Super Supernatural Mystery Novels on the Cozy Mystery Site: Ghosts

September 21, 2008

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:

Nancy AthertonAunt 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…)

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…

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

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…

Elizabeth Eagan-CoxShannon Delaney Mystery Series… features a writer in San Diego with ghostly encounters…

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

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… 

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…

Beth SolheimSadie 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"…

Please feel free to either send a comment or a letter to the site if you know of any other mystery authors who would fit into this Ghost Theme. Thanks!

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

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Tanner September 22, 2008 at 9:21 am

Have you heard of Celeste Marsella and her first of 4 books, Defenseless?

Danna - cozy mystery list September 22, 2008 at 4:51 pm

Sounds interesting, Tanner. Thanks for telling us about her… I will try to make a page for her in the near future…

Vickie September 23, 2008 at 4:46 pm

Ahhh….here it is! = )

Kathy March 19, 2009 at 9:36 pm

Carolyn Haines needs to be added to this list.

Her Sarah Booth Delaney & Jitty, the ghost of her great aunt's nanny.

Her books are a riot.

Danna - cozy mystery list March 20, 2009 at 11:24 am

Thanks, Kathy, I just added Carolyn Haines to the list.

Diane May 16, 2009 at 6:41 pm

Great site! Annette Blair started a new mystery series with ghosts. The first is A Veiled Deception. Casey Daniels has a series (A Pepper Martin Mystery) taking place in a graveyard where the main character helps ghosts solve mysteries.

Danna - cozy mystery list May 17, 2009 at 11:23 am

Hi Diane,

I am so glad you reminded us about Annette Blair. She is actually an author I added to the site a while ago… and simply forgot to list on this theme. I'm going now to add her.

Thank you!

Also, I have just added Casey Daniels to my list of authors to do.

Penelope January 19, 2010 at 3:16 pm

Hello;

Thank you so much for your lists, I have found so many authors of the ghostly persuasion that I was unaware of from your efforts.

"Brava."

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