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  • The Haunted Homecoming  (Southern Ghost Hunter Mysteries #10) by Angie Fox

    The Haunted Homecoming (Southern Ghost Hunter Mysteries #10) by Angie Fox

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Apple cider, bonfires, football, and—ghosts. It’s homecoming weekend in Sugarland, Tennessee and ghost hunter Verity Long is tickled to see so many souls—living and dead—back in town to celebrate. But not all reunions are happy ones, and when Verity stumbles upon a dead body by the football field, it appears someone has already evened the score...
  • Burning Secrets by Shawn McGuire

    Burning Secrets by Shawn McGuire

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Things are heating up in Whispering Pines, and it’s not just the weather. Sheriff Jayne O’Shea is on edge. Hopeful applicants have taken over the commons area, all of them begging to become residents. Villagers who left long ago have returned, causing an uproar among the locals. The slow burn feud between the sister witches has reached the boiling point...
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    cozy  female-mc  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  family  fiction
  • Pecan Pies and Dead Guys by Angie Fox

    Pecan Pies and Dead Guys by Angie Fox

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sometimes Verity Long would like to forget that she lives with the ghost of a 1920s gangster. But the reluctant housemates must once again work together when a dead detective blackmails Frankie into helping him solve a Great Gatsby-era cold case. Before she can say “bathtub gin,” Verity is dragged straight into a raging, otherworldly house party. Worse, every guest is hiding something...
  • Dog Gone Ghost by Angie Fox, Tavia Gilbert

    Dog Gone Ghost by Angie Fox, Tavia Gilbert

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Who let the dogs...and cats...out?Verity Long's new ghost-hunting career has gone to the dogs - literally. A spirit is releasing animals from their cages at the Sugarland Animal Rescue Center. It's an unusual haunting that gets even more bizarre when she uncovers a new clue in a case of a missing child. Verity vows to reunite the lost boy with his family...
  • Sweet Tea and Spirits by Angie Fox

    Sweet Tea and Spirits by Angie Fox

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Southern girl Verity Long is about as high society as her pet skunk. Which is why she’s surprised as anyone when the new head of the Sugarland social set invites her to join the "it" girls. But this is no social call. Verity’s new client needs her to go in undercover and investigate strange happenings at the group’s historic headquarters...
  • Meanwhile, Back in Deadwood by Ann Charles

    Meanwhile, Back in Deadwood by Ann Charles

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Meanwhile, Back in Deadwood … the mystery and mayhem continue. Between the butchered body parts, creepy killers, dogged detectives, ghoulish ghosts, and ever-present TV cameras, Violet Parker’s purple boots are itching to skedaddle.But there is no escaping another murder investigation or her new deadly reputation. Not even if both risk the lives of those she loves most...
  • Seasons: PsyCop Briefs, Volume 2 by Jordan Castillo Price

    Seasons: PsyCop Briefs, Volume 2 by Jordan Castillo Price

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night…will keep a PsyCop from his duty. Because ghosts don’t take snow days.Seasons: PsyCop Briefs, Volume 2 contains four novelettes and fourteen short stories. This all-new, novel length collection begins right where PsyCop 12, Other Half, left off...
  • Darkness Exposed by Terri Reid

    Darkness Exposed by Terri Reid

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Jeannine appeared in the room across from Mary. Her face was streaked with tears and she was visibly trembling. “Mary, I remembered,” she cried. “I remembered and it was awful.”The time has finally come for Mary to investigate Jeannine’s murder...
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    cozy  female-mc  ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  crime
  • The Skeleton in the Closet by Angie Fox

    The Skeleton in the Closet by Angie Fox

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    **USA Today Bestselling series!**From New York Times bestseller Angie Fox, the second book in the Southern Ghost Hunter mysteriesA haunted library is no place for a girl who can see ghosts, but when Verity Long stumbles on a dead body in the middle of the main reading room, she has to believe someone…even a dead someone…must have witnessed the crime...
  • Out of the Shadows by Kay Hooper

