The Cozy Mystery List Blog

On to the fourth part of the Super Supernatural Mystery Novels with the Witch Theme:

Witch:

Madelyn Alt: Bewitching Mystery Series… Maggie O’Neill happens to be much more than an antique store clerk in Stony Mill, Indiana…

Barbra Annino: Stacy Justice Mystery Series (Opal Fire is book #1)

Heather Blake (aka Heather Webber): Magic Potion Mysteries

Juliet Blackwell (aka Hailey Lind): Witchcraft Mystery Series… Lily Ivory owns a vintage clothing shop where she “witches” she had lots of customers…

Barbara Bretton: Chloe Hobbs’ Paranormal Mystery Series… Chloe is one half sorceress and owns the Sticks & Strings Knitting Shop…

Bailey Cates (aka Cricket McRae): Magical Bakery Mystery Series… Katie Lightfoot is the manager of her uncle’s and aunt’s Honeybee Bakery shop, where Aunt Lucy adds special ingredients to her baked goods…

Shirley Damsgaard: Ophelia & Abby Mystery Series… A librarian and her grandmother are charming sleuths…

Leighann Dobbs & Traci Douglass: Silver Hollow Paranormal Mystery Series – Issy Quinn is a witch and pet store owner in Silver Hollow, a small, paranormal lakeside town.

Delia James: Witch’s Cat Mystery Series… Annabelle Britton, an artist who becomes a witch…

Madison Johns: Lake Forest Witches Mystery Series…

Joyce and Jim Lavene (aka J.J. Cook & Ellie Grant): Purple Door Detective Agency Mystery Series… Sunshine Merryweather is a witch/sleuth.

Joyce and Jim Lavene (aka J. J. Cook & Ellie Grant): Retired Witches Mystery Series

Maria E. Schneider: Moon Shadow Series… Adriel’s knowledge of spells helps keep her safe while sleuthing…

Clea Simon writes the Witch Cats of Cambridge Mystery Series – which features Becca, a single, unemployed woman who studies to become a witch – but who also gets a lot of help from Harriet, Laurel, & Clara – her three cats.

Kirsten Weiss: Witches of Doyle Mystery Series

This list doesn’t include the following Paranormal Cozy Mystery themes: Ghost, Psychic or 6th Sense, Vampire or Werewolf, Witch, or Enchanted/Magical  (which I’ve listed on the Theme page.)

Please feel free to post a comment if you know of any other mystery authors (who are currently on the Cozy Mystery site) who you think write mysteries that would fit into this Witch Theme. Thanks!

♦To access more Cozy Mysteries by Theme click on this link.♦

On to the third part of the Super Supernatural Mystery Novels with the Vampire Theme and Werewolf Theme:

Vampire:

Charlaine Harris: Southern Vampire Mystery Series… Sookie Stackhouse isn’t your run-of-the-mill cocktail waitress! Sookie happens to have a vampire boyfriend AND she’s telepathic!

Dean James (aka Honor Hartman & Jimmie Ruth Evans)… Simon Kirby-Jones is an American author living in Snupperton Mumsley, England who just happens to be a vampire!

Aimée & David Thurlo: Lee Nez Mystery Series… Lee (aka Leo) happens to be a Navajo policeman with a twist… he’s half vampire…

A site reader just asked that I include Mary Janice Davidson to the list of Cozy Mystery authors who write mysteries with a Vampire theme… Undead and Unwed is the first in the series…

Werewolf:

Karen MacInerney: Tales of an Urban Werewolf Mystery Series… Sophie Garou isn’t content with just braying at the moon…

This list doesn’t include the following Paranormal Cozy Mystery themes: Ghost, Witch, Enchanted/Magical, or Psychic or 6th Sense  (which I’ve listed on the Theme page.)

Please feel free to post a comment if you know of any other mystery authors (who are currently on the Cozy Mystery site) who you think write mysteries that would fit into this Vampire and Werewolf  Theme. Thanks!

♦To access more Cozy Mysteries by Theme click on this link.♦

Here is the second part of the requested Supernatural Theme… This part involves Psychics… Characters with the 6th Sense:

Allyson K. Abbott (aka Annelise Ryan & Beth Amos) Mack’s Bar Mystery Series features Mack (Mackenzie Dalton) who has ESP.

Susan Wittig Albert: Crystal Cave Mystery Series features Ruby Wilcox, the owner of a New Age shop.

L. L. Bartlett (aka Lorna Barrett & Loraine Bartlett): Jeff Resnick Mystery Series… As a victim of a mugging, Jeff has a special sixth sense gift.

