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* TheLostLenore: Pamela's husband, an architect, died five years before the start of the series in an accident on a construction site. To this day, she still grieves and hasn't been willing to start dating again, despite Bettina's encouragement.
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* RelativeError: In book 1, Pamela's new neighbor, Richard "Rick" Larkin, has had two younger women stopping in periodically, causing Pamela to suspect that he's a serial seducer with an interest in younger women. When Pamela and Penny are invited in one night though, he reveals that they're his daughters.
* ShipperOnDeck: Almost immediately after Richard Larkin moves in next door to Pamela, her friend Bettina starts encouraging Pamela to ask him out. Pamela, however, is hesitant to start a new relationship.
* ShipperOnDeck: Almost immediately after Richard Larkin moves in next door to Pamela, her friend Bettina starts encouraging Pamela to ask him out. Pamela, however, is hesitant to start a new relationship.
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* RelativeError: In book 1, Pamela's new neighbor, Richard "Rick" Larkin, has had two younger women stopping in periodically, causing Pamela to suspect that he's a serial seducer with an interest in younger women. When Pamela and Penny are invited in one night though, he reveals that they're the women in question are his daughters.
* ShipperOnDeck: Almost immediately after Richard Larkin moves in next door to Pamela, her friend Bettina starts encouraging Pamela to ask him out. Pamela, however, is hesitant to start a newrelationship.
relationship, as she's still grieving for her late husband.
* ShipperOnDeck: Almost immediately after Richard Larkin moves in next door to Pamela, her friend Bettina starts encouraging Pamela to ask him out. Pamela, however, is hesitant to start a new
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* (undetermined): Pamela's husband, an architect, died five years before the start of the series in an accident on a construction site.
* AncientOrderOfProtectors: During their meeting in the funeral home, Old Van Dam reveals to Carl and his friends that he's part of a secret Masonic order that's sworn to protect Sleepy Hollow from evil.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Dr. Peabody tries to destroy his files and then shoots himself to escape justice for his involvement in the Sleepy Hollow coven.]]
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* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: Jaime]] is captured by the Horseman and never seen again.
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* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: Jaime]] is captured by the Horseman very late in the book and never seen again.
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* ShotInTheAss: One of the protagonists, Patrick Higgins, get shot in the butt by the HeadlessHorseman itself, while he's part of a group trying to follow the horse that the demon is using. Fortunately, it's just a flesh wound.
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* ShotInTheAss: One of the protagonists, Patrick Higgins, get shot in the butt by the HeadlessHorseman itself, itself while he's part of a group trying to follow the horse that the demon is using. Fortunately, it's just a flesh wound.
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* DeathByIrony: A variant in that it's not the actual death, but what happens afterward -- Carl notes to himself that [[spoiler: "I thought how ironic it was that the poor butcher should be found strung up and dead among so many bovine onlookers."]]
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* LivingShadow: This is one of the Horseman's powers, as it can send its shadow out to do its bidding, usually to capture someone. [[spoiler:In the climax, after the Horseman's spirit is sucked into the crystal skull, it reappears... and is promptly sucked in as well.]]
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* LivingShadow: This is one of the Horseman's powers, as it can send its shadow out to do its bidding, usually to capture someone. [[spoiler:In the climax, after the Horseman's spirit is sucked into the crystal skull, it reappears... the shadow reappears, tries to attack them... and due to its insubstantiality without its master to help, fails to do any harm and is then promptly sucked in as well.]]
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* #7.5: "Death by Hot Cocoa" [[note]]Collected in ''Christmas Cocoa Murder'' anthology, along with books #6.5 of Maddie Day's ''Literature/CountryStoreMysteries'' and #2.5 of Carlene O'Connor's ''Literature/IrishVillageMysteries''.[[/note]]
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* #7.5: "Death by Hot Cocoa" [[note]]Collected (2019)[[note]]Collected in ''Christmas Cocoa Murder'' anthology, along with books #6.5 of Maddie Day's ''Literature/CountryStoreMysteries'' and #2.5 of Carlene O'Connor's ''Literature/IrishVillageMysteries''.[[/note]]
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* EyeScream: Rick Wiseman is killed by being stabbed in the eye with a pen.
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* EyeScream: In book 4, Rick Wiseman is killed by being stabbed in the eye with a pen.
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* TheInsomniac: Book 2 has Randall Jefferson, the first murder victim, revealed as one some time after his death. It's explained that he'd hired a woman to read him a bedtime story while knitting -- the combination of her voice and the click of the knitting needles brought back memories of his mother, which soothed him and helped him fall asleep.
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* ShipperOnDeck: Almost immediately after Richard Larkin moves in next door to Pamela, her friend Bettina starts encouraging Pamela to ask him out. Pamela, however, is hesitant to start a new relationship.
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* NamesTheSame: Book 2 features a character named Candace Flynn -- not to be confused with [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Phineas Flynn's sister]] -- in a minor, mentioned-only role.
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* RedHerring: Book 1 a woman who's oddly obsessed with recovering some yarn that had belonged to Amy Morgan, the first murder victim, and makes Pamela suspicious that she might be in on the murder. Eventually, Pamela agrees to return it when the woman confesses that it was actually made from the hair of her late afghan, Buster, and had been sold accidentally by the assistant at her store.
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* RedHerring: Book 1 a woman who's oddly obsessed with recovering some yarn that had belonged to Amy Morgan, the first murder victim, and makes Pamela suspicious that she might be in on the murder. Eventually, Pamela agrees to return it when the woman confesses that it was actually made from the shed hair of her late afghan, Buster, and had been sold accidentally by the assistant at her store.
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** Anon's note: I own all seven.\\\
** Anon's note: I own all seven.\\\
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* Literature.BibliophileMysteries\\\
BibliophileMysteries
** Anon's note: I own books 1-9 (minus the e-book) and 11 (need to get 10 before I read 11).\\\
** Anon's note: I own books 1-9 (minus the e-book) and 11 (need to get 10 before I read 11).\\\
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** Anon's note: I own book 1.\\\
** Anon's note: I own book 1.\\\
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BookmobileCatMysteries
** Anon's note: I own books 7-8; looking for 1-6 (read 1-4, and possibly 5, in the past).\\\
** Anon's note: I own books 7-8; looking for 1-6 (read 1-4, and possibly 5, in the past).\\\
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** Anon's note: I own none; added it to wantlist because of its connection to other books I have via an anthology.\\\
** Anon's note: I own none; added it to wantlist because of its connection to other books I have via an anthology.\\\
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** The killer from ''Death by Espresso'' didn't mean to kill Cathy, they just hit her so they could [[spoiler: get back the necklace]]. Unfortunately, she was eating her chocolate covered espresso bean at the time and ended up choking to death after she was knocked out.
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** The killer from ''Death by Espresso'' didn't mean to kill Cathy, they just hit her so they could [[spoiler: get back the necklace]]. Unfortunately, she was eating her chocolate covered espresso bean beans at the time and ended up choking to death after she was knocked out.
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* Literature.CatRescueMysteries\\\
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** Anon's note: I own none, but I know the author's work and like it.\\\
** Anon's note: I own none, but I know the author's work and like it.\\\
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** Anon's note: I own all six.\\\
** Anon's note: I own all six.\\\
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* Literature.DeadEndJobMysteries\\\
DeadEndJobMysteries
** Anon's note: I own 1-9, and 14-15 (looking to fill in the gaps before I read these last two).\\\
** Anon's note: I own 1-9, and 14-15 (looking to fill in the gaps before I read these last two).\\\
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** Anon's note: I own 1-2 and read 3 a few years back.\\\
** Anon's note: I own 1-2 and read 3 a few years back.\\\
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** Anon's note: I own 1, 4 and 6; read 1 only.\\\
** Anon's note: I own 1, 4 and 6; read 1 only.\\\
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** Anon's note: I own all eight (minus the e-book).\\\
** Anon's note: I own all eight (minus the e-book).\\\
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* Literature.JaineAustenMysteries\\\
JaineAustenMysteries
** Anon's note: I own 1-2, 4-5, 10, 15 and all three novellas (have yet to read any of them though).\\\
** Anon's note: I own 1-2, 4-5, 10, 15 and all three novellas (have yet to read any of them though).\\\
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KeyWestFoodCriticMysteries
** Anon's note: I own 1-4, and 7 (need to get 5-6 before reading it).\\\
** Anon's note: I own 1-4, and 7 (need to get 5-6 before reading it).\\\
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** Anon's note: I own 1-3.\\\
** Anon's note: I own 1-3.\\\
* RedHerring: Book 1 a woman who's oddly obsessed with recovering some yarn that had belonged to Amy Morgan, the first murder victim, and makes Pamela suspicious that she might be in on the murder. Eventually, Pamela agrees to return it when the woman confesses that it was actually made from the hair of her late afghan, Buster, and had been sold accidentally by the assistant at her store.
* RelativeError: In book 1, Pamela's new neighbor, Richard "Rick" Larkin, has had two younger women stopping in periodically, causing Pamela to suspect that he's a serial seducer with an interest in younger women. When Pamela and Penny are invited in one night though, he reveals that they're his daughters.
* StartingANewLife: The culprit in book 1 turns out to be an embezzler who used the stolen money to escape her old life and assume a new identity in a new town, then killed two women from her old hometown when they moved to the same new town as she did, ten years later, and recognized her.
* RelativeError: In book 1, Pamela's new neighbor, Richard "Rick" Larkin, has had two younger women stopping in periodically, causing Pamela to suspect that he's a serial seducer with an interest in younger women. When Pamela and Penny are invited in one night though, he reveals that they're his daughters.
* StartingANewLife: The culprit in book 1 turns out to be an embezzler who used the stolen money to escape her old life and assume a new identity in a new town, then killed two women from her old hometown when they moved to the same new town as she did, ten years later, and recognized her.
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** Anon's note: I own 1-2.\\\
** Anon's note: I own 1-2.\\\
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** Anon's note: I own 1-3 and 5 (need to get 4 before reading 5).\\\
** Anon's note: I own 1-3 and 5 (need to get 4 before reading 5).\\\
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** Anon's note: I own 1-11, minus the novella.\\\
** Anon's note: I own 1-11, minus the novella.\\\
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** Anon's note: I own 1, 3-5, 6.5-7, and 8; need to get the other gaps (2, 6 and 7.5).\\\
** Anon's note: I own 1, 3-5, 6.5-7, and 8; need to get the other gaps (2, 6 and 7.5).\\\
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** Anon's note: I own 1-2.\\\
** Anon's note: I own 1-2.\\\
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* Literature.NovelIdeaMysteries\\\
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** Anon's note: I own 1-2, and 4-5 (need 3 before reading the last two).
** Anon's note: I own 1-2, and 4-5 (need 3 before reading the last two).
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** Anon's note: I own 1-4.\\\
** Anon's note: I own 1-4.\\\
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* Literature.ScumbleRiverMysteries\\\
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** Anon's note: I own 1-3 (including 2.5), 6, 7-8, and 13-19; need to fill in 4-5, 6.5, and 9-12.\\\
** Anon's note: I own 1-3 (including 2.5), 6, 7-8, and 13-19; need to fill in 4-5, 6.5, and 9-12.\\\
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** Anon's note: I own 1-7 (minus the novella).\\\
** Anon's note: I own 1-7 (minus the novella).\\\
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** Anon's note: I own 1-2.\\\
** Anon's note: I own 1-2.\\\
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** Anon's note: I own 1-3 (but not the e-book).\\\
** Anon's note: I own 1-3 (but not the e-book).\\\
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** Anon's note: I own 2-5.5, and 9-10 (need 1, 6, 6.5, 7-8 and 11).\\\
** Anon's note: I own 2-5.5, and 9-10 (need 1, 6, 6.5, 7-8 and 11).\\\
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** Anon's note: I own all three.\\\
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** Anon's note: I own book 1.\\\
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** Anon's note: I own book 1.\\\
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** Anon's note: I own the omnibus and #4.\\\
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* ArmyOfTheDead: Brion, the protagonist of ''With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm'' (originally released in ''A Wizard's Dozen: Stories of the Fantastic'' and collected in Coville's anthology ''Oddly Enough''), leads one against enemy soldiers who've been sent to raid his kingdom. Unusually, the dead don't attack the living - they just point out what it'll be like to be dead, and the soldiers decide they'd rather go home and live as long as possible.
* BackFromTheDead: Brion, the protagonist of ''With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm'', returns from the grave after being executed and angrily forces the king who ordered his demise to call back the soldiers he controls and withdraw his kingdom from the ongoing multi-sided war altogether. After three years of advising the king, Brion ultimately sees the other armies also decide to stop fighting and, with the threat ended for good, is thus able to return to his grave and rest in peace.
* DraftDodging: In ''With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm'', there are people who avoid being drafted because they're physically unfit and others who avoid it because they're too frightened, too smart or simply "too loving"; this last category is the most dangerous, because objecting to the war has been made illegal. The protagonist, Brion, fits the last category and fakes being crippled to avoid serving in a war he doesn't believe in, but ends up revealing his true status and is arrested and [[OffWithHisHead executed]] for it.
* ForeverWar: In ''With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm'', there's an endless one going on between the fifteen kingdoms on the continent of Losfar, and it's gone on for ''so'' long that when one kingdom pulls out, the others decide after a few years that this kingdom deserves punishment for daring to get prosperous while they're still spending their resources to defend themselves, and thus send armies of their own against it. Fortunately, Brion and his ghostly allies are able to finally bring the war to an end.
* NeutralityBacklash: Attempted in ''With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm''. When Brion's kingdom pulls out of the Forever War and starts minding their own business, the other fourteen kingdoms send armies to invade. Brion calls up an army of his fellow dead to point out what the continuing war will lead to, leading to the other armies leaving them in peace.
* BackFromTheDead: Brion, the protagonist of ''With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm'', returns from the grave after being executed and angrily forces the king who ordered his demise to call back the soldiers he controls and withdraw his kingdom from the ongoing multi-sided war altogether. After three years of advising the king, Brion ultimately sees the other armies also decide to stop fighting and, with the threat ended for good, is thus able to return to his grave and rest in peace.
* DraftDodging: In ''With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm'', there are people who avoid being drafted because they're physically unfit and others who avoid it because they're too frightened, too smart or simply "too loving"; this last category is the most dangerous, because objecting to the war has been made illegal. The protagonist, Brion, fits the last category and fakes being crippled to avoid serving in a war he doesn't believe in, but ends up revealing his true status and is arrested and [[OffWithHisHead executed]] for it.
* ForeverWar: In ''With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm'', there's an endless one going on between the fifteen kingdoms on the continent of Losfar, and it's gone on for ''so'' long that when one kingdom pulls out, the others decide after a few years that this kingdom deserves punishment for daring to get prosperous while they're still spending their resources to defend themselves, and thus send armies of their own against it. Fortunately, Brion and his ghostly allies are able to finally bring the war to an end.
* NeutralityBacklash: Attempted in ''With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm''. When Brion's kingdom pulls out of the Forever War and starts minding their own business, the other fourteen kingdoms send armies to invade. Brion calls up an army of his fellow dead to point out what the continuing war will lead to, leading to the other armies leaving them in peace.
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* ArmyOfTheDead: Brion, the protagonist of ''With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm'' (originally released in ''A Wizard's Dozen: Stories of the Fantastic'' and collected in Coville's anthology ''Oddly Enough''), leads one against enemy soldiers who've been sent to raid his kingdom. Unusually, the dead don't attack the living - -- they just point out what it'll be like to be dead, and the soldiers decide they'd rather go home and live as long as possible.
possible.
* BackFromTheDead: Brion, the protagonist of ''With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm'', returns from the grave after being executed and angrily forces the king who ordered his demise to call back the soldiers he controls and withdraw his kingdom from the ongoing multi-sided war altogether. After three years of advising the king, Brion ultimately sees the other armies also decide to stop fighting and, with the threat ended for good, is thus able to return to his grave and rest inpeace.
peace.
* DraftDodging: In ''With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm'', there are people who avoid being drafted because they're physically unfit and others who avoid it because they're too frightened, too smart or simply "too loving"; this last category is the most dangerous, because objecting to the war has been made illegal. The protagonist, Brion, fits the last category and fakes being crippled to avoid serving in a war he doesn't believe in, but ends up revealing his true status and is arrested and [[OffWithHisHead executed]] forit.
it.
* ForeverWar: In ''With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm'', there's an endless one going on between the fifteen kingdoms on the continent of Losfar, and it's gone on for ''so'' long that when one kingdom pulls out, the others decide after a few years that this kingdom deserves punishment for daring to get prosperous while they're still spending their resources to defend themselves, and thus send armies of their own against it. Fortunately, Brion and his ghostly allies are able to finally bring the war to anend.
end.
* NeutralityBacklash: Attempted in ''With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm''. When Brion's kingdom pulls out of the Forever War and starts minding their own business, the other fourteen kingdoms send armies to invade. Brion calls up an army of his fellow dead to point out what the continuing war will lead to, leading to the other armies leaving them inpeace.
peace.
* BackFromTheDead: Brion, the protagonist of ''With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm'', returns from the grave after being executed and angrily forces the king who ordered his demise to call back the soldiers he controls and withdraw his kingdom from the ongoing multi-sided war altogether. After three years of advising the king, Brion ultimately sees the other armies also decide to stop fighting and, with the threat ended for good, is thus able to return to his grave and rest in
* DraftDodging: In ''With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm'', there are people who avoid being drafted because they're physically unfit and others who avoid it because they're too frightened, too smart or simply "too loving"; this last category is the most dangerous, because objecting to the war has been made illegal. The protagonist, Brion, fits the last category and fakes being crippled to avoid serving in a war he doesn't believe in, but ends up revealing his true status and is arrested and [[OffWithHisHead executed]] for
* ForeverWar: In ''With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm'', there's an endless one going on between the fifteen kingdoms on the continent of Losfar, and it's gone on for ''so'' long that when one kingdom pulls out, the others decide after a few years that this kingdom deserves punishment for daring to get prosperous while they're still spending their resources to defend themselves, and thus send armies of their own against it. Fortunately, Brion and his ghostly allies are able to finally bring the war to an
* NeutralityBacklash: Attempted in ''With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm''. When Brion's kingdom pulls out of the Forever War and starts minding their own business, the other fourteen kingdoms send armies to invade. Brion calls up an army of his fellow dead to point out what the continuing war will lead to, leading to the other armies leaving them in
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** Anon's note: I own all five.\\\
** Anon's note: I own all five.\\\
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** Anon's note: I own book 1.\\\
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** Anon's note: I own 1-7.\\\
** Anon's note: I own 1-7.\\\
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** Anon's note: I own it.\\\
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UniversalMonsters
** Anon's note: I own 1-5.\\\
** Anon's note: I own 1-5.\\\
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** Scotty, the definitive {{Jerkass}} {{Mall Santa}} from ''Nightmare on Elf Street''.
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* ChristmasCreep: Book 1 has a mention of this when one of the club members grumbles about the town putting up garlands the day after Halloween.
* ChristmasEpisode: Book 4 and novellas 6.5 and 8.5 are all set during the Christmas season.
* EmptyNest: The series' background is that Pamela is missing her daughter, who went off to college three months before the start of book 1, and uses the Knit and Nibble knitting club she founded two years before in part as a way of coping with her empty nest syndrome.
* HalloweenEpisode: Book 6 is set during the Halloween season.
* ImprovisedWeapon: In book 1, the first victim -- Amy Morgan -- is stabbed through the heart with a metal knitting needle.
* TheMaidenNameDebate: In book 1, Pamela discovers a painting of murder victim Amy Morgan, done by one Chad Lawrence. While tracing its province, she learns he's married to Amy's sister, but Dorrie -- whom Pamela had met before -- goes by her maiden name instead of her husband's.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Inversion in book 1 when Pamela and her friend Bettina are talking about someone's possible motive for a recent murder, and the server overhears them... but mistakes the conversation as being about an event on a TV show.
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* EdibleBludgeon: Scotty Parker, the victim of ''Death of a Neighborhood Scrooge'', is killed when his head gets bashed in with a frozen chocolate yule log.
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* StageMom: Heather Van Sant from ''Death By Tiara'' to her daughter Taylor.
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* AccidentalMurder: This is how Lorelei Ingels dies in book 3 -- she's been taking diet pills, and suffers an accidental overdose when even more are slipped into her water [[spoiler: by her own mother]].
* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: In book 3, Priscilla [=VanHorn=] accuses one of the judges of the beauty pageant her daughter Zoe is taking part in of purposely giving her a harder question than the other competitors. The emcee tries to calm her, but Priscilla retorts with this trope:
-->'''Emcee''': "I'm sure the process [of choosing the questions for the competitors] is completely random."
-->'''Priscilla''': "And I'm Princess Grace."
* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: In book 3, Priscilla [=VanHorn=] accuses one of the judges of the beauty pageant her daughter Zoe is taking part in of purposely giving her a harder question than the other competitors. The emcee tries to calm her, but Priscilla retorts with this trope:
-->'''Emcee''': "I'm sure the process [of choosing the questions for the competitors] is completely random."
-->'''Priscilla''': "And I'm Princess Grace."
* BreakUpMakeUpScenario: A multi-book case.
** In book 2, Skye goes against Chief Boyd's wishes by going to visit a group of survivalists who live on the property next to her late grandmother's. He gets ''furious'' at her for what he feels is her putting herself in danger, and their friendship is effectively cut off for some months, during which he's rather hostile to her anytime she gets involved in the current case. It's not until late in the events of book 3 that they make up and become friends again.
** Book 2 also sees Simon breaking up with Skye because he wants to take their relationship further than she's comfortable with. They also make up and start dating again in book 3.
* DisqualificationInducedVictory: Attempted but subverted in book 3. At one point, Skye is called to deal with a pair of third-graders, Cassie and Shauna. Cassie had won the title role in a dance recital of ''Rapunzel'', and as Shauna explains to Skye, she tried to claim the role for herself by first telling Cassie that she'd better give her the role instead. When Cassie refused, Shauna ''tries'' to pull this trope by making Cassie unable to perform -- by seizing one of her braids and cutting it off with a pair of scissors so she'll no longer look the part, sending a very upset Cassie running off to hide in a bathroom. After all is explained and the mothers are called in, it's decided that not only is Cassie ''not'' disqualified (she'll just have to wear a wig during the performance), Shauna's been barred from having ''any'' part in the recital for her actions.
** In book 2, Skye goes against Chief Boyd's wishes by going to visit a group of survivalists who live on the property next to her late grandmother's. He gets ''furious'' at her for what he feels is her putting herself in danger, and their friendship is effectively cut off for some months, during which he's rather hostile to her anytime she gets involved in the current case. It's not until late in the events of book 3 that they make up and become friends again.
** Book 2 also sees Simon breaking up with Skye because he wants to take their relationship further than she's comfortable with. They also make up and start dating again in book 3.
* DisqualificationInducedVictory: Attempted but subverted in book 3. At one point, Skye is called to deal with a pair of third-graders, Cassie and Shauna. Cassie had won the title role in a dance recital of ''Rapunzel'', and as Shauna explains to Skye, she tried to claim the role for herself by first telling Cassie that she'd better give her the role instead. When Cassie refused, Shauna ''tries'' to pull this trope by making Cassie unable to perform -- by seizing one of her braids and cutting it off with a pair of scissors so she'll no longer look the part, sending a very upset Cassie running off to hide in a bathroom. After all is explained and the mothers are called in, it's decided that not only is Cassie ''not'' disqualified (she'll just have to wear a wig during the performance), Shauna's been barred from having ''any'' part in the recital for her actions.
* HonoraryUncle: Skye and Vince's godfather, Charlie Patukas, whom they call "Uncle Charlie".
* ICouldaBeenAContender: In book 3, [[spoiler: this is part of Lorna Ingals' backstory -- she was a beauty-pageant competitor and was all set to be Miss Illinois before she suddenly started to gain weight (having fallen pregnant with a child she would later miscarry), which knocked her out of the competition. She's been living vicariously through Lorelei and Linette ever since.]]
* ICouldaBeenAContender: In book 3, [[spoiler: this is part of Lorna Ingals' backstory -- she was a beauty-pageant competitor and was all set to be Miss Illinois before she suddenly started to gain weight (having fallen pregnant with a child she would later miscarry), which knocked her out of the competition. She's been living vicariously through Lorelei and Linette ever since.]]
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* ItsForABook: In book 3, Skye uses this excuse on her student Justin Boward to explain why she's breaking into the funeral home. He doesn't buy it for an instant, and ends up helping her break in to get a copy of Lorelei Ingels' autopsy report.
* LoveTriangle: Up until book 7, Skye is torn between coroner Simon Reid and police chief Wally Boyd. The triangle ends when she and Simon officially break up in book7 though.
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* MyBelovedSmother: Skye loves her parents deeply, but as noted in book 3, at times she feels like she's fighting a losing battle with her mother over her need to be independent versus her mother's insistence on taking care of her needs.
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler: Accidentally in book 3. Lorna Ingels has been slipping diet pills -- which Lorelei had secretly started taking again on her own, after initially quitting them -- into her daughter's food and drink to force her to lose weight, all so she'll have a better chance at a beauty pageant, and winds up causing her to die of an overdose... along with her unborn baby.]]
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* MyBelovedSmother: Skye loves her parents deeply, but as noted in book 3, at times she feels like she's fighting a losing battle with her mother over her need to be independent versus her mother's insistence on taking care of her needs.
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler: Accidentally in book 3. Lorna Ingels has been slipping diet pills -- which Lorelei had secretly started taking again on her own, after initially quitting them -- into her daughter's food and drink to force her to lose weight, all so she'll have a better chance at a beauty pageant, and winds up causing her to die of an overdose... along with her unborn baby.]]
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* StageMom: Brought up a ''lot'' in book 3.
** Skye is roped into taking her two "nieces" (Iris and Kristin, the daughters of Ginger and Gillian, the twin daughters of Skye's mother's sister Minnie) to the Junior Miss Stanley County pageant, and notices a couple of these hanging around. Iris and Kristin reassure her that their moms aren't like that though (they don't get mean, yell or drunk if the girls lose, they just swear a little at the judges sometimes), and that the girls really do like competing.
** Skye later talks with some of the other moms and aunts and learns that Lorna Ingels (mother of the book's murder victim, and also of another competitor in the pageant) is ''definitely'' a stage mom, having even subtly sabotaged some competitors (via doing things like stepping on and ripping a girl's hem, or deliberately getting lipstick on another girl's dress) to boost her own daughter's chance of winning. [[spoiler: She eventually learns that Lorna is worse than she thought -- when Lorelei wanted to quit, Lorna screamed at her until she agreed to go back and finish up the season, and mocked her for gaining weight after she temporarily went off her diet pills (and Lorna sneaking extra doses of them into Lorelei's food and drink after she started them again, without telling Lorna, is what killed the girl). Priscilla [=VanHorn=] later tells Skye that Lorna was so obsessed with making her daughters into pageant queens because she'd lost her own chance due to falling pregnant before she could compete for Miss Illinois.]]
** Priscilla [=VanHorn=] is also one, to the point where, during one pageant, she physically attacks one of the judges when she thinks they purposely gave her daughter a trickier question to answer than the other girls. This backfires, in that it gets her arrested and Zoe disqualified.
** Utterly averted with May Denison, who recounts an incident where she entered Skye in a pageant when she was six... and withdrew her after the first round when she saw how scared and upset Skye was.
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: In book 3, this is how Lorelei Ingels dies -- someone had been slipping diet pills into her food and drink, until she accidentally overdoses because she'd already been taking them on her own, and the extra doses proved to be too much. [[spoiler: The culprit turns out to be her own mother.]]
* TeacherStudentRomance: In book 3, while investigating Lorelei Ingels' death, Skye overhears a couple of her classmates saying she was having a relationship with a teacher. She's interrupted before she can find out more, but she later finds that Lorelei was sleeping with Skye's then-boyfriend, Kent Walker (the high school's new English teacher, who was hired to fill in for a teacher out on maternity leave), for better grades.
** Skye is roped into taking her two "nieces" (Iris and Kristin, the daughters of Ginger and Gillian, the twin daughters of Skye's mother's sister Minnie) to the Junior Miss Stanley County pageant, and notices a couple of these hanging around. Iris and Kristin reassure her that their moms aren't like that though (they don't get mean, yell or drunk if the girls lose, they just swear a little at the judges sometimes), and that the girls really do like competing.
** Skye later talks with some of the other moms and aunts and learns that Lorna Ingels (mother of the book's murder victim, and also of another competitor in the pageant) is ''definitely'' a stage mom, having even subtly sabotaged some competitors (via doing things like stepping on and ripping a girl's hem, or deliberately getting lipstick on another girl's dress) to boost her own daughter's chance of winning. [[spoiler: She eventually learns that Lorna is worse than she thought -- when Lorelei wanted to quit, Lorna screamed at her until she agreed to go back and finish up the season, and mocked her for gaining weight after she temporarily went off her diet pills (and Lorna sneaking extra doses of them into Lorelei's food and drink after she started them again, without telling Lorna, is what killed the girl). Priscilla [=VanHorn=] later tells Skye that Lorna was so obsessed with making her daughters into pageant queens because she'd lost her own chance due to falling pregnant before she could compete for Miss Illinois.]]
** Priscilla [=VanHorn=] is also one, to the point where, during one pageant, she physically attacks one of the judges when she thinks they purposely gave her daughter a trickier question to answer than the other girls. This backfires, in that it gets her arrested and Zoe disqualified.
** Utterly averted with May Denison, who recounts an incident where she entered Skye in a pageant when she was six... and withdrew her after the first round when she saw how scared and upset Skye was.
