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…
E. J. Copperman: Haunted Guesthouse Mystery Series… Alison may be the owner of the guesthouse, but Paul and Maxie do as they (ghostly) like…
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-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…
Sue Ann Jaffarian: Ghost of Granny Apples 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…
Wendy Roberts: Ghost Dusters Mystery Series… Sadie Novak sees dead people at her job… as a death scene cleaner-upper…
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"…
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.
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.”
Saw a posting on PBS about this site and just had to check it out. I love it. I have found several new series to try. Thanks so much!
Hi Penelope and Lisa,
Welcome to the site! I’m glad that you have been able to find a few authors who you might enjoy.
When I first started the site, I only included Cozy Mystery authors who I followed. As time went on, I started getting more and more recommendations from other Cozy Mystery readers. So, thanks to those recommendations, I have found several other authors who I now follow.
I would like to comment on Madelyn Alt’s newest book “At Witches in Time.” I so enjoy this series and watching Maggie develop her talent and fall in love. I was really looking forward to how she was doing, only to be left in limbo. In the beginning her romance department was looking up and she and Marcus were moving forward only to be interrupted in the middle by a mystery (oh, no!) Well the mystery ended but it never got back to their relationship: of which I was disappointed that it didn’t finish what it started. I love her books and all the developing talents people have, I just wish it would move at a little faster pace and have her actually use more of her talent. There just wasn’t much used in this book. I will look forward to the next one and hope it finishes what this book started.
I am not sure if anyone has mentioned author Wendy Roberts. She has a wonderful series featuring Sadie Novak who sees dead people while cleaning crime scenes.
Thank you, Michelle, for the reminder. When I add a new author to the site, I try to get them on their corresponding theme pages, but for some reason I am finding that I have missing a few lately.
Thanks, again!
This just happens to be my FAVORITE genre. With that in mind, I have two more authors… Sue Ann Jaffarian and P.J. Alderman. Sue has the “Ghost of Granny Apples” mysteries. P.J. has “Port Chatham Mystery series”.
Thanks, Michelle, for reminding me to add Sue Ann Jaffarian to this page. And, for telling us about P. J. Alderman.
How about Phil Rickman? His novels are not always about ghosts per se, but they definitely contain otherworldly elements, involve mysteries, and have some great, well-developed characters.
Thanks, Kathryn, for telling us about Phil Rickman!
Linda Lael Miller has started a series about Mojo Sheepshanks, who sees dead people. there are 2 in the series currently and are fab.
Thank you, Cathy, for telling us about Linda Lael Miller. I know that there are a lot of people who are very interested in Paranormal mysteries…