Melissa Bourbon (aka Misa Ramirez): Magical Dressmaking Mystery Series… Harlow Cassidy is the owner of a boutique. Her great grandmother (as in her deceased great grandmother!) helps her sleuth, and Harlow also relies on her familiar 6th Sense.

Ali Brandon (aka Diane A.S. Stuckart)  writes the Black Cat Bookshop Mystery Series which takes place in Brooklyn. Darla Pettistone and Hamlet make a dynamic sleuthing duo.

Claire Daniels (aka Jaqueline Girdner): Karma Crime Mystery Series… Cally Lazar has a special gift for solving crimes.

Dianne Day: Emperor Norton’s Ghost

Carole Nelson Douglas: Delilah Street Mystery Series… Delilah investigates all things other-worldly.

Pamela DuMond: Annie Graceland Mystery Series… When stressed, Annie has psychic abilities.

Alice Duncan: Daisy Gumm Majesty Mystery Series… Daisy is a séance and tarot psychic (medium) during the 1920s in California.

Dawn Eastman: Family Fortune Mystery Series …The sleuth’s mother is a tarot card reader and her aunt is a pet psychic at Crystal Haven in Michigan.

K.J. Emrick: Darcy Sweet Mystery Series and its spinoff, the Smudge the Cat Mysteries, both featuring Smudge, a “slightly psychic” cat.

Jessica Estevao (aka Jessie Crockett) Change of Fortune Mystery Series … Ruby Proulx is a psychic with a dubious past during the very late 1890s. She lives in a seaside resort town in Maine called Old Orchard.

Honora Finkelstein & Susan Smily: Ariel Quigley Mystery Series… Ariel is an English teacher who combines her sleuthing with her psychic abilities.

Yasmine Galenorn (aka India Ink): Chintz ‘n China Mystery Series… Emerald O’Brien not only owns a tea room, but she also solves mysteries and is able to read tarot cards.

Dorothy Gilman: The Clairvoyant Countess AND Kaleidoscope (both Madame Karitska mysteries)

Lena Gregory: Bay Island Psychic Mystery Series… Cass Donovan is an ex-psychiatrist who ditches it all to become a psychic.

Carolyn Hart: Nela Farley Mystery Series

Charlaine Harris: Harper Connelly Mystery Series: Harper survived being hit by lightning and is now able to find corpses.

Kay Hooper: Shadows Trilogy, Evil Trilogy, Fear Trilogy, and The Bishop Special Crimes Units Trilogy… Hooper’s trilogies revolve around the FBI and their work solving paranormal cases. (Not Cozies)

Sofie Kelly writes the Magical Cats Mystery Series, which features Owen and Hercules, and their human.

Allison Kingsley (aka Kate Kingsbury & Rebecca Kent): Raven’s Nest Bookstore Mystery Series…. Clara Quinn is a psychic in Maine who sleuths with her cousin, the owner of the bookstore in Maine.

Victoria Laurie: Psychic Eye Mystery Series… In this series, Laurie (who happens to be an author and psychic) writes about Abby, who happens to be an author and psychic.

Joyce & Jim Lavene: Pet Psychic Mystery Series… Mary Catherine is a radio talk show pet psychic and she also runs an animal shelter. AND Missing Pieces Mystery Series

Martha C. Lawrence: Elizabeth Chase Mystery Series… Elizabeth, a parapsychologist, is also a psychic private investigator.

M. Louisa Locke: The Victorian San Francisco Mystery Series… Annie is not only the owner of a boardinghouse, she doubles as Madam Sibyl,  a clairvoyant.

Paul Magrs: Brenda & Effie Mystery Series…  Brenda (the landlady of a guesthouse) and her best friend Effie conduct their own supernatural investigations, set in the UK.

Judi McCoy writes the Dog Walker Mystery Series which features the owner of a dog walking business who finds out that she is able to communicate telepathically with her charges.

Laura Morrigan: Call of the Wilde Mystery Series… Grace Wilde solves her cases using her telepathic abilities in Florida. She is able to “read” animals.

Carol J. Perry: Witch City Mystery Series – Lee Barrett, a reporter in Salem, Massachusetts inherits O’Ryan, a cat with magical powers.

Maggie Sefton writes the Widow and the Rogue Mystery Series. It takes place in 1890s Washington, D.C. and features a young widow who is also a clairvoyant and an English investor.

Jana Lynn Shellman: Poppy Hannah Mystery Series… Poppy is a psychic paralegal in Indiana.

