HERBS AND HOMICIDE


Herbs and Homicide (The Faerie Apothecary Cozy Mystery)
by Astoria Wright

About the Book

                                   
Herbs and Homicide (The Faerie Apothecary Cozy Mystery)
Cozy Mystery 1st in Series
Novelwright Mysteries (September 27, 2018)
Paperback: 217 pages
ISBN-10: 1949453030
ISBN-13: 978-1949453034
ASIN: B07HR4D74K

Looking for a unique paranormal cozy mystery series that's lighthearted and fun?

Settle into the cozy countryside of Moss Hill, where house-elves rent rooms, sprites live in gardens, a leprechaun is the best tailor in town, and a half-elf/half human named Carissa Shea owns a pharmacy known as The Seelie Tree Apothecary shop.

Life couldn't be more idyllic for Cari, but healing humans and fae folk proves challenging at times, especially when secrets unfold in The Faerie Apothecary Mysteries.

About Book 1: Herbs and Homicide In the small town of Moss Hill, customers of all kinds visit Carissa Shea's Seelie Tree Apothecary Shop. That includes tall and short, young and old, human and faerie.

Being half-elf/half-human herself, Carissa personally knows and cares for them all. So, when a grumpy brownie, a type of house faerie, named Miss Morgan dies in her shop, Carissa is devastated.

As she learns more about her customer's death, she realizes Miss Morgan might have been the only thing standing between the Seelie, faeries of light and goodness, and the Unseelie, faeries of darkness and evil. On top of it all, the Sidhe guard, protector of all fae residents, rule it a murder and name Carissa as a suspect!

Now she must prove her innocence and find the real culprit before it's too late - not just for her but for all of Moss Hill.


 A fascinating ongoing story of good vs evil with both magical and human realism, this is also a love story taking various forms. This is a life and death struggle for all as well as a murder mystery. The author does a good job of world building and imaginative character development. The relationships between characters kept me intrigued.
It begins with half fae, half human Carissa and her human assistant, Maren, and the people they know and deal with in common. Carissa had been on a date with John, who Maren has now taken an interest in. John is not what or who he seems, as turns out to be the case with several characters. Sometimes that can be a good thing, other times it turns out to be horrible.
As the story unfolds, it becomes a case of a town (or two) and a way of life endangered as well as our protagonist in a fight for her life.
Although these are deep, dark issues, there can be a playful tone in the book as well.
While major conflicts in this book are resolved, the story carries over to others in this series.

About the Author


Astoria Wright is the author of The Faerie Apothecary Mysteries, including the bestselling prequel novella Chaos in the Countryside. Intrigued by myths and inspired by cozy mystery writers before her, Astoria tries to combine two worlds with human and faerie neighbors trying to solve puzzling crimes on the fictional island of Moss Hill. She’s also a poet, which shows in the Moss Hill poetry anthology “written” by the characters in the series. Her goal is to bring Moss Hill to life in her stories, because who doesn’t wish we lived in a town with magical faeries as neighbors?
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Comments

  1. Kay GarrettFebruary 15, 2019 at 11:52 AM

    Thank you for your review on "Herbs and Homicide" by Astoria Wright and for being part of the book tour.

    Sounds like a great story and one that I would definitely love the opportunity to read. It's now on my TBR list.
    2clowns at arkansas dot net

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