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Kirsten Weiss
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Kirsten Weiss has never met a dessert she didn’t like, and her guilty pleasures are watching Ghost Whisperer re-runs and drinking red wine. The latter gives her heartburn, but she drinks it anyway.
Now based in San Mateo, CA, she writes genre-blending cozy mystery, supernatural and steampunk suspense, mixing her experiences and imagination to create vivid worlds of fun and enchantment.
If you like funny cozy mysteries, check out her Pie Town, Paranormal Museum and Wits’ End books. If you’re looking for some magic with your mystery, give the Witches of Doyle, Riga Hayworth and Rocky Bridges books a try. And if you like steampunk, the Sensibility Grey series might be for you.
Full Series List in Order
A Big Murder Mystery
1 - Big Shot (Jun-2022)2 - Big Bad (Jul-2022)
3 - Big Bucks (Aug-2022)
A Doyle Witch Cozy Mystery
1 - Bound (Nov-2016)2 - Ground (Nov-2016)
3 - Down (Nov-2016)
3.5 - Spirit on Fire (Nov-2016)
3.6 - Lone Wolf (Jul-2018)
4 - Witch (Aug-2018)
5 - Fey (Oct-2018)
6 - Fate (Nov-2019)
7 - Oak (Jun-2020)
8 - Stone (Jul-2020)
9 - Stream (Jul-2020)
10 - Unbound (Jul-2021)
10.5 - Druid (Oct-2021)
11 - Harvest of the Witch (Oct-2023)
Mystery School
1 - Legacy of the Witch (May-2024)2 - Shadow of the Witch (Oct-2024)
A Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum Mystery
1 - The Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum (Mar-2016)2 - Pressed to Death (Mar-2017)
3 - Deja Moo (Mar-2018)
4 - Chocolate a la Murder (Mar-2019)
5 - Damsel in a Dress (May-2021)
6 - Going, Going, Dead (Feb-2022)
7 - Deadly Divination (Jun-2023)
8 - Dead End Donation (Jul-2023)
9 - Sins of the Sarcophagus (Aug-2023)
10 - The Cannoli Caper (Feb-2024)
A Pie Town Mystery
1 - The Quiche and the Dead (Nov-2017)2 - Bleeding Tarts (Apr-2018)
3 - Pie Hard (Feb-2019)
4 - Pies before Guys (Mar-2020)
5 - Gourd to Death (Aug-2020)
A Riga Hayworth Mystery
1 - The Metaphysical Detective (Oct-2011)2 - The Alchemical Detective (May-2012)
3 - The Shamanic Detective (Nov-2012)
4 - The Infernal Detective (Aug-2013)
5 - The Elemental Detective (Dec-2013)
6 - The Hoodoo Detective (Oct-2014)
7 - The Hermetic Detective (Oct-2015)
8 - The Gargoyle Chronicles (Nov-2018)
9 - The Sigil Detective (Sep-2022)
10 - The Banshee Detective (Apr-2023)
Rocky Bridges
1 - The Mannequin Offensive (Jun-2016)Sensibility Grey
1 - Steam and Sensibility (Mar-2014)2 - Of Mice and Mechanicals (Apr-2015)
3 - A Midsummer Night's Mechanical (Apr-2016)
Tea and Tarot
1 - Steeped in Murder (May-2019)2 - Hostage to Fortune (May-2020)
3 - Oolong, Farewell (Sep-2020)
4 - Never Say Chai (Aug-2021)
5 - Gingerbread Dead (Oct-2022)
6 - The Sword in the Scone (Feb-2023)
7 - The Mysteries of Tarot (May-2023)
8 - Darjeeling Dead (Nov-2024)
9 - Matcha Murder (Feb-2025)
A Wits' End Cozy Mystery
1 - At Wits' End (Jun-2017)2 - Planet of the Grapes (Oct-2018)
3 - Close Encounters of the Curd Kind (Sep-2019)
4 - War of the Squirrels (Feb-2021)
5 - Gnome Alone (Nov-2021)
6 - The Woman from Planet X (Mar-2022)
7 - Night of the Cupid (Nov-2022)
8 - The Bantam Menace (Apr-2023)
9 - Revenge of the Ziti (Oct-2023)
Book List in Order: 66 titles
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The Metaphysical Detective
- Oct-2011
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Tarot, Wine... and a Dog Named Dog.When Riga Hayworth finds her new client dead, she smells aset-up of metaphysical proportions. Now, to find a killer, Riga must travelfrom San Francisco to the underworld... and make it back alive.Riga's new client, ...