Connie Shelton: Samantha Sweet Mystery Series – Samantha Sweet owns the Sweet’s Sweet bakery in Taos, New Mexico. She is able to use her magical powers to help her solve mysteries, as well as have a wonderful bakery.

Sharon Short: Josie Toadfern Stain-busting Mystery Series – Death in the Cards Josie has to figure out who killed a rather unpopular psychic.

Clea Simon writes the Pru Marlowe, Pet Noir Mystery Series which features an animal behaviorist/psychic.

Wendy Corsi Staub: Lily Dale Mystery Series

Diane A. S. Stuckart (aka Ali Brandon): Tarot Cats Mystery Series – Ruby Sparks is a tarot card reader who gets help from Aphelia & Brandon >>> tarot-reading black cats in Florida.

Maggie Toussaint: Dreamwalker Mystery Series – Baxley Powell is a telepathic pet sitter who lives in Georgia.

Kari Lee Townsend: Fortune Teller Mystery Series – Sunshine Meadows is a fortune teller in New York.

Kari Lee Townsend: Mind Reader Mystery Series – Kalli Ballas has the ability to read minds. She is a fashion designing sleuth.

Teresa Trent: Henry Park Mystery Series – Gabby Wolfe has a Sixth Sense in Henry Park, Colorado.

Heather Webber writes the Lucy Valentine Series which involves the owner of a matchmaking service with absolutely no matchmaking abilities… who does, however, have the ability of finding lost objects.

This list doesn’t include the following Paranormal Cozy Mystery themes: Ghost, Vampire & Werewolf, Witch, or Enchanted/Magical  (which I’ve already listed on the Theme page.)

Please feel free to post a comment if you know of any other mystery authors (who are currently on the Cozy Mystery site) who you think write mysteries that would fit into this Psychic/6th Sense Theme. Thanks!

♦To access more Cozy Mysteries by Theme click on this link.♦

About a week ago I received a note from a site reader who asked:
“Could you make a list of paranomal cozies, cozies with witches, occult, vampires & such?”

I had already started a skeleton of a list which included some different supernatural themes, and thought: What better time to be making a theme with werewolves, vampires, “& such” than right before Halloween…. So here goes!

Ghosts:

P. J. Alderman: Port Chatham Mystery Series… Jordan Marsh owns a haunted house on the west coast of USA.

Nancy Atherton: Aunt Dimity Mystery Series… Aunt Dimity simply insists on staying around after Lori inherits her Cotswold cottage.

Mignon F. Ballard: Augusta Goodnight Mystery Series… Augusta Goodnight is a guardian angel who helps solve mysteries… (I wasn’t sure if I should put Augusta in this category but decided to go ahead and include her, she is a guardian angel.)

Juliet Blackwell: Haunted Home Renovation Mystery Series… Melanie (Mel) Turner renovates historic houses in California.

Annette Blair: Vintage Magic Mystery Series… Maddie Cutler returns home to not only open a vintage clothing shop, but to also solve mysteries and see a few ghosts.

Melissa Bourbon (aka Misa Ramirez): Magical Dressmaking Mystery Series… Harlow Cassidy is the owner of a boutique. Her great grandmother (as in her deceased great grandmother!) helps her.

Susan M. Boyer: Liz Talbot Mystery Series…. Liz Talbot is a private investigator who can see ghosts.

Helen Chappell: Sam & Hollis Mystery Series… Hollis (a reporter) solves mysteries with the help of her deceased husband Sam.

Sheila Connolly (aka Sarah Atwell): Relatively Dead Mystery Series… Abby Kimball sees ghosts.

J. J. Cook (aka Joyce and Jim Lavene): Sweet Pepper Fire Brigade Mystery Series… Stella Griffin is the current fire chief of these fire station in Tennessee. She is helped by an ex fire chief, who is deceased.

E. J. Copperman: Haunted Guesthouse Mystery Series… Alison may be the owner of the guesthouse, but Paul and Maxie do as they (ghostly) please.

Casey Daniels: Pepper Martin Mystery Series… Pepper is a cemetery tour guide who gets help with her sleuthing from a dead mob boss.

Jana DeLeon: Ghost-in-Law Mystery Series… features a botanist, her friend, and her deceased mother-in-law as the sleuths.

Leighann Dobbs: Blackmoore Sisters Romantic Cozy Mystery Series… Morgan & Fiona sell crystals and herbal remedies, and have open communication with their deceased grandmother. AND Mystic Notch Cozy Mystery Series… Willa Chance is a crime journalist who sees ghosts.

Elizabeth Eagan-Cox: Shannon Delaney Mystery Series… features a writer in San Diego with ghostly encounters.