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: In book 3, this is how Lorelei Ingels dies -- someone had been slipping diet pills into her food and drink, until she accidentally overdoses because she'd already been taking them on her own, and the extra doses proved to be too much. [[spoiler: The culprit turns out to be her own mother.]]
* TeacherStudentRomance: In book 3, while investigating Lorelei Ingels' death, Skye overhears a couple of her classmates saying she was having a relationship with a teacher. She's interrupted before she can find out more, but she later finds that Lorelei was sleeping with Skye's then-boyfriend, Kent Walker (the high school's new English teacher, who was hired to fill in for a teacher out on maternity leave), for better grades.
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* INeverGotAnyLetters: In book 2, Skye meets an old friend, Trixie Benson, whose family moved from Scumble River to Rockford long ago, and never wrote back to her. Trixie admits that her parents "had the misguided idea that I would adjust better if I didn't have any reminders of Scumble River, so they never gave me any mail". They finally confessed to this when she was getting ready to move back as an adult.
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* INeverGotAnyLetters: In book 2, Skye meets an old friend, Trixie Benson, Frayne (neé Benson), whose family moved from Scumble River to Rockford long ago, and never wrote back to her. Trixie admits that her parents "had the misguided idea that I would adjust better if I didn't have any reminders of Scumble River, so they never gave me any mail". They finally confessed to this when she was getting ready to move back as an adult.
* ScoobyDooHoax: "Not a Monster of a Chance" has the culprits set up a fake lake monster -- an old canoe painted green -- used to make it look like there's a creature in the lake at the Scumble River Recreation Club. [[spoiler:It's used so that Karleen Petty can escape her abusive husband via faking her death and running off with her younger boyfriend.]]
* SelfDisposingVillain: The culprit in book 2 winds up dying when, while fleeing in their car, they skid off the road and into a tree. As the car had no airbags and the culprit wasn't wearing a seat belt, they're dead before emergency services can get them to the hospital.
* SelfDisposingVillain: The culprit in book 2 winds up dying when, while fleeing in their car, they skid off the road and into a tree. As the car had no airbags and the culprit wasn't wearing a seat belt, they're dead before emergency services can get them to the hospital.
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* Literature.SecondChanceCatMysteries
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* #3.5: "No More Pussyfooting Around" (2016)[[note]]Collected in e-book exclusive anthology "Two Tall Tails".[[/note]]
* #4: ''Telling Tails'' (2017)
* #5: ''The Fast and the Furriest'' (2017)
* #6: ''No Escape Claws'' (2019)
* #7: ''Claw Enforcement'' (2020)
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* #3: ''Murder of a Sleeping Beauty'' (2002)
* #4:''Telling Tails'' ''Murder of a Snake in the Grass'' (2003)
* #5: ''Murder of a Barbie and Ken'' (2003)
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* #7: ''Murder of a Smart Cookie'' (2005)
* #8: ''Murder of a Real Bad Boy'' (2006)
* #9: ''Murder of a Botoxed Blonde'' (2007)
* #10: ''Murder of a Chocolate-Covered Cherry'' (2008)
* #11: ''Murder of a Royal Pain'' (2009)
* #12: ''Murder of a Wedding Belle'' (2010)
* #13: ''Murder of a Bookstore Babe'' (2011)
* #14: ''Murder of a Creped Suzette'' (2011)
* #15: ''Murder of the Cat's Meow'' (2012)
* #16: ''Murder of a Stacked Librarian'' (2013)
* #17: ''Murder of a Needled Knitter'' (2014)
* #18: ''Murder of An Open Book'' (2015)
* #19: ''Murder of a Cranky Catnapper'' (2016)\\\
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*#5: ''The Fast and the Furriest'' (2017)
#2: ''Die me a River'' (2018)
*#6: ''No Escape Claws'' #3: ''Come Homicide or High Water'' (2019)
*#7: ''Claw Enforcement'' (2020)
* #8: ''Undercover Kitty''#4: ''Body Over Troubled Waters'' (2021)
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* #7: ''Murder of a Smart Cookie'' (2005)
* #8: ''Murder of a Real Bad Boy'' (2006)
* #9: ''Murder of a Botoxed Blonde'' (2007)
* #10: ''Murder of a Chocolate-Covered Cherry'' (2008)
* #11: ''Murder of a Royal Pain'' (2009)
* #12: ''Murder of a Wedding Belle'' (2010)
* #13: ''Murder of a Bookstore Babe'' (2011)
* #14: ''Murder of a Creped Suzette'' (2011)
* #15: ''Murder of the Cat's Meow'' (2012)
* #16: ''Murder of a Stacked Librarian'' (2013)
* #17: ''Murder of a Needled Knitter'' (2014)
* #18: ''Murder of An Open Book'' (2015)
* #19: ''Murder of a Cranky Catnapper'' (2016)\\\
After the end of the original series, a sequel series, ''Welcome Back to Scumble River'', was launched the following year. It consists of:\\\
* #1: ''Dead in the Water'' (2017)
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* ArrestedForHeroism: More like "fired for refusing to ''not'' report someone for wrongdoing'', which is why Skye ends up back in Scumble River -- she'd been working at a New Orleans school, but after making out and submitting a report on a case of child abuse, her boss ordered her to retract it (in order to appease a wealthy and powerful individual), and the child herself refused to back up her statement (having been bullied into saying she made it all up). The end result was that she was fired, with the official reason being "insubordination".
* FirstGirlWins: More like first ''guy''. When she was fifteen, Skye had a major crush on police officer Wally Boyd, who was eight years older and her first love. He later married a woman named Darleen, but she leaves him in book 2 after having found she was sterile in book 1, and while Skye is torn between Wally and the resident coroner Simon Reid at first, she ends up breaking up with Simon in book 7 and officially marries Wally in book 15.
* INeverGotAnyLetters: In book 2, Skye meets an old friend, Trixie Benson, whose family moved from Scumble River to Rockford long ago, and never wrote back to her. Trixie admits that her parents "had the misguided idea that I would adjust better if I didn't have any reminders of Scumble River, so they never gave me any mail". They finally confessed to this when she was getting ready to move back as an adult.
* LoveTriangle: Up until book 7, Skye is torn between coroner Simon Reid and police chief Wally Boyd. The triangle ends when she and Simon officially break up in book 7 though.
* SmallTownBoredom: This is a big part of why Skye left Scumble River in the first place, to the point where she said during her high school valedictorian address that she felt Scumble River was a "small town, full of small-minded people, with even smaller intellects".
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* Literature.SecondChanceCatMysteries
''Second Chance Cat Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Darlene Ryan, publishing under the pen name Sofie Ryan. The series features Sarah Grayson, who has opened a second-hand shop in North Harbor, Maine and is raising a rescue cat named Elvis. She also finds herself stumbling across mysteries, to the dismay of her boyfriend (a death examiner for the local medical office) who would prefer that she and four elderly friends of hers, who are also involved in her business, leave such things to the police.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''The Whole Cat and Caboodle'' (2014)
* #2: ''Buy a Whisker'' (2015)
* #3: ''A Whisker of Trouble'' (2016)
* #3.5: "No More Pussyfooting Around" (2016)[[note]]Collected in e-book exclusive anthology "Two Tall Tails".[[/note]]
* #4: ''Telling Tails'' (2017)
* #5: ''The Fast and the Furriest'' (2017)
* #6: ''No Escape Claws'' (2019)
* #7: ''Claw Enforcement'' (2020)
* #8: ''Undercover Kitty'' (2021)
* #9: ''Totally Pawstruck'' (announced for February 2022)
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* FirstGirlWins: More like first ''guy''. When she was fifteen, Skye had a major crush on police officer Wally Boyd, who was eight years older and her first love. He later married a woman named Darleen, but she leaves him in book 2 after having found she was sterile in book 1, and while Skye is torn between Wally and the resident coroner Simon Reid at first, she ends up breaking up with Simon in book 7 and officially marries Wally in book 15.
* INeverGotAnyLetters: In book 2, Skye meets an old friend, Trixie Benson, whose family moved from Scumble River to Rockford long ago, and never wrote back to her. Trixie admits that her parents "had the misguided idea that I would adjust better if I didn't have any reminders of Scumble River, so they never gave me any mail". They finally confessed to this when she was getting ready to move back as an adult.
* LoveTriangle: Up until book 7, Skye is torn between coroner Simon Reid and police chief Wally Boyd. The triangle ends when she and Simon officially break up in book 7 though.
* SmallTownBoredom: This is a big part of why Skye left Scumble River in the first place, to the point where she said during her high school valedictorian address that she felt Scumble River was a "small town, full of small-minded people, with even smaller intellects".
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[[folder:''Second Chance Cat Mysteries''; by Darlene Ryan as Sofie Ryan]]
* Literature.SecondChanceCatMysteries
''Second Chance Cat Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Darlene Ryan, publishing under the pen name Sofie Ryan. The series features Sarah Grayson, who has opened a second-hand shop in North Harbor, Maine and is raising a rescue cat named Elvis. She also finds herself stumbling across mysteries, to the dismay of her boyfriend (a death examiner for the local medical office) who would prefer that she and four elderly friends of hers, who are also involved in her business, leave such things to the police.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''The Whole Cat and Caboodle'' (2014)
* #2: ''Buy a Whisker'' (2015)
* #3: ''A Whisker of Trouble'' (2016)
* #3.5: "No More Pussyfooting Around" (2016)[[note]]Collected in e-book exclusive anthology "Two Tall Tails".[[/note]]
* #4: ''Telling Tails'' (2017)
* #5: ''The Fast and the Furriest'' (2017)
* #6: ''No Escape Claws'' (2019)
* #7: ''Claw Enforcement'' (2020)
* #8: ''Undercover Kitty'' (2021)
* #9: ''Totally Pawstruck'' (announced for February 2022)
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The ''Storm Runner'' trilogy is the second series in the ''Creator/RickRiordan Presents'' imprint line, written by by Jennifer C. Cervantes and focused on [[Myth/MayanMythology Maya]] and [[Myth/AztecMythology Aztec]] mythology. It centers around Zane Obispo, a boy whose adventure begins when he discovers his father is one of the Mayan gods, and that he's destined to release Ah-Puch (pronounced "ah-POOCH"), the Mayan god of death, darkness and destruction and the former ruler of the ninth lowest level of Xib'alb'a (the Mayan underworld) from his prison, which turns out to be only the first of his adventures.\\\
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* Carlene O'Connor's ''Christmas Cocoa Murder'' (collects ''Literature/CountryStoreMysteries'' #6.5, ''Literature/BookstoreCafeMysteries'' #7.5 and ''Literature/IrishVillageMysteries'' #2.5)
* Carlene O'Connor's ''Christmas Scarf Murder'' (collects ''Country Store Mysteries'' #10.5, ''Knit & Nibble Mysteries'' #8.5 and ''Irish Village Mysteries'' #8.5)
* Carlene O'Connor's ''Christmas Scarf Murder'' (collects ''Country Store Mysteries'' #10.5, ''Knit & Nibble Mysteries'' #8.5 and ''Irish Village Mysteries'' #8.5)
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* Carlene O'Connor's ''Christmas Cocoa Murder'' (collects ''Literature/IrishVillageMysteries'' #2.5, ''Literature/CountryStoreMysteries'' #6.5, 5 and ''Literature/BookstoreCafeMysteries'' #7.5 and ''Literature/IrishVillageMysteries'' #2.5)
* Carlene O'Connor's ''Christmas Scarf Murder'' (collects ''Irish Village Mysteries'' #8.5, ''Country Store Mysteries'' #10.5, 5 and ''Knit & Nibble Mysteries'' #8.5 and ''Irish Village Mysteries'' #8.5)
* Carlene O'Connor's ''Christmas Scarf Murder'' (collects ''Irish Village Mysteries'' #8.5, ''Country Store Mysteries'' #10.
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** The killer from ''Death by Espresso'' didn't mean to kill Cathy, they just hit her so they could [[spoiler: get back the necklace. Unfortunately, she was eating her chocolate covered espresso bean at the time and ended up choking to death after she was knocked out.
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** The killer from ''Death by Espresso'' didn't mean to kill Cathy, they just hit her so they could [[spoiler: get back the necklace.necklace]]. Unfortunately, she was eating her chocolate covered espresso bean at the time and ended up choking to death after she was knocked out.
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[[folder:Cozy Mystery trivia]]
Due to publishing company Kensington's practices, as of 2022, a total of nine series are connected (though not part of the same continuity) via ten anthologies, which are as follows:\\\
* Joanne Fluke's ''Christmas Sweets'' (collects ''Literature/HannahSwensen Mysteries'' #8.5, ''Literature/JaineAustenMysteries'' #11.5 and ''Literature/LucyStoneMysteries'' #18.5)
* Joanne Fluke's ''Candy Cane Murder'' (collects ''Hannah Swensen Mysteries'' #9.5, ''Jaine Austen Mysteries'' #6.5 and ''Lucy Stone Mysteries'' #13.5)
* Joanne Fluke's ''Gingerbread Cookie Murder'' (collects ''Hannah Swensen Mysteries'' #13.5, ''Jaine Austen Mysteries'' #9.5 and ''Lucy Stone Mysteries'' #17.5)
* Leslie Meier's ''Eggnog Murder'' (collects ''Lucy Stone Mysteries'' #23.5, ''Literature/HayleyPowellFoodAndCocktailsMysteries'' #8.5 and ''Literature/MaineClambakeMysteries'' #4.5)
* Leslie Meier's ''Yule Log Murder'' (collects ''Lucy Stone Mysteries'' #25.5, ''Hayley Powell Food and Cocktails Mysteries'' #10.5 and ''Maine Clambake Mysteries'' #6.5)
* Leslie Meier's ''Haunted House Murder'' (collects ''Lucy Stone Mysteries'' #25.7, ''Hayley Powell Food and Cocktails Mysteries'' #11.5 and ''Maine Clambake Mysteries'' #7.5)
* Leslie Meier's ''Christmas Card Murder'' (collects ''Lucy Stone Mysteries'' #26.5, ''Hayley Powell Food and Cocktails Mysteries'' #13.5 and ''Literature/KnitAndNibbleMysteries'' #6.5)
* Leslie Meier's ''Halloween Party Murder'' (collects ''Lucy Stone Mysteries'' #27.5, ''Hayley Powell Food and Cocktails Mysteries'' #14.5 and ''Maine Clambake Mysteries'' #9.5)
* Carlene O'Connor's ''Christmas Cocoa Murder'' (collects ''Literature/CountryStoreMysteries'' #6.5, ''Literature/BookstoreCafeMysteries'' #7.5 and ''Literature/IrishVillageMysteries'' #2.5)
* Carlene O'Connor's ''Christmas Scarf Murder'' (collects ''Country Store Mysteries'' #10.5, ''Knit & Nibble Mysteries'' #8.5 and ''Irish Village Mysteries'' #8.5)
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Due to publishing company Kensington's practices, as of 2022, a total of nine series are connected (though not part of the same continuity) via ten anthologies, which are as follows:\\\
* Joanne Fluke's ''Christmas Sweets'' (collects ''Literature/HannahSwensen Mysteries'' #8.5, ''Literature/JaineAustenMysteries'' #11.5 and ''Literature/LucyStoneMysteries'' #18.5)
* Joanne Fluke's ''Candy Cane Murder'' (collects ''Hannah Swensen Mysteries'' #9.5, ''Jaine Austen Mysteries'' #6.5 and ''Lucy Stone Mysteries'' #13.5)
* Joanne Fluke's ''Gingerbread Cookie Murder'' (collects ''Hannah Swensen Mysteries'' #13.5, ''Jaine Austen Mysteries'' #9.5 and ''Lucy Stone Mysteries'' #17.5)
* Leslie Meier's ''Eggnog Murder'' (collects ''Lucy Stone Mysteries'' #23.5, ''Literature/HayleyPowellFoodAndCocktailsMysteries'' #8.5 and ''Literature/MaineClambakeMysteries'' #4.5)
* Leslie Meier's ''Yule Log Murder'' (collects ''Lucy Stone Mysteries'' #25.5, ''Hayley Powell Food and Cocktails Mysteries'' #10.5 and ''Maine Clambake Mysteries'' #6.5)
* Leslie Meier's ''Haunted House Murder'' (collects ''Lucy Stone Mysteries'' #25.7, ''Hayley Powell Food and Cocktails Mysteries'' #11.5 and ''Maine Clambake Mysteries'' #7.5)
* Leslie Meier's ''Christmas Card Murder'' (collects ''Lucy Stone Mysteries'' #26.5, ''Hayley Powell Food and Cocktails Mysteries'' #13.5 and ''Literature/KnitAndNibbleMysteries'' #6.5)
* Leslie Meier's ''Halloween Party Murder'' (collects ''Lucy Stone Mysteries'' #27.5, ''Hayley Powell Food and Cocktails Mysteries'' #14.5 and ''Maine Clambake Mysteries'' #9.5)
* Carlene O'Connor's ''Christmas Cocoa Murder'' (collects ''Literature/CountryStoreMysteries'' #6.5, ''Literature/BookstoreCafeMysteries'' #7.5 and ''Literature/IrishVillageMysteries'' #2.5)
* Carlene O'Connor's ''Christmas Scarf Murder'' (collects ''Country Store Mysteries'' #10.5, ''Knit & Nibble Mysteries'' #8.5 and ''Irish Village Mysteries'' #8.5)
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** [[spoiler: Tess only wanted to hurt Brendon Lawyer with his peanut allergy, but didn't realize just how severe it was.]]
** The killer from ''Death by Espresso'' didn't mean to kill Cathy, they just hit her so they could [[spoiler: get back the necklace. Unfortunately, she was eating her chocolate covered espresso bean at the time and ended up choking to death after she was knocked out.
* AssholeVictim: What murder mystery series would be complete without these guys?
** Brendon Lawyer from ''Death by Coffee'' was a really sour sort of person.
** Rick Wiseman from ''Death By Vanilla Latte''. The man was a sleazy creep who hit on Krissy in a skin-crawling way.
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* Literature.CatRescueMysteries
''Cat Rescue Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Toni [=LoTempio=] under the pen name of T. C. [=LoTempio=]. The series features Sydney [=McCall=], who has just left an advertising job in New York and returns to Deer Park, North Carolina to help her sister Kat run the local animal shelter. There, with the aid of an orange tabby cat named Toby, she finds herself solving mysteries. It was discontinued by its original publisher after two volumes, but the author intends to find a new one.\\\
* Literature.CatRescueMysteries
''Cat Rescue Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Toni [=LoTempio=] under the pen name of T. C. [=LoTempio=]. The series features Sydney [=McCall=], who has just left an advertising job in New York and returns to Deer Park, North Carolina to help her sister Kat run the local animal shelter. There, with the aid of an orange tabby cat named Toby, she finds herself solving mysteries. It was discontinued by its original publisher after two volumes, but the author intends to find a new one.\\\
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* #2: ''Death by Tea'' (2015)
* #3: ''Death Bya Whisker'' (2017)
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* #4: ''Death by Vanilla Latte'' (2017)
* #5: ''Death by Eggnog'' (2017)
* #6: ''Death by Espresso'' (2018)
* #7: ''Death by Cafe Mocha'' (2019)
* #7.5: "Death by Hot Cocoa" [[note]]Collected in ''Christmas Cocoa Murder'' anthology, along with books #6.5 of Maddie Day's ''Literature/CountryStoreMysteries'' and #2.5 of Carlene O'Connor's ''Literature/IrishVillageMysteries''.[[/note]]
* #8: ''Death by French Roast'' (2020)
* #9: ''Death by Hot Apple Cider'' (2021)\\\
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* #3: ''Death By
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* #5: ''Death by Eggnog'' (2017)
* #6: ''Death by Espresso'' (2018)
* #7: ''Death by Cafe Mocha'' (2019)
* #7.5: "Death by Hot Cocoa" [[note]]Collected in ''Christmas Cocoa Murder'' anthology, along with books #6.5 of Maddie Day's ''Literature/CountryStoreMysteries'' and #2.5 of Carlene O'Connor's ''Literature/IrishVillageMysteries''.[[/note]]
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* #9: ''Death by Hot Apple Cider'' (2021)\\\
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* Literature.CatsAndCuriosMysteries
''Cats and Curios Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Rebecca M. Hale. The series features accountant Rebecca Hale, who unexpectedly inherits her uncle's antique shop in San Francisco when he dies. Along with her cats Rupert and Isabella, she stumbles across mysteries as she explores her uncle's past and the investigations he and his own friends had been conducting.\\\
* Literature.CatsAndCuriosMysteries
''Cats and Curios Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Rebecca M. Hale. The series features accountant Rebecca Hale, who unexpectedly inherits her uncle's antique shop in San Francisco when he dies. Along with her cats Rupert and Isabella, she stumbles across mysteries as she explores her uncle's past and the investigations he and his own friends had been conducting.\\\
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* #4: ''How to Tail a Cat'' (2012)
* #5: ''How to Paint a Cat'' (2014)
* #6: ''How to Catch a Cat'' (2015)
* #2: ''Nine Lives Last Forever'' (2010)
* #3: ''How to Moon a Cat'' (2011)
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''Purr M For Murder'' (2017)
* #2:''Nine Lives Last Forever'' (2010)
* #3: ''How to Moon''Death By a Cat'' (2011)
* #4: ''How to Tail a Cat'' (2012)
* #5: ''How to Paint a Cat'' (2014)
* #6: ''How to Catch a Cat'' (2015)
Whisker'' (2017)
* #2:
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* #4: ''How to Tail a Cat'' (2012)
* #5: ''How to Paint a Cat'' (2014)
* #6: ''How to Catch a Cat'' (2015)
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[[folder:''Dead-End Job Mysteries'']]
* Literature.DeadEndJobMysteries
''Dead-End Job Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Elaine Viets. The series features Helen Hawthorne, formerly an executive who is now living off the grid and working a string of dead-end jobs in order to make ends meet, all while stumbling upon murders and trying to stay out of the spotlight, all so her deadbeat ex-husband and the courts that sided in his favor during their divorce can't track her down. After book 9, her life takes a turn for the better, with a new husband and a full-time career as a private detective, but she still winds up having to go undercover at other jobs to solve her cases.\\\
* Literature.DeadEndJobMysteries
''Dead-End Job Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Elaine Viets. The series features Helen Hawthorne, formerly an executive who is now living off the grid and working a string of dead-end jobs in order to make ends meet, all while stumbling upon murders and trying to stay out of the spotlight, all so her deadbeat ex-husband and the courts that sided in his favor during their divorce can't track her down. After book 9, her life takes a turn for the better, with a new husband and a full-time career as a private detective, but she still winds up having to go undercover at other jobs to solve her cases.\\\
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* Literature.
''Dead-End Job
''Cats and Curios Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by
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* #1: ''How to Wash a Cat'' (2008)
* #2: ''Nine Lives Last Forever'' (2010)
* #3: ''How to Moon a Cat'' (2011)
* #4: ''How to Tail a Cat'' (2012)
* #5: ''How to Paint a Cat'' (2014)
* #6: ''How to Catch a Cat'' (2015)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* MultiPartEpisode: Books 5 and 6 are essentially this, as book 5 revolves around exposing a killer and book 6 revolves around tracking down that same killer and trying to keep them from killing again.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:''Dead-End Job Mysteries'']]
* Literature.DeadEndJobMysteries
''Dead-End Job Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Elaine Viets. The series features Helen Hawthorne, formerly an executive who is now living off the grid and working a string of dead-end jobs in order to make ends meet, all while stumbling upon murders and trying to stay out of the spotlight, all so her deadbeat ex-husband and the courts that sided in his favor during their divorce can't track her down. After book 9, her life takes a turn for the better, with a new husband and a full-time career as a private detective, but she still winds up having to go undercover at other jobs to solve her cases.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #2: ''Nine Lives Last Forever'' (2010)
* #3: ''How to Moon a Cat'' (2011)
* #4: ''How to Tail a Cat'' (2012)
* #5: ''How to Paint a Cat'' (2014)
* #6: ''How to Catch a Cat'' (2015)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* MultiPartEpisode: Books 5 and 6 are essentially this, as book 5 revolves around exposing a killer and book 6 revolves around tracking down that same killer and trying to keep them from killing again.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:''Dead-End Job Mysteries'']]
* Literature.DeadEndJobMysteries
''Dead-End Job Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Elaine Viets. The series features Helen Hawthorne, formerly an executive who is now living off the grid and working a string of dead-end jobs in order to make ends meet, all while stumbling upon murders and trying to stay out of the spotlight, all so her deadbeat ex-husband and the courts that sided in his favor during their divorce can't track her down. After book 9, her life takes a turn for the better, with a new husband and a full-time career as a private detective, but she still winds up having to go undercover at other jobs to solve her cases.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
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* #8.5: "Death by Christmas Scarf" (announced for September 2022) [[note]] Collected in [[Literature/IrishVillageMysteries Carlene O'Connor's ''Christmas Scarf Murder'' anthology. [[/note]]
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* #8.5: "Death by Christmas Scarf" (announced for September 2022) [[note]] Collected in [[Literature/IrishVillageMysteries Carlene O'Connor's O'Connor's]] ''Christmas Scarf Murder'' anthology. [[/note]]
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* #8.5: "Death by Christmas Scarf" (announced for September 2022) [[note]] Collected in [[Literature/IrishVillageMysteries Carlene O'Connor's ''Christmas Scarf Murder'' anthology. [[/note]]
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* #11.5: "Nightmare on Elf Street" (2013)[[note]]Collected in ''Secret Santa'' anthology; reissued in [[Literature/HannahSwensen Joanne Fluke's]] 2019 ''Christmas Sweets'' anthology.[[/note]]
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* #11.5: "Nightmare on Elf Street" (2013)[[note]]Collected in Fern Michaels' ''Secret Santa'' anthology; reissued in [[Literature/HannahSwensen Joanne Fluke's]] 2019 ''Christmas Sweets'' anthology.[[/note]]
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** Scotty, the definitive {{Jerkass}} {{Mall Santa}} from ''Nightmare on Elf Street''.
** Scotty, the definitive {{Jerkass}} {{Mall Santa}} from ''Nightmare on Elf Street''.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: Dr. Preston McCay dies this way in ''The Danger of Gingerbread Cookies'' when the killer sabotages the cable used to make him fly in the play he was performing in.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: Dr. Preston McCay [=McCay=] dies this way in ''The Danger Dangers of Gingerbread Cookies'' when the killer sabotages the cable used to make him fly in the play he was performing in.
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* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler: In the very end of "Blood Moon Rising", it’s revealed that Bela the gypsy and his mother Maleva fused with two real people -- Deputy Chad Barnes and his mother Wilma Winokea -- when they were released from the films, and the two are just as nasty even when they ''aren’t'' possessed.]]
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* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler: In the very end of "Blood Moon Rising", it’s it's revealed that Bela the gypsy and his mother Maleva fused with two real people -- Deputy Chad Barnes and his mother Wilma Winokea -- when they were released from the films, and the two are just as nasty even when they ''aren’t'' ''aren't'' possessed.]]
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[[folder:''Lighthouse Library Mysteries'']]
* Literature.LighthouseLibraryMysteries
''Lighthouse Library Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Eva Gates (pen name of Vicki Delany). The series features librarian Lucy Richardson, who has recently moved to the outer banks of North Carolina, where she works in the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library -- a library built into a lighthouse. There, she stumbles across mysteries.\\\
* Literature.LighthouseLibraryMysteries
''Lighthouse Library Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Eva Gates (pen name of Vicki Delany). The series features librarian Lucy Richardson, who has recently moved to the outer banks of North Carolina, where she works in the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library -- a library built into a lighthouse. There, she stumbles across mysteries.\\\
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''Lighthouse Library
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* #1: ''By Book Or By Crook'' (2015)
* #2: ''Booked for Trouble'' (2015)
* #3: ''Reading Up a Storm'' (2016)
* #4: ''The Spook in the Stacks'' (2018)
* #5: ''Something Read, Something Dead'' (2019)
* #6: ''Read and Buried'' (2019)
* #7: ''A Death Long Overdue'' (2020)
* #8: ''Deadly Ever After'' (2021)
* #9: ''Death by Beach Read'' (announced for June 2022)
* #2: ''Booked for Trouble'' (2015)
* #3: ''Reading Up a Storm'' (2016)
* #4: ''The Spook in the Stacks'' (2018)
* #5: ''Something Read, Something Dead'' (2019)
* #6: ''Read and Buried'' (2019)
* #7: ''A Death Long Overdue'' (2020)
* #8: ''Deadly Ever After'' (2021)
* #9: ''Death by Beach Read'' (announced for June 2022)
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* #1: ''By Book Or By Crook'' (2015)
''Down Home Murder'' (1993)
* #2:''Booked for Trouble'' (2015)
''Dead Ringer'' (1994)
* #3:''Reading Up ''Trouble Looking for a Storm'' (2016)
Place to Happen'' (1995)
* #4:''The Spook in the Stacks'' (2018)
''Country Comes to Town'' (1996)
* #5:''Something Read, Something Dead'' (2019)
''Tight as a Tick'' (1998)
* #6:''Read ''Death of a Damn Yankee'' (1999)
* #7: ''Mad as the Dickens'' (2001)
* #8: ''Wed and Buried''(2019)
* #7: ''A Death Long Overdue'' (2020)
* #8: ''Deadly Ever After'' (2021)
(2003)
* #9:''Death by Beach Read'' (announced for June 2022)
''Crooked as a Dog's Hind Leg'' (2015; anthology)
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* #3:
* #4:
* #5:
* #6:
* #7: ''Mad as the Dickens'' (2001)
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* #8: ''Deadly Ever After'' (2021)
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* InheritanceMurder: [[spoiler: The culprit's motive in book 3.]]