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The Alchemical Detective
- May-2012
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There's a storm on the horizon. Riga's lost her magic and has come to Lake Tahoe to recover and spend quality time with her new love. But life for Riga is never that simple. A psychic's been murdered, and the police believe Riga has a connection to t...
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The Shamanic Detective
- Nov-2012
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When Riga Hayworth’s lover is arrested, she’s determined to unearth the truth, no matter the cost. But life â€" and death â€" get in the way. All Riga wants is to clear the name of her almost-fiancée, Donovan Mosse. But a death faerie has other ...
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The Infernal Detective
- Aug-2013
- / Fantasy
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Murder. The undead. Irritating relatives.When Riga Hayworth finds a dead body in her bedroom, it’s par for the course. When the corpse drives off with her fiancée... That’s a problem.
Riga knows dead. More intimately than she’d like. So when...
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The Elemental Detective
- Dec-2013
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Mermaids, menehunes, and murder. Riga Hayworth just wants to relax with her new husband on their Hawaiian honeymoon. But a body on a Kauai beach pulls them into a murder investigation, sending the supernatural world into an uproar. When Riga detects ...
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Steam and Sensibility
- Mar-2014
- / Thriller
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Steam rising.
California Territory, 1848. Gold has been discovered, emptying the village of San Francisco of its male population. Steam-powered technology is still in its infancy.
At 19, Englishwoman Sensibility Grey has spent her ...
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The Hoodoo Detective
- Oct-2014
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Hoodoo, Haunts, and Horror. Riga Hayworth just wants to wrap up her supernatural TV series exploring the magic of New Orleans. But she stumbles across a corpse and becomes a police consultant on a series of occult murders, murders that become all too...
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Of Mice and Mechanicals
- Apr-2015
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Mechanicals, Mayhem, and Murder. All Sensibility Grey wants is to tinker in her new laboratory in boomtown San Francisco. A stranger in a strange land, she is finally making a life for herself as a purveyor of mechanicals to eager miners. But a pair ...
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The Hermetic Detective
- Oct-2015
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A Monstrous Assassin. A Metaphysical Detective. Housebound with five-month-old twins, Riga Hayworth just wants to get back in the metaphysical detecting game. But when she’s called to help an elderly woman, haunted and alone, a deadly threat follow...
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The Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum
- Mar-2016
- / Cozy Mystery
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A Perfectly Proper Murder
When Maddie Kosloski's career flatlines, she retreats to her wine country hometown for solace and cheap rent. Railroaded into managing the local paranormal museum, she's certain the rumors of its haunting are great...
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A Midsummer Night's Mechanical
- Apr-2016
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A Midsummer Murder The California Territory, 1849 â€" Blamed for burning down the San Francisco wharf, clockwork inventor, Sensibility Grey has spent the last three months in hiding. Now all she wants is to depart the gold-crazy boomtown for a new li...
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The Mannequin Offensive
- Jun-2016
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After an overseas assignment goes bad, all Rocky Bridges wants is out of the global security business. No more personal protection gigs. No more jaunts to third world countries. No more managing wayward contractors. But when her business partner is k...
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Spirit on Fire
- Nov-2016
- / Fantasy
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What happens when a fictional witch writes a romance about a shaman and a fire demon? All hell breaks loose.When fledgling witch, Karin Bonheim, began writing her paranormal romance, she never could've anticipated the world she created would bleed in...
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Pressed to Death
- Mar-2017
- / Mystery
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Perfectly pressed. Perfectly proper. Perfectly deadly. Paranormal museum owner Maddie Kosloski thinks she has the perfect paranormal exhibit for the harvest festival -- a haunted grape press. But before she can open the exhibit, she’s accused o...
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At Wits' End
- Jun-2017
- / Amateur Sleuth
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A laugh-out-loud mystery that's out of this world…Men in Black. Conspiracy-crazed old ladies. Can a clueless innkeeper catch a killer … and stick to her carefully crafted schedule?When control-freak Susan Witsend inherits her grandmother's UFO-th...
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The Quiche and the Dead
- Nov-2017
- / Cozy Mystery
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Is Val's breakfast pie the quiche of death? Owning her own business seemed like pie in the sky to Valentine Harris when she moved to the coastal California town of San Nicholas, expecting to start a new life with her fiancé. Five months -- and a...
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Bleeding Tarts
- Apr-2018
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Val's new pies are foolproof -- but not bulletproof. Old West ghost towns are as American as apple pie. So what better place to sponsor a pie-eating contest than the Bar X, a fake ghost town available for exclusive private events on the edge of S...
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Planet of the Grapes
- Oct-2018
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Aliens, fairies and murder, oh, my!In small-town Doyle, California, UFO abductions are a budding tourist attraction. So, when Susan Witsend brings a UFO festival to town, she's ready for some well-deserved time in the sun.What she gets instead is the...