    Out of the Shadows by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    To catch this killer, she must break every rule and cross every line.Out Of The ShadowsA picture-perfect Tennessee town has just become a monster's hunting ground. Two bodies are found tortured to death. A third person goes missing. What little evidence is left behind defies all explanation...
  • The Ghost and Little Marie by Bobbi Holmes

    The Ghost and Little Marie by Bobbi Holmes

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The family of Adam Nichols show up in Frederickport when Marie ends up in a nursing home with a broken hip. Yet unlike Adam, who is trying to get his grandmother home, the new arrivals are more concerned with selling off her assets and keeping her in the questionable facility...
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    cozy  ghosts  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • A Gift of Time by Sarah Wynde

    A Gift of Time by Sarah Wynde

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She thought she could see everything. Time is proving her wrong.Ten years ago, Natalya’s ability to remember the future cost her the life she wanted when her vision of her fiancé’s death tore them apart. Ever since, she's considered her precognition more of a curse than a gift...
  • The Ghost and the Birthday Boy by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    The Ghost and the Birthday Boy by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lily and Ian’s families come to Frederickport to celebrate Connor’s first Birthday. Bringing the in-laws together is not always easy, especially when uninvited guests from the spirit realm show up...
  • The Strangers on Montagu Street by Karen White, Aimée Bruneau

    The Strangers on Montagu Street by Karen White, Aimée Bruneau

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    >Psychic realtor Melanie Middleton returns-only to be greeted by a house full of lost souls. Psychic realtor Melanie Middleton is still restoring her Charleston house and doesn't expect to have a new houseguest, a teen girl named Nola. But the girl didn't come alone, and the spirits that accompanied Nola don't seem willing to leave..
  • Obsidian Curse by Barbra Annino

    Obsidian Curse by Barbra Annino

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Reporter Stacy Justice has finally stopped resisting who she really is—a powerfully gifted witch. And now that the Council has appointed her Seeker of Justice, she feels stronger and more attuned to her magic than ever before.But Samhain—the night when the veil between the worlds thins—is approaching and something strange is brewing. First, a fairy with a sweet tooth appears in town unexpectedly...
  • No Ghouls Allowed by Victoria Laurie

    No Ghouls Allowed by Victoria Laurie

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    On a trip to Georgia to see her father, M. J. Holliday finds herself trapped in a haunted mansion and discovers... THE SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN—FROM THE DEAD  M.J. has had a distant relationship with her father since her mother died more than two decades ago. But when M.J...
  • Witch at Heart by Juliette Harper

    Witch at Heart by Juliette Harper

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent edition hereJinx Hamilton has been minding her own business working as a waitress at Tom’s Cafe and keeping up with her four cats. Then she inherits her Aunt Fiona’s store in neighboring Briar Hollow, North Carolina and learns that her aunt has willed her some special “powers” as well. They say admitting you have a problem is the first step and Jinx has a major problem...
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    cozy  ghosts  paranormal  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  horror
  • Twisted Paths by Terri Reid

    Twisted Paths by Terri Reid

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Gloria Foley turned off the light in the hallway and made her way slowly upstairs to bed. She paused at the doorway of her daughter’s bedroom and shook her head. It had been such an emotional day for all of them. She prayed she would have the strength to get them both through these treacherous teenaged years...
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    cozy  female-mc  ghosts  paranormal  adult  angels  audiobook  book
  • Better Off Dead in Deadwood by Ann Charles

    Better Off Dead in Deadwood by Ann Charles

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    One dead body. One century-old, haunted opera house. One zombie musical. One pissed-off detective...
  • Deader Homes and Gardens by Angie Fox

    Deader Homes and Gardens by Angie Fox

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Southern belle Verity Long is back in business--as a ghost hunter. Now all she has to do is visit the town's creepiest mansion and exorcise a family of vengeful spirits. Piece of cake. After all, ghosts love her and need her...that is until she meets the ghosts of Rock Fall mansion...
  • The Haunted Heist by Angie Fox

