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Bells, Spells, and Murders (A Witch City Mystery Book 7) Kindle Edition

by Carol J. Perry (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Holiday cheer turns to holiday fear when a Salem, MA, tour guide is murdered in this cozy mystery featuring a local reporter with psychic abilities.

Former TV psychic Lee Barrett is back on the air at Salem’s WICH-TV as the new field reporter. Next on her holiday checklist is an interview with the beloved chairman of a popular walking tour through Salem’s historic districts. But it may be his ghost walking this snowy season after Lee finds him murdered in his stately offices, bloody Santa hat askew.

With her police detective boyfriend working the case and a witch’s brew of suspects—including some bell-ringing Santas—Lee chases down leads aided and abetted by her wise cat O’Ryan and some unsettling psychic visions of her own. When a revealing clue leads to another dead body, not even a monster blizzard can stop Lee from getting a scoop—even one that could spell her own demise.

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    A Witch City Mystery
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    Kensington Cozies
  6. Publication date
    September 25, 2018
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"A definite winner...Delightfully spooky...An entertaining story that keeps readers guessing until the very twisted and eerie end."

-- "RT Book Reviews (4 stars) on Caught Dead Handed"

About the Author

Carol J. Perry was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on Halloween eve, and that magical city serves as the backdrop for her Witch City Mystery series. She is also the author of several young adult novels. Her nonfiction articles on travel, antiques, and ecology often appear in regional and national publications.

C. S. E. Cooney launched her voice-acting career narrating short fiction for Podcastle, the world's first audio fantasy magazine. She is a performance poet, singer-songwriter, and fantasy author whose collection Bone Swans has garnered starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Locus Magazine.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B078QSX43W
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Kensington Cozies; Reissue edition (September 25, 2018)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 25, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2649 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 249 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 out of 5 stars 579

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Carol J. Perry was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on Halloween eve, and that magical city serves as the backdrop for her Witch City Mystery series. She is also the author of several young adult novels. Her nonfiction articles on travel, antiques, and ecology often appear in regional and national publications.

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Seafoam
5.0 out of 5 stars Always a good read
Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2023
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This was another entertaining installment in the Witch City Mystery Series. Not my favorite so far, things got a bit vague and certain clues weren't placed correctly. But other than that it was still far better than other cozy mystery series I've read overall.
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Mike
5.0 out of 5 stars Xmas delight
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2023
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A delightful story, with charming characters. The people are easy to relate too. The story gives the reader the clues and the cats to add charm. I find this series a pleasant read to relax with.
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Lynn T.
4.0 out of 5 stars Murder in Salem Massachusetts
Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2018
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This is one of my favorite cozy mystery series. I stay caught up with the series and pre-order the new books as they are published.

Lee Barrett has had several careers since the series started from faux psychic, to instructor at an arts school and to an investigative reporter at the tv station where she started as a psychic. As a reporter, she goes to interview the chairman of a historic walking tour. She enters the room and he appears to be sleeping. She nudges his shoulder and he slides to the floor. He has been murdered. This starts the tale of Bells, Spells and Murder.

I like the location of the series which is Salem Massachusetts. The characters are the strength of the series. Lee is smart and independent. She lives on the third floor of her Aunt Ibby's house in her own apartment. She has O'Ryan, a cat, who is a real character in the novels. He isn't just portrayed on the covers to get readers to read the books. Aunt Ibby who is sixty something is a vibrant caring character. She is an librarian and does research for Lee. She is also a wonderful cook and they share many tasty meals together. I like that the authors portrays her as a vibrant personalty that people would want to know. Aunt Ibby is fun.