K.J. Emrick: Darcy Sweet Mystery Series and its spinoff, the Smudge the Cat Mysteries, both featuring the ghost of the protagonist’s great-aunt.

Christy Fifield (aka Christy Evans) Haunted Souvenir Shop Mystery Series… Glory inherits her uncle’s souvenir shop, including resident ghosts.

Alexia Gordon: Gethsemane Brown Mystery Series – Gethsemane teaches schoolboys in an Irish countryside school’s orchestra.

Carolyn Haines: Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery Series… Jitty, a nanny to one of Sarah’s ancestors keeps tabs on Sarah.

Carolyn Haines: Pluto’s Snitch Mystery Series… Raissa James often sees ghosts and works with a self-proclaimed medium.

Carolyn Hart (aka Carolyn G. Hart): Bailey Ruth Mystery Series… Bailey loved to sleuth before she joined Heaven’s Department of Good Intentions, as a ghost.

Sue Ann Jaffarian: Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery Series

Madison Johns: Agnes Barton Paranormal Mystery Series

Tonya Kappes: Kenni Lowry Mystery Series

Alice Kimberly (aka Cleo Coyle): Haunted Bookshop Mystery Series… Penelope Thornton-McClure owns the bookstore that Jack Shepard inhabits… as a ghost.

Victoria Laurie: Ghost Hunter Mystery Series…  M.J. Holliday does just that! She hunts down ghosts.

Joyce and Jim Lavene (aka J.J. Cook & Ellie Grant): Taxi for the Dead Paranormal Mystery Series

Gayle Leeson (aka Amanda Lee & Gayle Trent): Ghostly Fashionista Mystery Series – features the owner of a design shop and the ghost who has lived in the shop since the 1930s.

Lizbeth Lipperman (aka Liz Lipperman & Liz Roth): Dead Sister Talking Mystery Series… Lainey Garcia solves mysteries with the help of her sister,  Tessa, who is no longer of this world.

Dixie Lyle: Whiskey, Tango and Foxtrot Mystery Series… Deirdre “Foxtrot” Lancaster is an administrative assistant who sleuths with the help of her (deceased) telepathic cat and a shape shifting dog.

Molly MacRae writes the Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery Series. The sleuth inherits her grandmother’s wool shop, and an unexpected ghost.

Katy Munger (aka Gallagher Gray & Chaz McGee): Dead Detective Mystery Series The main sleuth is Kevin Fahey, a dead policeman.

Shirley Rousseau Murphy and Pat J.J. Murphy write the Lee Fontana Mystery Series which features a parolee and a prison ghost cat in California.

Sharon Pape: Portrait of Crime Mystery Series… Rory gets the help sleuthing from a federal marshall… from the 1870s.

Leigh Perry (aka Toni L.P. Kelner): Family Skeleton Mystery Series…  Georgia is a professor who is “assisted” by Sid, a ghost.

Rose Pressey: Haunted Vintage Mystery Series, Haunted Tour Guide Mystery Series, AND Haunted Renovation Mystery Series, all of which feature various levels of ghostly business.

Wendy Roberts: Ghost Dusters Mystery Series… Sadie Novak sees dead people at her job… as a death scene cleaner-upper.

Mary Saums: Thistle & Twigg Mystery Series… Jane Thistle and Phoebe Twigg are 60 year old best friends living in Alabama.

Paige Shelton: Country Cooking School Mystery Series… Grams and Betts solve mysteries with a ghost of a chance.

Beth Solheim: Sadie Witt Mystery Series… Both Sadie and Belly LaGossa (Sadie’s dog) are able to see the dead.

Mary Stanton (aka Claudia Bishop): Beaufort & Company Mystery Series… Bree Winston-Beaufort inherits her uncle’s law firm and soon finds herself dealing with clients who were previously “down to earth”.

Fran Stewart writes the ScotShop Mystery Series which features Peggy Winn, the owner of a shop which specializes in Scottish merchandise… oh, and her 14th century Scottish specter.

Kirsten Weiss: Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum Mystery Series – Maddie Kosloski is the manager of a local paranormal museum.

This list doesn’t include the following Paranormal Cozy Mystery themes: Vampire or Werewolf, Witch, Psychic or 6th Sense, or Enchanted/Magical  (which I’ve listed on the Theme page.)

Please feel free to post a comment if you know of any other mystery authors (who are currently on the Cozy Mystery site) who you think write mysteries that would fit into this Ghost Theme. Thanks!

♦To access more Cozy Mysteries by Theme click on this link.♦