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The Gargoyle Chronicles
- Nov-2018
- / Mystery
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Brigitte is Nevada’s bravest and most brilliant gargoyle â€" and there’s no better sidekick for metaphysical detective, Riga Hayworth, when it comes to solving supernatural crimes.
In this quirky collection of urban fantasy short stories...
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Chocolate a la Murder
- Mar-2019
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Maddie gets rattled by a candy-coated murder... It's Wine and Chocolate Days in San Benedetto, and paranormal museum owner Maddie Kosloski has sweet dreams about her new Magic of Chocolate exhibit. Her latest attraction is a haunted Mexican whisk ...
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Steeped in Murder
- May-2019
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Tea, tarot, and trouble.
Abigail Beanblossom’s dream of owning a tea room in her California beach town is about to come true. She’s got the lease, the start-up funds, and the recipes. But Abigail's out of a tearoom and into hot water whe...
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Close Encounters of the Curd Kind
- Sep-2019
- / General Fiction
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The truth is out there…
Way out there.
Susan Witsend, owner of the best little UFO-themed B&B in the Sierras, is absolutely, positively, not going to get involved in another murder case. Not with her small-town sheriff threatening ja...
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Pies before Guys
- Mar-2020
- / Cozy Mystery
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Val’s crime-solving club digs into a piping hot new case! A poetry slam at a bakery? Why not! Even though Pie Town proprietor Val Harris would rather be spending time with her newfound half-brother, she knows her employee Abril is beyond excite...
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Hostage to Fortune
- May-2020
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Abigail and Hyperion uncork a murder...Tea and Tarot room owner Abigail Beanblossom is used to running interference for her socially-awkward former boss, tech bazillionaire Razzzor. So when he invites her on a stakeout to investigate the sale of coun...
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Gourd to Death
- Aug-2020
- / Mystery
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This Halloween, pie shop proprietor Val Harris must patch together clues to solve a murder by pumpkin . . . As the owner of Pie Town, Val’s been tapped to judge the pie making contest at the annual pumpkin festival in the coastal California tow...
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Oolong, Farewell
- Sep-2020
- / Amateur Sleuth
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When all the neighbors want you dead...Abigail Beanblossom is finally getting into the groove of her new Tea and Tarot room. And in Abigail's mind, when things are going right, that's exactly when they're about to go wrong. But she never could have g...
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War of the Squirrels
- Feb-2021
- / Cozy Mystery
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Helicopter parents, suspicious squirrels... and murder.All Susan wants is to get through this visit from her controlling parents without tumbling down a black hole of despair. But galactic forces are colliding at her whimsical B&B, Wits' End, and her...
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Damsel in a Dress
- May-2021
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Bridesmaid duties can be deadly...The summer heat is on in small-town San Benedetto, and Maddie has more than wedding cake on her plate. She's managing her paranormal museum, helping her best friend Adele with wedding plans, and trying to prove that ...
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Never Say Chai
- Aug-2021
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Trick or tea! A deadly plot is brewing in small town San Borromeo...It's Halloween season, and partners Abigail and Hyperion are determined to make their Tea & Tarot room spooktacular. But when their friend, Detective Chase, is arrested for murder, t...
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Gnome Alone
- Nov-2021
- / Cozy Mystery
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Christmas is coming... and so is murder...It's holiday season in small-town Doyle, and the town is pivoting from UFO tourism to Bigfoot Days. What's the owner of a UFO-themed B&B to do? Stop the shift, of course. And control-freak Susan Witsend is ju...
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Going, Going, Dead
- Feb-2022
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At an auction, the competition can be deadly...When Maddie attends an estate auction of artifacts from America's spiritualist era, it's just another day in the life of a paranormal museum owner.... Until she discovers the body of the murdered auction...
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The Woman from Planet X
- Mar-2022
- / Cozy Mystery
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A romantic vacation turns deadly...All Susan wants is some R&R with her boyfriend, Arsen—a quick getaway to small-town Nowhere, Nevada, home to the world's biggest collection of the world's biggest things. But when she discovers a murdered mys...
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The Sigil Detective
- Sep-2022
- / Police Procedural
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Metaphysical detective Riga was never all powerful. But she used to have more magical juice than she does now. Now, she's back to basics... and trapped in a faux-Viking village. But will brains and the basics of magic be enough to bring a murderer to...
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Gingerbread Dead
- Oct-2022
- / Cozy Mystery
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A tearoom owner. A Tarot reader. A murder. Solving this quirky case may take a Christmas miracle.Tea and Tarot room owner Abigail is having a hard time getting into the holiday spirit. She's working her assets off to make the tearoom a premier holida...