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* InheritanceMurder: [[spoiler: PassedOverInheritance: The culprit's motive series features a reversal in book 3.]]
*
the very first book. Reverend Glass, who runs the church next door to Ellis "Paw" Burnette's house, has been after him to leave his house to the church so they can expand. He's most dismayed to find that Paw left it to his only surviving sister Maggie (and asked her to leave it to Laura, his granddaughter, in Maggie's own will), due to the Burnettes having long since sworn to keep the house and what was left of their land in the family after having had to sell off a lot of the property during the Depression.
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[[folder:''Magical Cats Mysteries'']]
* Literature.MagicalCatsMysteries
''Magical Cats Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Darlene Ryan, published under the pen name Sofie Kelly. The series features librarian Kathleen Paulson, who has recently moved to Mayville Heights, Minnesota, to supervise the renovations at the local library. While there, she winds up adopting Owen and Hercules, a pair of feral kittens she found at the neglected Wisteria Hill estate, and whom have unusual talents that prove to come in handy when Kathleen stumbles onto mysteries.\\\
* Literature.MagicalCatsMysteries
''Magical Cats Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Darlene Ryan, published under the pen name Sofie Kelly. The series features librarian Kathleen Paulson, who has recently moved to Mayville Heights, Minnesota, to supervise the renovations at the local library. While there, she winds up adopting Owen and Hercules, a pair of feral kittens she found at the neglected Wisteria Hill estate, and whom have unusual talents that prove to come in handy when Kathleen stumbles onto mysteries.\\\
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* Literature.
''Magical Cats
''Lighthouse Library Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by
* #1: ''By Book Or By Crook'' (2015)
* #2: ''Booked for Trouble'' (2015)
* #3: ''Reading Up a Storm'' (2016)
* #4: ''The Spook in the Stacks'' (2018)
* #5: ''Something Read, Something Dead'' (2019)
* #6: ''Read and Buried'' (2019)
* #7: ''A Death Long Overdue'' (2020)
* #8: ''Deadly Ever After'' (2021)
* #9: ''Death by Beach Read'' (announced for June 2022)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* InheritanceMurder: [[spoiler: The culprit's motive in book 3.]]
*
[[/folder]]
[[folder:''Magical Cats Mysteries'']]
* Literature.MagicalCatsMysteries
''Magical Cats Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Darlene Ryan, published under the pen name Sofie Kelly. The series features librarian Kathleen Paulson, who has recently moved to Mayville Heights, Minnesota, to supervise the renovations at the local library. While there, she winds up adopting Owen and Hercules, a pair of feral kittens she found at the neglected Wisteria Hill estate, and whom have unusual talents that prove to come in handy when Kathleen stumbles onto mysteries.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #2: ''Booked for Trouble'' (2015)
* #3: ''Reading Up a Storm'' (2016)
* #4: ''The Spook in the Stacks'' (2018)
* #5: ''Something Read, Something Dead'' (2019)
* #6: ''Read and Buried'' (2019)
* #7: ''A Death Long Overdue'' (2020)
* #8: ''Deadly Ever After'' (2021)
* #9: ''Death by Beach Read'' (announced for June 2022)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* InheritanceMurder: [[spoiler: The culprit's motive in book 3.]]
*
[[/folder]]
[[folder:''Magical Cats Mysteries'']]
* Literature.MagicalCatsMysteries
''Magical Cats Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Darlene Ryan, published under the pen name Sofie Kelly. The series features librarian Kathleen Paulson, who has recently moved to Mayville Heights, Minnesota, to supervise the renovations at the local library. While there, she winds up adopting Owen and Hercules, a pair of feral kittens she found at the neglected Wisteria Hill estate, and whom have unusual talents that prove to come in handy when Kathleen stumbles onto mysteries.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
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[[folder:''The Fifth Horseman: A Sleepy Hollow Legend'']]
* Literature.TheFifthHorsemanASleepyHollowLegend
''The Fifth Horseman: A Sleepy Hollow Legend'' is a novel by Gregg Gonzales, revolving around a terrifying battle with the supernatural in the town of Sleepy Hollow, set over the course of September and October of 1988. The narrator is Carl Penderholt, a junior in college who's home recovering from mononucleosis, and gets caught up in matters when his old friend Jon Storm is killed by the Headless Horseman. Investigating what Jon had been up to recently, Carl soon discovers that what he thought was a fun search for pirate treasure is in fact part of a war for the very souls of the people of Sleepy Hollow.
* Literature.TheFifthHorsemanASleepyHollowLegend
''The Fifth Horseman: A Sleepy Hollow Legend'' is a novel by Gregg Gonzales, revolving around a terrifying battle with the supernatural in the town of Sleepy Hollow, set over the course of September and October of 1988. The narrator is Carl Penderholt, a junior in college who's home recovering from mononucleosis, and gets caught up in matters when his old friend Jon Storm is killed by the Headless Horseman. Investigating what Jon had been up to recently, Carl soon discovers that what he thought was a fun search for pirate treasure is in fact part of a war for the very souls of the people of Sleepy Hollow.
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* Literature.
''Event Group Adventures'', or just ''Event Group'', is a series of thrillers by David Lynn Golemon and revolves around "the most secret organization in the United States", dedicated to studying the hidden truths behind the myths and legends propagated throughout world history, from [=UFO=]s to Noah's ark to various cryptids and mysterious disappearances. As book 1 begins, the organization is joined by Major Jack Collins, recruited as their new leader, and kicks off a new era in the group's existence.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''Event'' (2006)
* #2: ''Legend'' (2007)
* #3: ''Ancients'' (2008)
* #4: ''Leviathan'' (2009)
* #5: ''Primeval'' (2010)
* #6: ''Legacy'' (2011)
* #7: ''Ripper'' (2012)
* #8: ''Carpathian'' (2013)
* #9: ''Overlord'' (2014)
* #10: ''The
* #11: ''The Traveler'' (2016)
* #12: ''Beyond the
* #13: ''Empire of the
* #14: ''Season of
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!!The series contains examples of:
* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: Mentioned in book 4, where Jack Collins states that there's no conclusive proof of their existence. One book later, they actually appear, living in Canada, where the local tribe of Tlingit Indians refer to them as the Chulimantan, or "They Who Follow". The creatures have excellent camouflage abilities, tend to send signals by beating on trees with wooden clubs, are attracted to shiny things, and are descended from the prehistoric apes known as Giganticus Pythicus, which followed prehistoric man over the Bering land bridge from Siberia to Alaska.
* DidAnastasiaSurvive: Book 5, ''Primeval'' (released in 2010 -- a year after Anastasia's death was confirmed in real life), states that yes, Anastasia and Alexei did indeed escape, with the aid of Russian soldiers loyal to their father (a pair of body doubles were left in their place), and made it to Canada, along with a whole lot of gold and two enormous diamonds (payment to the lead soldier). Most of the soldiers died in the fall of 1918 after attempting to betray their leader (believing the bad luck that had fallen on them was because of a curse on the Romanovs and wanting to kill the two children in order to save their own lives), and Alexei the following March, but Anastasia and the lead soldier not only survived, they married and lived out the rest of their lives in that area, dying of old age in the mid 1950s; they were survived by their daughter. Anastasia's daughter married at some point, but her own child and their spouse died later (one in childbirth, the other a few years later), and by the end of the book, only Anastasia's great-granddaughter remains, content to live out her life in peace and asking the protagonists to keep her ancestry a secret.
* StockNessMonster:
** Some odd, turtle-shelled plesiosaurs show up in a lagoon in Brazil in book 2.
** According to book 4, the Loch Ness Monster ''used'' to be real, but the species went extinct during World War II.
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: Book 10 is this in more ways than one. Its prologue is set just before book 1, then jumps ahead to just ''after'' book 1, and shows main protagonist Jack Collins receiving and starting to read a journal by an ancestor of his that records the very first Event, back before the organization was even founded, in the 1860s. The rest of the book, save for the epilogue, is the events recorded in the journal.
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[[folder:''The Fifth Horseman: A Sleepy Hollow Legend'']]
* Literature.TheFifthHorsemanASleepyHollowLegend
''The Fifth Horseman: A Sleepy Hollow Legend'' is a novel by Gregg Gonzales, revolving around a terrifying battle with the supernatural in the town of Sleepy Hollow, set over the course of September and October of 1988. The narrator is Carl Penderholt, a junior in college who's home recovering from mononucleosis, and gets caught up in matters when his old friend Jon Storm is killed by the Headless Horseman. Investigating what Jon had been up to recently, Carl soon discovers that what he thought was a fun search for pirate treasure is in fact part of a war for the very souls of the people of Sleepy Hollow.
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* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: Mentioned in book 4, where Jack Collins states that there's no conclusive proof of their existence. One book later, they actually appear, living in Canada, where the local tribe of Tlingit Indians refer to them as the Chulimantan, or "They Who Follow". The creatures have excellent camouflage abilities, tend to send signals by beating on trees with wooden clubs, are attracted to shiny things, and are descended from the prehistoric apes known as Giganticus Pythicus, which followed prehistoric man over the Bering land bridge from Siberia to Alaska.
* DidAnastasiaSurvive: Book 5, ''Primeval'' (released in 2010 -- a year after Anastasia's death was confirmed in real life), states that yes, Anastasia and Alexei did indeed escape, with the aid of Russian soldiers loyal to their father (a pair of body doubles were left in their place), and made it to Canada, along with a whole lot of gold and two enormous diamonds (payment to the lead soldier). Most of the soldiers died in the fall of 1918 after attempting to betray their leader (believing the bad luck that had fallen on them was because of a curse on the Romanovs and wanting to kill the two children in order to save their own lives), and Alexei the following March, but Anastasia and the lead soldier not only survived, they married and lived out the rest of their lives in that area, dying of old age in the mid 1950s; they were survived by their daughter. Anastasia's daughter married at some point, but her own child and their spouse died later (one in childbirth, the other a few years later), and by the end of the book, only Anastasia's great-granddaughter remains, content to live out her life in peace and asking the protagonists to keep her ancestry a secret.
* StockNessMonster:
** Some odd, turtle-shelled plesiosaurs show up in a lagoon in Brazil in book 2.
** According to book 4, the Loch Ness Monster ''used'' to be real, but the species went extinct during World War II.
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: Book 10 is this in more ways than one. Its prologue is set just before book 1, then jumps ahead to just ''after'' book 1, and shows main protagonist Jack Collins receiving and starting to read a journal by an ancestor of his that records the very first Event, back before the organization was even founded, in the 1860s. The rest of the book, save for the epilogue, is the events recorded in the journal.
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[[folder:''The Fifth Horseman: A Sleepy Hollow Legend'']]
* Literature.TheFifthHorsemanASleepyHollowLegend
''The Fifth Horseman: A Sleepy Hollow Legend'' is a novel by Gregg Gonzales, revolving around a terrifying battle with the supernatural in the town of Sleepy Hollow, set over the course of September and October of 1988. The narrator is Carl Penderholt, a junior in college who's home recovering from mononucleosis, and gets caught up in matters when his old friend Jon Storm is killed by the Headless Horseman. Investigating what Jon had been up to recently, Carl soon discovers that what he thought was a fun search for pirate treasure is in fact part of a war for the very souls of the people of Sleepy Hollow.
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* UnexpectedInheritance: Almost as the punchline, the last chapter of book 1 reveals that Sunny had been named in Ada Spruance's will, for the help she'd given Ada before the woman's death. Ada leaves her... her choice of any of the stray cats Ada had been caring for in her home. This suits Sunny, since Shadow (one of said cats) had already effectively adopted her.
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* UnexpectedInheritance: Almost as the punchline, the last chapter of book 1 reveals that Sunny had been named in Ada Spruance's will, for the help she'd given Ada before the woman's death. Ada leaves her... her choice of any of the stray cats Ada had been caring for in her home. This suits Sunny, Sunny just fine, since Shadow (one of said cats) had already effectively adopted her.
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[[folder:''Bewitching Mysteries'']]
* Literature.BewitchingMysteries
''Bewitching Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Madelyn Alt. The series features Maggie O'Neill, a woman from Stony Creek, Indiana, who undergoes a sudden change of jobs one day and starts working for antique shop owner Felicity "Liss" Dow. Early on, she learns her new boss is a real, practicing witch who supplies to the local magic community, and that she herself has magical potential.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #01: ''The Trouble With Magic'' (2006)
* #02: ''A Charmed Death'' (2006)
* #03: ''Hex Marks the Spot'' (2007)
* #04: ''No Rest for the Wiccan'' (2008)
* #05: ''Where There's a Witch'' (2009)
* #06: ''A Witch in Time'' (2010)
* #07: ''Home for a Spell'' (2011)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* TheEmpath: Maggie's magic takes the form of this,
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Sounds like, in this case. In book 6, Maggie overhears two male voices while she's stuck in a hospital elevator, who sound like they're plotting something horrible. [[spoiler: It turns out they were planning the one man's proposal to his girlfriend, Maggie's friend Steff.]]
Trivia:
* DevelopmentHell: The series had seven books released from 2006 to 2011. An eighth book, ''In Charm's Way'', was announced and given a pre-release date for 2012, but it was later delisted. On top of that, Alt hasn't been heard from since sometime ''in'' 2012, leaving the series' fate up in the air.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:''Bibliophile Mysteries'']]
* Literature.BibliophileMysteries
''Bibliophile Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Kate Carlisle. The series features San Francisco-based book restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright, who begins solving murders on a part-time basis after her mentor is murdered and she meets British security officer Derek Stone, who considers her the top suspect for discovering the body.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #01: ''Homicide in Hardcover'' (2009)
* #02: ''If Books Could Kill'' (2010)
* #03: ''The Lies that Bind'' (2010)
* #04: ''Murder Under Cover'' (2011)
* #04.5: "Pages of Sin" (2012; e-book)
* #05: ''One Book in the Grave '' (2012)
* #06: ''Peril in Paperback'' (2012)
* #07: ''A Cookbook Conspiracy'' (2013)
* #08: ''The Book Stops Here'' (2014)
* #09: ''Ripped from the Pages'' (2015)
* #10: ''Books of a Feather'' (2016)
* #11: ''Once Upon a Spine'' (2017)
* #12: ''Buried in Books '' (2018)
* #13: ''The Book Supremacy '' (2019)
* #14: ''The Grim Reader'' (2020)
* #15: ''Little Black Book'' (2021)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* TheCorpseStopsHere: In book 1, main character and book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright discovers her mortally wounded mentor Abraham Karastovsky and is forced to watch as he [[DiedInYourArmsTonight dies in her arms]]. Because of this, she immediately becomes the chief suspect in the eyes of Derek Stone, the security officer on duty at the event they were both attending. She's exonerated soon enough, but is rather ticked at being considered as a murderer based on such flimsy evidence.
*
[[/folder]]
[[folder:''Black Cat Bookshop Mysteries'']]
* Literature.BlackCatBookshopMysteries
''Black Cat Bookshop Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Ali Brandon. The series features Darla Pettistone, originally from Texas, who's moved to Brooklyn, New York after unexpectedly inheriting the "Pettistone's Fine Books" bookstore from her now deceased Great-Aunt Dee, along with the store's mascot -- Hamlet, an oversize black cat.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''Double Booked for Death'' (2011)
* #2: ''A Novel Way To Die'' (2012)
* #3: ''Words with Fiends'' (2013)
* #4: ''Literally Murder'' (2014)
* #5: ''Plot Boiler'' (2015)
* #6: ''Twice Told Tail'' (2016)
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!!This series provides examples of:
*
[[/folder]]
[[folder:''Bookmobile Cat Mysteries'']]
* Literature.BookmobileCatMysteries
''Bookmobile Cat Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Laurie Cass. The series features Minnie Hamilton, who's recently moved to Chilson, Michigan and become the town's new assistant librarian. There, she becomes the owner of a stray cat named Eddie and persuades the library to start operating a bookmobile, to bring books to people who lived in towns without libraries or who couldn't get out to libraries. In the process of driving it around, with Eddie at her side, she finds herself drawn into mysteries.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #01: ''Lending A Paw'' (2013)
* #02: ''Tailing a Tabby'' (2014)
* #03: ''Borrowed Crime'' (2015)
* #04: ''Pouncing On Murder'' (2015)
* #05: ''Cat With a Clue'' (2016)
* #06: ''Wrong Side of the Paw'' (2017)
* #07: ''Booking the Crook'' (2019)
* #08: ''Gone with the Whisker'' (2020)
* #09: ''Checking Out Crime'' (2021)
* #10: ''The Crime that Binds'' (announced for October 2022)
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[[folder:''Cat Rescue Mysteries'']]
* Literature.CatRescueMysteries
''Cat Rescue Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Toni [=LoTempio=] under the pen name of T. C. [=LoTempio=]. The series features Sydney [=McCall=], who has just left an advertising job in New York and returns to Deer Park, North Carolina to help her sister Kat run the local animal shelter. There, with the aid of an orange tabby cat named Toby, she finds herself solving mysteries. It was discontinued by its original publisher after two volumes, but the author intends to find a new one.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''Purr M For Murder'' (2017)
* #2: ''Death By a Whisker'' (2017)
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[[folder:''Cats and Curios Mysteries'']]
* Literature.CatsAndCuriosMysteries
''Cats and Curios Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Rebecca M. Hale. The series features accountant Rebecca Hale, who unexpectedly inherits her uncle's antique shop in San Francisco when he dies. Along with her cats Rupert and Isabella, she stumbles across mysteries as she explores her uncle's past and the investigations he and his own friends had been conducting.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''How to Wash a Cat'' (2008)
* #2: ''Nine Lives Last Forever'' (2010)
* #3: ''How to Moon a Cat'' (2011)
* #4: ''How to Tail a Cat'' (2012)
* #5: ''How to Paint a Cat'' (2014)
* #6: ''How to Catch a Cat'' (2015)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* MultiPartEpisode: Books 5 and 6 are essentially this, as book 5 revolves around exposing a killer and book 6 revolves around tracking down that same killer and trying to keep them from killing again.
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[[folder:''Dead-End Job Mysteries'']]
* Literature.DeadEndJobMysteries
''Dead-End Job Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Elaine Viets. The series features Helen Hawthorne, formerly an executive who is now living off the grid and working a string of dead-end jobs in order to make ends meet, all while stumbling upon murders and trying to stay out of the spotlight, all so her deadbeat ex-husband and the courts that sided in his favor during their divorce can't track her down. After book 9, her life takes a turn for the better, with a new husband and a full-time career as a private detective, but she still winds up having to go undercover at other jobs to solve her cases.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #01: ''Shop Till You Drop'' (2003)
* #02: ''Murder Between the Covers'' (2003)
* #03: ''Dying to Call You'' (2004)
* #04: ''Just Murdered'' (2005)
* #05: ''Murder Unleashed'' (2006)
* #06: ''Murder with Reservations'' (2007)
* #07: ''Clubbed to Death'' (2008)
* #08: ''Killer Cuts'' (2009)
* #09: ''Half-Price Homicide'' (2010)
* #10: ''Pumped for Murder'' (2011)
* #11: ''Final Sail'' (2012)
* #12: ''Board Stiff'' (2013)
* #12.5: "Killer Blonde" (2005)[[note]]Collected in ''Drop-Dead Blonde'' anthology; reissued as an e-book in 2014.[[/note]]
* #13: ''Catnapped!'' (2014)
* #14: ''Checked Out'' (2015)
* #15: ''The Art of Murder'' (2016)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* TheAllegedCar: While on the run, Helen Hawthorne traded her Lexus for one of these, which got her to Fort Lauderdale in Florida and promptly died, spending the next two years in a parking lot, just leaking oil and other stuff where it sat. When she finally gets it fixed enough to be barely functional in book 7, she calls it the Toad and winces every time it lets out a cloud of smoke and oil while she's driving, and she dreads it breaking down again. At the end of the book, having quit her latest job, she finally sells it to a mechanic who plans to use it for parts -- and the money she gets is barely enough to pay the last set of repair bills on it.
* DivorceAssetsConflict:
** Protagonist Helen Hawthorne is avoiding one of these with her current lifestyle for the first nine books. Thanks to the courts siding with her deadbeat and cheating husband Robbie during their divorce proceedings (and her own lawyer doing nothing in her defense), she legally owes him half of every paycheck she gets from then on, and has been forced to effectively live off the grid -- no bank account, no phone, no permanent address -- and work a string of dead-end jobs, paid only in cash with no benefits, in order to avoid him getting so much as a penny from her. Even then, her best efforts aren't enough to keep him from eventually finding her and demanding money. [[spoiler: This ceases to be a problem in book 9 after it turns out the judge has since been arrested for taking bribes, including one from Rob to rule in his favor; Helen is able to get a new divorce settlement as a result and no longer owes Rob anything, though she still possibly owes taxes on what she's earned since the divorce. To top it off, Rob gets killed in the same book before he can try to contest things.]]
** In book 5, Helen's working at a pet boutique where one of the customers, Willoughby Barclay, drops off her labradoodle Barkley to be groomed. Her husband Francis later comes to pick up the animal, and it's only afterward that Helen finds out he and his wife are in the middle of a bitter divorce and it's the wife who has custody of their house and the dog, who's a mascot for the Davis Family Dollar department stores; Francis effectively kidnapped the animal so Barkley would lose her job and Willoughby would lose the income it brought in as a result. [[spoiler: Before the book is out, Willoughby has been murdered, Francis has been arrested for doing it, and Barkley has lost her job because it came out that Willoughby was having an affair with another woman before her death. With her owners dead or in jail, the animal gets a happy ending when she's given to Francis's housekeeper, who'd taken care of Barkley for Francis after the kidnapping and treats her as a beloved pet rather than a source of income.]]
* TheFundamentalist: Helen's ultra-religious mother Dolores, who keeps trying to force her brand of belief on her daughter, including insisting that despite everything Helen went through to make it legal, the church ''doesn't'' recognize Helen's divorce and so she should come back to her first husband; she is ''so'' convinced in her beliefs that she barges in on Helen's wedding in book 8 to stop it, saying she'd rather see Helen dead than married to anyone other than Rob.
* IncriminatingIndifference: In the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue of the first book, this is what results in a "Guilty" verdict for the killer (along with all the other physical evidence against them) -- they showed no emotion during the trial.
* KangarooCourt: Helen's divorce trial was one. Her deadbeat husband Rob had already bribed the judge and her own lawyer refused to stand up for her, resulting in the judge awarding Rob half her future income; this prompted Helen to go on the run to avoid paying Rob a cent. Justice is eventually served in book 9 when the judge, who'd been found out six months after the divorce, confesses to accepting bribe money from Rob, and a new judge gets Helen a settlement in her favor.
* MysteriousNote: In book 8, Helen starts getting anonymous threatening letters in the mail, which she figures are related to her current murder investigation. It turns out to be her ultra-religious mother trying to stop her upcoming wedding, since she doesn't believe in divorce and therefore considers Helen to be still married to her first husband.
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Helen Hawthorne has a different job in each book of the series. In books 1-3, she has to find new work in the end because the place she'd been at closed down. In books 4-8, a variety of reasons lead to her choosing to go (including bad events at the ends of books 5 and 8; she was unwilling to return to those jobs, since she'd been so happy there before and now they were tainted after [[spoiler: witnessing a man kill himself and seeing her mother have a heart attack at her aborted wedding, respectively]]). In book 9, she finally gets to remarry and, with her new husband, starts a detective business; in books 10-15, she goes undercover at other businesses to investigate things for their current case.
* OnlyBadGuysCallTheirLawyers: More than once in the series, Helen or a friend or coworker of hers wants to call their lawyer (and they do), and the police immediately claim this as reason to be suspicious of them. Book 7 has a very specific lawyer show up to help Helen (who's been accused of murdering her ex-husband Rob after he faked his own murder to get away from his new "wife", who'd sent the lawyer in question), and the cops make it clear that they consider this particular lawyer arriving to be proof positive of Helen's guilt, due to his reputation for defending the obviously guilty.
* ParentalMarriageVeto: Attempted by Helen Hawthorne's mother Dolores. After Helen divorces her deadbeat husband Robbie pre-series and goes on the run, Dolores keeps trying to get her to go back to him -- due to her religious views, she believes divorce isn't recognized by the church and that Helen will burn in Hell if she ever remarries. When Helen is finally getting remarried in book 8, Dolores finds out and is so opposed to it that she's arranged for Helen to get threatening letters warning what will happen if she goes through with it, and finally takes a bus all the way from St. Louis to southern Florida, where she barges in to stop the wedding, declaring that she'd rather see Helen dead than with a man other than Robbie. She then suffers a heart attack and brain bleed during her rant and is essentially comatose afterward, so she has to be put in a home for the rest of her life, dying in book 9. Her death and Helen getting a new divorce settlement allow the wedding to finally go off by the end of the book.
* StartingANewLife: Protagonist Helen Hawthorne is forced to do this in order to avoid making the court-ordered payments (half of every paycheck) to her deadbeat ex-husband Rob, living off the grid in South Florida and working a string of dead-end jobs with under-the-counter paychecks (cash only). He eventually manages to track her down and demand "his share" of her money anyway. [[spoiler: She never does pay out, since she gets a new divorce settlement in her own favor in book 9, and Rob ends up dead soon afterward.]]
* TheStoner: During the first two books, one of Helen's neighbors at the apartment complex is Phil, a man she's never seen except for a perpetual cloud of weed smoke coming out of his apartment (and a brief glimpse of his "Clapton is God" t-shirt when he pulled her out of her burning apartment in book 1), to the point where she's nicknamed him "Phil the invisible pothead". In book 2, she also finds drug paraphernalia in his apartment when she and an exterminator go in to make sure everything's been removed before the apartments are gassed for termites. Then Book 3 subverts it in a big way when Helen finally meets him in person and finds out that the stoner persona is all an act -- he's really a private investigator and consultant with the government, and is working undercover in order to solve a major money laundering case (which she winds up helping him with).
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The first book ends in this, covering both the main protagonists and the assorted side characters. Later books downplay it, but most of the characters still get explanations about what happened to them afterward.
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: The short story ''Killer Blonde" is this, where Helen's landlady Margery Flax tells her the story of how more than thirty years ago, one blonde murdered another blonde and got away with it.
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[[folder:''Dream Club Mysteries'']]
* Literature.DreamClubMysteries
''Dream Club Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Mary Kennedy. The series features business consultant Taylor Blake, who has gone to Georgia to help her sister Ali with her new candy shop, and unwittingly becomes involved in both mystery and her sister's Dream Interpretation Club.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''Nightmares Can Be Murder'' (2014)
* #2: ''Dream a Little Scream'' (2015)
* #3: ''A Premonition of Murder'' (2016)
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[[folder:''Fixer-Upper Mysteries'']]
* Literature.FixerUpperMysteries
''Fixer-Upper Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Kate Carlisle. The series features Shannon Hammer, a home renovation and repair contractor in Seaside Town, Northern California.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''A High-End Finish'' (2014)
* #2: ''This Old Homicide'' (2015)
* #3: ''Crowned and Moldering'' (2015)
* #4: ''Deck the Hallways'' (2016)
* #5: ''Eaves of Destruction'' (2017)
* #6: ''A Wrench in the Works'' (2018)
* #7: ''Shot Through the Hearth '' (2019)
* #8: ''Premeditated Mortar'' (2020)
* #9: ''Absence of Mallets'' (2021)
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[[folder:''Haunted Home Renovation Mysteries'']]
* Literature.HauntedHomeRenovationMysteries
''Haunted Home Renovation Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Juliet Blackwell. The series features Melanie "Mel" Turner, who specializes in remodeling historic houses in the San Francisco Bay Area. But one day, her life takes a turn for the unexpected when a coworker dies on the site of one of her remodeling projects and his ghost asks her to solve his murder.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #01: ''If Walls Could Talk'' (2010)
* #02: ''Dead Bolt'' (2011)
* #03: ''Murder on the House'' (2012)
* #04: ''Home for the Haunting'' (2013)
* #04.5: "A Haunting is Brewing" (2014)[[note]]Novella; e-book crossover with the author's ''Witchcraft Mysteries'' series.[[/note]]
* #05: ''Keeper of the Castle'' (2014)
* #06: ''Give Up the Ghost'' (2015)
* #07: ''A Ghostly Light'' (2017)
* #08: ''The Last Curtain Call'' (2020)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* CanonWelding: The novella "A Haunting is Brewing" establishes that the series takes place in the same world as the author's ''Witchcraft Mysteries'' series. Book #8 later references the events of the novella, with Lily Ivory once again playing a part in the story and helping Mel figure out the motive of the ghost in her attic.
* ADogNamedDog: Late in book 1, Mel gets rescued by a dog, whom she takes home. She starts just calling him "Dog", thinking he's just a temporary housemate, but he winds up becoming permanent. Her father winds up renaming him "Doug" a few books later, but hardly anyone can remember this, starting to say one name and switching to another midway through, and Mel ends up sticking with just calling him Dog to avoid the confusion.
