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Psychics / 6th Sense Theme Mysteries : Super Supernatural Paranormal Theme Mysteries

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.♦

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  2. What about Jayne Ann Krentz, writing as Amanda Quick and Jayne Castle? Her heroes and heroines have psychical abilities.

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  6. David Skibbins has a fun series set in Berkeley and featuring tarot reader Warren Ritter. Skibbins’ books avoid the “someone sees the Death card and then dies” type cliches, and instead provide interesting mysteries – each one takes a different Tarot card as its book title and as a theme within the story.

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  8. I’m not quite sure where it would fit, but Dianne Day (Whom you’ve just added to another list) ‘s “Emperor Norton’s Ghost”, features Spiritualism, Automatic Writing, and Supernatural guidance.

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    • Thank you, Susan. I will add “Emperor Norton’s Ghost” to the Mystery Books with Psychics/6th Sense themes.

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  9. I love to read the paranormal/witch, etc cozy-mystery series books. I was looking thru the list of mysteries by city for Indiana but could not find any. I know there’s at least two but can only remember one: Madelyn Alt’s mystery about, Maggie O’Niel the clerk in Felicity Dow’s Antique shop located in historic yet touristy district in Stoney Mill, Indiana.

    Felicity, along with a whole lot of other fun characters, is a witch and has taken Maggie under her (their) wing. Could you post this in the Indiana section as well as the Paranormal section?

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  10. Hi Danna,
    I am almost done with a new cozy mystery author, Kari Lee Townsend.
    A Fortune Teller Mystery featuring Sylvia Eleanor Meadows or Sunny Meadows as she calls herself after a name change.
    She lives in (New York-small town of Divinity) an old Haunted Victorian Mansion (Vicki) with an eerily glowing white long haired cat with jet black eyes (Morty). She uses various methods of fortune telling to help her with her readings. In this book, the first ‘Tempest in the Tea Leaves’, she is suspect in a murder and stuck with the hunky detective Stone.
    She is a chuckle on each page. I am so enjoying this author. Sunny and the detective are a riot! Could be she is the closest yet to Evanovich but better!

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  11. Dorothy Gilman’s “The Clairvoyant Countess” and “Kaleidoscope” both feature Madam Karitska – literally the ‘Clairvoyant Countess’ of the first title. 🙂

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    • Thank you, Susan, I’ll go add both of those Gilman mysteries to the Psychics/6th Sense mystery book list…

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  12. What happened to Martha C Lawrence? Love her books, but apparently she stopped writting years ago. I would love to see more of her Elizabeth Chase mysteries. Does anyone know anything new about this author?

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  13. Was wondering about “The Discovery of Witches” by Deborah Harkness and also the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher?

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  14. Melissa Bourbon (Misa Ramirez) writes the Magical Dressmaking series–it could be categorized under ghosts, too, but I think it’s more about the main character’s 6th sense (and her family’s 6th senses) than the ghost. Cute books–they include good sewing tips, too!

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    • Chim, thank you for reminding me to add Melissa Bourbon’s Magical Dressmaking Mystery Series to the paranormal lists for ghosts AND 6th Sense. As soon as I add a new author to the Cozy Mystery site, I try to get them added to their theme pages. However, sometimes I miss-file my notes and this doesn’t happen.

      Thanks, again!

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      • Thank YOU, Danna, for making such an awesome site! I used to spend hours at the bookstore trying to find my next series… You’ve compiled everything I ever needed right in one spot!

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  15. What about Jim and Joyce Lavene’s Series about Dae O’Donnell who finds missing things? It is called Missing Pieces.

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    • Thank you, Ginger, for reminding me to get Joyce and Jim Lavene’s Missing Pieces Mystery Series added to the Psychics and 6th Sense theme.

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  16. There are 2 other series that I read Juliet Blackwell’s Lily Ivory in Witchcraft Series and Wendy Roberts’ Ghost Dusters not sure if they’re cozies but thought I would mention them.

