In a Witch’s Wardrobe by Juliet Blackwell

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Posted April 22, 2022 by karenbaron in Mystery, Paranormal, Review, Series / 0 Comments

In a Witch's Wardrobe

by Juliet Blackwell

Series: Witchcraft Mystery #4
Series Rating:

Published by Berkley on July 3, 2012
Genres: Cozy Paranormal Animal Mystery
Pages: 340
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Also in this series: Secondhand Spirits, A Cast-Off Coven, Hexes and Hemlines, , Tarnished and Torn, Fool's Gold, A Vision in Velvet, A Haunting is Brewing, Spellcasting in Silk

Lily Ivory is living her dream of owning a vintage clothing store—and practicing magic on the side. But when she encounters a sinister sleeping spell, Lily comes face-to-face with a nightmarish evil...

Taking a night off from running her successful San Francisco clothing store, Lily attends a local art deco ball where vintage fashions steal the show. But when a young woman at the event falls under a mysterious sleeping sickness, Lily senses that a curse was placed on the woman's corsage.

Before Lily can solve the woman's magical ailment, she's asked to assist in investigating a string of poisonings in the Bay Area Witchcraft community. She's gained the trust of the local covens by supporting women's charities through her clothing store. But soon, Lily suspects that one of her new acquaintances might not be so well-intentioned and could be dabbling in dark magic and deadly botany...

In a Witch’s Wardrobe by Juliet Blackwell is a continuation of the last book with Lily Ivory attending the Arts Deco Ball in Oakland, California.

Can Lily figure out who cursed Miriam? Along with who could have harmed Tanya, aka Tarra?

Lily Ivory

Lily Ivory is our sleuth, and she’s perplexed about her life. Well, the men in her life and if she belongs traversing through the witch’s politics. Lily is trying to navigate through areas that she hasn’t done before, and she is trying to finish her training. The men in her life are also all very confusing. We have Max Carmichael, who doesn’t want anything to do with her because she is a witch, which goes against everything he knows. Next up, we have Aidan Rhodes, who is a lot older than her, and he toys with her emotions. Lastly, we have Sailor, a psychic who is reluctant to be around Lily since he doesn’t like witches. Then we have her pet, familiar Oscar, who’s torn about who his master is, Lily or Aidan.

The Mystery

Lily went to the Art Deco Ball and met a woman there who had a curse put on her. She wants to investigate this whole thing but is asked by local Inspector Carlos Romero to help him out by asking questions about Tarra, the recently deceased. So now Lily has to put her investigation of Miriam on hold to do this as she’s digging though it seems like the two might be connected after all. I had no clue who could have killed Tarra or put the curse on Miriam. Part of me was blaming a red herring, but then I couldn’t help but think it doesn’t make sense for that person to have done it.

Five Stars

My rating for In a Witch’s Wardrobe by Juliet Blackwell is five stars, and I’m recommending it to any cozy paranormal mystery readers. I love this series so much, and the way that Ms. Blackwell wrote them is fantastic. I feel like I’m back in California again, just having a grand ole time in every book I read.

Other Books in the Witchcraft Mystery Series

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Until the next time,

Happy Reading!

About Juliet Blackwell

Juliet Blackwell was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, the youngest child of a jet pilot from New York and an editor from Texas. She graduated with a degree in Latin American Studies from University of California, Santa Cruz, and went on to earn Masters degrees in Anthropology and Social Work from the State University of New York, Albany.

While in graduate school she published several articles based on her research with immigrant families from Mexico and Viet Nam, as well as one full-length translation: Miguel León-Portilla’s seminal work, Endangered Cultures. Juliet taught Medical Anthropology at SUNY-Albany, was a producer for a BBC documentary about Vietnamese children left behind by US soldiers, and worked as an elementary school social worker in rural New York. Upon her return to California, she became a professional artist and ran her own decorative painting, historical renovation, and domestic design studio for more than a decade.

In addition to mainstream novels, Juliet pens the New York Times Bestselling Witchcraft Mysteries and the Haunted Home Renovation series. As Hailey Lind, she wrote the Agatha Award-nominated Art Lover’s Mystery series. She is past president of Northern California Sisters in Crime and former board member of Mystery Writers of America.

Juliet lives in a hundred-year-old house with extensive botanical gardens in Northern California but spends as much time as possible in Europe and Latin America. She believes in the magic of language, travel, and cultural exchange to open hearts, minds, and souls.

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