The Hollow Oak Witch Cozy Mysteries: Books 1-3

Three complete cozy witch mysteries in one collection. One small town, one tea shop, one black cat who has been there a great deal longer than you have.

Maggie Thistlewood spent fourteen years catching liars for a Boston insurance company. Then her great-aunt Ida left her a tea-and-book shop with a blue door in Hollow Oak, Massachusetts, along with two hundred and twelve tins of tea and Bartholomew: a black cat who claims to be two hundred and six years old, speaks like a disappointed butler, and informs her that she is a hedge witch.

Fair Tea and Foxglove (Book One). Maggie's first Pumpkin Fair, a recipe the whole town expects her to brew, and a dead man everybody liked.

Toffee and Yew (Book Two). A man with two million followers brings fireworks to the oak and a plan to open the town's 1743 Covenant live at midnight on Halloween, right after his famous on-air bite of a toffee apple.

Wassail and Hellebore (Book Three). Christmas Eve, a new Midwinter Wassail, and the church bell rung for the first time since 1851. The first night it speaks, a man drinks from his own silver cup and dies.

Every mystery is fair play: each turns on one contradiction stated plainly before the reveal, so the answer is always provable and never a guess. No gore, no graphic violence, and a cat who would prefer you read them in order.

Includes all three full novels as originally published. The story continues in Maple and Monkshood (Book Four) and Cranberry and Cowbane (Book Five).