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[[folder:''Jaine Austen Mysteries'']]
* Literature.JaineAustenMysteries
''Jaine Austen Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Laura Levine. The series features writer-for-hire Jaine Austen, who lives in Los Angeles and becomes embroiled in murder mysteries after one of her clients becomes a suspect.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #01: ''This Pen for Hire'' (2002)
* #02: ''Last Writes'' (2003)
* #03: ''Killer Blonde'' (2004)
* #04: ''Shoes to Die For'' (2005)
* #05: ''The PMS Murder'' (2006)
* #06: ''Death by Pantyhose'' (2007)
* #06.5: "The Dangers of Candy Canes" (2007)[[note]]Collected in [[Literature/HannahSwensen Joanne Fluke's]] ''Candy Cane Murder'' anthology.[[/note]]
* #07: ''Killing Bridezilla'' (2008)
* #08: ''Killer Cruise'' (2009)
* #09: ''Death of a Trophy Wife'' (2010)
* #09.5: "The Dangers of Gingerbread Cookies" (2010)[[note]]Collected in [[Literature/HannahSwensen Joanne Fluke's]] ''Gingerbread Cookie Murder'' anthology.[[/note]]
* #10: ''Pampered to Death'' (2011)
* #11: ''Death of A Neighborhood Witch'' (2012)
* #11.5: "Nightmare on Elf Street" (2013)[[note]]Collected in ''Secret Santa'' anthology; reissued in [[Literature/HannahSwensen Joanne Fluke's]] 2019 ''Christmas Sweets'' anthology.[[/note]]
* #12: ''Killing Cupid'' (2013)
* #13: ''Death by Tiara'' (2015)
* #14: ''Murder Has Nine Lives'' (2016)
* #15: ''Death of a Bachelorette'' (2017)
* #16: ''Death of a Neighborhood Scrooge'' (2018)
* #17: ''Death of a Gigolo'' (2019)
* #18: ''Murder Gets a Makeover'' (2021)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* NosyNeighbor: Lance started out being Jaine's annoying neighbor who didn't like loud noises coming from her apartment. His nosiness ends up saving her life when he calls the police on a murderer forcing his way into her apartment to try killing her.
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[[folder:''Key West Food Critic Mysteries'']]
* Literature.KeyWestFoodCriticMysteries
''Key West Food Critic Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Lucy Burdette. The series features Hayley Snow, who's moved from New Jersey to Key West in order to work as a food critic for the ''Key Zest'' magazine, only to find herself stumbling onto mysteries.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #01: ''An Appetite for Murder'' (2012)
* #02: ''Death in Four Courses'' (2012)
* #03: ''Topped Chef'' (2013)
* #04: ''Murder with Ganache'' (2014)
* #05: ''Death with All the Trimmings'' (2014)
* #06: ''Fatal Reservations'' (2015)
* #07: ''Killer Takeout'' (2016)
* #08: ''Death on the Menu'' (2018)
* #09: ''A Deadly Feast'' (2019)
* #10: ''The Key Lime Crime'' (2020)
* #11: ''A Scone of Contention'' (2021)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* IHaveNoSon: Jonah Barrows, a resturaunt critic and the initial murder victim of book 2, is out and proud. As explained late in the book, however, his parents tried to force him to hide it, ultimately and effectively disowning him when he refused. Later, when he wrote a tell-all book about his life (being open about his sexuality and everything else in his life), they tried to sue he and his publisher for libel.
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[[folder:''Knit & Nibble Mysteries'']]
* Literature.KnitAndNibbleMysteries
''Knit & Nibble Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Peggy Ehrhart. The series features widowed mother Pamela Paterson, whose daughter has just gone off to college, and who deals with her empty nest syndrome by keeping busy as associate editor of a craft magazine and founder of the Knit and Nibble knitting club in Arborville, New Jersey. But soon, she and her club members must begin a new type of project -- solving murders.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''Murder, She Knit'' (2018)
* #2: ''Died in the Wool'' (2018)
* #3: ''Knit One, Die Two'' (2019)
* #4: ''Silent Knit, Deadly Knit'' (2019)
* #5: ''A Fatal Yarn'' (2020)
* #6: ''Knit of the Living Dead'' (2020)
* #6.5: "Death of a Christmas Card Crafter" (2020)[[note]]Collected in [[Literature/LucyStoneMysteries Leslie Meier's]] ''Christmas Card Murder'' anthology.[[/note]]
* #7: ''Knitty Gritty Murder'' (2021)
* #8: ''Death of a Knit Wit'' (announced for February 2022)
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!!This series provides examples of:
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[[folder:''Lighthouse Library Mysteries'']]
* Literature.LighthouseLibraryMysteries
''Lighthouse Library Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Eva Gates (pen name of Vicki Delany). The series features librarian Lucy Richardson, who has recently moved to the outer banks of North Carolina, where she works in the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library -- a library built into a lighthouse. There, she stumbles across mysteries.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''By Book Or By Crook'' (2015)
* #2: ''Booked for Trouble'' (2015)
* #3: ''Reading Up a Storm'' (2016)
* #4: ''The Spook in the Stacks'' (2018)
* #5: ''Something Read, Something Dead'' (2019)
* #6: ''Read and Buried'' (2019)
* #7: ''A Death Long Overdue'' (2020)
* #8: ''Deadly Ever After'' (2021)
* #9: ''Death by Beach Read'' (announced for June 2022)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* InheritanceMurder: [[spoiler: The culprit's motive in book 3.]]
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[[folder:''Magical Cats Mysteries'']]
* Literature.MagicalCatsMysteries
''Magical Cats Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Darlene Ryan, published under the pen name Sofie Kelly. The series features librarian Kathleen Paulson, who has recently moved to Mayville Heights, Minnesota, to supervise the renovations at the local library. While there, she winds up adopting Owen and Hercules, a pair of feral kittens she found at the neglected Wisteria Hill estate, and whom have unusual talents that prove to come in handy when Kathleen stumbles onto mysteries.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #01: ''Curiosity Thrilled the Cat'' (2011)
* #02: ''Sleight of Paw'' (2011)
* #03: ''Copycat Killing'' (2012)
* #04: ''Cat Trick'' (2013)
* #05: ''Final Catcall'' (2013)
* #06: ''A Midwinter's Tail'' (2014)
* #07: ''Faux Paw'' (2015)
* #08: ''Paws and Effect'' (2016)
* #08.5: "The Cat Burglar" (2016)[[note]]Collected in e-book exclusive anthology "Two Tall Tails".[[/note]]
* #09: ''A Tale of Two Kitties'' (2017)
* #10: ''The Cats Came Back'' (2018)
* #11: ''A Night's Tail'' (2019)
* #12: ''A Case of Cat and Mouse'' (2020)
* #13: ''Hooked on a Feline'' (2021)
* #14: ''Whiskers and Lies'' (announced for September 2022)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* ByTheBookCop: Main character Kathleen Paulson's semi-love interest is Marcus Gordon, a cop of this type who investigates most (if not all) of the major crimes in Mayville Heights, Minnesota, and is adamant about sticking to the facts and physical proof rather than gut instinct like Kathleen. And no matter how helpful she and her discoveries are, he keeps telling her to just keep away from whatever case he's working on and not to go snooping around (advice that she continually ignores, despite her own best efforts, seeing as she tends to be a MysteryMagnet and the evidence just keeps coming her way). This puts a major strain on their relationship, such as it is. He mellows out considerably by the end of book 5, when they become an official couple, and is more open with her in books 6 and beyond.
* CatsHateWater: Hercules, one of Kathleen Paulson's two cats, ''really'' hates getting his paws wet. His brother Owen isn't bothered as much, and when the two are arguing, has been known to dump out Hercules' water dish in such a way that the puddle blocks Hercules from getting to his food dish. [[spoiler: In book 8, when Hercules willingly goes out in the rain at one point, Kathleen's friends realize it's a sure sign that something's wrong and come looking for her, just in time to help her after she and another woman as they're escaping from the cistern that the book's villain had trapped them in.]]
* HighOnCatnip: Kathleen's friend and neighbor Rebecca regularly makes and provides her with handmade cloth chickens stuffed with catnip and dubbed "Fred the Funky Chicken". Of Kathleen's two cats, Owen regularly gets stoned from chewing on Fred. His brother Hercules, on the other hand, doesn't see the attraction and views the toys with disdain.
* SameFaceDifferentName: While the books are published under the name Sofie Kelly, the author also publishes nonfiction and young adult books under her real name of Darlene Ryan, and another CozyMystery series, ''Literature/SecondChanceCatMysteries'', under the name Sofie Ryan.
* WhoMurderedTheAsshole: In book 3 (''Copycat Killing''), Kathleen accidentally discovers the skeletonized body of Tom Karlsson, the biological father of her friend Roma (Tom had disappeared when Roma was just a child). When speaking to Roma's mother Pearl about it later, asking who would want to kill him, Pearl admits she knows who: "Pretty much anyone who knew him." Tom, it turns out, had worked for the town bootlegger, cheated at cards, and was abusive to his wife.
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[[folder:''Maine Clambake Mysteries'']]
* Literature.MaineClambakeMysteries
''Maine Clambake Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Barbara Ross. The series features Julia Snowden, who returns to her hometown of Busman's Harbor, Maine, to rescue her family's struggling clambake business. Soon though, she must also begin solving murder mysteries.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #01: ''Clammed Up'' (2013)
* #02: ''Boiled Over'' (2014)
* #03: ''Musseled Out'' (2015)
* #04: ''Fogged Inn'' (2016)
* #04.5: "Nogged Off" (2016)[[note]]Collected in [[Literature/LucyStoneMysteries Leslie Meier's]] ''Eggnog Murder'' anthology.[[/note]]
* #05: ''Iced Under'' (2016)
* #06: ''Stowed Away'' (2017)
* #06.5: "Logged On" (2018)[[note]]Collected in [[Literature/LucyStoneMysteries Leslie Meier's]] ''Yule Log Murder'' anthology.[[/note]]
* #07: ''Steamed Open'' (2018)
* #07.5: "Hallowed Out" (2019)[[note]]Collected in [[Literature/LucyStoneMysteries Leslie Meier's]] ''Haunted House Murder'' anthology.[[/note]]
* #08: ''Sealed Off'' (2019)
* #09: ''Shucked Apart'' (2021)
* #09.5: "Scared Off" (2021)[[note]]Collected in [[Literature/LucyStoneMysteries Leslie Meier's]] ''Halloween Party Murder'' anthology.[[/note]]
* #10: ''Muddled Through'' (announced for June 2022)
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[[folder:''Nick & Nora Mysteries'']]
* Literature.NickAndNoraMysteries
''Nick & Nora Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by T. C. [=LoTempio=] (pen name of Toni [=LoTempio=]). The series features Nora Charles, an investigative journalist in Chicago, who's moved back to her small home town in California to run her late mother's sandwich shop, but finds herself again involved in mysteries after meeting Nick, a cat who belonged to a now-missing and possibly dead private investigator.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''Meow if it's Murder'' (2014)
* #2: ''Claws For Alarm'' (2015)
* #3: ''Of Crime and Catnip'' (2016)
* #4: ''Hiss H for Homicide'' (2021)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: Oliver Jebidiah Sampson, a private detective, is a supporting character. He's quite annoyed when people mention that together, his first two initials and last name sound like "O. J. Simpson", complaining that he's heard all the jokes since the trial in 1995 and that this is why he doesn't like to give out his middle name.
Trivia:
* SequelGap: There was a five-year delay between books 3 and 4, due to the original publisher declining to order more of the series and [=LoTempio=] having to find a new publisher as a result.
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[[folder:''Novel Idea Mysteries'']]
* Literature.NovelIdeaMysteries
''Novel Idea Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Jennifer Stanley and Sylvia May (for books 1-3) and Susan Furlong (for books 4-5) under the pen name Lucy Arlington. The series features Lila Wilkins, a middle-aged mother and features journalist in North Carolina, who loses her job when her employers are forced to downsize and finds a new one as an intern at the Novel Ideas literary agency. She soon finds herself stumbling across dead bodies and must solve the crimes.\\\
It has been effectively discontinued since book 5, as the publisher has yet to request any further volumes.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''Buried in a Book'' (2012)
* #2: ''Every Trick in the Book'' (2013)
* #3: ''Books, Cooks, and Crooks'' (2014)
* #4: ''Played by the Book'' (2015)
* #5: ''Off the Books'' (2016)
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!!This series provides examples of:
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[[folder:''Scottish Bookshop Mysteries'']]
* Literature.ScottishBookshopMysteries
''Scottish Bookshop Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Paige Shelton. The series features Delaney Nichols, an archivist from Kansas, who's just lost her museum job and subsequently moves to Edinburgh, Scotland, to work at a bookstore called "The Cracked Spine", which specializes in hard-to-find books and other items. There, she develops new friendships with her coworkers and others, but also begins stumbling onto murder mysteries.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''The Cracked Spine'' (2016)
* #2: ''Of Books and Bagpipes'' (2017)
* #2.5: "A Christmas Tartan" (2016 e-book; later collected in the paperback edition of book 3)
* #3: ''Lost Books and Old Bones'' (2018)
* #4: ''The Loch Ness Papers'' (2019)
* #5: ''The Stolen Letter'' (2020)
* #6: ''Deadly Editions'' (2021)
* #7: ''The Burning Pages'' (announced for April 2022)
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!!This series provides examples of:
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[[folder:''Second Chance Cat Mysteries'']]
* Literature.SecondChanceCatMysteries
''Second Chance Cat Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Darlene Ryan, publishing under the pen name Sofie Ryan. The series features Sarah Grayson, who has opened a second-hand shop in North Harbor, Maine and is raising a rescue cat named Elvis. She also finds herself stumbling across mysteries, to the dismay of her boyfriend (a death examiner for the local medical office) who would prefer that she and four elderly friends of hers, who are also involved in her business, leave such things to the police.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''The Whole Cat and Caboodle'' (2014)
* #2: ''Buy a Whisker'' (2015)
* #3: ''A Whisker of Trouble'' (2016)
* #3.5: "No More Pussyfooting Around" (2016)[[note]]Collected in e-book exclusive anthology "Two Tall Tails".[[/note]]
* #4: ''Telling Tails'' (2017)
* #5: ''The Fast and the Furriest'' (2017)
* #6: ''No Escape Claws'' (2019)
* #7: ''Claw Enforcement'' (2020)
* #8: ''Undercover Kitty'' (2021)
* #9: ''Totally Pawstruck'' (announced for February 2022)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* AcquittedTooLate: In book 1, it's explained that Detective Michelle Andrews used to be friends with Sarah when they were younger, until Michelle's father Rob went to prison for embezzlement and Sarah made some angry remarks in the heat of the moment about wishing he was dead; soon afterward, he would indeed die of a fast-acting cancer. After the two begin to repair their friendship, Sarah and her friends spend the next few books doing some investigations into the crime he supposedly committed, knowing that even if they do prove his innocence, it'll be this trope, but they feel it's worth it to help Michelle. [[spoiler: In book 6, they succeed in proving he was framed, and the real culprit is arrested.]]
* ByTheBookCop: Nicolas "Nick" Elliot is a death examiner for the local medical office, but he winds up filling this role, and constantly tells his mother and her friends to stay out of police business on the grounds that it's too dangerous for them, even after the face of the agency, Alfred Peterson, has officially and legally become a registered private investigator early in book 3. He eventually comes to accept that there's nothing he can do to stop them from investigating and starts actively cooperating with them.
* ChainOfDeals: In book 1, Sarah Grayson explains that she got her house this way, over the course of a few years. She cleaned out a barn, which had an old Volkswagen beetle (which hadn't been driven in twenty-five years) in it; the owner said if she could get it out, it was hers. She did, then got her stepbrother to fix it up a bit, traded it for an old MG, traded that for a camper van that she lived in for six months, traded ''that'' for a one-room cabin that she and her college roommate lived in for their last year of college, and finally used the cabin as a down payment on her house.
* ClearTheirName: In several books, the Angels get involved in a case where the chief suspect is a friend of theirs, or even one of them, and have to do this.
** Their first case involves them working to clear their friend Madeleine Hamilton, who's been accused of killing her boyfriend.
** Book 2 has Liz as the main suspect.
** Book 5 has Sarah's friend and employee Mac as the main suspect.
** Book 6 has the Angels hired by Mallory Pearson, who wants them to prove her father (who'd entered a plea deal and gone to prison) innocent of her mother's murder. [[spoiler: They not only succeed, they clear the name of Rob Andrews, who'd gone to prison for embezzlement when Sarah was fifteen and whose case they'd been working on over the course of multiple books.]]
* ConvenientComa: Subverted in books 5 and 6, where a comatose patient is treated ''very'' realistically. In book 5, Mac reveals his past: his wife Leila fell into a coma from carbon monoxide poisoning almost two years ago and has been under a doctor's care ever since. [[spoiler: At the end of the book, he finally goes back to see her for the first time since her parents gained legal control of her care; book 6 reveals that she died, still comatose, two weeks later.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Mac Mackenzie / [=McKenzie=], Sarah's right-hand man and jack-of-all-trades at Second Chance, has his revealed in book 5 when someone from his past returns. He eventually admits to Sarah that his wife Leila has been in a coma from carbon monoxide poisoning for almost two years, and he moved away because her parents, who never approved of him and thought he was the one responsible for it, sued him for legal control over her care and won. [[spoiler: By book's end, he's been cleared of both that crime and the murder of her best friend, who'd figured out the real culprit, and the person responsible for both acts has been arrested.]]
* {{Determinator}}: No matter how many times they're told to leave crime-solving to the police, Sarah's friends Elizabeth "Liz" French, Charlotte Elliot, Rose Jackson and Alfred "Mr. P." Peterson just will not stop investigating until the crime is solved.
* EekAMouse: The climax of the first book features this -- [[spoiler: Elvis, the titular "second chance cat" (a former stray adopted by the owner of a second-hand/repurposing shop) drops a nearly-dead mouse on the killer's foot, distracting her before she can shoot Elvis's owner (who's able to duck behind a counter with the time given). This also gives the cops time to burst in and arrest the panicking killer before she regains her senses. Elvis's owner also takes a few nervous steps back when someone points out, after the arrest, that the mouse is real -- and still twitching -- and not a toy like she thought.]]
* EvilDetectingDog: Or cat, in this case. Elvis is essentially a living lie detector, and Sarah has come to rely on his senses to determine when people aren't being honest.
* ExpensiveGlassOfCrap:
** In book 3, Sarah is hired to help clean out a house of a recently deceased man, who'd invested in rare and expensive wine so as to provide an inheritance for his son and grandchildren. It turns out he was scammed into buying this type instead; the man who was hired to appraise the collection discovered the fact and was trying to trace the original sellers when he ended up the VictimOfTheWeek.
** The same book has another potential culprit in the murder who was also attempting to scam people into buying fake wines. The heroes set up a sting operation to catch him, which works, but he turns out to not be the killer.
* InheritanceMurder: In book 4, while investigating the victim of the book, Sarah discovers that [[spoiler: his grandmother had come into a great deal of money suddenly. She also finds that the woman had died just as suddenly, and it's all but confirmed that her grandson switched her medications to kill her so he'd inherit that same money.]]
* LeaveNoWitnesses: Almost every killer in the books tries to kill Sarah when she catches on to their crime.
** [[spoiler: In book 3, a wine appraiser discovers that his client, who'd hired him to appraise the man's father's wine collection and subsequently found they were fakes, has been selling off the fakes in an effort to get some of the money back. When the appraiser intends to report this to the police, he gets killed for it to cover up the scam.]]
** [[spoiler: In book 5, Mac finally admits to Sarah that he's married, and his wife's been in a coma due to carbon monoxide poisoning for almost two years. When Leila's best friend figures out the person responsible and tries to contact Mac to tell him, the one responsible kills her.]]
* LittleOldLadyInvestigates: While main protagonist Sarah Grayson (owner of a secondhand/"repurpose" shop in Maine) is relatively young, her employees include two of her grandmother's friends, the elderly duo of Charlotte Elliot and Rose Jackson, and they're also friends with Elizabeth "Liz" French, and Rose's eventual boyfriend Alfred "Mr. P." Peterson. When a friend of theirs is accused of murder, the four set up shop as detectives in order to clear her name, dubbing themselves "[[Series/CharliesAngels Charlotte's Angels]]" (with Mr. P as their Bosley), and are surprisingly good at it. Neither Sarah (who tries to keep out of their detecting but winds up their "Charlie") or Charlotte's son Nick are exactly thrilled by this, but the trio and Mr. P. just ignore anyone who tells them to stop.
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler: Or stepson, in this case. The victim in book 7 is poisoned by his stepfather when he refuses to pay back what he owes them -- money the victim's mother desperately needed to pay for medical treatments.]]
* PassedOverInheritance: In book 4, Elizabeth "Liz" French mentions that she'll pay for her grandchildren's college tuition, but other than that, her money is going to charity when she dies.
* PlayfulHacker: Mr. P is repeatedly described by Sarah as "the world's oldest hacker". He's never malicious about it though, instead using his skills in their agency's detective work.
* RaisedByGrandparents:
** One of Sarah's employees is Avery, a teenage girl attending a private school; due to some difficulties with her parents, she lives with her grandmother, Elizabeth "Liz" French, who is one of Sarah's friends and later a member of the Charlotte's Angels detective agency.
** In book 4, one of Sarah's clients is Jeff Cameron, who soon turns up dead. In the course of investigating, she finds he and his sister were raised by their grandmother after their parents died.
* RomanticFalseLead: Over the course of the first few books, many of Sarah's friends and family are in favor of her hooking up with Nicolas "Nick" Elliot, a death examiner for the local medical office and grandson of one of Sarah's own grandmother's friends. Eventually, they accept that they're not meant to be, and she begins a more successful relationship with her friend and employee Mac Mackenzie.
* SameFaceDifferentName: While the books are published under the name Sofie Ryan, the author also publishes nonfiction and young adult books under her real name of Darlene Ryan, and another CozyMystery series, ''Literature/MagicalCatsMysteries'', under the name Sofie Kelly.
* ShipperOnDeck: Most of the people Sarah's close to -- Charlotte's Angels, her grandmother, her stepbrother, her friend Jess and Avery in particular -- are in favor of her hooking up with Charlotte's son Nick Elliot. Sarah, however, has her doubts at times, and eventually admits that she and Nick are more LikeBrotherAndSister. Her older friends promptly start shipping her with her friend and employee Mac Mackenzie instead, which proves more successful.
* ShoutOut: Sarah's cat Elvis is a fan of ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}''.
* SuddenNameChange: The first time Mac's last name is given, in book 5, it's spelled [=McKenzie=]. In book 6 on, it's given as Mackenzie instead.
* TakeThat: An InUniverse example. North Harbor has an apartment complex known as Legacy Place, serving as a retirement community for seniors, but Sarah's friend Rose (who lives there) derisively refers to it as Shady Pines after the BleakAbyssRetirementHome of the same name in ''Series/TheGoldenGirls''. This eventually backfires when her attitude gets her evicted in book 2 (and doesn't improve her opinion; she continues to refer to it as Shady Pines in later books), and she moves into one of the apartments in Sarah's house.
* ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity: In book 6, Judge Neill Halloran keeps mistakenly referring to Sarah by her grandmother's name. He eventually admits to being in the early stages of dementia, throwing his earlier witness statement that he was positive about the identity of the person he saw walking away from a crime scene, who was subsequently found guilty and sent to jail, into question.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Downplayed with Sarah Grayson and Michelle Andrews, who were close until they were fifteen when Sarah, in a fit of anger, yelled that she wished Michelle's father (who'd recently gone to jail for embezzlement and would later end up dead in prison, three months into a four-year sentence, of a fast-acting cancer) was a horrible person and that she wished he was dead instead of her own father, a kind, loving man who'd died in a car accident when Sarah was five. Michelle overheard and ran off before hearing Sarah say she hadn't actually meant it, and they've been distant ever since, until late in book 1 when Sarah finds out just ''why'' Michelle distanced herself. The two are then able to begin repairing their friendship.
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[[folder:''Sunny & Shadow Mysteries'']]
* Literature.SunnyAndShadowMysteries
''Sunny & Shadow Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Clair Donally. The series features Sonata "Sunny" Coolidge, a reporter who's returned to her hometown of Kittery Harbor, Maine, to care for her ailing father after his heart attack, and stumbles onto a dead body one day, marking the first mystery she must solve.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''The Big Kitty'' (2012)
* #2: ''Cat Nap'' (2013)
* #3: ''Last Licks'' (2014)
* #4: ''Hiss and Tell'' (2015)
* #5: ''Catch as Cat Can'' (2016)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* UnexpectedInheritance: Almost as the punchline, the last chapter of book 1 reveals that Sunny had been named in Ada Spruance's will, for the help she'd given Ada before the woman's death. Ada leaves her... her choice of any of the stray cats Ada had been caring for in her home. This suits Sunny, since Shadow (one of said cats) had already effectively adopted her.
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[[folder:''"Where Are They Now?" Mysteries'']]
* Literature.WhereAreTheyNowMysteries
''Where Are They Now? Mysteries'' is an amateur sleuth mystery series by Toni Kelner. The series features Tilda Harper, a celebrity reporter who has made a name for herself tracking down stars who've left the spotlight, and finds herself solving mysteries when some of them turn up either dead or targeted by killers.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''Curse of the Kissing Cousins'' (2008; originally published as ''Without Mercy'')
* #2: ''Who Killed The Pinup Queen?'' (2010)
* #3: ''Blast From the Past'' (2011)
* #4: ''The Adventure of the Six Sherlocks'' (2020; e-book short story)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* DoNotCallMePaul: Matilda "Tilda" Harper ''hates'' her full first name. When her friend Cooper keeps using it to annoy her in book 2, she retaliates by threatening to reveal his [[EmbarrassingNickname childhood nickname]] "Pookie" to his coworkers if he doesn't stop. The threat proves effective.
* JumpingTheShark: Discussed by name in the first book, which focuses on Tilda Harper searching for an actress from the long-ended sitcom ''[[ShowWithinAShow Kissing Cousins]]'' (about a trio of "normal" siblings and their cousins, a trio of equally "weird" siblings, coming to live with their grandfather and getting into typical sitcom shenanigans), and includes episode summaries, excerpts from interviews with cast and crew, and other reviews of the show. It's noted in narration that another set of cousins (seven-year-old twins, one "normal" and one "weird") were added to try and counter falling ratings in the last season, but it failed miserably -- fans considered their arrival to be when the show jumped the shark. (The actresses themselves don't seem to realize how disliked they were.)
* MurderByMistake: In book 2, the killer has been contacted by a would-be blackmailer (who accuses him of a crime that he committed decades ago -- and even then, the blackmailer was mistaken about the type of crime he'd committed) and goes to their home to kill them. It's eventually revealed that the woman he suspected and killed was innocent; it was actually her great-niece who was trying to blackmail him.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: In book 2, it turns out the killer had done this years ago. [[spoiler: His cousin/business partner had fallen in love with a woman and fully intended to marry her, but the killer felt he couldn't have a successful career without his cousin working with him. Viewing the woman and her unborn baby as a threat to their partnership, he murdered them. The cousin was enraged when he finally found out.]]
* ObliviousToHatred: In book 1, when discussing the long-ended sitcom ''[[ShowWithinAShow Kissing Cousins]]'', it's noted that two new cousins were added to the series in its last season, but its viewers didn't care for them and saw them as a contribution to the show's ending. For their part, the actresses who played the roles don't realize how much they're disliked by the show's fandom.
Trivia:
* ExecutiveMeddling: Justified. The original book was released in hardcover by one publishing company under the title ''Without Mercy'', but when she switched publishers to Berkley Prime Crime for the paperback reprint and sequels, they'd recently published a different book under that name and, to avoid confusion, retitled Kelner's book to ''Curse of the Kissing Cousins''.
* SequelGap: Nine years between the third book and the e-book short story that followed, during which time the author was working on another series under a pen name -- ''Literature/FamilySkeletonMysteries''.
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[[folder:''Witchcraft Mysteries'']]
* Literature.WitchcraftMysteries
''Witchcraft Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Juliet Blackwell. The series features Lily Ivory, a San Francisco vintage clothing store owner who also happens to be an undercover witch.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #01: ''Secondhand Spirits'' (2009)
* #02: ''A Cast-Off Coven'' (2010)
* #03: ''Hexes and Hemlines'' (2011)
* #04: ''In a Witch's Wardrobe'' (2012)
* #05: ''Tarnished and Torn'' (2013)
* #05.5: "Fool's Gold" (2013)[[note]]Short story; e-book free for download from author's website.[[/note]]
* #06: ''A Vision in Velvet'' (2014)
* #06.5: "A Haunting is Brewing" (2014)[[note]]Novella; e-book crossover with the author's ''Haunted Home Renovation Mysteries'' series.[[/note]]
* #07: ''Spellcasting in Silk'' (2015)
* #08: ''A Toxic Trousseau'' (2016)
* #09: ''A Magical Match'' (2018)
* #10: ''Bewitched and Betrothed'' (2019)
* #11: ''Synchronized Sorcery'' (2021)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* CanonWelding: "A Haunting is Brewing" establishes that the series takes place in the same world as the author's ''Haunted Home Renovation Mysteries'' series, and has Lily meeting Melanie "Mel" Turner to work on a case together. Lily also appears in book 8 of the latter series, helping Mel with figuring out the motive of the ghost in her attic.
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[[folder:''Witch's Cat Mysteries'']]
* Literature.WitchsCatMysteries
''Witch's Cat Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Delia James. The series features Annabelle Britton, who makes a living as an artist before going on vacation to the seaside town of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where she makes a startling discovery about her witchy heritage with the help of Alistair, a cat and familiar whose first owner has recently turned up dead. With his help, Annabelle accepts her role as a witch and begins solving mysteries involving magic, while working with other witches who've dedicated themselves to keeping Portsmouth and its people safe.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''A Familiar Tail'' (2016)
* #2: ''By Familiar Means'' (2016)
* #3: ''Familiar Motives'' (2017)
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!!Other works by Bruce Coville contain examples of:
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* CreatorThumbprint:
** Quite a few works involve miniaturized individuals. Aside from the ''Rod Allbright Alien Adventures'' series with its two-inch aliens and ''The Monsters of Morley Manor'' with its five inch title characters, characters are shrunk to two inches in an installment of the ''I Was A Sixth Grade Alien'' series.