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Night of the Cupid
- Nov-2022
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Rose are red, violets are blue... V-Day is coming, and murder is too.Roses, chocolate, and a completed to-do list. Is that too much to ask for Valentine's Day? When you own the Sierra's best UFO-themed B&B, it might be. Because murder is about to col...
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The Sword in the Scone
- Feb-2023
- / Cozy Mystery
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Tea and Tarot. Love and Murder.A Tarot conference at a holistic resort seems the perfect place for Tea and Tarot partners Hyperion and Abigail to promote their business and enjoy some beachside luxury. But murder cuts their R&R short. And when the ev...
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The Banshee Detective
- Apr-2023
- / Paranormal Romance
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Go back in time, to an early Riga adventure...Riga's engaged to the man of her dreams. But as the big day approaches, a cold case in an Irish pub is unearthing insecurities about her magic and upcoming marriage. Will this middle-aged metaphysical det...
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The Bantam Menace
- Apr-2023
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Break in wedding shoes ✓Walk through venue ✓Solve murder.It's been a long road to the altar for reformed control-freak Susan and devil-may-care Arsen. Susan's put her organizational skills to good use designing the perfect rustic mounta...
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The Mysteries of Tarot
- May-2023
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How to Read the Cards for TransformationWhen Tarot reader Hyperion Night sent his manuscript, The Mysteries of Tarot, to a friend to edit, it was a simple guide to reading Tarot. Hyperion couldn't anticipate that his editor's notes would evolve into ...
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Deadly Divination
- Jun-2023
- / Cozy Mystery
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Can Maddie divine a murderer?Paranormal museum owner Maddie is no stranger to the bizarre. But when she receives a donated Yoruba divination bowl, she can't shake the feeling there's something deeply wrong. And when her investigation into the bowl le...
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Dead End Donation
- Jul-2023
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A donation holds deadly secrets...Maddie has finally found her groove as curator of the San Benedetto Paranormal Museum. The museum's fun. It's quirky. And it's all hers. But a murder and a surprise donation—an entire paranormal collection...
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Sins of the Sarcophagus
- Aug-2023
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Denial ain't just a river in Egypt...Maddie Kosloski is about to unveil her new, expanded museum. But when the corpse of a local building inspector is discovered inside her prized Egyptian sarcophagus, Maddie's plans are thrown into disarray. A moder...
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Harvest of the Witch
- Oct-2023
- / Paranormal Mystery
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Halloween is coming... And so is murder...Doyle witch Karin has it all. A loving husband. Two wonderful children. A flexible career. Now that her days of fighting dark magicians is over, she's perfectly happy in her comfortable life. But beneath the ...
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Revenge of the Ziti
- Oct-2023
- / Cozy Mystery
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Murder, Mayhem, and Meatballs.It's been an idyllic Italian honeymoon for lovebirds Susan and Arsen, as they explore the winding streets of romantic Sicily. For once B&B-owner Susan is enjoying staying in someone else's bed and breakfast, even if that...
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The Cannoli Caper
- Feb-2024
- / Police Procedural
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Ex Files Italian Style... Paranormal Museum director Maddie is navigating the waters of post-breakup life in sunny Sicily. But there's no time to wallow as she prepares to play bridesmaid for her famous sister's castle wedding.But are the pre-wedding...
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Legacy of the Witch
- May-2024
- / Paranormal Mystery
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Seeker: As societies grow increasingly fragmented, hopelessness, nihilism, division and despair are on the rise. But there is another way—a way of mystery and magic, of wholeness and transformation. Do you dare take the first step? Our path is...
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Shadow of the Witch
- Oct-2024
- / Paranormal Romance
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Will fortune favor the brave, or the grave?In the shadow of tragedy, Brandy embarks on a quest for answers that leads to a mobster's mansion in Lake Tahoe. But what she finds within the Dragon House's walls is more than she bargained for: a murdered ...
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Darjeeling Dead
- Nov-2024
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Turkey, Pie, and Die: A Thanks-filled Tearoom WhodunitIt's Thanksgiving time, and tearoom owner Abigail Beanblossom is not overflowing with gratitude. Her boyfriend is out of town. A gang of birdwatchers have been leaving nasty reviews about Beanblos...
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Matcha Murder
- Feb-2025
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Murder's brewing... Abigail will have to read between the leaves before she's the next ingredient in a deadly draught.A storm's raging over the California coast. Abigail's boyfriend has gone AWOL. And her most annoying acquaintance is the prime suspe...
