Magic Detective

Though forty miles away, Duston Heights is not safe from the flu that’s raging through Boston. When Johnny Dixon’s grandmother falls ill, he’s sent to live with his neighbor to avoid infection. So many locals are getting sick that school is canceled for a week, and the reclusive Dr. Abram Ashburn comes out of retirement to make house calls. After seeing a scary vision of his bedridden grandmother outside of a window, Johnny starts to feel on edge. Then he and his best friend find what looks to be a weird map of a cemetery in Dr. Ashburn’s house.

Embark on an enchanting journey into the heart of mystery and adventure with "The Mystery of the Faded Map," the captivating first installment of the Whispering Compass Series. In this intriguing tale, young readers will accompany Alex and Lila, two intrepid cousins, as they stumble upon a mystical compass and a faded map that place them on the frontier of a legacy lost to time. As the pages turn, you will be transported to a world where curiosity knows no bounds and where history and fantasy collide. Join Alex and Lila on a thrilling quest filled with cryptic symbols, hidden chambers, and ...

Sid Jones and her best friend, Zen, like to play in their local graveyard—but they never expected their ghostly games to suddenly turn real. When Sid accidentally frees the spirit of Ezekiel “Bones” Kittow, a pirate who died nearly three hundred years prior, he asks her to help him find his long-lost treasure so his soul can finally be at rest. The only problem? He can’t remember where, or even what, the treasure is.

It should’ve been such fun... Aria Whitmore has enough on her plate: Hazel’s sudden revelation, her mother’s romantic obsession with Mayor Donovan, and, of course, Kiwi’s latest food obsession – fudge. "Winters will have you giggling into your book!" When her mother is found hovering over the dead body of Sandra Webb, Aria knows the craziness is just beginning – especially since Sandra was the creator of Kiwi’s beloved fudge. Although Sandra was loved by many for the delicious fudge she baked, she had just as many enemies. Including Molly Anderson, a neighbor who hated Sandra ...

If there was one piece of advice Olive Crisp always followed, it was that "one should never attempt to solve a crime on an empty stomach..." 1970s. Cambridge, England. A POISONED SCONE: When a customer drops dead in the cafe during the lunch rush Olive is horrified. What's worse, the cause of death was one of her delicious scones. Now solving the case has become personal; not only does Olive want to solve the murder in order to explain the mystery she also needs to clear her name. A COSY COMMUNITY: Despite protesting her innocence, only her two best friends, Millie and Blythe, and the ...

Never set your foot in a hexed property—especially, when the land has a resident zombie ready to strike you! FREE on Kindle Unlimited! If Fio Valentine has learned one thing working for Quest Realty, it’s that dealing with haunted and hexed properties can be a real nightmare. When her friend Suze asks her to investigate an abandoned home in LA, she can’t refuse, so with Andy Russel from the Property Management Department and her spirit animal Champ, Fio takes on the case of a zombie-like ghost who may be what remains of the former owner’s estranged son. After an encounter with the ...

"If there was one piece of advice Olive Crisp always followed, it was that “one should never attempt to solve a crime on an empty stomach..."' 1970s. Cambridge, England. A MYSTERIOUS MURDER AT MIDNIGHT: When a student falls from the turrets of King’s College, Cambridge and the police rule his death as accidental, Olive consults her tarot cards - which confirm her suspicions of murder - and decides to take the investigation into her own hands. A COSY COMMUNITY: Fortunately, the college porter is a loyal customer of Olive’s cafe, The Biscuit Tin, and when she plies him with his ...

Alice Munroe is a private investigator in the quaint New England town of New Shrimpton. Her secret? She’s also a witch. Her latest case tasks her with proving the existence of “The Old Hag Who Lives in the Woods,” a legend she’s heard about since her youth. Almost as interesting is the client who hired her, disgraced former TV host, Redford Holmes, Paranormal Investigator! That same week, Alice’s friend and fellow witch, Selene, has invited her to a family party. It seems there’s an ulterior motive for the invite—namely introducing Alice to Selene’s hunky cousin, Finn. ...

Aside from the eccentric Professor Childermass, young sleuth Johnny Dixon’s best friend may be Father Higgins, the kindly priest at the local church. When Higgins is transferred to the congregation in the tiny town of Rocks Village, Johnny and the professor are afraid they won’t see their old friend ever again. But they’ll be reuniting with Father Higgins sooner than they think—and the thing that brings them together will be positively out of this world.

Former Chicago police officer, now Private Investigator, Johnny Sundown is being hunted. A religious fanatic with powers even greater than Johnny's has had a revelation: the magic-wielding Native American private detective is the purest of evil. And to usher in the ending of a sinful and corrupt world, God himself has commanded - Johnny Sundown must die.

