Spells and Subterfuge
A Crones of a Feather Paranormal Cozy Mystery, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Tanya Eby
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By:
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Beth Dolgner
A reluctant witch, a haunted funeral home, and a dead body. Welcome home, Hazel.
Hazel Underwood has returned to her magical hometown of Foxfire Haven, Washington, with her tail between her legs.
A metaphorical tail, of course. Witches don't have tails.
While renovating the old funeral home she inherited from her uncle, Hazel stumbles on a dead body stashed underneath the hearse. Who wanted the delivery-truck driver dead, and how did he wind up in Hazel's garage? Chief Constable Hightower thinks Hazel might have killed Steve with her magic, and she's determined to prove the handsome old curmudgeon wrong.
Suspects range from a beautiful vampire with a passion for potions to the garden store gnome, but as Hazel closes in on solving the murder, she learns there's another mystery to unravel. What happened to Hazel's uncle in his final years to turn him into an obsessed treasure-hunter? And does his story tie into Steve's murder?
Hazel will have to team up with her witchy new roommates to catch a killer, stand up to judgmental small-town locals, and get her magic back on track. Who knew midlife could be so complicated?
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This is book one in that new series and I loved it. The author has a habit of coming up with the unusual and letting her imagination go and she did it again, having the main character looking for roommates to live in an old funeral home with her is just one example of her genius at work. I loved the different personalities, magic skills and even jobs that they each had. The feather familiars are a bonus too. It will be fun discovering how they grow as a group.
The mystery was just as good as usual and I had no clue who the killer was but was very happy to let the coven which it out and take me along for the ride.There is two mysteries running in this book, the main one, the murder does get nicely wrapped up but the story surrounding the strangeness of her uncles behaviour in his later years, i think will continue throughout the series but as I am already in love with the series I dont mind and will be getting the next book.
After years of not using her magic in the human world, a mishap has Hazel returning home to Foxfire Haven to hide out. Her uncle leaving her his funeral home, despite it's run down condition and the ghost of a previous funeral home owner in residence it is the prefect chance to start fresh. The only problem is with all the repairs needed it has her needing some housemates. She just hopes finding a dead man in her garage won't put anybody off. Even if she does find some housemates it won't be enough to get the heating fixed before winter and when Hazel finds herself offering the same service as the dead man, it puts her in the perfect position to find out who might have wanted him dead. Can Hazel find the confidence to use magic? Housemates? And A killer?
I liked the narrator. I have heard her narrate a few books and its always entertaining listening to her bring the characters to life.
An interesting coven
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