Joyce Lavene

Jim Lavene

To pass on their cherished spellbook, Molly, Elsie and Olivia must recruit and train three new witches, but when Olivia is murdered and the spellbook is stolen, Molly and Elsie must call upon all of their powers to stop a dangerous young witch. Original.

Spell Booked

James Lavene

When Peggy Lee, a botanist, the owner of The Potting Shed, and an occasional sleuth, stumbles upon the body of Mark Warner, the richest man in town, in her seasonal display, she must weed through a colorful cast of characters to catch a killer, while befriending a Great Dane and a sexy veterinarian. Original.

Pretty Poison

Dae O'Donnell, the mayor of Duck, North Carolina, has a talent for finding lost things, and when the town matriarch asks her to find her missing watch, Dae is unwittingly drawn into a murder investigation, which she must help solve before time runs out. Original.

A Timely Vision

Struggling with a fractious boss and her boyfriend's mistaken assumptions, Renaissance Village glassblower Jessie Morton busily prepares for Halloween activities, which are disrupted by the murder of a man who is costumed as the Grim Reaper. By the author of Wicked Weaves. Original.

Ghastly Glass

When someone shoots a cannon into the Duck Historical Museum, killing the curator and making off with a treasure chest filled with gold, Dae O'Donnell, who has a gift for finding lost things, teams up with an ex-FBI agent to catch a modern-day pirate. By the authors of A Timely Vision. Original. 20,000 first printing.

A Touch of Gold

While apprenticing for Mary Shift, a skilled basket maker with a dark past, at the Renaissance faire as research for her PhD, Jessie Morton, an assistant professor, goes up against a crafty killer who tries to frame Mary for murder. Original.

Wicked Weaves

Emilie's Christmas Love

While spending her summer at the Renaissance Faire Village, assistant professor Jessie Morton becomes embroiled in a messy murder after one of the Three Chocolatiers, a leering lothario, is found drowned in a vat of chocolate with a hat pin sticking out of his eye. Original.

Harrowing Hats

Pet psychic, four-time widow, and host of her own popular radio show, Mary Catherine comes to the aid of an injured turtle whose owner, a wealthy society matriarch, has been murdered, as she utilizes her unique talents, despite the ridicule of local detectives, to find a killer. Original.

The Telltale Turtle

While attending her first Mayors' Conference Weekend at the Blue Whale Inn, Dae O'Donnell, the mayor of Duck, North Carolina, who has a special knack for finding lost things, must solve the murder of Mayor Sandi Foxx whose body was found in the inn's toolshed. Original.

A Spirited Gift

When she volunteers to harvest bones and invaluable artifacts from the dry Lake Whitley, Peggy Lee, part-time forensic botantist, stumbles upon the remains of a member of the Shamrock Historical Society and must dig up some clues to catch a cunning killer. Original.

A Corpse for Yew

The mayor of Duck, North Carolina, Dae O'Donnell, is a woman with a gift for finding lost things. Sometimes it leads her to lost keys or earrings--and sometimes it leads her to murder... DIRTY CAMPAIGNING Two weeks before the mayoral election, Dae gets sidetracked from her political aspirations by a spirit in need of rescuing. An antique amber necklace allows Dae to connect with Maggie Madison, a witch who wants Dae to rebury her bones so she can rest in peace. But digging leads Dae to an even bigger mystery, a forty-year-old murder with ties to Randal "Mad Dog" Wilson, her mayoral opponent. Dae wants to run a clean race, but town sentiment is mixed about whether she's using her abilities to get the election to go her way. And when she learns that her own grandfather--the former sheriff of Dare County--might be mixed up in the long-buried tragedy, Dae will have to uncover the real killer and put Maggie to rest, before her political career ends up six feet under...

A Finder's Fee

When a drowned body is found with an unusual plant wound through her hair, part-time forensic botanist Peggy Lee agrees to help with the investigation, but comes up empty-handed while digging for clues. Original.

Perfect Poison

When a fellow botanist and his brother die under mysterious circumstances, Peggy Lee, a botanist, detective's widow, and the owner of The Potting Shed, does some investigating on her own and discovers that murder is in full bloom. Original.

Poisoned Petals

During the Renaissance Faire, Jessie Morton, an assistant professor at a local college, must help her friend Daisy find out who killed her ex-boyfriend, professional dueler Alastair the Great, while trying to keep her own boyfriend safe from his meddling brother. Original.

Deadly Daggers

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Visions of Love

Read the first novel in the Taxi for the Dead Paranormal Mysteries: Broken Hearted Ghoul It's been two years since Skye Mertz agreed to drive Abe's Taxi for the Dead, transporting his zombie workers back to the man who gave them an additional twenty years of life. She's raising her daughter, with the help of her ghostly mother-in-law, and keeps looking for what killed her husband the night she died. Now she has a partner—a housewife working off her zombie husband's service—and she's met a sorcerer with amnesia. It shouldn't be surprising that a broken hearted ghoul, bent on getting revenge, should show up too. After all, there's no rest for the dead.

Broken Hearted Ghoul

Chris Lavene

Down the mountain from Sweet Pepper, Tennessee is Christmas Tree Valley, a place filled with hundreds of Christmas tree farms where generations of growers have made people's lives brighter. Yet even here in this quiet, postcard-perfect corner of the world, darkness and murder can still stalk the night. Federal Wildlife Agent Bonnie Tuttle has always had a special gift with wild animals. It was one of the reasons she decided to train with the wildlife agency. She's spent the last ten years in Alabama working, but her mother needs her home and she's back despite all the bad parts of her life she hoped to leave behind. Her first day home begins with a fire on the island in Sweet Pepper Lake and the death of Harvey Shelton, the wildlife agent she's supposed to replace. Bonnie manages to rescue dozens of animals from the fire - including a wolf pup that was shot with the same bullet that killed Harvey. Now she's hot on the trail of Harvey's killer and trying to reintegrate the wolf back into the wild even though he seems to want to stay with her. Yet old memories persist in the small community where she grew up, and the killer now seems to believe that she has what he killed Harvey for. All she has to do is figure out what that is before it's too late. Christmas Recipes included!

Murder Fir Christmas

When she has a vision of the murder of a local named Chuck Sparks, whose daughter Betsy has been kidnapped, Dae O'Donnell, who has a gift for finding lost things, is forced to turn to her boyfriend's psychic ex-fiancée who might be the only person who can find Betsy before it's too late. Original.

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