editor for a publishing company where I looked after print and ebooks. Prior to that I spent several years as a freelance journalist writing for the likes of The Independent, The Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, woman&home, Easy Living, and Scarlet. I've also written extensively online, including for AOL, several Guardian blogs and was a freelance editor for several years for Shiny Media, running Britain's top wedding blog. (I used to have nightmares about wedding dresses.) I also write sparkling ad copy. Sparkling, I tell you.
My first novel was Illicit Magic, which is now the first in the Stella Mayweather series, a sometimes dark urban fantasy tale of a young woman who discovers she's a witch. My other series is a fantasically fun mystery series about an office-temp-turned-PI called Lexi Graves, who isn't a very good PI to start but she's determined. While it's funny, it's not slapstick, so hopefully you'll laugh with her rather than cringe at her. I like to write my heroines as brave, resourceful and able. My heroines don't wait around for a man to rescue her, she's got to figure it out for herself... though she'll take an appropriately placed rescue with grace.
Full Series List in Order
A Calendar Mystery
1 - Jeopardy in January // Murder in the Library (Dec-2017)2 - Fear in February // Poison Rose Murder (Feb-2018)
3 - Murder in March // Murder by the Book (Mar-2018)
4 - Alibi in April // Murder at Blackberry Inn (Apr-2018)
5 - Mayhem in May // Curated Murder (Jul-2019)
6 - Dressed for Murder (Dec-2022)
7 - A Taste for Murder (Apr-2024)
A Deadlines Mystery
1 - Deadlines (Jun-2016)2 - Dead to the World (Jul-2017)
3 - Dead Ringers (Mar-2020)
A Lexi Graves Mystery
1 - Armed and Fabulous (May-2012)2 - Who Glares Wins (Jul-2012)
2.5 - Grave Trouble (Jan-2013)
3 - Command Indecision (Aug-2012)
4 - Shock and Awesome (Aug-2013)
5 - Weapons of Mass Distraction (Dec-2013)
6 - Laugh or Death (Sep-2014)
7 - Kissing in Action (Feb-2015)
8 - Trigger Snappy (Sep-2015)
9 - A Few Good Women (Sep-2016)
10 - Ready, Aim, Under Fire (May-2017)
11 - Rules of Engagement (Dec-2017)
12 - Very Special Forces (Nov-2018)
13 - In the Line of Ire (Mar-2019)
14 - Mission: Possible (Nov-2020)
15 - Pied Sniper (Mar-2022)
16 - Charmed Forces (Jun-2023)
17 - Gem Warfare (Dec-2024)
Stella Mayweather
1 - Illicit Magic (May-2012)2 - Unruly Magic (Jun-2012)
3 - Devious Magic (Jun-2012)
4 - Magic Rising (Jun-2012)
5 - Arcane Magic (Jun-2014)
6 - Endless Magic (Feb-2015)
Book List in Order: 34 titles
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Armed and Fabulous
- May-2012
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All Lexi wants to do is get through the day at her boring temp job with Green Hand Insurance. That’s until she discovers the vice president, Martin Dean, in a pool of blood and herself at the center of an investigation into insurance fraud.Millions...
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Illicit Magic
- May-2012
- / Paranormal Romance
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More than three hundred years after the most terrifying witch hunts the world has ever known, it's happening again. When an attack by ruthless witch hunters forces twenty-four-year-old Stella from her home in London into the protection of the powerfu...
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Devious Magic
- Jun-2012
- / Paranormal Romance
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Witch hunters who will stop at nothing. A deadly foe who wants to harness witches’ power. A secret supernatural world that is on the verge of revealing itself. When the recent surge of supernatural activity in the secretive town of Wilding apparent...
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Magic Rising
- Jun-2012
- / Paranormal Romance
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For Stella, the Witches’ Council Summit is supposed to be about getting to know her fellow witches but instead she finds herself on trial for murder. The accusations may be evidence of a sinister plot at work or they may be a ruse to draw attention...