There is a little paranormal in the book as Lee can see images in reflective images. She doesn't really embrace this and seems to be apprehensive at what she will see. This doesn't over power the series or this book. I felt the pace in the middle was somewhat slow but I stayed up late to finish the book as the ending was quite exciting.
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C. Apitz
5.0 out of 5 stars Nice Xmas settings
Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2018
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I like the fact that the author maintains the Xmas spirit throughout the every chapter. I even want to go shopping. I enjoyed that I had three suspects, although one was evident. However, I didn't expect to look different.
I'd like to know more about Aunt Ibby's trip to London.
Sorry but I didn't like the recipe shared at the end. I was hoping for gingerbread cookies or something better than merengue pie.
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LH momto4
5.0 out of 5 stars Love this series!
Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2018
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Another great adventure with Lee and the gang! This is such a fun series! The stories are great and the characters are relatable. You get a little paranormal thrown in, not too much but enough to enhance the story and make it interesting. If you like cozy mysteries with quirky, lovable characters, you won’t regret this series!
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Ray Berube
3.0 out of 5 stars Cautions for the Author
Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2020
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Author Perry creates an interesting murder mystery premis. Having been born and bred in Salem, l enjoyed references to places and locations l found familiar. However, often her designer brand descriptions for clothing items, handbags, shoes, ect with colours, shades and patterns, I found unnecessary and distracting.
Also distracting was Perry's wordiness when often "fewer is better" as exampled by (paraphrased) "the office was on the 2nd floor. Stepping into the elevator we pushed the 'up button'."
What other button could be pushed, the down button or side button?
One more suggestion for Author Perry, avoid cliché dialogue responses from your characters. This makes them uninteresting and boring. Be inventive and spontaneous!
Her descriptions of the "witch obsessive madnes" that has swept my city these past several decades reflects on Salem as "tackey" and not as historically fascinating as it once was. In any case, thank you Mrs Perry for your effort. You supplied me with many memories!

Raymond G Berube,
Aachen, Germany
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Judy Curtin
5.0 out of 5 stars Fun and exciting...Great read!
Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2019
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I love the characters and how they interact. Carol holds my interest but I find myself stretching my reading time so it won't be so long for a new one. Keep them coming.
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Nite Reader
4.0 out of 5 stars I love this series... but
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2018
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I wish the ending of this book was better. I've read all the books in this series and have really enjoyed them. I like Carol Perry's cozy writing style and I find her stories and characters engaging. There seems to a be a cozy mystery format that requires all heroines to go brain dead in the final chapters and do stupid life threatening things that are out of character for them that do not fit with the story. This story was no exception. Spoiler Alert. Lee knew that McNally was stalking her and that he was behind the murders and yet she decides to walk home during a blizzard, by herself, in the middle of the night, with the power out. Why? We already knew he was going to chase her around the house trying to kill her because her Aunt Ibby was in London. I would have preferred a cozier ending that I hadn't already anticipated. Perry is not the only cozy author who does this. Most cozy books now seem to have to have a suspenseful ending with the heroine doing idiotic out of character things to put herself in mortal danger. Please, cozy authors, conspire to write different endings that are more believable and are not so predictable.
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Gladys Wroblewska
5.0 out of 5 stars good story teller
Reviewed in Canada on August 8, 2020
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A good author and she will be missed
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Van Leemput
5.0 out of 5 stars ik hou van katten
Reviewed in Germany on March 23, 2019
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een charmant spannend verhaal, vooral de verteltrant en het weergeven van het gedrag van de katten is vertederend. het 'abnormale' gedrag van de katten geloofwaardig maken is een hele kunst!
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Ms. Theresa M. Derwin
4.0 out of 5 stars Cozy Cats and Crime
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 29, 2018
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This is the second Witch City cozy crime boom by Carol J Perry, which I’ve read, and as always, the author captures the appropriate seasonal atmosphere, the crimes often take a few guesses to identify the whodunnit and I love the cats. Especially O’Ryan. However, I’d love to know more about him, and I’d love to hear how Ibby gets on with Nigel in the UK on New Years Eve. Please let us know. My only bugbear is, yes, I know he’s a cop, but Pete can be a bit condescending towards Lee and she just shuts up and does as she’s told. A bit more fight please. Otherwise another great, fun read.
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D & D Brown
3.0 out of 5 stars It's a little convoluted and the proofreading needs a second look.
Reviewed in Canada on January 31, 2024
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While I have enjoyed this series, book 7 has not been the best of the bunch. It doesn't seem as well thought out as some of the others. Some plot twists seem rather convoluted. While the book was still good the story seemed to run in too many directions at times which was confusing. There is one bit of proof reading that needs a bit of second look as well. In this book the elderly benefactor and creator of a charity is murdered while sitting at his desk. Through out the book the author or editor keeps confusing the poor man's name. Sometimes he is refered to as Albert Eldridge and sometimes as Alfred Eldridge, occasionally this happens on the same page (re:page 25) which was very irritating. Perhaps the author/editors for this book can decide if poor Mr. Eldridge is actually Albert or Alfred and go back and do a quick fix by applying a change all command to eliminate whichever name is incorrect.
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