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  17. As a rule I’m not much for supernatural mysteries (although I love the show ‘Supernatural’). I’ll read anything by Dorothy Gilman though, based on the wonderful job she did with the Mrs. Pollifax books, and I very much enjoyed her clairvoyant countess mysteries. I also like the Yasmine Galenorn mysteries – they remind me of classic Nancy Drew type mysteries for some reason. I just wish there were more of each of these authors’ work to enjoy in these series.

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    • Julia, thank you so much for telling us about your enjoyment of both Dorothy Gilman’s Clairvoyant Countess mysteries and Yasmine Galenorn’s Chintz ‘n China Mystery Series!

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  18. I just found this site and want to thank you for it! What fun! Also wanted to mention Annette Blair’s Vintage Magic mystery books. These are fun books that I wold consider cozies. Also the Ladies Courting books by Dolores Stewart Riccio and PJ Alderman and E. J. Copperman’s Haunted Guesthouse Series. Hope this gives you some ideas!

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    • Welcome to the site, Jenna. Thanks for telling us about Dolores Stewart Riccio’s Ladies Courting Mystery Series.

      I have P. J. Alderman’s Port Chatham Mystery Series, Annette Blair’s Vintage Magic Mystery Series, and E. J. Copperman’s Haunted Guesthouse Mystery Series on the Ghost Theme Mysteries : Super Supernatural Paranormal Theme Mysteriespage.

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  19. I am trying to remember a series with a lady who is a kind, but dishonest medium. She uses her common sense to guide her clients and of course she winds up catching killers and bad people. Her husband was horribly wounded in the war and is wheel-chair bound. The word Spirit is in all the titles, I think.

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  21. Not sure if it belongs here, as he’s not actually psychic, as such, but David Skibbins’ ‘Warren Ritter’ runs a pavement tarot card reading table in Berkeley, California, 3 days a week.
    All the titles are the names of Tarot Cards.

    Also, a spirit medium turns up (Minor character only, but important) in Kerry Greenwood’s ‘Death at Victoria Dock’.

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  22. Another single one from a series – “Death in the Cards” by Sharon Short. One of her Josie Toadfern, ‘stainbusting’ mysteries.
    This time, there’s a new age fair in town, and an unpopular psychic is murdered…

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  23. Another ‘psychic’ series: Toni Andrews’ ‘Mercy Hollings’ novels. Mercy is a hypnotherapist with a telepathic ability, which she calls ‘The Press’, which can make others do anything she wants them to.
    Useful, but like all good things, it has a dark side, too…
    A little dark in tone to be a ‘real’ cozy, but some people might like them.

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  25. Hi. I was wondering if there is a site to search for a book that I read and want to reread but now can’t remember the title or author. Since it’s about a psychic who does online readings and has attracted a killer who is killing fortune tellers, hoping to find her, I thought this would be a good site to ask.

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    • I think the series you are looking for is J.R. Raines The Witch and the Gentleman . I hope this ,might be what you were looking for. I know of another series but I believe she works for a hotline for pets. I can’t think of the name or the author.

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  26. After recently seeing the brouhaha in several authors’ web pages (blogs, Facebook, etc.) regarding the plagiarism rampant on Amazon, I wanted to search for “good” authors. I had been taking advantage of some of Amazon’s cheap and free e-books, but I became concerned that I may be supporting the plagiarists.

    Your site is a wonderful resource for new-to-me authors in the cozy mystery genre. Thank you for all of your hard work. I know it took a lot of time. I have 1000s of books that I keep putting off cataloging because I know it will take HOURS.

    In the meantime, I recently enjoyed a new-to-me author that seems to fit in your psychic category, though it also includes witches and voodoo. It’s a five-book series by Tricia O’Malley featuring Althea Rose, a psychic, who later finds she has witch capabilities too.

    Again, thank you for your wonderful site.

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  27. Sarah Hualde writes a series about a psychic teen who can predict a murder 24 hours before it happens. She gets into trouble as she tries to thwart death.

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