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Unruly Magic
- Jun-2012
- / Paranormal Romance
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The sequel to Illicit Magic... A witch on the run. A quiet little town where everything is far from normal. A fractured witch council threatening to tear the supernatural world apart. Life hasn't been easy for novice witch Stella but small town life ...
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Who Glares Wins
- Jul-2012
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From a USA Today and Amazon Top 25 bestselling author...Only a few weeks into her new job as a private investigator, Lexi Graves thinks she may have bitten off more than she can chew with her first solo cases.In between going undercover as a plush po...
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Command Indecision
- Aug-2012
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A young woman is dead. The main suspect is in custody. And Private Investigator Lexi Graves is on the warpath.Lexi finally feels like her life is on track. With a great job that is made to measure and the perfect boyfriend, it takes all of a few shoc...
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Shock and Awesome
- Aug-2013
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When a thief turns up in Montgomery targeting the super rich women of a high-end dating website, it’s up to Private Investigator Lexi Graves to lure him out before he goes to ground. To make matters worse, he's evaded capture numerous times and thi...
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Weapons of Mass Distraction
- Dec-2013
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When a client drops dead during Lexi’s spin class, she’s not too surprised. After all, it’s a tough class. But within days, another death occurs, this time, on the treadmill. Then, when her running partner bites the dust, it becomes personal. S...
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Arcane Magic
- Jun-2014
- / Urban Fantasy
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All is well in Stella’s world. For the first time in a very long time she feels safe and secure in the knowledge that she’s put the Brotherhood behind her. However, she’s desperately searching for an answer that will set her ex-boyfriend free f...
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Laugh or Death
- Sep-2014
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When a broken man arrives in town desperate to locate his missing girlfriend, loved-up PI Lexi Graves is determined to reunite the lost loves. However, the further Lexi delves into the case, the more it appears that the missing woman doesn’t want t...
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Endless Magic
- Feb-2015
- / Urban Fantasy
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When Stella awakens, the last thing she remembers is being kidnapped by The Brotherhood. Robbed of her magic and memories, she struggles to discover what happened to her and why. She’s not even sure how she escaped until her terrifying memories beg...
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Kissing in Action
- Feb-2015
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When Lexi gets the gig to find the blackmailer extorting thousands of dollars from the country’s hottest girl band, it’s a dream come true. However, rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous isn’t as much fun as she hoped. Instead of four cool...
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Trigger Snappy
- Sep-2015
- / Cozy Mystery
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When private investigator Lexi Graves quit her job she never thought working freelance would be so hard. Struggling to make a name for herself as a solo investigator, she’s intrigued when her wealthy new client claims she’s being stalked and Lexi...
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A Few Good Women
- Sep-2016
- / Amateur Sleuth
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From USA Today bestseller author Camilla Chafer: Private investigator, Lexi Graves is on cloud nine. After getting engaged to her boyfriend-slash-boss, Solomon, along with her old job back, now, her best friend is about to give birth to her first bab...
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Ready, Aim, Under Fire
- May-2017
- / Amateur Sleuth
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When Private Investigator Lexi Graves’ police lieutenant brother, Garrett, asks her for help on a missing persons cold case he’s been instructed to close, she’s happy to poke around. After all, it won’t take long to prove if the woman he’s ...
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Dead to the World
- Jul-2017
- / Amateur Sleuth
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The sequel to Deadlines…Chief reporter turned reluctant entertainment columnist, Shayne Winter, is hungry for a hard-hitting headline. All she has to do is convince her grouchy editor at the LA Chronicle to give her a real story; but all he wants h...
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Jeopardy in January // Murder in the Library
- Dec-2017
- / Amateur Sleuth
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From USA Today bestselling author Camilla Chafer comes a brand new mystery.Welcome to Calendar where life is sweet, but death is murder.Sara Cutler loves her job as head librarian of the public library, an integral part of the historic heart of the p...
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Rules of Engagement
- Dec-2017
- / Cozy Mystery
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When her fiancé is shot in an apparent assassination attempt, private investigator Lexi Graves’ world is thrown into chaos and turmoil. With the list of suspects growing by the minute, and the hit man still on the loose, there’s no way Lexi can ...