** Coville's hometown of Syracuse, New York is a recurring setting in his works, including ''Literature/NinaTanleven'', ''Literature/IWasASixthGradeAlien'' and ''Literature/MonsterOfTheYear'', and [[Literature/RodAllbrightAlienAdventures Rod Allbright]]'s hometown is based on it (book 4 mentions that Rod and Coville "live in the same area".
** HumansThroughAlienEyes, with aliens offering their often-critical opinions on modern human society and culture.
* DevelopmentHell: Coville has a number of books he'd LIKE to write, including further installments in ''The Unicorn Chronicles'', the ''Literature/MagicShop'' series, the ''Literature/NinaTanleven'' series and others. Unfortunately, publishers don't seem interested, leaving these plans unfulfilled for now. The truly curious can find references to many of these works and others in his replies on the guestbook of his official website.
* TheVerse: ''The Foolish Giant'', ''The Dragonslayers'', the ''Goblins'' duology, the ''Literature/MagicShop'' series, ''Literature/TheUnicornChronicles'' and a handful of short stories all take place in the same [[TheMultiverse multiverse]]. Specific links include:
** The wizard Bellenmore and his apprentice Aaron link multiple series: they appear in person in Coville's short story ''Wizard's Boy'' (from ''[[Literature/BruceCovillesBookOf Bruce Coville's Book of Magic]]''), and are mentioned in ''Goblins on the Prowl'', ''[[Literature/MagicShop Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher]]'' and ''The Unicorn Chronicles''. All three stories talk about how Bellenmore had sent the majority of Earth's dragons away from their birth world for their own safety, and the latter two feature dragons who were directly affected by Bellenmore's actions.
** ''Goblins on the Prowl'' describes the events of ''The Foolish Giant'' as happening in its past, and references characters from ''The Dragonslayers''.
** The short story ''The Boy With Silver Eyes'' features the title character visiting Nilbog (from the ''Goblins'' duology) and meeting a Guardian of Memory (from ''The Unicorn Chronicles'').
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[[folder: ''The Enchanted Files'']]
* Literature.TheEnchantedFiles
''The Enchanted Files'' is a series of children's novels written by Creator/BruceCoville. Each tells the story of a being from the Enchanted Realm, recorded through a series of diary entries from the main non-human character, but also mixes in assorted papers from other characters, such as letters, memos and other diary entries.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''Cursed'' (2015; originally released as ''Diary of a Mad Brownie'')
* #2: ''Hatched'' (2016; working title ''Diary of a Runaway Griffin'')
* #3: ''Trolled'' (2017; working title ''Diary of a Terrible Troll'')
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!!This series contains examples of:
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* ScrapbookStory: Each of the books in the series consist mainly of diary entries from the main non-human character, but also mixes in assorted papers from other characters, such as letters, memos and other diary entries.
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[[folder: ''Cursed'' (2015)]]
* HollywoodMidlifeCrisis: In book 1 (''Diary of a Mad Brownie'', later retitled ''Cursed''), Alex Carhart's father undergoes one when he quits his job to focus on his music. Which is terrible. It turns out to be a side-effect of the curse that Angus Cairns, the titular mad brownie, carries with him -- any male of the family he's living with is bound to try to make beautiful poetry, rhymes or lyrics, but which will always come out wretched. Once the curse is broken, the afflicted turn back to their original selves, and Mr. Carhart reclaims his job and gives up trying to write song lyrics.
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: In book 1 (''Diary of a Mad Brownie'', later retitled ''Cursed''), Alex Carhart's little sister Destiny has an invisible friend, Herbert the Goblin, who later supposedly disappears some time before her teacher tries to convince her he isn't real (angering Angus, the titular "mad Brownie"). Later on, when the protagonists (including said teacher) travel through the Enchanted Realm, they meet Herbert and learn he's a crewman on a ship there -- he met Destiny while he was on shore leave, and left with a promise to keep in touch when his time was up.
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[[folder:''Goblins'' duology]]
* Literature.GoblinsInTheCastle
''Goblins in the Castle'' is a 1992 children's novel written by Creator/BruceCoville. It tells the story of William, a young boy who has lived in Toad-in-a-Cage Castle his entire life. But one night, he meets the mysterious Igor, who lives in the castle dungeons, and soon afterward discovers the strange secret behind the castle's North Tower, which has always been kept locked. When he unlocks it one night, his actions lead him into a dangerous quest to rescue his new friend from the land of the goblins.\\\
''Goblins on the Prowl'' (2015) continues the story from the point of view of William's friend Fauna, and reveals both their origins, as well as that of the enormous stone toad that gave the castle its name.\\\
The series is part of the same multiverse as Coville's ''The Foolish Giant'', ''Literature/TheDragonslayers'', ''Literature/TheUnicornChronicles'' series, the ''Literature/MagicShop'' series, and the short story ''Wizard's Boy'' (1996)[[note]]Collected in ''[[Literature/BruceCovillesBookOf Bruce Coville's Book of Magic: Tales to Cast a Spell on You]]'' (1996) and ''The One Right Thing'' (2008)[[/note]].\\\
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!!This series provides examples of:
* AccidentalMisnaming: The Baron can never remember William's name.
* AllWitchesHaveCats: Granny Pinchbottom has a black cat in her cottage.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: Igor. He ''looks'' human, but claims to have just "happened" rather than being born, has lived over six hundred years, and says he's died before (but evidently got better).
* BackFromTheDead: While not shown on-screen, Igor says of dying that "Igor done that before" and that the experience was "not fun".
* BerserkButton:
** Never touch Igor's hump. Even a friendly pat on it from someone he likes is enough to make him furious.
** Don't ask the Baron what's in the North Tower -- Karl, the castle librarian, asked once and nearly got fired for it. Once the Tower is actually opened and the contents are unleashed though, he doesn't seem to mind anymore.
* BigFancyCastle: Toad-in-a-Cage Castle, which is big enough to have four towers and several floors, and is full of winding and hidden passageways. There's also a large stone toad in a cage in the Grand Hall, which gives it its name.
* CallingYourAttacks: Igor tends to yell "Bop!" whenever he bops someone on the head with his bear.
* CanonWelding: While the original story was a standalone, follow-up material connected it to some of Coville's other works.
** The 2008 short story ''The Boy With Silver Eyes'' features both the goblins' home of Nilbog and a Guardian of Memory from ''Literature/TheUnicornChronicles'', revealing those settings are connected, and by extension the ''Literature/MagicShop'' series (both ''The Unicorn Chronicles'' and the ''Magic Shop'' series have mentioned the wizard Bellenmore, who helped the dragons leave Earth when it was too dangerous for them to remain).
** ''Goblins on the Prowl'' elaborates on this, explicitly mentioning Bellenmore and the departure of the dragons, along with mentioning the events of ''The Dragonslayers'' (that book's Princess Wilhelmina is noted as now being Queen) and ''The Foolish Giant'' as having happened in the past.
* ClockTampering: The morning after the goblins are released, it's discovered that they changed the time on one of the clocks as one of their pranks -- it's early morning, but the clock is striking two.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The evil sorcerer Ishmael[[note]][[DoNotCallMePaul Don't call him that!]][[/note]] is clearly not all there. He manages to forget what he's talking about after a few sentences until he's reminded, and William thinks to himself that "Clearly a few of the buttons in Ishmael's brain had come undone."
* CollectorOfTheStrange: ''Goblins On the Prowl'' reveals that the Baron keeps a collection of cannonballs from famous battles. They're seen on the fireplace in the Great Hall in the first book, but aren't specifically identified as a collection until the second.
* CompanionCube: Igor's ever-present bear. William takes care of it for him after the goblins carry him off.
* CreepyHousekeeper: Downplayed with Hulda. She always yells (because of her bad hearing), and uses her mutilated finger (which is missing its last joint) to scare William into behaving, claiming that Granny Pinchbottom will do the same to him if he doesn't keep out of the sweet jar. She's also not the best at keeping the castle clean, letting the laundry sit for months, and hasn't tried to dust in ages (William notes that he likes to write his name in the dust, and the only signatures that are gone are those that have been covered with new dust). But she's really harmless, and a good cook.
* DirectLineToTheAuthor: In the author's note at the end of book 1, Coville claims Igor to be real (and that he's Coville's "half-mad twin brother" who was born in October to Coville's May), and that one night, he brought the story to Coville after several years of friendship, though it took several more years to get it published.
* DisneyVillainDeath: In the climax of book 1, the evil sorcerer Ishmael[[note]][[DoNotCallMePaul Don't call him that!]][[/note]] falls out a window to his death.
* DoNotCallMePaul: The evil sorcerer in book 1 is a strange version -- he always says "My name is Ishmael. But don't call me that!" Igor, who was friends with said sorcerer in the past, is apparently familiar enough with his opinion of it to say "Don't call him that!" when William uses the name while trying to pass on the other man's warning.
* DoorstepBaby: William, who was brought to Toad-in-a-Cage Castle in a basket as an infant. Book 2 explains how he came to be brought there.
* EasilyForgiven: Once the goblins find out Igor (whom they'd called their "greatest enemy" for his betrayal of them) was just an UnwittingPawn for the real villain and was tricked into leading them into a trap rather than betraying them of his own free will, they forgive him without any issue. It takes Igor a while to finally realize this though.
* GlowingFlora: Nilbog and its buildings are lit by a glowing fungus. Somehow, it remains glowing even after it's been picked for eating.
* GreatBigLibraryOfEverything: While its contents aren't really discussed, the library in Toad-in-a-Cage Castle has so many books, the Baron had to renovate a section of the building (via knocking out the walls between seven rooms) to make a single room big enough to hold them all.
* HeelRaceTurn: The goblins, in both directions. Before, they were friends to humanity, but after being locked away, they grew angrier and angrier, until they were determined to destroy the people who left them in the dark. They return to their friendlier selves when their King is healed and restored to sanity.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Igor's weapon of choice is his teddy bear, which he uses to bop people on the head.
* IneptMage: The evil sorcerer Ishmael[[note]][[DoNotCallMePaul Don't call him that!]][[/note]] is this by the time the story takes place. At the end of his first appearance, he disappears in a puff of smoke, but wherever he's gone to, apparently it wasn't easy -- William hears his voice "as if from a great distance, exclaim "Wow, that ''hurt!''"". Later, when he tries to stall or silence several people at once, he can't hold it for too long.
* InvisibilityCloak: Granny Pinchbottom gives one to William, which only works when the hood is raised.
* {{Keet}}: The goblins, generally. Especially the younger ones. They're full of wild energy, love playing games and bouncing around, and are all around excitable. The only exception seen is Borg, an advisor to the king and one of the Ten Oldest Goblins, who is calm and composed the entire time he's onscreen.
* LockedInTheDungeon: The goblins' alive but spiritless bodies are all locked in the dungeons of Toad-in-a-Cage Castle for years. William, Fauna and Igor later spend some time locked in the dungeons of the Goblin King's castle.
* NeatFreak: When the goblins leave a house, they have a tendency to leave it cleaner than it was before they entered it. This is first seen when they thoroughly clean Toad-in-a-Cage Castle on their way out (though not without causing some mischief in the process).
* NeverFoundTheBody: The evil sorcerer Ishmael[[note]][[DoNotCallMePaul Don't call him that!]][[/note]] disappears into thin air after falling to his death; William suspects he's dead for good though because the last of the magic around the Northwest Tower (which Ishmael had placed there) disappeared at the same time.
* NoIndoorVoice: Hulda, the castle maid, always shouts. Justified because she's mostly deaf and shouting is the only way for her to hear herself talk. William's narration reveals he was relieved when he figured this out, because until then he'd thought it meant she was permanently mad at him.
* NoNameGiven:
** In the original book only, the goblin king is this trope; he's only ever referred to by his title. The sequel later averts it on the very first page, identifying him as "King Nidrash".
** The Baron and his great-grandfather go unnamed in the first book.
* NoOntologicalInertia: When the sorcerer who cast the spell on the North Tower dies, the last of the magic in it wears off.
* OffWithHisHead: Cutting off the head of the goblin king put the final seal on the spell that put them all into dormancy. Reversing this and reattaching his head, by means of a magic collar, restores his sanity.
* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: The goblins, while definitely weird, are mostly snarky and pragmatic, and tend to be a lot more decent than many human characters. They also have a sort of emotional hive-mind; their King's emotions affect all the others. Meaning that when he's happy, they're happy, and when he's in an angry and deranged mood, so are the rest of them.
* ThePrankster: The goblins have a tendency to pull off harmless pranks, such as switching salt for sugar, tying laundry in knots, and leading children to play in the mud. But they can also do some more dangerous ones, such as putting soap on the stairs, which could cause someone to slip and break their neck.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Igor's lived in the castle for six hundred years.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Once freed, the goblins plan to do this in retaliation for being sealed away for a hundred and twenty-one years. When William restores their king and he regains his sanity, he calls it off.
* SdrawkcabName: The goblins come from the land of Nilbog.
* SealedGoodInACan: The goblins had their spirits sucked out and imprisoned in the North Tower of Toad-in-a-Cage Castle, and their bodies locked in the dungeons, all because the old Baron and his sorcerer ally thought they were evil, rather than just mischievous.
* SolitarySorceress: The witch Granny Pinchbottom is a sort of boogeyman figure the main character William was taught to fear, but when he encounters her, she turns out to be well-intentioned, though somewhat duplicitous and scary, and gives him [[ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest a few items he needs]].
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: In ''Goblins on the Prowl'', Granny Pinchbottom gives Fauna an item known as "Solomon's Collar", which grants this ability. It's ostensibly meant for William, but Fauna decides to try it on first, whereupon [[ClingyMcGuffin she finds she can't get it back off]].
* SupernaturalAid: When William goes off on his quest, Granny Pinchbottom provides him with some magical items to help, including an amulet that provides light, a hooded invisibility cloak, and the collar that, when used to attach the Goblin King's head to his body, will heal him.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Both Igor and Herky do this; neither ever refers to themself as "I", just using their own names.
* UnwittingPawn: The book's villain is eventually revealed to have tricked Igor into betraying the goblins, whom he thought of as friends, by having him be the one to invite them into a trap. This nearly gets him killed by the goblins after they're freed.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Goblins, who prefer the cool underground, fear fire and its heat.
* YouNoTakeCandle: Igor's grammar is not the best, and Herky's isn't much better.
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Trivia:
* NamesTheSame: One of the goblins is named Borg, not to be confused with the villains from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' (who predate the book's publication).
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: ''Goblins On the Prowl'' was originally set to have much more pronounced references to ''Literature/TheDragonslayers''. As Coville wrote on his guestbook, in the first draft, "Bwoonhiwda was accompanied by Queen Wilhelmina's daughter, who was named Pink. But the editor felt that the book was overpopulated and someone had to go. Alas, it was Pink who got the ax."
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[[folder: ''Oddities'' series]]
* Literature.BruceCovillesOddities
The ''Oddities'' series is an anthology series by Creator/BruceCoville. Each of them contains a mix of nine previously published and brand new stories, plus one essay, all by Coville himself (the exception is a new introduction in the omnibus ''Odds Are Good'', which is by Creator/JaneYolen instead); they're mostly standalones, though some are part of his existing series.\\\
The series consists of the following:\\\
* ''Oddly Enough'' (1994)[[labelnote:Contents]]''The Box'' (1986); ''Duffy's Jacket'' (1989); ''Homeward Bound'' (1988); ''With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm'' (1993); ''Clean as a Whistle'' (1994); ''The Language of Blood'' (1994); ''Old Glory'' (1991); ''The Passing of the Pack'' (1988); ''A Blaze of Glory'' (1994)[[/labelnote]]
* ''Odder Than Ever'' (1999)[[labelnote:Contents]]''The Golden Sail'' (1999; original to collection); ''Biscuits of Glory'' (1995); ''I, Earthling'' (1994); ''The Giant's Tooth'' (1999; original to collection); ''There's Nothing Under the Bed'' (1995); ''The Stinky Princess'' (1999; original to collection); ''The Japanese Mirror'' (1996); ''Am I Blue?'' (1994); ''The Metamorphosis of Justin Jones'' (1997)[[/labelnote]]
* ''Odds Are Good'' (2006; omnibus of the first two books; also contains an essay by Jane Yolen)
* ''Oddest of All'' (2008)[[labelnote:Contents]]''In Our Own Hands'' (1999; variant of ''In Our Hands'' from ''Bruce Coville's Alien Visitors''); ''What's the Worst That Could Happen?'' (2003); ''The Ghost Let Go'' (1994); ''In the Frog King's Court'' (2000); ''The Thing in Auntie Alma's Pond'' (1996); ''The Hardest, Kindest Gift'' (2001); ''The Mask of Eamonn Tiyado'' (2008; original to collection); ''Herbert Hutchison in the Underworld'' (2008; original to collection); ''The Boy With Silver Eyes'' (2008; original to collection)[[/labelnote]]\\\
Notably, the series contains eight stories[[note]]''Duffy's Jacket'' (1989); ''Clean as a Whistle'' (1994); ''I, Earthling'' (1994); ''The Ghost Let Go'' (1994); ''There's Nothing Under the Bed'' (1995); ''The Thing in Auntie Alma's Pond'' (1996); ''Biscuits of Glory'' (1995); ''The Metamorphosis of Justin Jones'' (1997)[[/note]] also contained in the ''Literature/BruceCovillesBookOf'' series. For tropes from those stories, see the aforementioned page.
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!!''Oddly Enough'' contains examples of:
* ArmyOfTheDead: Brion, the protagonist of ''With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm'' (originally released in ''A Wizard's Dozen: Stories of the Fantastic'' and collected in Coville's anthology ''Oddly Enough''), leads one against enemy soldiers who've been sent to raid his kingdom. Unusually, the dead don't attack the living - they just point out what it'll be like to be dead, and the soldiers decide they'd rather go home and live as long as possible.
* BackFromTheDead: Brion, the protagonist of ''With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm'', returns from the grave after being executed and angrily forces the king who ordered his demise to call back the soldiers he controls and withdraw his kingdom from the ongoing multi-sided war altogether. After three years of advising the king, Brion ultimately sees the other armies also decide to stop fighting and, with the threat ended for good, is thus able to return to his grave and rest in peace.
* DraftDodging: In ''With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm'', there are people who avoid being drafted because they're physically unfit and others who avoid it because they're too frightened, too smart or simply "too loving"; this last category is the most dangerous, because objecting to the war has been made illegal. The protagonist, Brion, fits the last category and fakes being crippled to avoid serving in a war he doesn't believe in, but ends up revealing his true status and is arrested and [[OffWithHisHead executed]] for it.
* ForeverWar: In ''With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm'', there's an endless one going on between the fifteen kingdoms on the continent of Losfar, and it's gone on for ''so'' long that when one kingdom pulls out, the others decide after a few years that this kingdom deserves punishment for daring to get prosperous while they're still spending their resources to defend themselves, and thus send armies of their own against it. Fortunately, Brion and his ghostly allies are able to finally bring the war to an end.
* NeutralityBacklash: Attempted in ''With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm''. When Brion's kingdom pulls out of the Forever War and starts minding their own business, the other fourteen kingdoms send armies to invade. Brion calls up an army of his fellow dead to point out what the continuing war will lead to, leading to the other armies leaving them in peace.
!!''Odder Than Ever'' contains examples of:
* AllGaysLoveTheater: In "Am I Blue?", Melvin says that certain groups like people in the theatre have a higher percent of gay people because they're naturally artistic. Though he points out the stereotype about all people in theatre being gay is false, as most of them are actually straight and only some of the gay characters are into theatre.
* FairyGodmother: In "Am I Blue?", Melvin is a CampGay Fairy Godfather in every sense of the term. As an [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angelic being]] who, as a human, was killed in a gay-bashing, he insisted on reclaiming the term when choosing his {{Heaven}}ly career.
* FlyingUnderTheGaydar: In "Am I Blue?", this is {{discussed|Trope}} and {{defied|Trope}} by Melvin the CampGay [[FairyGodmother fairy godfather]]. He can easily drop the mannerisms and look more masculine just by adjusting his posture. However, he's proud of himself and refuses to hide, not least since he lost his first life to a HomophobicHateCrime.
-->'''Melvin:''' Protective coloration. You learn to use it to get along in the world if you want. Only I got sick of living in the box the world prescribed; it was far too small to hold me.
* {{Gaydar}}: In "Am I Blue?", the main character gets a form of this, identifying gay people by the color blue. Also in the short story, everyone from coast to coast gets a form of this too, for twenty-four hours. Both were a result of wishes granted by his [[{{Pun}} fairy]] godfather. The main character's final wish is for a homophobic bully to be turned blue as well... only for the godfather to return smirking that [[ArmoredClosetGay that wish is still available]].
* MagicalQueer: Literal and very self-aware version of this in ''Am I Blue'', with a gay fairy godfather/guardian angel. Also played for tragedy, since the character ended up that way because he was killed in a gay-bashing incident.
* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: The goblins in the short story "The Stinky Princess", while definitely weird, are mostly snarky and pragmatic, and tend to be a lot more decent than many human characters.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: "Am I Blue?" has two characters, one extremely homophobic politician and a bully who beat up the protagonist for being gay, who were both revealed to be gay.
!!''Oddest of All'' contains examples of:
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[[folder: ''Moongobble and Me'']]
* Literature.MoongobbleAndMe
''Moongobble and Me'' is a series by Creator/BruceCoville, in which ayoung boy named Edward finds himself having adventures with the wizard Moongobble after the latter moves to his town.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* ''The Dragon of Doom'' (2003)
* ''The Weeping Werewolf'' (2004)
* ''The Evil Elves'' (2004)
* ''The Mischief Monster'' (2007)
* ''The Naughty Nork'' (2009)
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!!This series contains the following tropes:
* TheAdjectivalSuperhero: Less a hero, but the titular character of book 2 is "The Weeping Werewolf"... so named because he cries a lot. It turns out he cries a lot because he's been separated from his family and misses them terribly.
* BalefulPolymorph: Moongobble's spells have a tendency to unwittingly turn people and things into cheese (including himself). Book 4 also sees him accidentally turn his toad companion Urk into a miniature cat, to Urk's great distress (fortunately, he gets better by the end of the book).
* BewitchedAmphibians: Book 5 reveals that (witch) was turned into a were-toad a long time ago, as was a member of the Nork family. When she broke his curse, he
* BigShadowLittleCreature: The titular "Dragon of Doom" from book 1 turns out to be a very small creature, who uses trickery to make himself appear big and scary so as to scare away intruders to the cave he's guarding.
* DisappearedDad: In book 1, it's noted that Edward's never known his father. Book 2 sees them happily reunited though.
* DoomyDoomsOfDoom: Book 1 features the "Dragon of Doom", which is said to be ''very'' dangerous. It turns out to be faking for intimidation purposes.
* IncredibleShrinkingMan: Edward gets shrunk to blend in with the titular "evil elves" in book 3, so he can swipe a dangerous magical item from them.
* IneptMage: Moongobble, full stop. Most of his spells end up turning things into cheese, causing explosions or otherwise going wrong, to the point where it's more surprising when he ''doesn't'' mess one up.
* IntellectualAnimal: More than a few, starting in book 1 with Moongobble's partner Urk the toad, who's fully capable of speaking like a human. It's implied that his magical nature is the cause, since Edward notes that most animals he's met don't speak unless they're magic in some way, and in book 2, he's surprised to meet some animals who can speak but don't have obvious magic.
* TheMagnificent: Many characters have this, such as Fazwad the Mighty, or ? (witch in book 2).
* MirrorMoralityMachine: Book 3 features a jewel called "the Queen's Belly Button", which makes good people turn nasty (and is what made the titular "Evil Elves" be evil). It's possible, though difficult, to fight off the effects with a lot of concentration and focusing on the things that are good in your life.
* PowerIncontinence: (), a witch in book 2, is painfully shy and tends to lose control of her powers when she gets upset.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Fazwad the Mighty, who's been pretty nasty to Moongobble because of his ineptness and has been purposely being hard on him since the series' start, is revealed in the climax of book 3 to have been faking it the entire time as a test of Moongobble's heart, to see how he would react to someone being mean to him. As Moongobble has never once been mean or nasty back, he's passed, which leads to him being accepted into the Society of Magicians.
* ShrinkingViolet: (), a witch in book 2, is so painfully shy that she hides from anyone who tries to visit her. The only way to get answers from her is to be polite, and not to disturb her for long enough, or otherwise she'll lose control.
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[[folder:''Storm Runner'']]
* Literature.StormRunner:
The ''Storm Runner'' trilogy is the second series in the ''Creator/RickRiordan Presents'' imprint line, written by by Jennifer C. Cervantes and focused on [[Myth/MayanMythology Maya]] and [[Myth/AztecMythology Aztec]] mythology. It centers around Zane Obispo, a boy whose adventure begins when he discovers his father is one of the Mayan gods, and that he's destined to release Ah-Puch (pronounced "ah-POOCH"), the Mayan god of death, darkness and destruction and the former ruler of the ninth lowest level of Xib'alb'a (the Mayan underworld) from his prison, which turns out to be only the first of his adventures.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''The Storm Runner'' (September 18, 2018)
* #2: ''The Fire Keeper'' (September 3, 2019)
* #3: ''The Shadow Crosser'' (September 1, 2020)
* ''The Cave of Doom'' (September 28, 2021; released in ''The Cursed Carnival and Other Calamities: New Stories About Mythic Heroes'')\\\
The ''Shadow Bruja'' spinoff duology, focused on Aztec myth and centered around Renata "Ren" Santiago (daughter of Pacific, the former Mayan goddess of time), who debuted in ''The Fire Keeper'', has also been announced, and consists of:\\\
* #1: ''Lords of Night'' (October 4, 2022)
* #2: Untitled sequel (2023)\\\
Not to be confused with the similarly titled ''Literature/StormRunners'' trilogy by Creator/RolandSmith.
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!!This series contains the following tropes:
* {{Animorphism}}: Brooks is a half-human, half-Nawal, whose mother was a full Nawal, or shapeshifter. Due to this heritage, she's also able to change into an animal, but her human blood limits her to just one species -- a hawk, in her case, though she can also vary its size.
* BigEater: In book 1, Zane mentions that his dog Rosie (a Boxer/Dalmatian mix) is one of these, eating as much as an elephant.
* CanineCompanion: Rosie, a Boxer/Dalmatian mix who's missing one of her front legs, is this for Zane; he found her wandering the desert when he was ten and adopted her, and spends much of the first book seeking to rescue her from the underworld after she sacrifices herself to save him from a demon runner. After becoming a hellhound, she remains Zane's companion,
* DivineParentage: Zane Obispo is a godborn, whose mother is a mortal and whose father is Hurakan, the Mayan god of wind, storms and fire.
* EyeBeams: Rosie, the boxer/Dalmatian mix, has heat vision as a hellhound.
* GodOfFire: Hurakan is the Mayan god of wind, storms, and fire. His son [[TheHero Zane]] has inherited his fire abilities.
* GrowingWings: After becoming a hellhound, Rosie is able to grow a pair of bat-like wings and fly while in Xibalba.
* {{Hellhound}}: During the first book, when Rosie dies and goes to Xibalba, she becomes one of these, having her form altered (including growing in size to twice the size of a lion) and gaining supernatural powers.
* SuperMode: At the climax of book 3, Rosie's hellhound form becomes this, as she's granted the ability to change between her original form and her hellhound form.
Trivia:
* TributeToFido: Jennifer Cervantes based Zane's dog Rosie, a boxer/Dalmatian mix, off her own dog, who passed away about six months after book 1 was released.
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[[folder:''The Fifth Horseman: A Sleepy Hollow Legend'']]
* Literature.TheFifthHorsemanASleepyHollowLegend
''The Fifth Horseman: A Sleepy Hollow Legend'' is a novel by Gregg Gonzales, revolving around a terrifying battle with the supernatural in the town of Sleepy Hollow, set over the course of September and October of 1988. The narrator is Carl Penderholt, a junior in college who's home recovering from mononucleosis, and gets caught up in matters when his old friend Jon Storm is killed by the Headless Horseman. Investigating what Jon had been up to recently, Carl soon discovers that what he thought was a fun search for pirate treasure is in fact part of a war for the very souls of the people of Sleepy Hollow.
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!!This book contains examples of:
* AbuseOfReturnPolicy: Patrick Higgins is a dedicated user of this as a way of living beyond his means, which he calls the "thirty-day plan" -- buy something with at least a thirty-day, money-back guarantee, use it and return it. During the events of the book, he uses it to get a metal detector, but the narration notes that he's previously used this method to furnish his room with a different stereo every month, and to get a radar detector.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Dr. Van Tassel, who pretends to be friendly but is actually the leader of the coven that's secretly behind much of the evil in Sleepy Hollow.]]
* BuriedAlive: When old Van Dam's attempted FakingTheDead was figured out by his enemies, they ensured he'd be trapped in his coffin rather than escape it like he planned, resulting in this trope.
* TheConspiracy: The wicked coven that's secretly controlled Sleepy Hollow for centuries, using a mix of black magic, fear and paranoia-inducing drugs.
* CrystalSkull: The titular Fifth Horseman can only be defeated by performing a ritual with a certain crystal skull, which sucks Chaos out of its physical body and traps it within the skull.
* FakingTheDead:
** Old Van Dam pretends to have died in his sleep, only revealing his true status to Carl and his friends and intending to slip out of his coffin before the burial so he can attend his own funeral in disguise. The trope is subverted when he's found out by his enemies and buried alive.
** [[spoiler: Dr. Van Tassel does this, animating his own ancestor and then de-animating him to leave a body behind that people will think is him.]]
* HeadlessHorseman: Naturally, given this is set in Sleepy Hollow. The titular character is actually Chaos, the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse, whom a coven accidentally called up to possess the body of the headless Hessian horseman of legend, and is the real Big Bad of the story.
