Ghoul Interrupted
(2024)(Book 23 in the Vega Bloodmire Wicked Witch Mystery series)
A novel by Sarina Dorie
Wicked witches. Murder. Mystery.
A ghoul’s plans for romance are foiled by true love. Is there any way Vega can come out of this as anything other than a wicked witch?Vega Bloodmire thinks she has found the perfect man—a hot detective who has no problem kissing her in a graveyard, a man who will accept her for who she is. He might not even be as opposed to her ghoulish nature as she had previously feared. Unfortunately, her romantic plans for the future are foiled when she learns Detective Izidro Medina is supposedly her coworker’s soulmate.
As if this isn’t enough to worry about, Vega discovers one of her students has a dangerous secret. With a little digging—literal and figurative—she learns there is more to this student than meets the eye. A shapeshifter who inadvertently takes on the appearance of others is a rare ability—and one that can make enemies. This power threatens to expose Vega’s own secrets as a ghoul.
Vega isn’t the only one who has noticed what this student can do.
When this student turns up dead, mirroring another victim five years prior, Vega is startled by the similarities. This brings up Vega’s past with her college roommate who had similar reasons to hide an unusual identity. Because the school would rather keep the incident hushed up to avoid scandal than protect students, Vega takes it upon herself to discover the murderer and punish those responsible.
Can Vega solve a crime of the past to understand this murder in the present—while preserving her own secrets and her love life?
This book starts with Vega Bloodmire’s life before working at Womby’s School for Wayward Witches when she was a new and inexperienced teacher at Lady of the Lake School for Girls. Material Ghoulis the 19th book in the series of mysteries. The book takes place at a magical academy, but these whodunnits are fine to be read in any order.
Clean, cozy, no sex or swearing, PG 13—perfectly fine for teens or grandmas who like mysteries with magic.
Genre: Cozy Mystery