Petals and a Poison
Does this award-winning flower garden hide a sinister secret?
After the Frog Hollow Garden Tour announces the winner of this year’s contest, all that’s left is to enjoy a delicious banquet with friends and neighbors. But the evening takes a chilling turn when my dog Dash discovers a body near the garden’s beautiful pond.
What was meant to be a night of celebration soon blossoms into a true crime scene. As we try to weed out the culprit, every clue points to my good witchy pal, Pearl, especially when her pet peacock is found nesting in a patch of poisonous plants.
Can Dash and the Accidental Ghost Detective Team unearth this garden of secrets and restore tranquility to Frog Hollow before the poison finds its next victim?
The Accidental Ghost Detective: Books 1 – 3
When Nikki Knight returns home to the majestic Moonlight Mansion in Frog Hollow, Georgia, she’s shocked to discover that her late grandmother’s charming B&B holds more than a few skeletons in its closet.
The next thing she knows, Nikki finds herself smack dab in the middle of a murder mystery! Now, with her loyal dachshund, her band of eccentric friends, and a few ghostly allies at her side, she’ll take on new adventures and confusing cases.
This set includes the first three books in the bestselling The Accidental Ghost Detective series: Scents and a Suspect, Trails and a Traitor, and Hints and a Homicide.
If you enjoy cozy mysteries with lovable doggie detectives and a dash of mysterious magic, and plenty of laughs, you won’t want to miss this special boxed set. Here’s your chance to binge read a fun series of curious cases filled with twists, turns, and surprise endings. Enjoy!
More info →The Magician Card
When Harper Kagel receives word that her cousin had taken a deadly fall, she drops everything and returns to her hometown of Steepwick, Maine.
She’s avoided the odd town with a witchy past for decades, and only planned to stay long enough for the funeral. But her cousin had other plans. Now Harper’s the new owner of her cousin’s home, café-bookstore, and opinionated Westie named Einstein.
The town’s residents welcome Harper’s return with open arms, including her ex. The secret crime solvers’ society even inducts her into their Cold Case Club.
But when Harper finds herself the target of a killer, she’ll need the Cold Case Club’s help to solve an ancient family mystery. If they can’t figure it out, Harper will follow in the footsteps of her dearly departed cousin.
The Magician Card is the first book in Prediction: Murder?, a quirky cozy mystery series from Vickie Carroll. Escape into the quaint town of Steepwick with your copy today!
More info →The Fool Card
When the Cold Case Club make plans to head to a nearby bed and breakfast, Harper Kagel looks forward to a few days in the lap of luxury. She’s ready for some relaxation after solving a family mystery that almost ended in her death.
Promises of days lounging by the pool give way to sleuthing when a murder takes place in their own backyard. The quirky group can’t pass up the challenge of finding a killer once again.
But when Harper returns home, she senses something that wasn’t there before. Her ancestors. What are they trying to tell her? And will it cause a rift between her and her skeptical maybe no longer an ex?
The Fool Card is the second book in Prediction: Murder?, a quirky cozy mystery series from Vickie Carroll. Escape into the quaint town of Steepwick with your copy today!
More info →The Death Card
When Harper learns her cousin's death might not have been accidental, she and the Cold Case Club spring back into action. Harper’s sleuthing does nothing for her budding relationship with her ex-flame, the Chief of Police, and the constant harassment from a rival family threatens to thwart the investigation.
Since inheriting her late cousin's estate in the secretly witchy Steepwick, Maine, Harper has had to solve one mystery after another. Many led back to a rival family who accused Harper's ancestor of putting a curse on theirs. Harper thought the feud was over, but others have taken up the cause, and this time they’ve invoked some magical help.
Can Harper embrace her ancestral gifts in time to put an end to the rival family's nefarious plotting and find out who killed her cousin, or will she risk the wrath of the most powerful sorceress in the history of all time?
The Death Card is the third book in Prediction: Murder?, a quirky cozy mystery series from Vickie Carroll. Escape into the quaint town of Steepwick with your copy today!
More info →The Lovers Card
Things are changing in Steepwick, and it all started with a new arrival…
As their dreamy honeymoon nears its end, Harper and John are ready to settle back into life in Steepwick as newlyweds.
But their marital bliss is tainted with the untimely death of their neighbor, and local witch, Elen Howe.
The authorities claim there’s no foul play, but Harper can’t shake the feeling that something odd is going on.
And why does it seem like Steepwick’s newest residents aren’t at all who they seem to be?
As old enemies come calling and new enemies rise, can Harper and her friends save their town once again? Or will their cards finally run out?
The Lover’s Card is the fourth book in Prediction: Murder? a quirky cozy mystery series from Vickie Carroll. Escape into the quaint town of Steepwick with your copy today!
More info →The Tower Card
It all comes to a tower of trouble for the witches of Steepwick...
Harper and John leave behind the witches of Steepwick for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Scotland. While John dreams of touring the beautiful Highlands and famous whiskey distilleries, Harper’s just excited to visit her old friend, Galen, a writer and powerful witch who needs Harper’s help with a local mystery.
