Vickie Carroll

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

What if retirement isn’t the utopia it’s cracked up to be?

Helen Rogers never imagined that she’d be bored at Sunny Days Retirement Village in lovely Peachtree Valley, Georgia, but she wasn’t expecting to start this phase of life as early as her fifties, either. Then fate gave her a hand in solving her friend’s murder, and the sense of accomplishment was heady.

But was it a fluke?

Fate answers again when she stumbles over her second dead body, the city’s deputy mayor.

The corpse is barely cold before the mayor’s wife is killed in a suspicious accident. Bodies are piling up—so Helen and her buddy, Carol Adams, take the next step: enroll in PI classes, apply for her license, and open an official investigation firm.

Helen has found her purpose, and it comes with new partners and a handsome assistant, Ted Morgan.

Yet business will grind to halt before it gets off the ground unless she can break open the truth. Plenty of folks have a motive, but which one of the suspects is desperate enough to plan such elaborate murders?

One of Peachtree Valley’s favorite persons, the town librarian, has been found murdered, but the victim’s grieving family doesn’t trust the new police chief to get to the bottom of this crime. The ink is barely dry on Helen's PI license or the new Rogers, Adams, and Brown Private Investigations sign on her door, and already she's had a high profile case land on her doorstep.

She and her associates are eager to dig into the details, but none of the clues are adding up to anything that makes a lick of sense. Even Dixie and Kirk, the newest additions to the team, find themselves hitting brick walls out in the field. That is, until they butt heads with members of a new church in town that turns out to be a cult in disguise.

Is this the missing piece to the puzzle they need to break open the case? The only way to find out is to beat the worshippers at their own game, a strategy that could bring Helen and her boyfriend Ted closer, or tear the entire firm apart.

No one invited a murderer to this wedding, and yet …

The announcement sounded innocent enough: five romance writers have chosen Peachtree Valley for their annual gathering. One of the writers is Kirk’s aunt Lily, and as one of Helen Rogers’s newest investigators at the PI firm, he’s eager to show off his new job.

Helen and her fiancé, Ted Morgan, are eager to show guests a good time at their wedding.

But then someone shows their true stripes and murders one of the visiting writers, and police have no witnesses or clues to work with. It’s an investigator’s nightmare, but the Rogers, Adams, and Brown agency isn’t daunted by hard cases. Their deep dive into the publishing world uncovers jealousy, resentment, and a boatload of motives. Including clues that the killer has their sights on Aunt Lily next.

Can the team pool their talents one more time to save their lives and the wedding too? Or will Helen have to turn the page on this new chapter in her life?