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 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…)
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…
Elizabeth Eagan-Cox: Shannon 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…
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!
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Have you heard of Celeste Marsella and her first of 4 books, Defenseless?
Sounds interesting, Tanner. Thanks for telling us about her… I will try to make a page for her in the near future…
Ahhh….here it is! = )
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.
Thanks, Kathy, I just added Carolyn Haines to the list.
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.
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.