* HorsemenOfTheApocalypse: The titular Fifth Horseman is Chaos, the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse, who "brings anarchy, conspiracy, suspicion, paranoia, confusion, mistrust and doubt -- all of which destroy man from the inside out.", and has taken over the body of the Headless Horseman that haunts Sleepy Hollow. [[spoiler: It's finally defeated when it's sucked from its physical body and confined in a certain crystal skull, which first has to be activated via a special ritual.]]
* LivingShadow: This is one of the Horseman's powers, as it can send its shadow out to do its bidding, usually to capture someone. [[spoiler:In the climax, after the Horseman's spirit is sucked into the crystal skull, it reappears... and is promptly sucked in as well.]]
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: Jaime]] is captured by the Horseman and never seen again.
* OffWithHisHead: The Headless Horseman's favorite method of disposing of its victims. [[spoiler: It's how he kills Dr. Van Tassel, which also exposes the latter as one of the villains.]]
* PoliceAreUseless: Carl's older brother Elliot certainly thinks so of the local police, and feels that even their chief, who's easily the best on the force, won't do much good when it comes down to solving Jon Storm's murder.
* ShotInTheAss: One of the protagonists, Patrick Higgins, get shot in the butt by the HeadlessHorseman itself, while he's part of a group trying to follow the horse that the demon is using. Fortunately, it's just a flesh wound.
* UndercoverCopReveal: [[spoiler: Mr. Morris]] eventually confesses to Carl and his friends that he's an agent for the FBI, who's been investigating the coven in Sleepy Hollow for years.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The epilogue picks up ten years later as Carl details what happened to pretty much all the survivors of the story; he himself commutes from Sleepy Hollow to New York City, working for a financial organization of some type.
* ZombieApocalypse: The final arc of the story, Halloween night itself, turns into this as the Headless Horseman reanimates an army of undead soldiers from the American Revolution to wage all-out war against the people of Sleepy Hollow, with the residents fighting back to survive and defeat the zombies.
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[[folder:''Universal Monsters'']]
* Literature.UniversalMonsters
''Universal Monsters'' is a six-part series by Larry Mike Garmon, released by Scholastic for younger readers in 2001-2002 and based on some of the classic Franchise/UniversalHorror films. The series begins when an accident with a prototype of an experimental holographic movie projector (illicitly borrowed from the Universal Studios theme park) and a lightning storm releases the monsters and other antagonistic characters from the films ''Film/{{Dracula|1931}}'' (1931), ''Film/{{Frankenstein|1931}}'' (1931), ''[[Film/TheMummy1932 The Mummy]]'' (1932), ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein'' (1935), ''[[Film/TheWolfMan1941 The Wolf Man]]'' (1941) and ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon'' (1954) into the real world. Consequently, the escapees have to be hunted down and returned to the films by a trio of 21st century teenagers.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''Dracula: Return of Evil''
* #2: ''The Wolf Man: Blood Moon Rising''
* #3: ''Frankenstein: Anatomy of Terror''
* #4: ''The Mummy: Book Of The Dead''
* #5: ''Creature From the Black Lagoon: Black Water Horror''
* #6: ''Bride Of Frankenstein: Vow Of Vengeance''
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!!This series provides examples of:
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: While investigating the Gill Man's cave, the group finds a pile of bones, including a skull from a great white shark. Sharks don't have bones, except for their teeth -- the skulls are pure cartilage.
* BackForTheFinale: All the previously captured monsters are re-released in book 6.
* CanonForeigner: [[spoiler: A Gill ''woman'' appears in book 5, somehow created by the desires of the Gill Man.]]
* CatchPhrase: Bob's is "I'm off, said the madman".
* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: (Book 4?)
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler: In the very end of "Blood Moon Rising", it’s revealed that Bela the gypsy and his mother Maleva fused with two real people -- Deputy Chad Barnes and his mother Wilma Winokea -- when they were released from the films, and the two are just as nasty even when they ''aren’t'' possessed.]]
* FusionDance: [[spoiler: Some of the monsters are revealed to have merged with real people, starting with Bela the gypsy and his mother Maleva in ''Blood Moon Rising''.]]
* ItOnlyWorksOnce: The method that returned Dracula to his film doesn't work on the next monster; the trio quickly figure out they have to use a different way of returning each monster or group of monsters.
* MonsterMash: The final book sees the return of all the previous monsters, bringing them together for the first time in the setting.
* NoOntologicalInertia: When the monsters are defeated and pulled back into the films, any damage they've done is reversed as well, up to and including reviving anyone killed during their rampages.
* ThePowerOfLove: [[spoiler: Allows the Creature From the Black Lagoon to create a mate for himself.]]
* PowerTrio: The main protagonists, Robert "Captain Bob" Hardin, Joe Motley and Nina Nobriega.
* RefugeeFromTVLand: A combination of lightning and a holographic projector releases characters from the six films, including:
** Count Dracula
** Larry Talbot's wolf man ([[spoiler: but not Talbot himself -- the Wolf Man incarnates through Don Earl Abernathy after he's bitten by another Wolf Man), Bela the gypsy's wolf man (incarnated through Deputy Chad Barnes) and his mother Maleva (incarnated through Wilma Winokea)]].
** Herr Frankenstein, Fritz and the Creature they made.
** Imhotep (AKA Ardeth Bey)
** The Gill Man [[spoiler: and Dr. Mark Williams.]]
** The Bride of Frankenstein [[spoiler: and Dr. Pretorius.]]
* RidiculousProcrastinator: Referenced in the epilogue of the first book, as Captain Bob looks on one of his websites for the most absurd headline possible for Current Events. One is "Scientist Discovers Secrets of Procrastination: Will Release Results At A Later Date".
* WomenAreWiser: Nina, a junior to the boys' freshmen, is by far the most reasonable of the group.
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[[foldercontrol]]
24 Cozy Mystery series:
[[folder:''Bewitching Mysteries'']]
* Literature.BewitchingMysteries
''Bewitching Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Madelyn Alt. The series features Maggie O'Neill, a woman from Stony Creek, Indiana, who undergoes a sudden change of jobs one day and starts working for antique shop owner Felicity "Liss" Dow. Early on, she learns her new boss is a real, practicing witch who supplies to the local magic community, and that she herself has magical potential.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #01: ''The Trouble With Magic'' (2006)
* #02: ''A Charmed Death'' (2006)
* #03: ''Hex Marks the Spot'' (2007)
* #04: ''No Rest for the Wiccan'' (2008)
* #05: ''Where There's a Witch'' (2009)
* #06: ''A Witch in Time'' (2010)
* #07: ''Home for a Spell'' (2011)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* TheEmpath: Maggie's magic takes the form of this,
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Sounds like, in this case. In book 6, Maggie overhears two male voices while she's stuck in a hospital elevator, who sound like they're plotting something horrible. [[spoiler: It turns out they were planning the one man's proposal to his girlfriend, Maggie's friend Steff.]]
Trivia:
* DevelopmentHell: The series had seven books released from 2006 to 2011. An eighth book, ''In Charm's Way'', was announced and given a pre-release date for 2012, but it was later delisted. On top of that, Alt hasn't been heard from since sometime ''in'' 2012, leaving the series' fate up in the air.
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[[folder:''Bibliophile Mysteries'']]
* Literature.BibliophileMysteries
''Bibliophile Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Kate Carlisle. The series features San Francisco-based book restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright, who begins solving murders on a part-time basis after her mentor is murdered and she meets British security officer Derek Stone, who considers her the top suspect for discovering the body.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #01: ''Homicide in Hardcover'' (2009)
* #02: ''If Books Could Kill'' (2010)
* #03: ''The Lies that Bind'' (2010)
* #04: ''Murder Under Cover'' (2011)
* #04.5: "Pages of Sin" (2012; e-book)
* #05: ''One Book in the Grave '' (2012)
* #06: ''Peril in Paperback'' (2012)
* #07: ''A Cookbook Conspiracy'' (2013)
* #08: ''The Book Stops Here'' (2014)
* #09: ''Ripped from the Pages'' (2015)
* #10: ''Books of a Feather'' (2016)
* #11: ''Once Upon a Spine'' (2017)
* #12: ''Buried in Books '' (2018)
* #13: ''The Book Supremacy '' (2019)
* #14: ''The Grim Reader'' (2020)
* #15: ''Little Black Book'' (2021)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* TheCorpseStopsHere: In book 1, main character and book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright discovers her mortally wounded mentor Abraham Karastovsky and is forced to watch as he [[DiedInYourArmsTonight dies in her arms]]. Because of this, she immediately becomes the chief suspect in the eyes of Derek Stone, the security officer on duty at the event they were both attending. She's exonerated soon enough, but is rather ticked at being considered as a murderer based on such flimsy evidence.
*
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[[folder:''Black Cat Bookshop Mysteries'']]
* Literature.BlackCatBookshopMysteries
''Black Cat Bookshop Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Ali Brandon. The series features Darla Pettistone, originally from Texas, who's moved to Brooklyn, New York after unexpectedly inheriting the "Pettistone's Fine Books" bookstore from her now deceased Great-Aunt Dee, along with the store's mascot -- Hamlet, an oversize black cat.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''Double Booked for Death'' (2011)
* #2: ''A Novel Way To Die'' (2012)
* #3: ''Words with Fiends'' (2013)
* #4: ''Literally Murder'' (2014)
* #5: ''Plot Boiler'' (2015)
* #6: ''Twice Told Tail'' (2016)
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!!This series provides examples of:
*
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[[folder:''Bookmobile Cat Mysteries'']]
* Literature.BookmobileCatMysteries
''Bookmobile Cat Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Laurie Cass. The series features Minnie Hamilton, who's recently moved to Chilson, Michigan and become the town's new assistant librarian. There, she becomes the owner of a stray cat named Eddie and persuades the library to start operating a bookmobile, to bring books to people who lived in towns without libraries or who couldn't get out to libraries. In the process of driving it around, with Eddie at her side, she finds herself drawn into mysteries.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #01: ''Lending A Paw'' (2013)
* #02: ''Tailing a Tabby'' (2014)
* #03: ''Borrowed Crime'' (2015)
* #04: ''Pouncing On Murder'' (2015)
* #05: ''Cat With a Clue'' (2016)
* #06: ''Wrong Side of the Paw'' (2017)
* #07: ''Booking the Crook'' (2019)
* #08: ''Gone with the Whisker'' (2020)
* #09: ''Checking Out Crime'' (2021)
* #10: ''The Crime that Binds'' (announced for October 2022)
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!!This series provides examples of:
*
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[[folder:''Cat Rescue Mysteries'']]
* Literature.CatRescueMysteries
''Cat Rescue Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Toni [=LoTempio=] under the pen name of T. C. [=LoTempio=]. The series features Sydney [=McCall=], who has just left an advertising job in New York and returns to Deer Park, North Carolina to help her sister Kat run the local animal shelter. There, with the aid of an orange tabby cat named Toby, she finds herself solving mysteries. It was discontinued by its original publisher after two volumes, but the author intends to find a new one.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''Purr M For Murder'' (2017)
* #2: ''Death By a Whisker'' (2017)
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!!This series provides examples of:
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[[folder:''Cats and Curios Mysteries'']]
* Literature.CatsAndCuriosMysteries
''Cats and Curios Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Rebecca M. Hale. The series features accountant Rebecca Hale, who unexpectedly inherits her uncle's antique shop in San Francisco when he dies. Along with her cats Rupert and Isabella, she stumbles across mysteries as she explores her uncle's past and the investigations he and his own friends had been conducting.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''How to Wash a Cat'' (2008)
* #2: ''Nine Lives Last Forever'' (2010)
* #3: ''How to Moon a Cat'' (2011)
* #4: ''How to Tail a Cat'' (2012)
* #5: ''How to Paint a Cat'' (2014)
* #6: ''How to Catch a Cat'' (2015)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* MultiPartEpisode: Books 5 and 6 are essentially this, as book 5 revolves around exposing a killer and book 6 revolves around tracking down that same killer and trying to keep them from killing again.
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[[folder:''Dead-End Job Mysteries'']]
* Literature.DeadEndJobMysteries
''Dead-End Job Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Elaine Viets. The series features Helen Hawthorne, formerly an executive who is now living off the grid and working a string of dead-end jobs in order to make ends meet, all while stumbling upon murders and trying to stay out of the spotlight, all so her deadbeat ex-husband and the courts that sided in his favor during their divorce can't track her down. After book 9, her life takes a turn for the better, with a new husband and a full-time career as a private detective, but she still winds up having to go undercover at other jobs to solve her cases.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #01: ''Shop Till You Drop'' (2003)
* #02: ''Murder Between the Covers'' (2003)
* #03: ''Dying to Call You'' (2004)
* #04: ''Just Murdered'' (2005)
* #05: ''Murder Unleashed'' (2006)
* #06: ''Murder with Reservations'' (2007)
* #07: ''Clubbed to Death'' (2008)
* #08: ''Killer Cuts'' (2009)
* #09: ''Half-Price Homicide'' (2010)
* #10: ''Pumped for Murder'' (2011)
* #11: ''Final Sail'' (2012)
* #12: ''Board Stiff'' (2013)
* #12.5: "Killer Blonde" (2005)[[note]]Collected in ''Drop-Dead Blonde'' anthology; reissued as an e-book in 2014.[[/note]]
* #13: ''Catnapped!'' (2014)
* #14: ''Checked Out'' (2015)
* #15: ''The Art of Murder'' (2016)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* TheAllegedCar: While on the run, Helen Hawthorne traded her Lexus for one of these, which got her to Fort Lauderdale in Florida and promptly died, spending the next two years in a parking lot, just leaking oil and other stuff where it sat. When she finally gets it fixed enough to be barely functional in book 7, she calls it the Toad and winces every time it lets out a cloud of smoke and oil while she's driving, and she dreads it breaking down again. At the end of the book, having quit her latest job, she finally sells it to a mechanic who plans to use it for parts -- and the money she gets is barely enough to pay the last set of repair bills on it.
* DivorceAssetsConflict:
** Protagonist Helen Hawthorne is avoiding one of these with her current lifestyle for the first nine books. Thanks to the courts siding with her deadbeat and cheating husband Robbie during their divorce proceedings (and her own lawyer doing nothing in her defense), she legally owes him half of every paycheck she gets from then on, and has been forced to effectively live off the grid -- no bank account, no phone, no permanent address -- and work a string of dead-end jobs, paid only in cash with no benefits, in order to avoid him getting so much as a penny from her. Even then, her best efforts aren't enough to keep him from eventually finding her and demanding money. [[spoiler: This ceases to be a problem in book 9 after it turns out the judge has since been arrested for taking bribes, including one from Rob to rule in his favor; Helen is able to get a new divorce settlement as a result and no longer owes Rob anything, though she still possibly owes taxes on what she's earned since the divorce. To top it off, Rob gets killed in the same book before he can try to contest things.]]
** In book 5, Helen's working at a pet boutique where one of the customers, Willoughby Barclay, drops off her labradoodle Barkley to be groomed. Her husband Francis later comes to pick up the animal, and it's only afterward that Helen finds out he and his wife are in the middle of a bitter divorce and it's the wife who has custody of their house and the dog, who's a mascot for the Davis Family Dollar department stores; Francis effectively kidnapped the animal so Barkley would lose her job and Willoughby would lose the income it brought in as a result. [[spoiler: Before the book is out, Willoughby has been murdered, Francis has been arrested for doing it, and Barkley has lost her job because it came out that Willoughby was having an affair with another woman before her death. With her owners dead or in jail, the animal gets a happy ending when she's given to Francis's housekeeper, who'd taken care of Barkley for Francis after the kidnapping and treats her as a beloved pet rather than a source of income.]]
* TheFundamentalist: Helen's ultra-religious mother Dolores, who keeps trying to force her brand of belief on her daughter, including insisting that despite everything Helen went through to make it legal, the church ''doesn't'' recognize Helen's divorce and so she should come back to her first husband; she is ''so'' convinced in her beliefs that she barges in on Helen's wedding in book 8 to stop it, saying she'd rather see Helen dead than married to anyone other than Rob.
* IncriminatingIndifference: In the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue of the first book, this is what results in a "Guilty" verdict for the killer (along with all the other physical evidence against them) -- they showed no emotion during the trial.
* KangarooCourt: Helen's divorce trial was one. Her deadbeat husband Rob had already bribed the judge and her own lawyer refused to stand up for her, resulting in the judge awarding Rob half her future income; this prompted Helen to go on the run to avoid paying Rob a cent. Justice is eventually served in book 9 when the judge, who'd been found out six months after the divorce, confesses to accepting bribe money from Rob, and a new judge gets Helen a settlement in her favor.
* MysteriousNote: In book 8, Helen starts getting anonymous threatening letters in the mail, which she figures are related to her current murder investigation. It turns out to be her ultra-religious mother trying to stop her upcoming wedding, since she doesn't believe in divorce and therefore considers Helen to be still married to her first husband.
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Helen Hawthorne has a different job in each book of the series. In books 1-3, she has to find new work in the end because the place she'd been at closed down. In books 4-8, a variety of reasons lead to her choosing to go (including bad events at the ends of books 5 and 8; she was unwilling to return to those jobs, since she'd been so happy there before and now they were tainted after [[spoiler: witnessing a man kill himself and seeing her mother have a heart attack at her aborted wedding, respectively]]). In book 9, she finally gets to remarry and, with her new husband, starts a detective business; in books 10-15, she goes undercover at other businesses to investigate things for their current case.
* OnlyBadGuysCallTheirLawyers: More than once in the series, Helen or a friend or coworker of hers wants to call their lawyer (and they do), and the police immediately claim this as reason to be suspicious of them. Book 7 has a very specific lawyer show up to help Helen (who's been accused of murdering her ex-husband Rob after he faked his own murder to get away from his new "wife", who'd sent the lawyer in question), and the cops make it clear that they consider this particular lawyer arriving to be proof positive of Helen's guilt, due to his reputation for defending the obviously guilty.
* ParentalMarriageVeto: Attempted by Helen Hawthorne's mother Dolores. After Helen divorces her deadbeat husband Robbie pre-series and goes on the run, Dolores keeps trying to get her to go back to him -- due to her religious views, she believes divorce isn't recognized by the church and that Helen will burn in Hell if she ever remarries. When Helen is finally getting remarried in book 8, Dolores finds out and is so opposed to it that she's arranged for Helen to get threatening letters warning what will happen if she goes through with it, and finally takes a bus all the way from St. Louis to southern Florida, where she barges in to stop the wedding, declaring that she'd rather see Helen dead than with a man other than Robbie. She then suffers a heart attack and brain bleed during her rant and is essentially comatose afterward, so she has to be put in a home for the rest of her life, dying in book 9. Her death and Helen getting a new divorce settlement allow the wedding to finally go off by the end of the book.
* StartingANewLife: Protagonist Helen Hawthorne is forced to do this in order to avoid making the court-ordered payments (half of every paycheck) to her deadbeat ex-husband Rob, living off the grid in South Florida and working a string of dead-end jobs with under-the-counter paychecks (cash only). He eventually manages to track her down and demand "his share" of her money anyway. [[spoiler: She never does pay out, since she gets a new divorce settlement in her own favor in book 9, and Rob ends up dead soon afterward.]]
* TheStoner: During the first two books, one of Helen's neighbors at the apartment complex is Phil, a man she's never seen except for a perpetual cloud of weed smoke coming out of his apartment (and a brief glimpse of his "Clapton is God" t-shirt when he pulled her out of her burning apartment in book 1), to the point where she's nicknamed him "Phil the invisible pothead". In book 2, she also finds drug paraphernalia in his apartment when she and an exterminator go in to make sure everything's been removed before the apartments are gassed for termites. Then Book 3 subverts it in a big way when Helen finally meets him in person and finds out that the stoner persona is all an act -- he's really a private investigator and consultant with the government, and is working undercover in order to solve a major money laundering case (which she winds up helping him with).
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The first book ends in this, covering both the main protagonists and the assorted side characters. Later books downplay it, but most of the characters still get explanations about what happened to them afterward.
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: The short story ''Killer Blonde" is this, where Helen's landlady Margery Flax tells her the story of how more than thirty years ago, one blonde murdered another blonde and got away with it.
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[[folder:''Dream Club Mysteries'']]
* Literature.DreamClubMysteries
''Dream Club Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Mary Kennedy. The series features business consultant Taylor Blake, who has gone to Georgia to help her sister Ali with her new candy shop, and unwittingly becomes involved in both mystery and her sister's Dream Interpretation Club.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''Nightmares Can Be Murder'' (2014)
* #2: ''Dream a Little Scream'' (2015)
* #3: ''A Premonition of Murder'' (2016)
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!!This series provides examples of:
*
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[[folder:''Fixer-Upper Mysteries'']]
* Literature.FixerUpperMysteries
''Fixer-Upper Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Kate Carlisle. The series features Shannon Hammer, a home renovation and repair contractor in Seaside Town, Northern California.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''A High-End Finish'' (2014)
* #2: ''This Old Homicide'' (2015)
* #3: ''Crowned and Moldering'' (2015)
* #4: ''Deck the Hallways'' (2016)
* #5: ''Eaves of Destruction'' (2017)
* #6: ''A Wrench in the Works'' (2018)
* #7: ''Shot Through the Hearth '' (2019)
* #8: ''Premeditated Mortar'' (2020)
* #9: ''Absence of Mallets'' (2021)
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!!This series provides examples of:
*
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[[folder:''Haunted Home Renovation Mysteries'']]
* Literature.HauntedHomeRenovationMysteries
''Haunted Home Renovation Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Juliet Blackwell. The series features Melanie "Mel" Turner, who specializes in remodeling historic houses in the San Francisco Bay Area. But one day, her life takes a turn for the unexpected when a coworker dies on the site of one of her remodeling projects and his ghost asks her to solve his murder.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #01: ''If Walls Could Talk'' (2010)
* #02: ''Dead Bolt'' (2011)
* #03: ''Murder on the House'' (2012)
* #04: ''Home for the Haunting'' (2013)
* #04.5: "A Haunting is Brewing" (2014)[[note]]Novella; e-book crossover with the author's ''Witchcraft Mysteries'' series.[[/note]]
* #05: ''Keeper of the Castle'' (2014)
* #06: ''Give Up the Ghost'' (2015)
* #07: ''A Ghostly Light'' (2017)
* #08: ''The Last Curtain Call'' (2020)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* CanonWelding: The novella "A Haunting is Brewing" establishes that the series takes place in the same world as the author's ''Witchcraft Mysteries'' series. Book #8 later references the events of the novella, with Lily Ivory once again playing a part in the story and helping Mel figure out the motive of the ghost in her attic.
* ADogNamedDog: Late in book 1, Mel gets rescued by a dog, whom she takes home. She starts just calling him "Dog", thinking he's just a temporary housemate, but he winds up becoming permanent. Her father winds up renaming him "Doug" a few books later, but hardly anyone can remember this, starting to say one name and switching to another midway through, and Mel ends up sticking with just calling him Dog to avoid the confusion.
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[[folder:''Jaine Austen Mysteries'']]
* Literature.JaineAustenMysteries
''Jaine Austen Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Laura Levine. The series features writer-for-hire Jaine Austen, who lives in Los Angeles and becomes embroiled in murder mysteries after one of her clients becomes a suspect.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #01: ''This Pen for Hire'' (2002)
* #02: ''Last Writes'' (2003)
* #03: ''Killer Blonde'' (2004)
* #04: ''Shoes to Die For'' (2005)
* #05: ''The PMS Murder'' (2006)
* #06: ''Death by Pantyhose'' (2007)
* #06.5: "The Dangers of Candy Canes" (2007)[[note]]Collected in [[Literature/HannahSwensen Joanne Fluke's]] ''Candy Cane Murder'' anthology.[[/note]]
* #07: ''Killing Bridezilla'' (2008)
* #08: ''Killer Cruise'' (2009)
* #09: ''Death of a Trophy Wife'' (2010)
* #09.5: "The Dangers of Gingerbread Cookies" (2010)[[note]]Collected in [[Literature/HannahSwensen Joanne Fluke's]] ''Gingerbread Cookie Murder'' anthology.[[/note]]
* #10: ''Pampered to Death'' (2011)
* #11: ''Death of A Neighborhood Witch'' (2012)
* #11.5: "Nightmare on Elf Street" (2013)[[note]]Collected in ''Secret Santa'' anthology; reissued in [[Literature/HannahSwensen Joanne Fluke's]] 2019 ''Christmas Sweets'' anthology.[[/note]]
* #12: ''Killing Cupid'' (2013)
* #13: ''Death by Tiara'' (2015)
* #14: ''Murder Has Nine Lives'' (2016)
* #15: ''Death of a Bachelorette'' (2017)
* #16: ''Death of a Neighborhood Scrooge'' (2018)
* #17: ''Death of a Gigolo'' (2019)
* #18: ''Murder Gets a Makeover'' (2021)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* NosyNeighbor: Lance started out being Jaine's annoying neighbor who didn't like loud noises coming from her apartment. His nosiness ends up saving her life when he calls the police on a murderer forcing his way into her apartment to try killing her.
*
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[[folder:''Key West Food Critic Mysteries'']]
* Literature.KeyWestFoodCriticMysteries
''Key West Food Critic Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Lucy Burdette. The series features Hayley Snow, who's moved from New Jersey to Key West in order to work as a food critic for the ''Key Zest'' magazine, only to find herself stumbling onto mysteries.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #01: ''An Appetite for Murder'' (2012)
* #02: ''Death in Four Courses'' (2012)
* #03: ''Topped Chef'' (2013)
* #04: ''Murder with Ganache'' (2014)
* #05: ''Death with All the Trimmings'' (2014)
* #06: ''Fatal Reservations'' (2015)
* #07: ''Killer Takeout'' (2016)
* #08: ''Death on the Menu'' (2018)
* #09: ''A Deadly Feast'' (2019)
* #10: ''The Key Lime Crime'' (2020)
* #11: ''A Scone of Contention'' (2021)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* IHaveNoSon: Jonah Barrows, a resturaunt critic and the initial murder victim of book 2, is out and proud. As explained late in the book, however, his parents tried to force him to hide it, ultimately and effectively disowning him when he refused. Later, when he wrote a tell-all book about his life (being open about his sexuality and everything else in his life), they tried to sue he and his publisher for libel.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:''Knit & Nibble Mysteries'']]
* Literature.KnitAndNibbleMysteries
''Knit & Nibble Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Peggy Ehrhart. The series features widowed mother Pamela Paterson, whose daughter has just gone off to college, and who deals with her empty nest syndrome by keeping busy as associate editor of a craft magazine and founder of the Knit and Nibble knitting club in Arborville, New Jersey. But soon, she and her club members must begin a new type of project -- solving murders.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''Murder, She Knit'' (2018)
* #2: ''Died in the Wool'' (2018)
* #3: ''Knit One, Die Two'' (2019)
* #4: ''Silent Knit, Deadly Knit'' (2019)
* #5: ''A Fatal Yarn'' (2020)
* #6: ''Knit of the Living Dead'' (2020)
* #6.5: "Death of a Christmas Card Crafter" (2020)[[note]]Collected in [[Literature/LucyStoneMysteries Leslie Meier's]] ''Christmas Card Murder'' anthology.[[/note]]
* #7: ''Knitty Gritty Murder'' (2021)
* #8: ''Death of a Knit Wit'' (announced for February 2022)
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!!This series provides examples of:
*
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[[folder:''Lighthouse Library Mysteries'']]
* Literature.LighthouseLibraryMysteries
''Lighthouse Library Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Eva Gates (pen name of Vicki Delany). The series features librarian Lucy Richardson, who has recently moved to the outer banks of North Carolina, where she works in the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library -- a library built into a lighthouse. There, she stumbles across mysteries.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''By Book Or By Crook'' (2015)
* #2: ''Booked for Trouble'' (2015)
* #3: ''Reading Up a Storm'' (2016)
* #4: ''The Spook in the Stacks'' (2018)
* #5: ''Something Read, Something Dead'' (2019)
* #6: ''Read and Buried'' (2019)
* #7: ''A Death Long Overdue'' (2020)
* #8: ''Deadly Ever After'' (2021)
* #9: ''Death by Beach Read'' (announced for June 2022)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* InheritanceMurder: [[spoiler: The culprit's motive in book 3.]]
*
[[/folder]]
[[folder:''Magical Cats Mysteries'']]
* Literature.MagicalCatsMysteries
''Magical Cats Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Darlene Ryan, published under the pen name Sofie Kelly. The series features librarian Kathleen Paulson, who has recently moved to Mayville Heights, Minnesota, to supervise the renovations at the local library. While there, she winds up adopting Owen and Hercules, a pair of feral kittens she found at the neglected Wisteria Hill estate, and whom have unusual talents that prove to come in handy when Kathleen stumbles onto mysteries.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #01: ''Curiosity Thrilled the Cat'' (2011)
* #02: ''Sleight of Paw'' (2011)
* #03: ''Copycat Killing'' (2012)
* #04: ''Cat Trick'' (2013)
* #05: ''Final Catcall'' (2013)
* #06: ''A Midwinter's Tail'' (2014)
* #07: ''Faux Paw'' (2015)
* #08: ''Paws and Effect'' (2016)
* #08.5: "The Cat Burglar" (2016)[[note]]Collected in e-book exclusive anthology "Two Tall Tails".[[/note]]
* #09: ''A Tale of Two Kitties'' (2017)
* #10: ''The Cats Came Back'' (2018)
* #11: ''A Night's Tail'' (2019)
* #12: ''A Case of Cat and Mouse'' (2020)
* #13: ''Hooked on a Feline'' (2021)
* #14: ''Whiskers and Lies'' (announced for September 2022)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* ByTheBookCop: Main character Kathleen Paulson's semi-love interest is Marcus Gordon, a cop of this type who investigates most (if not all) of the major crimes in Mayville Heights, Minnesota, and is adamant about sticking to the facts and physical proof rather than gut instinct like Kathleen. And no matter how helpful she and her discoveries are, he keeps telling her to just keep away from whatever case he's working on and not to go snooping around (advice that she continually ignores, despite her own best efforts, seeing as she tends to be a MysteryMagnet and the evidence just keeps coming her way). This puts a major strain on their relationship, such as it is. He mellows out considerably by the end of book 5, when they become an official couple, and is more open with her in books 6 and beyond.