    The Haunted Heist by Angie Fox

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    **USA TODAY Bestselling Series!**Just because she can see the dead doesn't mean Verity Long wants to spend her days hunting ghosts. Instead, she's over the moon to land a marketing job at the local bank...until she finds her new boss dead in the vault. Even her ghost friend, Frankie, knows that's no way to start a career...
  • Return to Tradd Street by Karen White

    Return to Tradd Street by Karen White

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Facing her future as a single mother, psychic Realtor Melanie Middleton is determined to be strong and leave her past with writer Jack Trenholm behind her. But history has a tendency of catching up with Melanie, whether she likes it or not.… Melanie is only going through the motions of living since refusing Jack’s marriage proposal...
  • Sleeping with Fear by Kay Hooper

    Sleeping with Fear by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Fear has never been so close...New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper returns with a relentless thriller that brings her readers face-to-face with fear itself. In this terrifying new novel, a psychic special agent finds herself caught up in a tangled web of secrets, lies... and evil.Riley Crane woke up fully dressed, a gun under her pillow, and covered in blood...
  • A Ghostly Suspect by Tonya Kappes

    A Ghostly Suspect by Tonya Kappes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A funeral, a ghost, a murder . . . It's all in a day's work for Emma Lee Raines . . .especially when the ghost turns out to be someone very dear to her heart. Debbie Dually, psychic and friend who has guided Emma Lee since the she was bopped on the head from a falling plastic Santa, local undertaker Emma Lee Raines is told she's suffering from “funeral trauma...
  • To Stop a Shadow by Carrie Pulkinen

    To Stop a Shadow by Carrie Pulkinen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Trent's heart may belong to Tina, but a shadow demon is after his soul…Trent Austin is a successful, big-city lawyer. The last thing he needs is the burden of a run-down house in the suburbs. But when his crazy uncle dies and leaves his estate to Trent, he soon learns he's inherited a lot more than a Victorian mansion...
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    cozy  ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  demons  drama
  • A Ghostly Secret by Tonya Kappes

    A Ghostly Secret by Tonya Kappes

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Emma Lee Raines, proprietor of a small-town Kentucky funeral home, Eternal Slumber, is a “Betweener,” helps ghosts stuck between here and the ever-after— only murdered ghosts. After Emma Lee solves who murdered them, only then can they cross over to the Great Beyond, Big Guy In The Sky.Emma Lee is up against a cold case that happened before she’d even gotten her “Betweener” gift...
  • The Counseling by Marley Gibson

    The Counseling by Marley Gibson

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Kendall has just discovered who Emily really is, lost her boyfriend, and nearly died doing the thing she loves most--ghost hunting. It's time to take a break and try to reconcile all the changes she's going through. So Kendall heads to the Sierra Mountains, where there's a camp especially for young people with gifts such as hers. It's a time for reflection and self-discovery...
  • A Ghoul's Guide to Love and Murder by Victoria Laurie

    A Ghoul's Guide to Love and Murder by Victoria Laurie

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Medium M. J. Holliday battles demons in the tenth Ghost Hunter Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of No Ghouls Allowed.M.J., Heath, and Gilley, are back home in Boston, where their new film is sure to be a monster hit! To promote the film, the studio is sponsoring a special exhibit of supernatural artifacts at a local museum...
  • Ghost of a Potion by Heather Blake

    Ghost of a Potion by Heather Blake

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It’s Halloween in Hitching Post, Alabama, and potion shop owner Carly Bell Hartwell has an especially spooky customer to handle…With all the ghosts that haunt her at this time of year, Carly doesn’t exactly rush to celebrate Halloween.  Even a costume ball organized by her boyfriend Dylan's mother, Patricia Davis Jackson, holds little allure...
  • The Awakening by Amanda Stevens

    The Awakening by Amanda Stevens

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Shush…lest she awaken…  My name is Amelia Gray, a cemetery restorer who lives with the dead. An anonymous donor has hired me to restore Woodbine Cemetery, a place where the rich and powerful bury their secrets. Forty years ago, a child disappeared without a trace and now her ghost has awakened, demanding that I find out the truth about her death. Only I know that she was murdered...
  • Tiger's Eye by Barbra Annino

