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A fun cozy mystery series set in Australia. Sibyl Potts has finally been awarded her long-awaited property settlement, and her ex-husband has been sentenced for her attempted murder. Yet just as all seems well in her world, the body of one of Cressida's boarders is found in her cottage next to a half eaten ice cream sundae. When all the evidence points to Sibyl as the culprit, how will she solve the crime and prove her innocence?
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Australian journalist Misty Friday has several problems, not the least of which is her name. Misty's mean boss sends her to an island resort in the Great Barrier Reef to investigate one paranormal event, but mermaids and murder throw her off the track.When Misty makes waves, she attracts the attention of the murderer and one mysterious stranger. Will Misty get to the bottom of this, or are there too many red herrings?
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Book TWO in a fun witch cozy mystery series!
When Australian journalist, Misty Friday, receives a mysterious letter summoning her to England, she expects to find her elderly relative. Instead she has a witch of a time, stumbling across danger, a cat, bad coffee, and the enigmatic John Smith, who may have his own reasons for being in Britain.
The murder of her relative brings more questions, some of them arcane.
Can Misty solve the murder before...
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With Aunty June in tow, journalist Misty Friday arrives in a touristy Aussie town to write about the ghost tours.
But when she stumbles upon a centuries' old murder mystery, she will need to crack the cold case before those keen to bury the town's secrets end up burying her.
Join Misty as she navigates her way through the clues, solves a murder, and does her best to discover just why John Smith is in Australia.
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Now that Dorothy is out of the way, Cressida employs a French Chef on the advice of Lord Farringdon alone. When a particularly untidy and rude builder is smothered by a mango, Mr. Buttons is discovered standing over the body. Instead of seeing Mr. Buttons as a murder suspect, the police believe he was the intended victim.
As the intrigue mounts, Blake tells Sibyl not to interfere. Sibyl soon realizes this is no ordinary murder case and that Mr. Buttons...
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Live and Let Diet (Australian Amateur Sleuth, Book ONE) A fun cozy mystery. Sybil Potts moves to Little Tatterford, a small town in the middle of nowhere in Australia, seeking to find peace and quiet after the upheaval of her divorce.
Although the town is sleepy and nothing has ever happened, her arrival coincides with a murder in the property adjacent to her cottage. Sybil soon finds she is at odds with the attractive Blake Wessley, the exasperated...
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Amelia's day is inundated with an overflow of men lining up to explain things to her. But when even Alder jumps aboard the mansplain train, Amelia can't bite her tongue any longer. She lets loose a wish that zaps the chatter right out of every man in town.Bayberry Creek is now quieter than a library during naptime. With the local police reduced to a series of shrugs and hand gestures, Amelia is left to investigate a murder. Amelia soon discovers that...
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There's something fishy in Little Tatterford. Can Sibyl solve the murder and make a snapper comeback?There hasn't been a murder in weeks, so Sibyl and her eccentric friends, Cressida Upthorpe and Mr. Buttons, are able to scale back their anxiety. Honeymooners, a famous businessman and his wife, book in to start their married life in bliss. After a breakfast of prawns, a tragic accident befalls one of them and they end up battered. The authorities,...
9) ExSpelled
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Egged on by Amelia's recent success in the kitchen, her friends send her to a cooking school on a remote tropical island resort. Her teachers' tempers reach boiling point when they sample her cooking, and worse still, her classmates begin to die one by one. As a tropical storm brews and the body count rises, can Amelia find the killer before she is expelled, or becomes the next victim? Book 5 in this fun cozy mystery series from USA Today Bestselling...
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In this USA Today Bestselling series, Goldie Bloom has started her real estate business, but a man is murdered at her first open home. Can Goldie keep her ex-boyfriend Thomas at bay, wrangle the orange-hating Persnickle, return a famous ;ghost to his own time, and solve the murder?Will her real estate business be a success? Or will she finish last but not leased?