* CatsHateWater: Hercules, one of Kathleen Paulson's two cats, ''really'' hates getting his paws wet. His brother Owen isn't bothered as much, and when the two are arguing, has been known to dump out Hercules' water dish in such a way that the puddle blocks Hercules from getting to his food dish. [[spoiler: In book 8, when Hercules willingly goes out in the rain at one point, Kathleen's friends realize it's a sure sign that something's wrong and come looking for her, just in time to help her after she and another woman as they're escaping from the cistern that the book's villain had trapped them in.]]
* HighOnCatnip: Kathleen's friend and neighbor Rebecca regularly makes and provides her with handmade cloth chickens stuffed with catnip and dubbed "Fred the Funky Chicken". Of Kathleen's two cats, Owen regularly gets stoned from chewing on Fred. His brother Hercules, on the other hand, doesn't see the attraction and views the toys with disdain.
* SameFaceDifferentName: While the books are published under the name Sofie Kelly, the author also publishes nonfiction and young adult books under her real name of Darlene Ryan, and another CozyMystery series, ''Literature/SecondChanceCatMysteries'', under the name Sofie Ryan.
* WhoMurderedTheAsshole: In book 3 (''Copycat Killing''), Kathleen accidentally discovers the skeletonized body of Tom Karlsson, the biological father of her friend Roma (Tom had disappeared when Roma was just a child). When speaking to Roma's mother Pearl about it later, asking who would want to kill him, Pearl admits she knows who: "Pretty much anyone who knew him." Tom, it turns out, had worked for the town bootlegger, cheated at cards, and was abusive to his wife.
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[[folder:''Maine Clambake Mysteries'']]
* Literature.MaineClambakeMysteries
''Maine Clambake Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Barbara Ross. The series features Julia Snowden, who returns to her hometown of Busman's Harbor, Maine, to rescue her family's struggling clambake business. Soon though, she must also begin solving murder mysteries.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #01: ''Clammed Up'' (2013)
* #02: ''Boiled Over'' (2014)
* #03: ''Musseled Out'' (2015)
* #04: ''Fogged Inn'' (2016)
* #04.5: "Nogged Off" (2016)[[note]]Collected in [[Literature/LucyStoneMysteries Leslie Meier's]] ''Eggnog Murder'' anthology.[[/note]]
* #05: ''Iced Under'' (2016)
* #06: ''Stowed Away'' (2017)
* #06.5: "Logged On" (2018)[[note]]Collected in [[Literature/LucyStoneMysteries Leslie Meier's]] ''Yule Log Murder'' anthology.[[/note]]
* #07: ''Steamed Open'' (2018)
* #07.5: "Hallowed Out" (2019)[[note]]Collected in [[Literature/LucyStoneMysteries Leslie Meier's]] ''Haunted House Murder'' anthology.[[/note]]
* #08: ''Sealed Off'' (2019)
* #09: ''Shucked Apart'' (2021)
* #09.5: "Scared Off" (2021)[[note]]Collected in [[Literature/LucyStoneMysteries Leslie Meier's]] ''Halloween Party Murder'' anthology.[[/note]]
* #10: ''Muddled Through'' (announced for June 2022)
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!!This series provides examples of:
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[[folder:''Nick & Nora Mysteries'']]
* Literature.NickAndNoraMysteries
''Nick & Nora Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by T. C. [=LoTempio=] (pen name of Toni [=LoTempio=]). The series features Nora Charles, an investigative journalist in Chicago, who's moved back to her small home town in California to run her late mother's sandwich shop, but finds herself again involved in mysteries after meeting Nick, a cat who belonged to a now-missing and possibly dead private investigator.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''Meow if it's Murder'' (2014)
* #2: ''Claws For Alarm'' (2015)
* #3: ''Of Crime and Catnip'' (2016)
* #4: ''Hiss H for Homicide'' (2021)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: Oliver Jebidiah Sampson, a private detective, is a supporting character. He's quite annoyed when people mention that together, his first two initials and last name sound like "O. J. Simpson", complaining that he's heard all the jokes since the trial in 1995 and that this is why he doesn't like to give out his middle name.
Trivia:
* SequelGap: There was a five-year delay between books 3 and 4, due to the original publisher declining to order more of the series and [=LoTempio=] having to find a new publisher as a result.
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[[folder:''Novel Idea Mysteries'']]
* Literature.NovelIdeaMysteries
''Novel Idea Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Jennifer Stanley and Sylvia May (for books 1-3) and Susan Furlong (for books 4-5) under the pen name Lucy Arlington. The series features Lila Wilkins, a middle-aged mother and features journalist in North Carolina, who loses her job when her employers are forced to downsize and finds a new one as an intern at the Novel Ideas literary agency. She soon finds herself stumbling across dead bodies and must solve the crimes.\\\
It has been effectively discontinued since book 5, as the publisher has yet to request any further volumes.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''Buried in a Book'' (2012)
* #2: ''Every Trick in the Book'' (2013)
* #3: ''Books, Cooks, and Crooks'' (2014)
* #4: ''Played by the Book'' (2015)
* #5: ''Off the Books'' (2016)
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!!This series provides examples of:
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[[folder:''Scottish Bookshop Mysteries'']]
* Literature.ScottishBookshopMysteries
''Scottish Bookshop Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Paige Shelton. The series features Delaney Nichols, an archivist from Kansas, who's just lost her museum job and subsequently moves to Edinburgh, Scotland, to work at a bookstore called "The Cracked Spine", which specializes in hard-to-find books and other items. There, she develops new friendships with her coworkers and others, but also begins stumbling onto murder mysteries.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''The Cracked Spine'' (2016)
* #2: ''Of Books and Bagpipes'' (2017)
* #2.5: "A Christmas Tartan" (2016 e-book; later collected in the paperback edition of book 3)
* #3: ''Lost Books and Old Bones'' (2018)
* #4: ''The Loch Ness Papers'' (2019)
* #5: ''The Stolen Letter'' (2020)
* #6: ''Deadly Editions'' (2021)
* #7: ''The Burning Pages'' (announced for April 2022)
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!!This series provides examples of:
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[[folder:''Second Chance Cat Mysteries'']]
* Literature.SecondChanceCatMysteries
''Second Chance Cat Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Darlene Ryan, publishing under the pen name Sofie Ryan. The series features Sarah Grayson, who has opened a second-hand shop in North Harbor, Maine and is raising a rescue cat named Elvis. She also finds herself stumbling across mysteries, to the dismay of her boyfriend (a death examiner for the local medical office) who would prefer that she and four elderly friends of hers, who are also involved in her business, leave such things to the police.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''The Whole Cat and Caboodle'' (2014)
* #2: ''Buy a Whisker'' (2015)
* #3: ''A Whisker of Trouble'' (2016)
* #3.5: "No More Pussyfooting Around" (2016)[[note]]Collected in e-book exclusive anthology "Two Tall Tails".[[/note]]
* #4: ''Telling Tails'' (2017)
* #5: ''The Fast and the Furriest'' (2017)
* #6: ''No Escape Claws'' (2019)
* #7: ''Claw Enforcement'' (2020)
* #8: ''Undercover Kitty'' (2021)
* #9: ''Totally Pawstruck'' (announced for February 2022)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* AcquittedTooLate: In book 1, it's explained that Detective Michelle Andrews used to be friends with Sarah when they were younger, until Michelle's father Rob went to prison for embezzlement and Sarah made some angry remarks in the heat of the moment about wishing he was dead; soon afterward, he would indeed die of a fast-acting cancer. After the two begin to repair their friendship, Sarah and her friends spend the next few books doing some investigations into the crime he supposedly committed, knowing that even if they do prove his innocence, it'll be this trope, but they feel it's worth it to help Michelle. [[spoiler: In book 6, they succeed in proving he was framed, and the real culprit is arrested.]]
* ByTheBookCop: Nicolas "Nick" Elliot is a death examiner for the local medical office, but he winds up filling this role, and constantly tells his mother and her friends to stay out of police business on the grounds that it's too dangerous for them, even after the face of the agency, Alfred Peterson, has officially and legally become a registered private investigator early in book 3. He eventually comes to accept that there's nothing he can do to stop them from investigating and starts actively cooperating with them.
* ChainOfDeals: In book 1, Sarah Grayson explains that she got her house this way, over the course of a few years. She cleaned out a barn, which had an old Volkswagen beetle (which hadn't been driven in twenty-five years) in it; the owner said if she could get it out, it was hers. She did, then got her stepbrother to fix it up a bit, traded it for an old MG, traded that for a camper van that she lived in for six months, traded ''that'' for a one-room cabin that she and her college roommate lived in for their last year of college, and finally used the cabin as a down payment on her house.
* ClearTheirName: In several books, the Angels get involved in a case where the chief suspect is a friend of theirs, or even one of them, and have to do this.
** Their first case involves them working to clear their friend Madeleine Hamilton, who's been accused of killing her boyfriend.
** Book 2 has Liz as the main suspect.
** Book 5 has Sarah's friend and employee Mac as the main suspect.
** Book 6 has the Angels hired by Mallory Pearson, who wants them to prove her father (who'd entered a plea deal and gone to prison) innocent of her mother's murder. [[spoiler: They not only succeed, they clear the name of Rob Andrews, who'd gone to prison for embezzlement when Sarah was fifteen and whose case they'd been working on over the course of multiple books.]]
* ConvenientComa: Subverted in books 5 and 6, where a comatose patient is treated ''very'' realistically. In book 5, Mac reveals his past: his wife Leila fell into a coma from carbon monoxide poisoning almost two years ago and has been under a doctor's care ever since. [[spoiler: At the end of the book, he finally goes back to see her for the first time since her parents gained legal control of her care; book 6 reveals that she died, still comatose, two weeks later.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Mac Mackenzie / [=McKenzie=], Sarah's right-hand man and jack-of-all-trades at Second Chance, has his revealed in book 5 when someone from his past returns. He eventually admits to Sarah that his wife Leila has been in a coma from carbon monoxide poisoning for almost two years, and he moved away because her parents, who never approved of him and thought he was the one responsible for it, sued him for legal control over her care and won. [[spoiler: By book's end, he's been cleared of both that crime and the murder of her best friend, who'd figured out the real culprit, and the person responsible for both acts has been arrested.]]
* {{Determinator}}: No matter how many times they're told to leave crime-solving to the police, Sarah's friends Elizabeth "Liz" French, Charlotte Elliot, Rose Jackson and Alfred "Mr. P." Peterson just will not stop investigating until the crime is solved.
* EekAMouse: The climax of the first book features this -- [[spoiler: Elvis, the titular "second chance cat" (a former stray adopted by the owner of a second-hand/repurposing shop) drops a nearly-dead mouse on the killer's foot, distracting her before she can shoot Elvis's owner (who's able to duck behind a counter with the time given). This also gives the cops time to burst in and arrest the panicking killer before she regains her senses. Elvis's owner also takes a few nervous steps back when someone points out, after the arrest, that the mouse is real -- and still twitching -- and not a toy like she thought.]]
* EvilDetectingDog: Or cat, in this case. Elvis is essentially a living lie detector, and Sarah has come to rely on his senses to determine when people aren't being honest.
* ExpensiveGlassOfCrap:
** In book 3, Sarah is hired to help clean out a house of a recently deceased man, who'd invested in rare and expensive wine so as to provide an inheritance for his son and grandchildren. It turns out he was scammed into buying this type instead; the man who was hired to appraise the collection discovered the fact and was trying to trace the original sellers when he ended up the VictimOfTheWeek.
** The same book has another potential culprit in the murder who was also attempting to scam people into buying fake wines. The heroes set up a sting operation to catch him, which works, but he turns out to not be the killer.
* InheritanceMurder: In book 4, while investigating the victim of the book, Sarah discovers that [[spoiler: his grandmother had come into a great deal of money suddenly. She also finds that the woman had died just as suddenly, and it's all but confirmed that her grandson switched her medications to kill her so he'd inherit that same money.]]
* LeaveNoWitnesses: Almost every killer in the books tries to kill Sarah when she catches on to their crime.
** [[spoiler: In book 3, a wine appraiser discovers that his client, who'd hired him to appraise the man's father's wine collection and subsequently found they were fakes, has been selling off the fakes in an effort to get some of the money back. When the appraiser intends to report this to the police, he gets killed for it to cover up the scam.]]
** [[spoiler: In book 5, Mac finally admits to Sarah that he's married, and his wife's been in a coma due to carbon monoxide poisoning for almost two years. When Leila's best friend figures out the person responsible and tries to contact Mac to tell him, the one responsible kills her.]]
* LittleOldLadyInvestigates: While main protagonist Sarah Grayson (owner of a secondhand/"repurpose" shop in Maine) is relatively young, her employees include two of her grandmother's friends, the elderly duo of Charlotte Elliot and Rose Jackson, and they're also friends with Elizabeth "Liz" French, and Rose's eventual boyfriend Alfred "Mr. P." Peterson. When a friend of theirs is accused of murder, the four set up shop as detectives in order to clear her name, dubbing themselves "[[Series/CharliesAngels Charlotte's Angels]]" (with Mr. P as their Bosley), and are surprisingly good at it. Neither Sarah (who tries to keep out of their detecting but winds up their "Charlie") or Charlotte's son Nick are exactly thrilled by this, but the trio and Mr. P. just ignore anyone who tells them to stop.
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler: Or stepson, in this case. The victim in book 7 is poisoned by his stepfather when he refuses to pay back what he owes them -- money the victim's mother desperately needed to pay for medical treatments.]]
* PassedOverInheritance: In book 4, Elizabeth "Liz" French mentions that she'll pay for her grandchildren's college tuition, but other than that, her money is going to charity when she dies.
* PlayfulHacker: Mr. P is repeatedly described by Sarah as "the world's oldest hacker". He's never malicious about it though, instead using his skills in their agency's detective work.
* RaisedByGrandparents:
** One of Sarah's employees is Avery, a teenage girl attending a private school; due to some difficulties with her parents, she lives with her grandmother, Elizabeth "Liz" French, who is one of Sarah's friends and later a member of the Charlotte's Angels detective agency.
** In book 4, one of Sarah's clients is Jeff Cameron, who soon turns up dead. In the course of investigating, she finds he and his sister were raised by their grandmother after their parents died.
* RomanticFalseLead: Over the course of the first few books, many of Sarah's friends and family are in favor of her hooking up with Nicolas "Nick" Elliot, a death examiner for the local medical office and grandson of one of Sarah's own grandmother's friends. Eventually, they accept that they're not meant to be, and she begins a more successful relationship with her friend and employee Mac Mackenzie.
* SameFaceDifferentName: While the books are published under the name Sofie Ryan, the author also publishes nonfiction and young adult books under her real name of Darlene Ryan, and another CozyMystery series, ''Literature/MagicalCatsMysteries'', under the name Sofie Kelly.
* ShipperOnDeck: Most of the people Sarah's close to -- Charlotte's Angels, her grandmother, her stepbrother, her friend Jess and Avery in particular -- are in favor of her hooking up with Charlotte's son Nick Elliot. Sarah, however, has her doubts at times, and eventually admits that she and Nick are more LikeBrotherAndSister. Her older friends promptly start shipping her with her friend and employee Mac Mackenzie instead, which proves more successful.
* ShoutOut: Sarah's cat Elvis is a fan of ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}''.
* SuddenNameChange: The first time Mac's last name is given, in book 5, it's spelled [=McKenzie=]. In book 6 on, it's given as Mackenzie instead.
* TakeThat: An InUniverse example. North Harbor has an apartment complex known as Legacy Place, serving as a retirement community for seniors, but Sarah's friend Rose (who lives there) derisively refers to it as Shady Pines after the BleakAbyssRetirementHome of the same name in ''Series/TheGoldenGirls''. This eventually backfires when her attitude gets her evicted in book 2 (and doesn't improve her opinion; she continues to refer to it as Shady Pines in later books), and she moves into one of the apartments in Sarah's house.
* ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity: In book 6, Judge Neill Halloran keeps mistakenly referring to Sarah by her grandmother's name. He eventually admits to being in the early stages of dementia, throwing his earlier witness statement that he was positive about the identity of the person he saw walking away from a crime scene, who was subsequently found guilty and sent to jail, into question.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Downplayed with Sarah Grayson and Michelle Andrews, who were close until they were fifteen when Sarah, in a fit of anger, yelled that she wished Michelle's father (who'd recently gone to jail for embezzlement and would later end up dead in prison, three months into a four-year sentence, of a fast-acting cancer) was a horrible person and that she wished he was dead instead of her own father, a kind, loving man who'd died in a car accident when Sarah was five. Michelle overheard and ran off before hearing Sarah say she hadn't actually meant it, and they've been distant ever since, until late in book 1 when Sarah finds out just ''why'' Michelle distanced herself. The two are then able to begin repairing their friendship.
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[[folder:''Sunny & Shadow Mysteries'']]
* Literature.SunnyAndShadowMysteries
''Sunny & Shadow Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Clair Donally. The series features Sonata "Sunny" Coolidge, a reporter who's returned to her hometown of Kittery Harbor, Maine, to care for her ailing father after his heart attack, and stumbles onto a dead body one day, marking the first mystery she must solve.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''The Big Kitty'' (2012)
* #2: ''Cat Nap'' (2013)
* #3: ''Last Licks'' (2014)
* #4: ''Hiss and Tell'' (2015)
* #5: ''Catch as Cat Can'' (2016)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* UnexpectedInheritance: Almost as the punchline, the last chapter of book 1 reveals that Sunny had been named in Ada Spruance's will, for the help she'd given Ada before the woman's death. Ada leaves her... her choice of any of the stray cats Ada had been caring for in her home. This suits Sunny, since Shadow (one of said cats) had already effectively adopted her.
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[[folder:''"Where Are They Now?" Mysteries'']]
* Literature.WhereAreTheyNowMysteries
''Where Are They Now? Mysteries'' is an amateur sleuth mystery series by Toni Kelner. The series features Tilda Harper, a celebrity reporter who has made a name for herself tracking down stars who've left the spotlight, and finds herself solving mysteries when some of them turn up either dead or targeted by killers.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''Curse of the Kissing Cousins'' (2008; originally published as ''Without Mercy'')
* #2: ''Who Killed The Pinup Queen?'' (2010)
* #3: ''Blast From the Past'' (2011)
* #4: ''The Adventure of the Six Sherlocks'' (2020; e-book short story)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* DoNotCallMePaul: Matilda "Tilda" Harper ''hates'' her full first name. When her friend Cooper keeps using it to annoy her in book 2, she retaliates by threatening to reveal his [[EmbarrassingNickname childhood nickname]] "Pookie" to his coworkers if he doesn't stop. The threat proves effective.
* JumpingTheShark: Discussed by name in the first book, which focuses on Tilda Harper searching for an actress from the long-ended sitcom ''[[ShowWithinAShow Kissing Cousins]]'' (about a trio of "normal" siblings and their cousins, a trio of equally "weird" siblings, coming to live with their grandfather and getting into typical sitcom shenanigans), and includes episode summaries, excerpts from interviews with cast and crew, and other reviews of the show. It's noted in narration that another set of cousins (seven-year-old twins, one "normal" and one "weird") were added to try and counter falling ratings in the last season, but it failed miserably -- fans considered their arrival to be when the show jumped the shark. (The actresses themselves don't seem to realize how disliked they were.)
* MurderByMistake: In book 2, the killer has been contacted by a would-be blackmailer (who accuses him of a crime that he committed decades ago -- and even then, the blackmailer was mistaken about the type of crime he'd committed) and goes to their home to kill them. It's eventually revealed that the woman he suspected and killed was innocent; it was actually her great-niece who was trying to blackmail him.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: In book 2, it turns out the killer had done this years ago. [[spoiler: His cousin/business partner had fallen in love with a woman and fully intended to marry her, but the killer felt he couldn't have a successful career without his cousin working with him. Viewing the woman and her unborn baby as a threat to their partnership, he murdered them. The cousin was enraged when he finally found out.]]
* ObliviousToHatred: In book 1, when discussing the long-ended sitcom ''[[ShowWithinAShow Kissing Cousins]]'', it's noted that two new cousins were added to the series in its last season, but its viewers didn't care for them and saw them as a contribution to the show's ending. For their part, the actresses who played the roles don't realize how much they're disliked by the show's fandom.
Trivia:
* ExecutiveMeddling: Justified. The original book was released in hardcover by one publishing company under the title ''Without Mercy'', but when she switched publishers to Berkley Prime Crime for the paperback reprint and sequels, they'd recently published a different book under that name and, to avoid confusion, retitled Kelner's book to ''Curse of the Kissing Cousins''.
* SequelGap: Nine years between the third book and the e-book short story that followed, during which time the author was working on another series under a pen name -- ''Literature/FamilySkeletonMysteries''.
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[[folder:''Witchcraft Mysteries'']]
* Literature.WitchcraftMysteries
''Witchcraft Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Juliet Blackwell. The series features Lily Ivory, a San Francisco vintage clothing store owner who also happens to be an undercover witch.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #01: ''Secondhand Spirits'' (2009)
* #02: ''A Cast-Off Coven'' (2010)
* #03: ''Hexes and Hemlines'' (2011)
* #04: ''In a Witch's Wardrobe'' (2012)
* #05: ''Tarnished and Torn'' (2013)
* #05.5: "Fool's Gold" (2013)[[note]]Short story; e-book free for download from author's website.[[/note]]
* #06: ''A Vision in Velvet'' (2014)
* #06.5: "A Haunting is Brewing" (2014)[[note]]Novella; e-book crossover with the author's ''Haunted Home Renovation Mysteries'' series.[[/note]]
* #07: ''Spellcasting in Silk'' (2015)
* #08: ''A Toxic Trousseau'' (2016)
* #09: ''A Magical Match'' (2018)
* #10: ''Bewitched and Betrothed'' (2019)
* #11: ''Synchronized Sorcery'' (2021)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* CanonWelding: "A Haunting is Brewing" establishes that the series takes place in the same world as the author's ''Haunted Home Renovation Mysteries'' series, and has Lily meeting Melanie "Mel" Turner to work on a case together. Lily also appears in book 8 of the latter series, helping Mel with figuring out the motive of the ghost in her attic.
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[[folder:''Witch's Cat Mysteries'']]
* Literature.WitchsCatMysteries
''Witch's Cat Mysteries'' is an armchair/amateur sleuth/CozyMystery series by Delia James. The series features Annabelle Britton, who makes a living as an artist before going on vacation to the seaside town of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where she makes a startling discovery about her witchy heritage with the help of Alistair, a cat and familiar whose first owner has recently turned up dead. With his help, Annabelle accepts her role as a witch and begins solving mysteries involving magic, while working with other witches who've dedicated themselves to keeping Portsmouth and its people safe.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''A Familiar Tail'' (2016)
* #2: ''By Familiar Means'' (2016)
* #3: ''Familiar Motives'' (2017)
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!!Other works by Bruce Coville contain examples of:
[[folder:In general]]
* CreatorThumbprint:
** Quite a few works involve miniaturized individuals. Aside from the ''Rod Allbright Alien Adventures'' series with its two-inch aliens and ''The Monsters of Morley Manor'' with its five inch title characters, characters are shrunk to two inches in an installment of the ''I Was A Sixth Grade Alien'' series.
** Coville's hometown of Syracuse, New York is a recurring setting in his works, including ''Literature/NinaTanleven'', ''Literature/IWasASixthGradeAlien'' and ''Literature/MonsterOfTheYear'', and [[Literature/RodAllbrightAlienAdventures Rod Allbright]]'s hometown is based on it (book 4 mentions that Rod and Coville "live in the same area".
** HumansThroughAlienEyes, with aliens offering their often-critical opinions on modern human society and culture.
* DevelopmentHell: Coville has a number of books he'd LIKE to write, including further installments in ''The Unicorn Chronicles'', the ''Literature/MagicShop'' series, the ''Literature/NinaTanleven'' series and others. Unfortunately, publishers don't seem interested, leaving these plans unfulfilled for now. The truly curious can find references to many of these works and others in his replies on the guestbook of his official website.
* TheVerse: ''The Foolish Giant'', ''The Dragonslayers'', the ''Goblins'' duology, the ''Literature/MagicShop'' series, ''Literature/TheUnicornChronicles'' and a handful of short stories all take place in the same [[TheMultiverse multiverse]]. Specific links include:
** The wizard Bellenmore and his apprentice Aaron link multiple series: they appear in person in Coville's short story ''Wizard's Boy'' (from ''[[Literature/BruceCovillesBookOf Bruce Coville's Book of Magic]]''), and are mentioned in ''Goblins on the Prowl'', ''[[Literature/MagicShop Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher]]'' and ''The Unicorn Chronicles''. All three stories talk about how Bellenmore had sent the majority of Earth's dragons away from their birth world for their own safety, and the latter two feature dragons who were directly affected by Bellenmore's actions.
** ''Goblins on the Prowl'' describes the events of ''The Foolish Giant'' as happening in its past, and references characters from ''The Dragonslayers''.
** The short story ''The Boy With Silver Eyes'' features the title character visiting Nilbog (from the ''Goblins'' duology) and meeting a Guardian of Memory (from ''The Unicorn Chronicles'').
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[[folder: ''The Enchanted Files'']]
* Literature.TheEnchantedFiles
''The Enchanted Files'' is a series of children's novels written by Creator/BruceCoville. Each tells the story of a being from the Enchanted Realm, recorded through a series of diary entries from the main non-human character, but also mixes in assorted papers from other characters, such as letters, memos and other diary entries.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''Cursed'' (2015; originally released as ''Diary of a Mad Brownie'')
* #2: ''Hatched'' (2016; working title ''Diary of a Runaway Griffin'')
* #3: ''Trolled'' (2017; working title ''Diary of a Terrible Troll'')
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[[folder: General]]
* ScrapbookStory: Each of the books in the series consist mainly of diary entries from the main non-human character, but also mixes in assorted papers from other characters, such as letters, memos and other diary entries.
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[[folder: ''Cursed'' (2015)]]
* HollywoodMidlifeCrisis: In book 1 (''Diary of a Mad Brownie'', later retitled ''Cursed''), Alex Carhart's father undergoes one when he quits his job to focus on his music. Which is terrible. It turns out to be a side-effect of the curse that Angus Cairns, the titular mad brownie, carries with him -- any male of the family he's living with is bound to try to make beautiful poetry, rhymes or lyrics, but which will always come out wretched. Once the curse is broken, the afflicted turn back to their original selves, and Mr. Carhart reclaims his job and gives up trying to write song lyrics.
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: In book 1 (''Diary of a Mad Brownie'', later retitled ''Cursed''), Alex Carhart's little sister Destiny has an invisible friend, Herbert the Goblin, who later supposedly disappears some time before her teacher tries to convince her he isn't real (angering Angus, the titular "mad Brownie"). Later on, when the protagonists (including said teacher) travel through the Enchanted Realm, they meet Herbert and learn he's a crewman on a ship there -- he met Destiny while he was on shore leave, and left with a promise to keep in touch when his time was up.
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[[folder:''Goblins'' duology]]
* Literature.GoblinsInTheCastle
''Goblins in the Castle'' is a 1992 children's novel written by Creator/BruceCoville. It tells the story of William, a young boy who has lived in Toad-in-a-Cage Castle his entire life. But one night, he meets the mysterious Igor, who lives in the castle dungeons, and soon afterward discovers the strange secret behind the castle's North Tower, which has always been kept locked. When he unlocks it one night, his actions lead him into a dangerous quest to rescue his new friend from the land of the goblins.\\\
''Goblins on the Prowl'' (2015) continues the story from the point of view of William's friend Fauna, and reveals both their origins, as well as that of the enormous stone toad that gave the castle its name.\\\
The series is part of the same multiverse as Coville's ''The Foolish Giant'', ''Literature/TheDragonslayers'', ''Literature/TheUnicornChronicles'' series, the ''Literature/MagicShop'' series, and the short story ''Wizard's Boy'' (1996)[[note]]Collected in ''[[Literature/BruceCovillesBookOf Bruce Coville's Book of Magic: Tales to Cast a Spell on You]]'' (1996) and ''The One Right Thing'' (2008)[[/note]].\\\
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!!This series provides examples of:
* AccidentalMisnaming: The Baron can never remember William's name.
* AllWitchesHaveCats: Granny Pinchbottom has a black cat in her cottage.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: Igor. He ''looks'' human, but claims to have just "happened" rather than being born, has lived over six hundred years, and says he's died before (but evidently got better).
* BackFromTheDead: While not shown on-screen, Igor says of dying that "Igor done that before" and that the experience was "not fun".
* BerserkButton:
** Never touch Igor's hump. Even a friendly pat on it from someone he likes is enough to make him furious.
** Don't ask the Baron what's in the North Tower -- Karl, the castle librarian, asked once and nearly got fired for it. Once the Tower is actually opened and the contents are unleashed though, he doesn't seem to mind anymore.
* BigFancyCastle: Toad-in-a-Cage Castle, which is big enough to have four towers and several floors, and is full of winding and hidden passageways. There's also a large stone toad in a cage in the Grand Hall, which gives it its name.
