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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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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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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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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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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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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...
8) Witch Hunt
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Twists await you in Witch Hunt, the fifth book in the His Ghoul Friday cozy mystery series.Misty and Cordelia travel to an exotic location to write about the death of a politician. Helps comes from an unexpected source and more than one secret is revealed.Fifth time's a charm in this paranormal cozy mystery from USA Today bestselling author, Morgana Best.
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What would you do if you were medically unable to gain weight? Eat chocolate and solve murders, of course . . . When a car accident leads to extensive plastic surgery and an inability to gain weight, Cocoa Narel finds herself transformed from an ugly duckling into a beautiful swan. No longer forced to temper her love for chocolate, Cocoa plans to open a candy store and begins to enjoy the sweet life along with her quirky rescue cat. But when her high...
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A truth spell is an honest mistake . . .When the demanding Marina Mercer forces Amelia to do a truth spell over shares in a goldmine, Amelia expects nothing will go wrong. But when Marina's tenant is murdered in gold blood, Marina's boyfriend becomes the prime suspect.Now Alder is furious at Amelia for once again finding herself an Australian Sherlock Holmes searching for nuggets of information-but she can't worry about that now. The real murderer...
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In this USA Today Bestselling series, Laurel inherits a funeral home, to discover it's a dead-end job.Nobody knows that Laurel Bay can see ghosts. When she inherits a funeral home, she is forced to return from Melbourne to the small town of Witch Woods to breathe life into the business. It is a grave responsibility, but Laurel is determined that this will be no dead-end job.There she has to contend with her manipulative and overly religious mother,...
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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...
13) Dye Hard
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Sibyl doesn't barber a grudge despite the hair-raising murder. Will she brush herself off and get to the root of the matter?Obnoxious ghost hunters descend on Cressida Upthorpe's boarding house, convinced it must be a source of paranormal activity given that three murders have occurred there in a short space of time.After one of the ghost hunters is murdered with poisoned hair dye, Sibyl does her best to keep well away from the investigation, that...
14) Spell It Out
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For Amelia Spelled, it's another case of déjà brew when a man dies at a Tea Leaf Reading. Amelia and Camino are among the witnesses. Only trouble is, they were both asleep at the time. Luckily, Amelia is soon brewing up a solution, along with her trusty friends, who are out to prove there is a tea in team. When the murderer draws a little too close for comfort, will the house come to the rescue, or is Amelia in for a steep shock? Alder has something...
15) Ghost Stories
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When Laurel's mother, Thelma, hosts a group of writers in the belief they are writing about the Holy Ghost, she is horrified to find they are, in fact, writing ghost stories. Thelma decides to go on a road trip. Her GPS cannot get her there, so she hires an escort to show her the way. This turns out to be a grave mistake. Things are at rock bottom when the escort's naked body is found in Thelma's bedroom.Will Laurel be able to steer the police in...
16) Make Some Magic
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Thanks to Aunty June, Misty has a devil of a time in an old gold-mining town.Can Misty discover an indigenous Australian spirit before anyone else dies?And what happens with John Smith?Join Misty and be surprised in Book 4 of this paranormal cozy mystery series by USA Today bestselling author, Morgana Best.
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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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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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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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Unable to exorcise her discretion, Amelia is forced to grant Marina Mercer the annual Halloween spell just as Camino reveals her latest onesie design, a haunting prospect.With Alder kidnapped and a dead body in the pumpkin patch, will Amelia creep calm and carry on, or will she come out frighting?You will laugh until you're coffin!Book 13 in this enchanting cozy mystery series from USA Today Bestselling Author, Morgana Best.
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