11) Wedding Spells
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It's time for Amelia to eat, drink, and be married: her wedding day to hunky Alder Vervain is finally here! Happily-ever-after certainly has a nice ring to it. Amelia is certain nothing can go wrong, even if Camino is designing the wedding gown. But when a guest is murdered, Amelia attempts to find the culprit, to no a-veil. Can she have her cake and eat it too or will she also be in tiers?
12) Witches' Charms
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When Pepper finds the local internet provider representative washed up on the beach and sporting suspicious injures, another Cleaner arrives in town. Is Pepper in his sights?As Lucas does his best to keep Pepper out of harm's way, she and the aunts sift though the suspects. The trouble is, there are too many-in a town full of poor internet connectivity, no one had a good word for the victim.Pepper is in for a wild ride as one secret after another...
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Laurel Bay has discovered Basil's secret, but there are soon more important things on her mind. Lewis Lowes, an old friend of Basil's, is dying to go skydiving with him. Basil agrees, although he is up in the air about it. It soon turns out to be a grave mistake. When Lewis's parachutes don't open, he urns his place as the funeral home's next body.
The police suspect murder, and their main suspect is Basil. Laurel buries herself in sifting through...
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In this USA Today Bestselling series, Join Goldie Bloom, a thirty something, high flying real estate agent sent out into the wilds of quiet seaside Australia by the boss who broke her heart. She is hardly expecting to inherit a cranky mystical wombat, discover she is descended from an ancient coven of sea witches, or find herself in the middle of a town with no coffee, but that's precisely what happens. Goldie does her best to solve a murder, come...
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The reading of a will in a secluded house . . . How many will die?Camino asks Amelia to accompany her to the reading of a will in a remote location in the Australian Snowy Mountains.A snowstorm hits, and before long, the beneficiaries are trapped in a spooky manor house. The terms of the will spell out that the last person left alive will inherit everything.Everyone seems nice enough, apart from the butler, and maybe the cook, so what could go wrong?Book...
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When Marina Mercer comes to claim her yearly spell, Amelia's protests fall on deaf years. The last Halloween spell nearly got Amelia killed; the house is distracted, and Amelia accidentally cooks up something she shouldn't.Who is responsible for the murder of Amelia's obnoxious bank loan manager? As there are so many variables, the police lose interest and are keen to withdraw from the case. And will Amelia's investigations be of no account, or will...
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When the Fifth Earl of Mockingbird comes to Little Tatterford, all Mr. Buttons' fears come home to roost. And in a cheep shot, when a victim's tequila is poisoned, Mr Buttons becomes the prime suspect. This is where Sibyl and Cressida draw the lime. They fly in the face of the evidence and ruffle a few feathers in an attempt to prove his innocence.Will the murderer triumph by fowl means?Or will Sibyl solve the case and have her fairytail ending? Tequila...
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Prudence Wallflower is as hot as Detective Levi Grimes. But unlike Levi, her hotness comes in flashes.When Prudence's neighbour is murdered, unruly hormones are the last thing on her mind. No longer making her living as a clairvoyant, Prudence isn't sure where her life is heading or what lies in store for her relationship with Levi.Prudence may be itchy, sweaty, sleepy, and bloated, but that's not going to stop her from uncovering the secret of Levi's...
19) Sit for a Spell
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Amelia Spelled is playing Clue at Camino's house when one of the guests drops dead in the dining room. There was no sign of weapons, so was it Amelia's food? Or something just as unpleasant but more sinister?When the police arrest Camino, Amelia and her friends are faced with the task of sifting through the suspects.Will Amelia's attempts to solve the murder be half-baked?What will Amelia do when she finally discovers Alder's dark secret?Book 3 in...
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The murderer used chocolate to kill. How dairy!When an advertising executive dies after taking a bite of chocolate at his retirement party, chocolates caterer Narel is at once the detectives' main suspect. Though Narel is known for her killer baking, it's usually the chocolatey goodness that has her guests coming back for more.Can Mongrel, Narel's cranky and eccentric rescue cat, save Narel from the clutches of the police?Or will she come to sticky...
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