Galen suspects that a lovelorn ghost is haunting the famous sixteenth-century Aberdon Tower. Plenty of myths surround the woman’s demise, and Galen hopes to uncover the real story for her next book. But with the growing anti-witch sentiment in the nearby village, Galen and Harper need to stay alert to stay out of harm’s way.
As Galen’s motives become less clear, Harper is sure of one thing: there’s more to this ghost than meets the eye.
Something is amiss in Scotland, and as Harper struggles to piece things together, could this spell trouble for her and her witchy crew?
The Tower Card is the fifth book in Prediction: Murder? A quirky cozy mystery series from Vickie Carroll. Escape into the quaint town of Steepwick with your copy today!
More info →The Chamomile Conspiracy
Green witch Pax Thatcher leads a busy life. Between working two jobs, applying to grad school, and helping out at the old herb shop that belongs to her friend and mentor, Miss Millie, Pax doesn’t have much time for practicing spells. She’s lucky she can keep her enormous plant collection alive.
Fortunately, she can talk to her plants, and they talk back.
But when Pax arrives for a visit to her seaside hometown of Honesty Harbor, Maine, and discovers Miss Millie is missing, she drops everything to find her. When she does, it’s just in time to hear Miss Millie’s dying words:
Poison. Find them.
Unable to believe anyone would want to murder the kind old woman, Pax vows to fulfill Miss Millie’s last request. But how can a boring little witch who doesn’t even own a cauldron solve a murder? Ask the only witness—a potted plant—what happened.
But the more she listens to her leafy allies, the more questions she has. And when others begin to view her as the prime suspect, Pax must hurry to weed out the killer before someone else gets whacked.
More info →The Hellebore Haunting
Pax Hawthorne (née Thatcher) has inherited a new name and a legacy she isn’t sure she wants. And now her deceased mentor’s herb shop belongs to her too.
It’s a lot to process, so when the opportunity arrives to escape for a day and check out an exhibit of ancient plants, Pax and her best friend, Sam, jump at the chance for a little R&R.
When they arrive, however, instead of cool flowers, they find a lonely ghost in need of their help. She’s been haunting the Gilded Age mansion on the property for over a century, unable to remember how she died. Hoping that discovering the answer will let their new friend rest in peace, Pax and Sam start digging for clues.
But the more truth they uproot, the more it seems there’s something much darker that would prefer the past stay buried. And when this dark force proves it isn’t afraid to play dirty to stop the investigation, Pax must call upon her floral friends for help, or else she may join her ghostly friend in the afterlife.
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More info →The Aconite Amulet
A Noreaster is coming to Honesty Harbor, but the real danger isn’t from the storm.
The entire town is hunkered down so there’s not much else to do but gossip about the famous people staying at the bed and breakfast.
Until actress, Sabeen, comes running out of the woods, screaming. Pax rushes to investigate the cause but returns with more questions than before. She doesn’t believe that Sabeen saw a “mountain lion attack” in the forest and neither do the trees.
When a mysterious stranger arrives, it’s clear that he knows more than he’s letting on. Especially as more people go missing, leaving only bloody tracks behind.
Can Pax and her friends get to the bottom of the mystery before the storm washes away all traces of it?
More info →Paws, Claws, and Curses
What are cursed artifacts, a talking cat, and a dead body doing in the sweet little town of Citrus Grove? That’s what spirited shopkeeper Rebecca Cuthbert wants to find out, and she had better do it fast because she’s the prime suspect in the murder of the town’s shadiest antiquities dealer.
It’s a troubling start to her reunion with her long-lost grandfather and a far cry from the Southern California vacation she was expecting. So far, nothing in Citrus Grove is quite what it seems. Not her grandfather, who suspiciously disappears at the strangest times, not his curious antique shop, which has more secrets than customers, and certainly not the oddball neighbors, with their hidden motives and questionable connections.
As Rebecca races against time with her new feline friend to uncover the truth behind a mysterious murder, she finds herself tangled in a web of danger and deceit as captivating as Queen Cleopatra herself. With help from unexpected allies and an often-exasperating, yet undeniably handsome detective, Rebecca must outwit the cunning killer before she becomes the next victim.
Dig into this delightful series of cozy mysteries filled with quirky humor, friendships, ancient mysteries, and magic.
More info →Scents And A Suspect
When Nikki Knight returns to her childhood stomping grounds in Frog Hollow Georgia, she realizes life has become nuttier than the pecan muffins at her late grandmother’s haunted B&B. But the only ghost in the Moonlight Mansion is the previous lady of the house, still roaming the halls in her afterlife.
Not ten steps into town, Nikki finds herself with a furry new companion. An abandoned royal dachshund who just might carry the secret to his past owner’s untimely demise. But when Nikki is seen snooping around at one too many crime scenes, the local officer becomes suspicious and begins popping up where she least expects him.
Now, she needs to find out what happened ASAP and protect Prince Dasher Dangerdog Bean from falling into the wrong—and deadly—hands.
Can Nikki and her royal dachshund solve the case? Or will they end up roaming the Moonlight Mansion with her grandmother?
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