Cate Martin

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  • Bibliography:
    44 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 2018
  • Latest Book:
    February 2025
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Full Series List in Order

A Viking Witch Cozy Mystery

1 - Body at the Crossroads (May-2020)
2 - Death Under the Bridge (Aug-2020)
3 - Murder on the Lake (Nov-2020)
4 - Killing in the Village Commons (Feb-2021)
5 - Bloodshed in the Forest (May-2021)
6 - Corpse in the Mead Hall (Aug-2021)
7 - Slaying on the Lake Shore (Feb-2022)
8 - Bones by the Forest Road (Aug-2022)
9 - Sacrifice Behind the Falls (Feb-2023)
10 - Body Under the Cafe (Aug-2023)

A Weal and Woe Bookshop Witch Mystery

1 - The Teashop Terror (Jul-2023)
2 - The Salon & Spa Scandal (Oct-2023)
3 - The Bookseller Blunder (Jan-2024)

A Witches Three Cozy Mystery

1 - Charm School (Nov-2018)
2 - Work Like a Charm (Jan-2019)
3 - Third Time is a Charm (Mar-2019)
4 - Old World Charm (May-2019)
5 - Charm His Pants Off (Jul-2019)
6 - Charm Offensive (Sep-2019)

Book List in Order: 44 titles

  • Charm School

    A Witches Three Cozy Mystery - 1

    Amanda Clarke thinks of herself as perfectly ordinary in every way. Just a small-town girl who serves breakfast all day in a little diner nestled next to the highway, nothing but dairy farms for miles around. She fits in there.But then an old woman s...

  • Work Like a Charm

    A Witches Three Cozy Mystery - 2

    Amanda Clarke knows she's a witch. She unleashed unstoppable magic to save her friends and catch a murderer. But she only did it the one time. And now? Back to powerlessness.Her friends insist that all she needs is proper training. Sophie wakes her b...

  • Third Time is a Charm

    A Witches Three Cozy Mystery - 3

    Amanda Clarke possesses the rarest, most powerful form of magic: the ability to see and manipulate time itself.If only she knew how to use it. All she gets are vague impressions, little intuitions that compel her to act.When she pays a visit to her f...

  • Old World Charm

    A Witches Three Cozy Mystery - 4

    When nothing and no one holds you to the present, why not celebrate the new year 91 years ago?So think Amanda Clarke and the rest of the Witches Three. They head back in time to ring in 1928, drinking bootleg champagne with the wealthiest members of ...

  • Charm His Pants Off

    A Witches Three Cozy Mystery - 5

    A surprise ring at the doorbell on Valentine's Day confirms Amanda Clarke's suspicions. Her friend Sophie DuBois left someone behind when she came to Miss Zenobia Weekes' Charm School for Exceptional Young Ladies.But the happy reunion grinds to a con...

  • Charm Offensive

    A Witches Three Cozy Mystery - 6

    The Witches Three agreed to split up to better investigate their mother’s pasts. Brianna lurks deep in the witchiest parts of Boston, researching in secret libraries and questioning covens that date back further than the English colonies. Sophie st...

  • Body at the Crossroads

    A Viking Witch Cozy Mystery - 1

    When her mother dies after a long illness, Ingrid Torfa must sell the family home to cover the medical bills. Her career as a book illustrator not yet exactly launched, Ingrid faces two options: live in her battered old Volkswagen, or go back to her ...

  • Death Under the Bridge

    A Viking Witch Cozy Mystery - 2

    Ingrid Torfa lives between two worlds. In her life on the shore of Lake Superior she mingles with fishermen and farmers, quiet folk who keep to themselves. But her other life on a hilltop overlooking the lake she lives among the descendants of Viking...

  • Sins Of The Father

    A father's sins fall under a multitude of transgressions. Hiding family secrets. Stealing intellectual property. Being an alcoholic. Or even demanding a daughter marry for business, not love.These sins and others, as well as how they effect the peopl...



  • Murder on the Lake

    A Viking Witch Cozy Mystery - 3

    Ingrid Torfa juggles two very different lives. In one she lives as an aspiring book illustrator in a quiet old fishing village on the North Shore of Lake Superior.But in the other she lives as an apprentice volva, a Viking Witch, in a lost Norse vill...

  • Killing in the Village Commons

    A Viking Witch Cozy Mystery - 4

    Winter has come to the lost Norse village of Villmark, the wind and snow separating cozy house from cozy house like a knife breaks apart shortbread.And for the first time in her life, Ingrid Torfa lives alone. No mother, no grandmother, no roommate. ...

