Where there’s a witch, there’s a way! Where there’s a whole family of them, there’s trouble. Bay Winchester, editor of Hemlock Cove’s small weekly newspaper, thinks her small hamlet’s upcoming murder mystery weekend is going to be all about fun, food, and frolicking. Instead, when another dead body is discovered in Hemlock Cove, things turn into murder, mayhem, and migraines (the latter is mostly thanks to her family, of course). The body belongs to the town drunk – and no one can figure out who would want to kill him, or why. Bay’s investigation is stymied by her new boss, Brian Kelly, and her old flirtation, FBI agent Landon Michaels, both of whom seem to have more than interviews on their mind. When you couple that with her cousin Thistle’s obsession with making their Great-Aunt Tillie pay for the curse she recently put on them (you don’t want to know) and her cousin Clove’s conviction that she is not – no matter what the rest of the family says – a blabbermouth, Bay has her hands full. When the murder investigation takes a turn, though, a long-held Hemlock Cove secret is bound to be exposed. If it is, Bay may find herself in trouble – again – and this is the kind of trouble that she may not be able to find a way out of – even with Aunt Tillie’s help.
Could be really good with some minor revisions I’m on book 3 of this series and will continue with them. Mostly cause they are included in Kindle Unlimited. I love paranormal romance or mystery and this has a little of both. My favorite books have clever, snarky characters. This author needs some more work to get there. The 3 cousins who are the leads are sometimes annoying. Even the author has comments about them acting like children with the, “you did that,” “no, I didn’t,” “yes, you did.” Perhaps she thinks it’s…
Style May Not Be for Me, but Maybe It’ll Work For You Well, “wicked” is not the word I would use to describe the witches in this series. This is the second in the series, and as I have read the first two back to back, I can honestly say the second is an improvement over the first. The bickering between the family members is down, and the writing is smoother. There are still problems with the editing though–tense changes with verbs, sometimes some confusing sentence and paragraph structure, but those are fewer than in the first book…
Witches of What-EVER!! (eye roll) I finished up Amanda Lee’s first book in the Witches of the Midwest series and was entertained enough to pick up the second one (wouldn’t have bought it, to be clear… it was free on Kindle Unlimited, so why not?).Â