As a private investigator in uber creepy Shadow Pines, Max Long had no shortage of missing person cases. Unfortunately, they all ended the same way...with dead bodies. Whenever someone vanished, the official cause always said the same thing: animal attack. Shadow Pines always bristled with paranormal rumors and wild conspiracy theories. However, the truth is far more terrifying than rumors: vampires made the scenic mountain town their personal feeding ground. Nature abhorrs a vacuum, but it also seeks balance. When someone dear to Max becomes a missing person case, he faces the most ...

In the quaint town of Mystic Mountain, Amelia Frost's life takes an unexpected turn when she inherits the Mystic Mountain Inn from a grandmother she never knew. Alongside Charlotte, her ghostly feline companion, Amelia uncovers a world where the veil between the living and the dead is thin, and magic brews in the air. Thrust into her new role as a medium and innkeeper, she navigates the complexities of her newfound abilities and the town's supernatural residents. But when a prominent local art patron dies under mysterious circumstances at the Mystic Mountain Art Museum, Amelia finds herself...

A haunted theater, drama queen ghosts, and the rest is… Wicked? FREE on Kindle Unlimited! Alas, poor Mandy! Decorating the nursery for Baby Rowling is giving her the blues, and only Manhattan’s top interior designer can help, but securing her services could mean putting Rick into the clutches of a notorious homewrecker. In exchange for hooking Mandy up with the designer, famous actress Karina needs help with some strange happenings at her theater production of Hamlet, and who better to solve the mystery than someone who can talk to the ghost of the Ghost? Trodding the boards with the ...

From bestselling author P.S. Power... The world isn't always what it seems. That goes double when you're in an alternate reality... Gwen Farris has made the best of her new life, helping others, solving mysteries and even, on one occasion, saving the world from things that are better left unspoken about. Now she and her best friend, Detective Bethany Westmorland, have been called in to find out who's been murdering innocent women on the national train line. The answer turns out to be more frightening and far closer to home, than Gwen would have ever imagined.

From bestselling author P.S. Power... When you hold a treasure in your hand, no one sane would risk letting it go... Gwen Farris, the woman from another world, has a problem. One the lives inside her head. Katherine, the girl whose body she's taken over. Right or wrong, the original owner wants it back. The fact is that two people can't live in one body, so someone is going to have to go. One way or another. Gwen knows which person she's voting for, but Katherine Vernor might just have a different opinion. But some people shouldn't be allowed to live in the real world, and Kat might just be...

Welcome to Frostvale, a picturesque town where holiday cheer meets magical intrigue! Holly Bell, a seasonal witch with a penchant for festive spells, returns home for the holidays expecting gingerbread cookies, sparkling snow, and the warmth of family traditions. But when Frostvale's beloved Santa impersonator, Jolly Jack, is found frozen in a mysterious block of ice, the festive season takes a chilling turn. Armed with her wits, her grimoire, and her mischievous black cat, Onyx, Holly dives into the heart of the town's secrets. Could it be the candy shop owner with a vendetta? Jack’s ...

Down on your luck doesn't always mean down and out When an Oklahoma cattle rancher hires P.I. Buck McDivit to investigate a gory murder committed by something not quite human and a rural community populated by pagan women, he has to think fast or end up dead. Though no choir boy, Buck is unprepared for his role as the lone male participant in a spring equinox fertility ceremony. The only thing worse for the paranormal cowboy than having no woman is too many women - or maybe being eaten alive by a supernatural black panther.

Basil the mouse detective is called to Paris when the organizers of the Great Cheese Cook-off (an international culinary competition) start receiving threats against the event. Who could want to deprive all of mousedom of one of its tastiest nights? Basil immediately suspects Ratigan, who has escaped yet again and was seen lurking around Paris, and sets off on his investigation at the event’s location, the Parisian College of Cooking. But Basil is baffled when circumstantial evidence shows that it couldn’t have been his old enemy after all.

Former Chicago police officer, now Private Detective Johnny Sundown, is approached by another power wielder to help locate his missing brother, hiding somewhere in the mean streets of Chicago. As they search Johnny begins to realize this magician is unlike any he has ever before encountered.Entirely self-taught and able to use powers beyond anything Johnny can understand, this mysterious client is one of thirteen brothers who need to reunite after a lifetime apart, in order to face some approaching danger which might threaten not just their family, but the fate of all mankind.Because ...

Murder is never pretty In the vibrant chaos of French Quarter Fest in Orleans, P.I. Wyatt Thomas faces a daunting task—recovering a stolen treasure that transcends the boundaries of mere literature. The missing item is no ordinary book; it’s the priceless first edition of Mosquitos, William Faulkner’s legendary tale of New Orleans dynasties. As Wyatt delves into the underbelly of the city’s secrets, he discovers that a powerful patriarch from the Garden District is willing to pay a staggering million dollars for its return. The question looms: What dark revelations lie within the ...