  • Bloodshed in the Forest

    A Viking Witch Cozy Mystery - 5

    After more than a month living in the lost Viking colony of Villmark, Ingrid Torfa just barely feels at home there. As her magic grows, so grows the animosity of those who wish her gone from their world.And now she faces a new challenge: a winter hun...

  • Passionate Crimes

    Passion causes people to do strange things.Sometimes criminal things.Come dip into crimes, great and small, and feel the passion these writers all give to these moments in a person's life.Or the last moments of another's.Passionate Crimes--So Crimina...

  • Corpse in the Mead Hall

    A Viking Witch Cozy Mystery - 6

    By day, a drab pole barn used as general store, post office and meeting place all-in-one by the people of Runde, Minnesota, a fishing village on the North Shore of Lake Superior.By night, a Viking-style long house filled with tales and singing, roast...

  • Slaying on the Lake Shore

    A Viking Witch Cozy Mystery - 7

    Spring, the season of renewal, finally arrives on the North Shore of Lake Superior, and Ingrid Torfa finds herself in a strange new situation.On vacation.She and her grandmother spend their days resting and recuperating in an old cabin overlooking th...

  • Bones by the Forest Road

    A Viking Witch Cozy Mystery - 8

    Ingrid Torfa finds herself on the road with two of her closest friends, Kara and Nilda Mikkelsen. Not a hiking and camping trip for pleasure, but a mission of the utmost importance. The Thors disappeared months ago along with their mentor Frór...

  • Bubbly, Bicycles and Brides

    BUBBLY, BICYCLES AND BRIDES showcases a collection of mystery and crime stories set in Minnesota in days past.Long Night's Moon features romance and crime both, set on the first New Year's Eve after the repeal of Prohibition. In Tillie's Big Race, a ...

  • Dance Til You Drop

    During the Great Depression, the cash prizes offered for dance competitions lured hundreds of young people to literally dance until they dropped. Alice and Henry traveled to Fargo determined to outlast all the other couples, dancing for days without ...

  • The Elopement

    In the 1920s, at the height of Prohibition, Sarah Eckhart holds no illusions about how her father earns his money. She knows he runs a dangerous, illegal empire.Her wedding at their palatial summer home on the shores of White Bear Lake is the event o...



  • Long Night's Moon

    Prohibition ended on December 5, 1933. But just because alcohol is legal doesn't mean it's easy to find.Anna Olsen wants her sister to have all the best for her engagement party. And the best means champagne. Only scarcity thwarts her every attempt t...

  • On a Cold Winter's Night

    Winter out on the Minnesotan prairie in the 1880s tests the very souls of those who attempt to live and farm there. Christmastime usually means a celebration of light and warmth. But for some families, Christmastime means darkness and too much togeth...

  • Tillie's Big Race

    Tillie shares a name with the famous Tillie the Terrible Swede. She also shares an ambition with that woman from Chicago. She longs to break all the records on her bike. But her home deep in the farmlands of northwest Minnesota offers few opportuniti...

  • Sacrifice Behind the Falls

    A Viking Witch Cozy Mystery - 9

    Ingrid Torfudottir lives a double life. Half she spends in Runde, a normal town on the North Shore of Lake Superior in modern day Minnesota. The other half she spends in Villmark, a village that exists outside of time, where descendants of Vikings st...

  • The Teashop Terror

    A Weal and Woe Bookshop Witch Mystery - 1

    No one knows more about every branch of magic than Tabitha Greene. She devoted years to studying the most esoteric texts, hunting down the most obscure source materials, and deciphering the most cryptic ancient scrolls. But her career in academia hit...

  • Body Under the Cafe

    A Viking Witch Cozy Mystery - 10

    ngrid Torfudottir lives in two worlds at once. The first, Runde, lies on the banks of Lake Superior, a town of northern Minnesotans who descend from Scandinavian immigrants, fishermen and farmers both. In that world she barely exists, just an unknown...

  • Library Cases

    Stories can take place not only between the covers of books, but also in the places where books are kept.Like in libraries.The fifteenth issue of MCM is a collection of cozy stories by the syndicate, stories that will make you giggle, shake your head...

  • The Salon & Spa Scandal

    A Weal and Woe Bookshop Witch Mystery - 2

    Tabitha Greene loves her new life. Working at her uncles' bookstore, hanging with her friends, cuddling with her dog Houdini. When he allows it.Everything would be perfect. If only she could control her magic.But her bad luck with spells plagues her,...

