It Takes a Coven
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with witches, but for Lee Barrett, it’s home.
This October she’s returned to her hometown—
where her beloved Aunt Ibby still lives—to interview
for a job as a reporter at WICH-TV. But the only
opening is for a call-in psychic to host the late night
horror movies. It seems the previous host, Ariel
Constellation, never saw her own murder coming.
Lee reluctantly takes the job, but when she starts
seeing real events in the obsidian ball she’s using as
a prop, she wonders if she might really have psychic
abilities. To make things even spookier, it’s starting
to look like Ariel may have been an actual practicing
witch—especially when O’Ryan, the cat Lee and
Aunt Ibby inherited from her, exhibits some strange
powers of his own. With Halloween fast approaching,
Lee must focus on unmasking a killer—or her career
as a psychic may be very short lived . . .
TAILS, YOU LOSE
Minding her business has never been more deadly . . .
After losing her job as a TV psychic, Lee Barrett has
decided to volunteer her talents as an instructor at
the Tabitha Trumbull Academy of the Arts—known
as “The Tabby”—in her hometown of Salem,
Massachusetts. But when the local handyman turns
up dead under seemingly inexplicable circumstances
on Christmas night, Lee’s clairvoyant capabilities
begin bubbling to the surface once again.
The Tabby is housed in the long-vacant
Trumbull’s Department Store. As Lee and her
intrepid students begin work on a documentary
charting the store’s history, they unravel a century
of family secrets, deathbed whispers—and a
mysterious labyrinth of tunnels hidden right below
the streets of Salem. Even the witches in town are
spooked, and when Lee begins seeing visions
in the large black patent leather pump in her
classroom, she’s certain something evil is afoot.
But ghosts in the store’s attic are the least of her
worries with a killer on the loose . . .
LOOK BOTH WAYS
In Salem, Massachusetts, there are secrets everywhere—even in the furniture . . .
When Lee Barrett spots the same style oak bureau
she once had as a child on the WICH-TV show
Shopping Salem, she rushes to the antiques shop
and buys the piece. Just like the beloved bureau
she lost in a fire, this one has secret compartments.
It also comes with an intriguing history—it was
purchased in an estate sale from a home where
a famous local murder took place.
The day after the bureau is delivered, Lee returns
to the antiques shop and finds the owner dead.
The police suspect the shop owner’s unscrupulous
business partner, but Lee wonders if the murder
is connected to her new furniture. At least part of
the answer may be revealed through a mirror
in the bureau, tarnished and blackened, allowing
Lee to tap into her psychic visions. Using this
bureau of investigation, Lee may be able
to furnish her policeman beau with the evidence
needed to catch the killer—before the next one
to be shut up is her . . .
MURDER GO ROUND
A killer takes a spin through Salem . . .
Lee Barrett has agreed to attend a storage auction
with Aunt Ibby—even though she suspects the
forgotten rooms will yield more junk
than treasure. Her skepticism vanishes once
the two win a bid on an overlooked locker and
uncover a trove of beautiful curiosities, including
a stunning wooden carousel horse with gentle eyes
and fading paint. But just before Lee leaves the
fairground relic at a local repair shop, the sight
of a silver samovar awakens her psychic abilities
and conjures visions of murder.
Lee prays the intrusive ESP episode was just a
glimpse into the past—until her policeman
boyfriend reports a dead man outside the repair
shop. Apparently, the unknown victim had been
hot on Lee’s trail since the auction. And with the
horse found dismantled, it looks like he was up to
no good. What’s the story behind the antique
equine, and could a strange bubblegum-chewing
woman with fiery hair have something to do with
the crime? Guided by her gift and O’Ryan, her wise
tabby cat, Lee’s set on catching the murderer . . .
before she’s sent on the darkest ride of her life.
GRAVE ERRORS
Whose funeral will be next?
For residents of Salem, Massachusetts, the day after
Halloween brings empty candy wrappers, sagging
pumpkins, and a community-wide identity crisis.
That is, until Lee Barrett’s TV production class
suggests extending the spooky season with the
traditional Mexican celebration Dia de Los Muertos.
But when the students discover not all of Salem’s
dead are resting in peace, the post-October blues
don’t seem so bad after all . . .
As if a series of haunting graveyard visits isn’t
disturbing enough, Lee and her policeman
boyfriend connect the crime to an unsolved
missing person case. Driven by a series of chilling
psychic visions, Lee calls on her cleverest allies—
including her shrewd cat, O’Ryan—to go
underground and dig up the evidence needed
to put a lid on a cold case forever . . . before the
latest headstone in town has her name on it!