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Fear in February // Poison Rose Murder
- Feb-2018
- / Amateur Sleuth
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From USA Today bestselling author Camilla Chafer comes a brand new mystery.Welcome to Calendar where life is sweet, but death is murder.Ally McKellar loves owning and running her own restaurant, Belle Rose. After working in a busy New York restaurant...
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Murder in March // Murder by the Book
- Mar-2018
- / Amateur Sleuth
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From USA Today bestselling author Camilla Chafer comes a brand new mystery.Welcome to Calendar where life is sweet, but death is murder.Ava March has a big secret. The ultra-reclusive author behind the sensational Miranda Marchmont romantic novels ha...
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Alibi in April // Murder at Blackberry Inn
- Apr-2018
- / Amateur Sleuth
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From USA Today bestselling author Camilla Chafer comes a brand new mystery.Welcome to Calendar where life is sweet, but death is murder.Vanessa Wright never planned to return home to Calendar. But her relationship ends, her job disappears, and she su...
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Very Special Forces
- Nov-2018
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Private Investigator Lexi Graves couldn’t be happier. All she has left to do is wrap up a case between a fighting married couple before she can focus solely on adding the finishing touches to her own wedding. That case is a snap to solve but a woma...
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In the Line of Ire
- Mar-2019
- / Amateur Sleuth
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When Private Investigator Lexi Graves receives an expensive bag from her new husband, she’s delighted… for all of five seconds. That’s exactly how long it takes her to realize it’s a fake. Then another fake bag turns up, along with an outrage...
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Mayhem in May // Curated Murder
- Jul-2019
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Tess Hernandez knew her promotion to manager of Calendar’s Town Museum was in the bag… right up until the moment the board appointed one of their member’s spoiled nephew, Lance, the position instead. Despite her shock, Tess is determined to sho...
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Dead Ringers
- Mar-2020
- / Amateur Sleuth
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From the bestselling world of the Lexi Graves Mysteries...When obituaries and entertainment reporter, Shayne Winter overhears a passing comment about a vanished woman, her interest is immediately piqued. But in Los Angeles, one more missing person do...
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Mission: Possible
- Nov-2020
- / Cozy Mystery
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Lexi Graves is back...After PI Lexi Graves is approached to investigate an accident which has left the homeowner, Sophie Takahashi, in a coma, she quickly realizes the case isn't quite as clear cut as first appears. For one thing, Sophie's injuries a...
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Pied Sniper
- Mar-2022
- / Romantic Suspense
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When social media queen, Tiffany Rose is shot and kidnapped live on air, the crime grips the nation. Private Investigator Lexi Graves races to her aid but she's too late. The kidnappers are long gone and the only witness is a tiny, frightened dog nam...
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Dressed for Murder
- Dec-2022
- / Police Procedural
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A standalone novel with character and location links to all the Calendar Murder Mysteries!A year ago, Meredith Blake was running scared, her life in tatters and her money rapidly hemorrhaging. When she discovers the quaint mountain town of Calendar, ...
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Charmed Forces
- Jun-2023
- / Police Procedural
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Private Investigator Lexi Graves is pleased to clear up her latest assignment. It’s a simple case of misguided suspicion after all.Then her brother, Detective Daniel Graves, turns up on her doorstep, alone, blood-spattered, and almost entirely ...
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A Taste for Murder
- Apr-2024
- / Police Procedural
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When Candice earns a spot in the finals of a televised baking competition, she’s determined to win, not least because the winner’s prize could help fund the bakery she yearns to open. But as the baking gets under way, tragedy strikes. Fir...
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Gem Warfare
- Dec-2024
- / Cozy Mystery
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Private investigator Lexi Graves might have bitten off more than she can chew. When her mom calls about a possible case, the last thing Lexi expects is a body buried in a shallow grave. Yet that isn’t the strangest thing about the case. Hidden ...