    Tiger's Eye by Barbra Annino

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Stacy Justice is looking forward to a lazy summer of hot dogs and beer; swims in the lake with her Great Dane, Thor; and hanging with her rekindled old flame, Chance. But when she gets a creepy anonymous call hinting that her father’s “accidental” death fourteen years ago was actually a murder, she’s too unsettled to relax...
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    cozy  ghosts  paranormal  adult  animals  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Emerald Isle by Barbra Annino

    Emerald Isle by Barbra Annino

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Stacy Justice may be a witch, but she still wants a nice, normal twenty-ninth birthday. Unfortunately, Stacy rarely gets normal. As her grandmother, Birdie, plans a birthday ritual for Stacy, disastrous news derails the celebration: the magic cauldron that supplies the world’s food has disappeared. And the last time it vanished, Ireland fell under the Great Famine...
    Categorized as:
    cozy  female-mc  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fae
  • Moon River by J.R. Rain

    Moon River by J.R. Rain

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Seven years ago federal agent Samantha Moon was the perfect wife and mother, your typical soccer mom with the minivan and suburban home. Then the unthinkable happens, an attack that changes her life forever. And forever is a very long time for a vampire...
  • Final Call by Terri Reid

    Final Call by Terri Reid

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Stanley peered up into the shadows above the stage. There was a colorful blaze of fabric amidst the burgundy curtains and canvas backdrops. He moved closer, trying to get a better view from a different angle.“Hey, what’s this play about anyway?” Stanley asked. “Is it a Western?”“No, it’s a drama,” Rosie replied.“How come you need a dummy hanging from a rope?”She looked over quickly...
    Categorized as:
    cozy  ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • Sense of Deception by Victoria Laurie

    Sense of Deception by Victoria Laurie

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In "New York Times" bestselling author Victoria Laurie s newest Psychic Eye Mystery, Abby Cooper senses a convicted killer is innocent, but she ll need hard evidence to save the woman before it s too late A ticked-off judge has tossed Abby in the slammer for contempt of court, and during her brief but unpleasant stay she learns the story of a condemned woman who is facing a far more serious...
  • The Back Door of Midnight by Elizabeth Chandler

    The Back Door of Midnight by Elizabeth Chandler

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Psychic...or psychotic? Anna knows her family is crazy. But when she goes to visit her aunt and uncle for the summer and learns that her uncle’s charred body has been found, her life reaches a new level of insanity. Her erratic aunt’s “psychic” abilities are exaggerated by her grief, and have become borderline violent...
  • Good Tidings by Terri Reid

    Good Tidings by Terri Reid

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Black Friday – the official opening of the holiday shopping season – and Patrice Marcum is stuck in the middle of her local superstore with a crying infant, a near-hysterical desire to just abandon the diapers and milk she desperately needs, and the snowstorm of the century dumping half a foot of snow on the parking lot outside. She needs a miracle...
  • Dead Case in Deadwood by Ann Charles

    Dead Case in Deadwood by Ann Charles

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    "Nothing good ever happens at the butt-crack of dawn. No doubt, the headless corpse on the autopsy table in front of me would agree."-Violet Parker Real estate agent. Violet "Spooky" Parker stumbles upon a body-part theft ring at the local funeral parlor and suspects her caustic coworker has a hand in it or maybe a foot...
  • Grave Mistake by Kate Allenton

    Grave Mistake by Kate Allenton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Psychic Ryley St. James has a million problems, but a haunted house isn’t one of them.Until now.When a woman is attacked in a haunted house and sent to the hospital fighting for her life, her powerful fiancé blackmails Ryley into uncovering the deadly secrets hidden on the property.The house reeks of ill warnings and bad tidings. This isn’t what Ryley calls a typical haunting...
  • Dead Is Just A Rumor by Marlene Perez