* CallingYourAttacks: Igor tends to yell "Bop!" whenever he bops someone on the head with his bear.
* CanonWelding: While the original story was a standalone, follow-up material connected it to some of Coville's other works.
** The 2008 short story ''The Boy With Silver Eyes'' features both the goblins' home of Nilbog and a Guardian of Memory from ''Literature/TheUnicornChronicles'', revealing those settings are connected, and by extension the ''Literature/MagicShop'' series (both ''The Unicorn Chronicles'' and the ''Magic Shop'' series have mentioned the wizard Bellenmore, who helped the dragons leave Earth when it was too dangerous for them to remain).
** ''Goblins on the Prowl'' elaborates on this, explicitly mentioning Bellenmore and the departure of the dragons, along with mentioning the events of ''The Dragonslayers'' (that book's Princess Wilhelmina is noted as now being Queen) and ''The Foolish Giant'' as having happened in the past.
* ClockTampering: The morning after the goblins are released, it's discovered that they changed the time on one of the clocks as one of their pranks -- it's early morning, but the clock is striking two.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The evil sorcerer Ishmael[[note]][[DoNotCallMePaul Don't call him that!]][[/note]] is clearly not all there. He manages to forget what he's talking about after a few sentences until he's reminded, and William thinks to himself that "Clearly a few of the buttons in Ishmael's brain had come undone."
* CollectorOfTheStrange: ''Goblins On the Prowl'' reveals that the Baron keeps a collection of cannonballs from famous battles. They're seen on the fireplace in the Great Hall in the first book, but aren't specifically identified as a collection until the second.
* CompanionCube: Igor's ever-present bear. William takes care of it for him after the goblins carry him off.
* CreepyHousekeeper: Downplayed with Hulda. She always yells (because of her bad hearing), and uses her mutilated finger (which is missing its last joint) to scare William into behaving, claiming that Granny Pinchbottom will do the same to him if he doesn't keep out of the sweet jar. She's also not the best at keeping the castle clean, letting the laundry sit for months, and hasn't tried to dust in ages (William notes that he likes to write his name in the dust, and the only signatures that are gone are those that have been covered with new dust). But she's really harmless, and a good cook.
* DirectLineToTheAuthor: In the author's note at the end of book 1, Coville claims Igor to be real (and that he's Coville's "half-mad twin brother" who was born in October to Coville's May), and that one night, he brought the story to Coville after several years of friendship, though it took several more years to get it published.
* DisneyVillainDeath: In the climax of book 1, the evil sorcerer Ishmael[[note]][[DoNotCallMePaul Don't call him that!]][[/note]] falls out a window to his death.
* DoNotCallMePaul: The evil sorcerer in book 1 is a strange version -- he always says "My name is Ishmael. But don't call me that!" Igor, who was friends with said sorcerer in the past, is apparently familiar enough with his opinion of it to say "Don't call him that!" when William uses the name while trying to pass on the other man's warning.
* DoorstepBaby: William, who was brought to Toad-in-a-Cage Castle in a basket as an infant. Book 2 explains how he came to be brought there.
* EasilyForgiven: Once the goblins find out Igor (whom they'd called their "greatest enemy" for his betrayal of them) was just an UnwittingPawn for the real villain and was tricked into leading them into a trap rather than betraying them of his own free will, they forgive him without any issue. It takes Igor a while to finally realize this though.
* GlowingFlora: Nilbog and its buildings are lit by a glowing fungus. Somehow, it remains glowing even after it's been picked for eating.
* GreatBigLibraryOfEverything: While its contents aren't really discussed, the library in Toad-in-a-Cage Castle has so many books, the Baron had to renovate a section of the building (via knocking out the walls between seven rooms) to make a single room big enough to hold them all.
* HeelRaceTurn: The goblins, in both directions. Before, they were friends to humanity, but after being locked away, they grew angrier and angrier, until they were determined to destroy the people who left them in the dark. They return to their friendlier selves when their King is healed and restored to sanity.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Igor's weapon of choice is his teddy bear, which he uses to bop people on the head.
* IneptMage: The evil sorcerer Ishmael[[note]][[DoNotCallMePaul Don't call him that!]][[/note]] is this by the time the story takes place. At the end of his first appearance, he disappears in a puff of smoke, but wherever he's gone to, apparently it wasn't easy -- William hears his voice "as if from a great distance, exclaim "Wow, that ''hurt!''"". Later, when he tries to stall or silence several people at once, he can't hold it for too long.
* InvisibilityCloak: Granny Pinchbottom gives one to William, which only works when the hood is raised.
* {{Keet}}: The goblins, generally. Especially the younger ones. They're full of wild energy, love playing games and bouncing around, and are all around excitable. The only exception seen is Borg, an advisor to the king and one of the Ten Oldest Goblins, who is calm and composed the entire time he's onscreen.
* LockedInTheDungeon: The goblins' alive but spiritless bodies are all locked in the dungeons of Toad-in-a-Cage Castle for years. William, Fauna and Igor later spend some time locked in the dungeons of the Goblin King's castle.
* NeatFreak: When the goblins leave a house, they have a tendency to leave it cleaner than it was before they entered it. This is first seen when they thoroughly clean Toad-in-a-Cage Castle on their way out (though not without causing some mischief in the process).
* NeverFoundTheBody: The evil sorcerer Ishmael[[note]][[DoNotCallMePaul Don't call him that!]][[/note]] disappears into thin air after falling to his death; William suspects he's dead for good though because the last of the magic around the Northwest Tower (which Ishmael had placed there) disappeared at the same time.
* NoIndoorVoice: Hulda, the castle maid, always shouts. Justified because she's mostly deaf and shouting is the only way for her to hear herself talk. William's narration reveals he was relieved when he figured this out, because until then he'd thought it meant she was permanently mad at him.
* NoNameGiven:
** In the original book only, the goblin king is this trope; he's only ever referred to by his title. The sequel later averts it on the very first page, identifying him as "King Nidrash".
** The Baron and his great-grandfather go unnamed in the first book.
* NoOntologicalInertia: When the sorcerer who cast the spell on the North Tower dies, the last of the magic in it wears off.
* OffWithHisHead: Cutting off the head of the goblin king put the final seal on the spell that put them all into dormancy. Reversing this and reattaching his head, by means of a magic collar, restores his sanity.
* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: The goblins, while definitely weird, are mostly snarky and pragmatic, and tend to be a lot more decent than many human characters. They also have a sort of emotional hive-mind; their King's emotions affect all the others. Meaning that when he's happy, they're happy, and when he's in an angry and deranged mood, so are the rest of them.
* ThePrankster: The goblins have a tendency to pull off harmless pranks, such as switching salt for sugar, tying laundry in knots, and leading children to play in the mud. But they can also do some more dangerous ones, such as putting soap on the stairs, which could cause someone to slip and break their neck.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Igor's lived in the castle for six hundred years.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Once freed, the goblins plan to do this in retaliation for being sealed away for a hundred and twenty-one years. When William restores their king and he regains his sanity, he calls it off.
* SdrawkcabName: The goblins come from the land of Nilbog.
* SealedGoodInACan: The goblins had their spirits sucked out and imprisoned in the North Tower of Toad-in-a-Cage Castle, and their bodies locked in the dungeons, all because the old Baron and his sorcerer ally thought they were evil, rather than just mischievous.
* SolitarySorceress: The witch Granny Pinchbottom is a sort of boogeyman figure the main character William was taught to fear, but when he encounters her, she turns out to be well-intentioned, though somewhat duplicitous and scary, and gives him [[ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest a few items he needs]].
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: In ''Goblins on the Prowl'', Granny Pinchbottom gives Fauna an item known as "Solomon's Collar", which grants this ability. It's ostensibly meant for William, but Fauna decides to try it on first, whereupon [[ClingyMcGuffin she finds she can't get it back off]].
* SupernaturalAid: When William goes off on his quest, Granny Pinchbottom provides him with some magical items to help, including an amulet that provides light, a hooded invisibility cloak, and the collar that, when used to attach the Goblin King's head to his body, will heal him.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Both Igor and Herky do this; neither ever refers to themself as "I", just using their own names.
* UnwittingPawn: The book's villain is eventually revealed to have tricked Igor into betraying the goblins, whom he thought of as friends, by having him be the one to invite them into a trap. This nearly gets him killed by the goblins after they're freed.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Goblins, who prefer the cool underground, fear fire and its heat.
* YouNoTakeCandle: Igor's grammar is not the best, and Herky's isn't much better.
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Trivia:
* NamesTheSame: One of the goblins is named Borg, not to be confused with the villains from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' (who predate the book's publication).
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: ''Goblins On the Prowl'' was originally set to have much more pronounced references to ''Literature/TheDragonslayers''. As Coville wrote on his guestbook, in the first draft, "Bwoonhiwda was accompanied by Queen Wilhelmina's daughter, who was named Pink. But the editor felt that the book was overpopulated and someone had to go. Alas, it was Pink who got the ax."
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[[folder: ''Oddities'' series]]
* Literature.BruceCovillesOddities
The ''Oddities'' series is an anthology series by Creator/BruceCoville. Each of them contains a mix of nine previously published and brand new stories, plus one essay, all by Coville himself (the exception is a new introduction in the omnibus ''Odds Are Good'', which is by Creator/JaneYolen instead); they're mostly standalones, though some are part of his existing series.\\\
The series consists of the following:\\\
* ''Oddly Enough'' (1994)[[labelnote:Contents]]''The Box'' (1986); ''Duffy's Jacket'' (1989); ''Homeward Bound'' (1988); ''With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm'' (1993); ''Clean as a Whistle'' (1994); ''The Language of Blood'' (1994); ''Old Glory'' (1991); ''The Passing of the Pack'' (1988); ''A Blaze of Glory'' (1994)[[/labelnote]]
* ''Odder Than Ever'' (1999)[[labelnote:Contents]]''The Golden Sail'' (1999; original to collection); ''Biscuits of Glory'' (1995); ''I, Earthling'' (1994); ''The Giant's Tooth'' (1999; original to collection); ''There's Nothing Under the Bed'' (1995); ''The Stinky Princess'' (1999; original to collection); ''The Japanese Mirror'' (1996); ''Am I Blue?'' (1994); ''The Metamorphosis of Justin Jones'' (1997)[[/labelnote]]
* ''Odds Are Good'' (2006; omnibus of the first two books; also contains an essay by Jane Yolen)
* ''Oddest of All'' (2008)[[labelnote:Contents]]''In Our Own Hands'' (1999; variant of ''In Our Hands'' from ''Bruce Coville's Alien Visitors''); ''What's the Worst That Could Happen?'' (2003); ''The Ghost Let Go'' (1994); ''In the Frog King's Court'' (2000); ''The Thing in Auntie Alma's Pond'' (1996); ''The Hardest, Kindest Gift'' (2001); ''The Mask of Eamonn Tiyado'' (2008; original to collection); ''Herbert Hutchison in the Underworld'' (2008; original to collection); ''The Boy With Silver Eyes'' (2008; original to collection)[[/labelnote]]\\\
Notably, the series contains eight stories[[note]]''Duffy's Jacket'' (1989); ''Clean as a Whistle'' (1994); ''I, Earthling'' (1994); ''The Ghost Let Go'' (1994); ''There's Nothing Under the Bed'' (1995); ''The Thing in Auntie Alma's Pond'' (1996); ''Biscuits of Glory'' (1995); ''The Metamorphosis of Justin Jones'' (1997)[[/note]] also contained in the ''Literature/BruceCovillesBookOf'' series. For tropes from those stories, see the aforementioned page.
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!!''Oddly Enough'' contains examples of:
* ArmyOfTheDead: Brion, the protagonist of ''With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm'' (originally released in ''A Wizard's Dozen: Stories of the Fantastic'' and collected in Coville's anthology ''Oddly Enough''), leads one against enemy soldiers who've been sent to raid his kingdom. Unusually, the dead don't attack the living - they just point out what it'll be like to be dead, and the soldiers decide they'd rather go home and live as long as possible.
* BackFromTheDead: Brion, the protagonist of ''With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm'', returns from the grave after being executed and angrily forces the king who ordered his demise to call back the soldiers he controls and withdraw his kingdom from the ongoing multi-sided war altogether. After three years of advising the king, Brion ultimately sees the other armies also decide to stop fighting and, with the threat ended for good, is thus able to return to his grave and rest in peace.
* DraftDodging: In ''With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm'', there are people who avoid being drafted because they're physically unfit and others who avoid it because they're too frightened, too smart or simply "too loving"; this last category is the most dangerous, because objecting to the war has been made illegal. The protagonist, Brion, fits the last category and fakes being crippled to avoid serving in a war he doesn't believe in, but ends up revealing his true status and is arrested and [[OffWithHisHead executed]] for it.
* ForeverWar: In ''With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm'', there's an endless one going on between the fifteen kingdoms on the continent of Losfar, and it's gone on for ''so'' long that when one kingdom pulls out, the others decide after a few years that this kingdom deserves punishment for daring to get prosperous while they're still spending their resources to defend themselves, and thus send armies of their own against it. Fortunately, Brion and his ghostly allies are able to finally bring the war to an end.
* NeutralityBacklash: Attempted in ''With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm''. When Brion's kingdom pulls out of the Forever War and starts minding their own business, the other fourteen kingdoms send armies to invade. Brion calls up an army of his fellow dead to point out what the continuing war will lead to, leading to the other armies leaving them in peace.
!!''Odder Than Ever'' contains examples of:
* AllGaysLoveTheater: In "Am I Blue?", Melvin says that certain groups like people in the theatre have a higher percent of gay people because they're naturally artistic. Though he points out the stereotype about all people in theatre being gay is false, as most of them are actually straight and only some of the gay characters are into theatre.
* FairyGodmother: In "Am I Blue?", Melvin is a CampGay Fairy Godfather in every sense of the term. As an [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angelic being]] who, as a human, was killed in a gay-bashing, he insisted on reclaiming the term when choosing his {{Heaven}}ly career.
* FlyingUnderTheGaydar: In "Am I Blue?", this is {{discussed|Trope}} and {{defied|Trope}} by Melvin the CampGay [[FairyGodmother fairy godfather]]. He can easily drop the mannerisms and look more masculine just by adjusting his posture. However, he's proud of himself and refuses to hide, not least since he lost his first life to a HomophobicHateCrime.
-->'''Melvin:''' Protective coloration. You learn to use it to get along in the world if you want. Only I got sick of living in the box the world prescribed; it was far too small to hold me.
* {{Gaydar}}: In "Am I Blue?", the main character gets a form of this, identifying gay people by the color blue. Also in the short story, everyone from coast to coast gets a form of this too, for twenty-four hours. Both were a result of wishes granted by his [[{{Pun}} fairy]] godfather. The main character's final wish is for a homophobic bully to be turned blue as well... only for the godfather to return smirking that [[ArmoredClosetGay that wish is still available]].
* MagicalQueer: Literal and very self-aware version of this in ''Am I Blue'', with a gay fairy godfather/guardian angel. Also played for tragedy, since the character ended up that way because he was killed in a gay-bashing incident.
* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: The goblins in the short story "The Stinky Princess", while definitely weird, are mostly snarky and pragmatic, and tend to be a lot more decent than many human characters.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: "Am I Blue?" has two characters, one extremely homophobic politician and a bully who beat up the protagonist for being gay, who were both revealed to be gay.
!!''Oddest of All'' contains examples of:
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[[folder: ''Moongobble and Me'']]
* Literature.MoongobbleAndMe
''Moongobble and Me'' is a series by Creator/BruceCoville, in which ayoung boy named Edward finds himself having adventures with the wizard Moongobble after the latter moves to his town.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* ''The Dragon of Doom'' (2003)
* ''The Weeping Werewolf'' (2004)
* ''The Evil Elves'' (2004)
* ''The Mischief Monster'' (2007)
* ''The Naughty Nork'' (2009)
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!!This series contains the following tropes:
* TheAdjectivalSuperhero: Less a hero, but the titular character of book 2 is "The Weeping Werewolf"... so named because he cries a lot. It turns out he cries a lot because he's been separated from his family and misses them terribly.
* BalefulPolymorph: Moongobble's spells have a tendency to unwittingly turn people and things into cheese (including himself). Book 4 also sees him accidentally turn his toad companion Urk into a miniature cat, to Urk's great distress (fortunately, he gets better by the end of the book).
* BewitchedAmphibians: Book 5 reveals that (witch) was turned into a were-toad a long time ago, as was a member of the Nork family. When she broke his curse, he
* BigShadowLittleCreature: The titular "Dragon of Doom" from book 1 turns out to be a very small creature, who uses trickery to make himself appear big and scary so as to scare away intruders to the cave he's guarding.
* DisappearedDad: In book 1, it's noted that Edward's never known his father. Book 2 sees them happily reunited though.
* DoomyDoomsOfDoom: Book 1 features the "Dragon of Doom", which is said to be ''very'' dangerous. It turns out to be faking for intimidation purposes.
* IncredibleShrinkingMan: Edward gets shrunk to blend in with the titular "evil elves" in book 3, so he can swipe a dangerous magical item from them.
* IneptMage: Moongobble, full stop. Most of his spells end up turning things into cheese, causing explosions or otherwise going wrong, to the point where it's more surprising when he ''doesn't'' mess one up.
* IntellectualAnimal: More than a few, starting in book 1 with Moongobble's partner Urk the toad, who's fully capable of speaking like a human. It's implied that his magical nature is the cause, since Edward notes that most animals he's met don't speak unless they're magic in some way, and in book 2, he's surprised to meet some animals who can speak but don't have obvious magic.
* TheMagnificent: Many characters have this, such as Fazwad the Mighty, or ? (witch in book 2).
* MirrorMoralityMachine: Book 3 features a jewel called "the Queen's Belly Button", which makes good people turn nasty (and is what made the titular "Evil Elves" be evil). It's possible, though difficult, to fight off the effects with a lot of concentration and focusing on the things that are good in your life.
* PowerIncontinence: (), a witch in book 2, is painfully shy and tends to lose control of her powers when she gets upset.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Fazwad the Mighty, who's been pretty nasty to Moongobble because of his ineptness and has been purposely being hard on him since the series' start, is revealed in the climax of book 3 to have been faking it the entire time as a test of Moongobble's heart, to see how he would react to someone being mean to him. As Moongobble has never once been mean or nasty back, he's passed, which leads to him being accepted into the Society of Magicians.
* ShrinkingViolet: (), a witch in book 2, is so painfully shy that she hides from anyone who tries to visit her. The only way to get answers from her is to be polite, and not to disturb her for long enough, or otherwise she'll lose control.
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[[folder:''Storm Runner'']]
* Literature.StormRunner:
The ''Storm Runner'' trilogy is the second series in the ''Creator/RickRiordan Presents'' imprint line, written by by Jennifer C. Cervantes and focused on [[Myth/MayanMythology Maya]] and [[Myth/AztecMythology Aztec]] mythology. It centers around Zane Obispo, a boy whose adventure begins when he discovers his father is one of the Mayan gods, and that he's destined to release Ah-Puch (pronounced "ah-POOCH"), the Mayan god of death, darkness and destruction and the former ruler of the ninth lowest level of Xib'alb'a (the Mayan underworld) from his prison, which turns out to be only the first of his adventures.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''The Storm Runner'' (September 18, 2018)
* #2: ''The Fire Keeper'' (September 3, 2019)
* #3: ''The Shadow Crosser'' (September 1, 2020)
* ''The Cave of Doom'' (September 28, 2021; released in ''The Cursed Carnival and Other Calamities: New Stories About Mythic Heroes'')\\\
The ''Shadow Bruja'' spinoff duology, focused on Aztec myth and centered around Renata "Ren" Santiago (daughter of Pacific, the former Mayan goddess of time), who debuted in ''The Fire Keeper'', has also been announced, and consists of:\\\
* #1: ''Lords of Night'' (October 4, 2022)
* #2: Untitled sequel (2023)\\\
Not to be confused with the similarly titled ''Literature/StormRunners'' trilogy by Creator/RolandSmith.
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!!This series contains the following tropes:
* {{Animorphism}}: Brooks is a half-human, half-Nawal, whose mother was a full Nawal, or shapeshifter. Due to this heritage, she's also able to change into an animal, but her human blood limits her to just one species -- a hawk, in her case, though she can also vary its size.
* BigEater: In book 1, Zane mentions that his dog Rosie (a Boxer/Dalmatian mix) is one of these, eating as much as an elephant.
* CanineCompanion: Rosie, a Boxer/Dalmatian mix who's missing one of her front legs, is this for Zane; he found her wandering the desert when he was ten and adopted her, and spends much of the first book seeking to rescue her from the underworld after she sacrifices herself to save him from a demon runner. After becoming a hellhound, she remains Zane's companion,
* DivineParentage: Zane Obispo is a godborn, whose mother is a mortal and whose father is Hurakan, the Mayan god of wind, storms and fire.
* EyeBeams: Rosie, the boxer/Dalmatian mix, has heat vision as a hellhound.
* GodOfFire: Hurakan is the Mayan god of wind, storms, and fire. His son [[TheHero Zane]] has inherited his fire abilities.
* GrowingWings: After becoming a hellhound, Rosie is able to grow a pair of bat-like wings and fly while in Xibalba.
* {{Hellhound}}: During the first book, when Rosie dies and goes to Xibalba, she becomes one of these, having her form altered (including growing in size to twice the size of a lion) and gaining supernatural powers.
* SuperMode: At the climax of book 3, Rosie's hellhound form becomes this, as she's granted the ability to change between her original form and her hellhound form.
Trivia:
* TributeToFido: Jennifer Cervantes based Zane's dog Rosie, a boxer/Dalmatian mix, off her own dog, who passed away about six months after book 1 was released.
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[[folder:''The Fifth Horseman: A Sleepy Hollow Legend'']]
* Literature.TheFifthHorsemanASleepyHollowLegend
''The Fifth Horseman: A Sleepy Hollow Legend'' is a novel by Gregg Gonzales, revolving around a terrifying battle with the supernatural in the town of Sleepy Hollow, set over the course of September and October of 1988. The narrator is Carl Penderholt, a junior in college who's home recovering from mononucleosis, and gets caught up in matters when his old friend Jon Storm is killed by the Headless Horseman. Investigating what Jon had been up to recently, Carl soon discovers that what he thought was a fun search for pirate treasure is in fact part of a war for the very souls of the people of Sleepy Hollow.
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!!This book contains examples of:
* AbuseOfReturnPolicy: Patrick Higgins is a dedicated user of this as a way of living beyond his means, which he calls the "thirty-day plan" -- buy something with at least a thirty-day, money-back guarantee, use it and return it. During the events of the book, he uses it to get a metal detector, but the narration notes that he's previously used this method to furnish his room with a different stereo every month, and to get a radar detector.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Dr. Van Tassel, who pretends to be friendly but is actually the leader of the coven that's secretly behind much of the evil in Sleepy Hollow.]]
* BuriedAlive: When old Van Dam's attempted FakingTheDead was figured out by his enemies, they ensured he'd be trapped in his coffin rather than escape it like he planned, resulting in this trope.
* TheConspiracy: The wicked coven that's secretly controlled Sleepy Hollow for centuries, using a mix of black magic, fear and paranoia-inducing drugs.
* CrystalSkull: The titular Fifth Horseman can only be defeated by performing a ritual with a certain crystal skull, which sucks Chaos out of its physical body and traps it within the skull.
* FakingTheDead:
** Old Van Dam pretends to have died in his sleep, only revealing his true status to Carl and his friends and intending to slip out of his coffin before the burial so he can attend his own funeral in disguise. The trope is subverted when he's found out by his enemies and buried alive.
** [[spoiler: Dr. Van Tassel does this, animating his own ancestor and then de-animating him to leave a body behind that people will think is him.]]
* HeadlessHorseman: Naturally, given this is set in Sleepy Hollow. The titular character is actually Chaos, the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse, whom a coven accidentally called up to possess the body of the headless Hessian horseman of legend, and is the real Big Bad of the story.
* HorsemenOfTheApocalypse: The titular Fifth Horseman is Chaos, the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse, who "brings anarchy, conspiracy, suspicion, paranoia, confusion, mistrust and doubt -- all of which destroy man from the inside out.", and has taken over the body of the Headless Horseman that haunts Sleepy Hollow. [[spoiler: It's finally defeated when it's sucked from its physical body and confined in a certain crystal skull, which first has to be activated via a special ritual.]]
* LivingShadow: This is one of the Horseman's powers, as it can send its shadow out to do its bidding, usually to capture someone. [[spoiler:In the climax, after the Horseman's spirit is sucked into the crystal skull, it reappears... and is promptly sucked in as well.]]
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: Jaime]] is captured by the Horseman and never seen again.
* OffWithHisHead: The Headless Horseman's favorite method of disposing of its victims. [[spoiler: It's how he kills Dr. Van Tassel, which also exposes the latter as one of the villains.]]
* PoliceAreUseless: Carl's older brother Elliot certainly thinks so of the local police, and feels that even their chief, who's easily the best on the force, won't do much good when it comes down to solving Jon Storm's murder.
* ShotInTheAss: One of the protagonists, Patrick Higgins, get shot in the butt by the HeadlessHorseman itself, while he's part of a group trying to follow the horse that the demon is using. Fortunately, it's just a flesh wound.
* UndercoverCopReveal: [[spoiler: Mr. Morris]] eventually confesses to Carl and his friends that he's an agent for the FBI, who's been investigating the coven in Sleepy Hollow for years.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The epilogue picks up ten years later as Carl details what happened to pretty much all the survivors of the story; he himself commutes from Sleepy Hollow to New York City, working for a financial organization of some type.
* ZombieApocalypse: The final arc of the story, Halloween night itself, turns into this as the Headless Horseman reanimates an army of undead soldiers from the American Revolution to wage all-out war against the people of Sleepy Hollow, with the residents fighting back to survive and defeat the zombies.
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[[folder:''Universal Monsters'']]
* Literature.UniversalMonsters
''Universal Monsters'' is a six-part series by Larry Mike Garmon, released by Scholastic for younger readers in 2001-2002 and based on some of the classic Franchise/UniversalHorror films. The series begins when an accident with a prototype of an experimental holographic movie projector (illicitly borrowed from the Universal Studios theme park) and a lightning storm releases the monsters and other antagonistic characters from the films ''Film/{{Dracula|1931}}'' (1931), ''Film/{{Frankenstein|1931}}'' (1931), ''[[Film/TheMummy1932 The Mummy]]'' (1932), ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein'' (1935), ''[[Film/TheWolfMan1941 The Wolf Man]]'' (1941) and ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon'' (1954) into the real world. Consequently, the escapees have to be hunted down and returned to the films by a trio of 21st century teenagers.\\\
The series consists of:\\\
* #1: ''Dracula: Return of Evil''
* #2: ''The Wolf Man: Blood Moon Rising''
* #3: ''Frankenstein: Anatomy of Terror''
* #4: ''The Mummy: Book Of The Dead''
* #5: ''Creature From the Black Lagoon: Black Water Horror''
* #6: ''Bride Of Frankenstein: Vow Of Vengeance''
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!!This series provides examples of:
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: While investigating the Gill Man's cave, the group finds a pile of bones, including a skull from a great white shark. Sharks don't have bones, except for their teeth -- the skulls are pure cartilage.
* BackForTheFinale: All the previously captured monsters are re-released in book 6.
* CanonForeigner: [[spoiler: A Gill ''woman'' appears in book 5, somehow created by the desires of the Gill Man.]]
* CatchPhrase: Bob's is "I'm off, said the madman".
* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: (Book 4?)
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler: In the very end of "Blood Moon Rising", it’s revealed that Bela the gypsy and his mother Maleva fused with two real people -- Deputy Chad Barnes and his mother Wilma Winokea -- when they were released from the films, and the two are just as nasty even when they ''aren’t'' possessed.]]
* FusionDance: [[spoiler: Some of the monsters are revealed to have merged with real people, starting with Bela the gypsy and his mother Maleva in ''Blood Moon Rising''.]]
* ItOnlyWorksOnce: The method that returned Dracula to his film doesn't work on the next monster; the trio quickly figure out they have to use a different way of returning each monster or group of monsters.
* MonsterMash: The final book sees the return of all the previous monsters, bringing them together for the first time in the setting.
* NoOntologicalInertia: When the monsters are defeated and pulled back into the films, any damage they've done is reversed as well, up to and including reviving anyone killed during their rampages.
* ThePowerOfLove: [[spoiler: Allows the Creature From the Black Lagoon to create a mate for himself.]]
* PowerTrio: The main protagonists, Robert "Captain Bob" Hardin, Joe Motley and Nina Nobriega.
* RefugeeFromTVLand: A combination of lightning and a holographic projector releases characters from the six films, including:
** Count Dracula
** Larry Talbot's wolf man ([[spoiler: but not Talbot himself -- the Wolf Man incarnates through Don Earl Abernathy after he's bitten by another Wolf Man), Bela the gypsy's wolf man (incarnated through Deputy Chad Barnes) and his mother Maleva (incarnated through Wilma Winokea)]].
** Herr Frankenstein, Fritz and the Creature they made.
** Imhotep (AKA Ardeth Bey)
** The Gill Man [[spoiler: and Dr. Mark Williams.]]
** The Bride of Frankenstein [[spoiler: and Dr. Pretorius.]]
* RidiculousProcrastinator: Referenced in the epilogue of the first book, as Captain Bob looks on one of his websites for the most absurd headline possible for Current Events. One is "Scientist Discovers Secrets of Procrastination: Will Release Results At A Later Date".
* WomenAreWiser: Nina, a junior to the boys' freshmen, is by far the most reasonable of the group.
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