  • The Bookseller Blunder

    A Weal and Woe Bookshop Witch Mystery - 3

    Tabitha Greene knows more about magic than most. She might not be able to cast a workable spell to save her life, but she has read every magical tome and text in existence.Or so she thought. But then she hears of another book. A rare volume delineati...

  • Assassination in the Glade

    Ingrid Torfa lives two lives. In one she struggles to get by as a book illustrator in the tiny town of Runde on the North Shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota.But in the other, she serves as a Norse witch, a volva, in the town of Villmark, where the d...



  • The Entrepreneur Enigma

    Tabitha Greene feels blessed by so many things she lacked before. Friends, including a new boyfriend. Family, including a brother she never even knew about. And now she knows her job in the Weal & Woe Bookshop remains hers even when her uncles return...

  • Bewitchment After the Storm

    Ingrid Torfudottir juggled two separate lives for the longest time. In one life she struggled at aspiring to be a professional book illustrator, living with her grandmother in a Minnesotan fishing town on the North Shore of Lake Superior. In the othe...

  • The Novelty Shop Nightmare

    Tabitha Greene grew up all alone, shuttled from magical academy to magical academy with no rhyme or reason. She never stayed in the same place for more than a matter of weeks. Ever.That all changed when she moved in with her uncles to help them run t...

  • The Bad Penny

    Dorothy Lundegaard and her brother John spent Thanksgiving 1936 in different cities. And they spent Thanksgiving 1935 grieving their father. All Dottie wants is for Thanksgiving 1937 to be a little better. A simple meal with her brother. That's all s...

  • The Dorothy Lundegaard Mysteries

    Shopgirl. Telephone operator. Lady's companion. Smashingly good secretary. All jobs that Dorothy Lundegaard possesses the skills to excel at. And even at the tail end of the Great Depression in St. Paul, Minnesota, all jobs that Dottie could secure f...

  • A Resourceful Girl

    Shopgirl. Telephone operator. Lady's companion. Smashingly good secretary. All jobs that Dorothy Lundegaard possesses the skills to excel at. And even at the tail end of the Great Depression in St. Paul, Minnesota, all jobs that Dottie could secure f...

  • The Surviving Wife

    Private investigation is the Lundegaard family business. It passed down from Dorothy's father to her brother John. But, technically, it didn't pass down to her.Still, when an interview for a more appropriate job for a young woman in the late 1930s St...

  • The Vanishing Convertible

    Every new year carries with it the tantalizing promise of better times to come. It brings the possibility of prosperity that the old year never delivered. It arrives with hope, if only for a moment.Dorothy Lundegaard hopes that 1938 will mean more su...

  • The White City Disappearance

    Dorothy Lundegaard helps her brother John run Lundegaard Investigations, a business their father ran from his retirement from the St. Paul, Minnesota, police force until his death in 1935. The business just barely ekes by, but helping people with pro...

  • First Light

    Lucy never cared about Christmas. The holiday just never held any meaning for her.But with a baby on the way, she wants to change that. She wants to find a meaning of her own to share with her offspring.And yet, no meaning feels right to her. Nothing...



  • First the Fruitcake

    With Prohibition finally over, Anna Bergstrom finds herself in charge of the most precious element of her family's Christmas: the Kentucky bourbon from her late grandmother's home town. Without it, she and her cousins will never succeed at recreating...

  • Fruitcake, Festivities and Firelight

    FRUITCAKE, FESTIVITIES AND FIRELIGHT showcases a collection of mysteries, romances and fantasies, all set at the darkest time of the year. The fantasy First Light tells the story of when a modern mom-to-be meets a white-bearded man who might m...

  • The Yule Log

    Marta loves her family's new home on the shore of Lake Superior in Northern Minnesota. It feels so much like the seaside town she left behind in Norway.But she misses her grandmother. And she misses the old traditions. Fortunately, her grandmother se...

  • The Courtyard Conundrum

    Tabitha Greene knows more about magical theory than any witch and most of the wizards of her world. She thrives at research and tweaking the writing of spells to best suit their casters. A lifetime of thinking she possessed no magic forged such skill...

  • Predator in the Lanes

    Ingrid Torfudottir moved to the North Shore of Lake Superior intending to live with her grandmother while pursuing a career as a book illustrator. Instead, she discovered her true calling as a volva—a Viking witch—serving a village foun...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Cate Martin has published 44 books.

The next book by Cate Martin, Predator in the Lanes, will be published in February 2025.

The first book by Cate Martin, Charm School, was published in November 2018.

Yes. Cate Martin has 3 series.
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