    Dead Is Just A Rumor by Marlene Perez

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    As the creepy little town of Nightshade prepares to celebrate its 200th anniversary—on Halloween, of course—many of its paranormal residents are receiving mysterious blackmail letters. Psychic teen Daisy Giordano and her sisters set out to find out who is behind the threats. But launching an investigation isn’t easy for Daisy with her overprotective father watching her every move...
  • Beyond by Catina Haverlock, Angela Larkin

    Beyond by Catina Haverlock, Angela Larkin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ***Sequel out 2018***“Dangerous. Wrong. She could be so close to finding out who I really am, and I don’t want to think about how badly that could damage her. If I have any conscience,I’ll turn and run. But I can’t let her go.” Presley Hale has no idea the guy she just told off in the school parking lot died in a drowning accident four months ago...
  • Forty-Four Book Nine by Jools Sinclair

    Forty-Four Book Nine by Jools Sinclair

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Charlie Modine didn’t find any justice in life. And the afterlife hasn’t been much better. Still, Modine’s ghost is more determined than ever to find the cold-blooded murderer who ran his wife down on the streets of New York City. Tortured and tormented, Modine asks for help from the only person who will listen. The only one who knows he’s there. Abby Craig...
  • The Harder the Fall by Lauren Barnholdt

    The Harder the Fall by Lauren Barnholdt

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kendall has a crush - and the ghost of his mother has something to say about it. The second book in a hilariously haunting tween series.Kendall Williams talks to dead people all the time. Like it or not, it's kind of her thing - the ghosts need her help resolving issues from when they were alive, and she's good at figuring out their problems...
  • 44 Book Ten by Jools Sinclair

    44 Book Ten by Jools Sinclair

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Trapped between confusing visions and a terrifying ghost, all Abby Craig knows for sure is that she is running out of time. But as a wildfire rages out of control in the mountains west of town, an even larger blaze burns deep within her heart...
  • Wherever She Goes by ReGina Welling

    Wherever She Goes by ReGina Welling

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What man in his right mind would want to date a blind psychic? For Kat Canton, the answer was none so she turned away from romance completely. Until the day a pair of warm brown eyes suddenly came into focus. Now, she must decide whether to turn toward the light and let love into her life or walk away and remain in darkness...
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    cozy  ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  drama  fiction
  • Haunts and Hotels by Jarica James

    Haunts and Hotels by Jarica James

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Why work a normal job, when you can travel the world doing what you love? Brea Manley decides to do just that when her vlog takes off. Using the money her stream brings in, she decides to quit her job, fix up an RV, and travel the world doing her investigations. She's not just your normal vlogger, though, she live streams her feed, bringing her viewers along with her...
  • Deadly Intent by Kate Allenton

    Deadly Intent by Kate Allenton

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Psychic medium Quinn Thatcher would never be classified as normal. Just ask her mother. Her people-pleasing skills could use some work, which is why Quinn prefers working with the dead over the living. Ghosts take her as she is, but when people experience Quinn’s sharp tongue and sassy attitude, there is no in between...
  • When Irish Eyes Are Haunting by Heather Graham

    When Irish Eyes Are Haunting by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Devin Lyle and Craig Rockwell are back, this time to a haunted castle in Ireland where a banshee may have gone wild—or maybe there's a much more rational explanation—one that involves a disgruntled heir, murder, and mayhem, all with that sexy light touch Heather Graham has turned into her trademark style...
  • A Gift of Thought by Sarah Wynde

    A Gift of Thought by Sarah Wynde

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    At seventeen, Sylvie Blair ran away from the small town of Tassamara, Florida. She joined the Marines, traveled the world and made a life for herself, but she never forgot what she left behind. Now a close protection security consultant (aka bodyguard) for a spoiled teenager in Washington DC, her empathic gift helps her keep her charge safe, if not out of trouble...
  • The Unknown by Heather Graham

    The Unknown by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Someone wants to watch the city burn…Sienna Murray was only fourteen when she pulled her neighbors out of a raging house fire...
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