Cozy Supernatural Mystery
Story Beckett
Where every book has a ghost and every ghost has a story
The Fiction & Felonies series follows a bookshop owner in Salem who discovers that her store's rare book collection comes with unexpected residents—literary ghosts who can't rest until their unfinished stories are resolved. Story Beckett writes cozy supernatural mysteries where murder investigations happen between book club meetings, where clues hide in margin notes from centuries past, and where the detective's best informants died long before she was born. Her protagonist serves tea to the living and the dead alike, solving crimes with equal parts deduction and compassion. These aren't scary ghost stories. They're mysteries wrapped in the comfort of old books and older friends.
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Fiction & Felonies
A Study in Salem: Fiction & Felonies Book 1
She inherited a bookshop. The ghosts came free. When Rosie Harper inherits her grandmother's antiquarian bookshop in Salem, Massachusetts, she expects dusty shelves, financial headaches, and maybe some quirky regular customers. She doesn't expect Charlotte—a Regency-era ghost who refuses to leave until someone finishes her unwritten novel—or the discovery that the shop's rare book collection houses dozens of literary spirits, each bound to their unfinished works. When a local professor is found dead in Rosie's shop, clutching a first edition that shouldn't exist, Rosie finds herself at the center of a murder investigation with only her spectral tenants as witnesses. The problem? The living can't see them. The solution? Rosie will have to become Salem's most unusual detective, solving crimes with help from ghosts who've been reading mysteries for centuries. Some know whodunit before chapter three.
First Impressions: Fiction & Felonies Book Two
Some stories are worth dying for. Someone is worth killing for. The success of solving her first murder has made Rosie Harper Salem's unofficial supernatural detective—a title she never wanted and can't seem to shake. When a Jane Austen scholar is poisoned at a Pride and Prejudice-themed gala, the prime suspect is the event's organizer: a woman whose alibi is ironclad but whose motive is undeniable. Charlotte, Rosie's Regency ghost, is convinced the murder mirrors a plot from an unpublished Austen manuscript—one that supposedly doesn't exist. But as Rosie investigates, she discovers that the victim had been searching for that very manuscript, and someone in Salem's literary elite will do anything to keep it hidden. Between running her bookshop, managing increasingly demanding ghosts, and falling reluctantly for a detective who keeps showing up at her crime scenes, Rosie must uncover a secret that's been buried for two hundred years.
Careless People: Fiction & Felonies Book Three
Some people are careless with money. Others are careless with hearts. The people in this town? They're careless with magic. Paige Hartwell's bookshop has become the unofficial headquarters for solving supernatural mysteries in Willowbrook, and her reputation is growing. When the town's wealthiest family hosts their annual masquerade ball and a guest drops dead mid-waltz—only to vanish before anyone can examine the body—Paige finds herself investigating her most puzzling case yet. The victim was seen by dozens of witnesses, but no one can remember her face. No one knows her name. And according to every record in town, she never existed at all. As Paige digs deeper, she discovers that Willowbrook's founding families have been careless with more than magic—they've been careless with people, disposing of inconvenient souls and trusting that their wealth and power would keep their secrets buried. But some secrets refuse to stay dead, and this one has come to the masquerade looking for justice.