Witch and Famous
Josie and all of Wilfred is buzzing with excitement. A-list movie star Daphne Morris has chosen to interview Roz, assistant librarian and novelist, for her book club. But when the glamorous actress quickly charms both Roz’s long-time love and Sheriff Sam, the object of Josie’s unrequited affection, Josie turns to the whispers from her beloved enchanted books for ideas on revising the plot. Yet soon, there’s another twist.
At a party to celebrate the interview, Daphne’s personal chef is found dead in a scene that all too closely echoes one in Roz’s novel. It’s clear to Josie that someone’s idea of a happy ending means framing her friend. She’ll have to read between the lines with the help of the library’s enchanted stacks, guidance from her magical grandmother’s letters, and her cat familiar, Rodney, to solve this murder before someone decides to stage a deadly sequel.
The Details
Series: Witch Way Librarian Mystery – Book #3
Author: Angela M. Sanders
Genre/Category: Cozy – Library/Witch
Publisher: Kensington Cozies
ISBN: 1496728785
Page Count:272
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The Review
How can you resist enchanted books, a novelist whose plots are becoming real murders, a mischievous cat, and a main character that makes readers and writers happy? The answer is, you can’t! The “Witch Way Librarian Mystery” series has a new addition, Witch and Famous, and Josie is out to find a killer once again.
Enchanted books help Josie discover many things about the patrons of the library and anyone else she needs to help. Still, this time the books may not have all the answers when a murder occurs, and novelist Roz becomes the number one suspect. The personal chef of a famous actress, Daphne Morris, is killed, and fingers are pointed directly at Roz, not just because the murder mimics one of the plots in her novels but due to her jealousy. Meeting the actress had everyone on pins and needles with excitement, but when Roz’s boyfriend pays a little too much attention to the A-lister, Roz becomes angry and jealous and storms off while threatening to get revenge. Josie almost joins her when the actress turns her attention to Sam. But why kill the chef if Daphne is the problem?
Suspects and motives aren’t easy to find. It makes no sense to Josie or her enchanted books and thinking that Roz could kill someone makes even less sense. Once Josie starts poking around, she finds that far too many people have a motive to kill the actress, but not many have anything against the chef. After another murder, Roz is still a suspect, the novelist is still angry and jealous, and Josie is frustrated with the lack of progress. It takes a lot more digging to find out what happened to the chef and keep Daphne from being the next victim. Finally, in what can only be described as a convoluted motive and an action-packed finale, Josie uncovers the culprit’s identity and keeps Roz out of prison.
I adore the library but would like to see the enchanted books more often. I loved it when Josie had them dancing. The characters are intelligent and enormously likable. I would like to see Sam and Josie become more involved, and it looks like that may happen. I would love to meet the novelist Roz, and who wouldn’t want to read one of her novels? I felt that Witch and Famous was a wonderful addition to the series, and I look forward to the next installment in this series.
The Author
Angela grew up in rural Northern California, building forts in the woods where she devoured Nancy Drew mysteries. She earned degrees in economics and public administration and, in graduate school, studied for six months in Paris, sparking a lifelong interest in French culture.
After 11 years as a congressional investigator, Angela realized she was more fascinated by the stories at the edges of her investigations, the decrepit exercise equipment in the ladies’ room of a Czech oil company; the curious number of framed photographs of women on a nuclear weapons official’s desk; the stupendous speed by which a particular Agriculture undersecretary inhaled chili dogs–than by the policies she evaluated. She returned to the west coast to explore the world and her imagination through magazine stories and fiction.
Angela has two cats, one of whom is black, of course, a witch’s freckle in her left eye, and learned to read tarot cards from a pagan priestess. Angela lives in Portland, Oregon. When she isn’t at her laptop, Angela is rummaging in thrift shops, lounging with a vintage detective novel,
or pontificating about how to make the perfect martini.
Readers will enjoy the first two books in the “Witch Way Librarian Mystery” series, Bait And Witch book one and book two, Seven-Year Witch.
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