The Witch is Back by Angela M. Sanders

Item: The Witch Is Back
Rating: 5
Author: karenbaron

Posted December 26, 2024 by karenbaron in #SummerReadsWithTheBaroness, Mystery, Review, Series / 0 Comments

I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy from NetGalley. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

The Witch Is Back

by Angela M. Sanders

Series: Witch Way Librarian Mysteries #6
Series Rating:

Published by Kensington Cozies on November 26, 2024
Setting: Wilfred, Oregon
Genres: Cozy Paranormal Mystery
Pages: 238
Format: Audible Audiobook, Audio CD, Kindle, Paperback
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Also in this series: Bait and Witch, Seven-Year Witch, Witch and Famous, Witch Upon a Star, Gone with the Witch

Just when residents thought life was settling down in small-town Wilfred, Oregon, poison pen letters begin to arrive. Who can celebrate the retreat’s success or the opening of The Wallingford Guesthouse when secrets and less than neighborly transgressions are aired? Librarian Josie Way is lucky to be a witch, since the spellbound books know plenty about murders . . .

Surprised by an unexpected visit from her oddly pensive mother, Josie hopes to distract her with a visit to the Aerie, the clifftop manor where the recently passed Reverend Clarence Duffy lived. Inside, however, Josie hears hissed warnings from boxes of the preacher’s old books—and once home, from the library’s detective novels. When Wilfred residents start to receive threatening letters the next day, the witch-in-training is determined to uncover the missives’ author . . .

But not before the dead body of one of the reverend’s sons is discovered at the bottom of the cliff. Unsettled by the Wilfred residents’ crumbling friendships—and by her mother’s reason for her visit—Josie has her hands full of dilemmas. Sheriff Sam is no help—he laughs off the letter he receives. Then Josie finds one addressed to her, stating that the author “knows her secret.” Josie must trust her fledgling sorcery—as well as a bit of magic from a surprising source—to uncover the poison pen before anyone else receives a deadly delivery . . .

The Witch is Back by Angela M. Sanders is set during the summertime, and Josie has quite a few mysteries to solve.

Is the poison pen letters connected to the murder? Or is it just a coincidence? Why is Josie’s mother visiting her?

Josie and Nora

Josie has those questions and more to answer in this newest Witch Way Librarian Mysteries series installment. She has her hands full trying to figure out why her mother is in town unannounced and why was the boxes of books so mean at the Aerie. Josie is doing great with figuring out her magic, especially with her grandma’s help from her letters. Except is her magic enough to take down the poison pen letter writer and find a murderer? Probably not. Nora is there, and she can help.

I love the Way family members and how Josie was able to help the two family members who have come to visit her to see things differently. Josie is a remarkable character, and I would love to be friends with her. Mostly so that I can hang out in that fabulous library that she runs. Now, that is a fantastic place, as I see it in my head. Josie’s relationship with her mom is excellent, and I love a good mom-daughter duo.

The Mysteries

Josie has quite a few mysteries going around town. The major one for Josie would be why her mother is in town without her father and why she always looks so dejected. The next mystery would be the poison pen letters. Another mystery is the dead body of one of the reverend’s sons. The last one, technically for Josie, is who wrote her poison pen letter. There is another mystery, but I can’t say what it is since it’s not in the plot summary, and I don’t want to spoil it. Josie has her hands full, trying to figure all of these mysteries out while still being a good hostess with her mom in town.

I have to say that I thought the poison pen letters and the murder was connected and who did it. Ms. Sanders caught me with a fantastic red herring that she put in.

Five Stars

My rating for The Witch is Back by Angela M. Sanders is five stars. After reading every installment, I can’t help but recommend this series—it’s that wonderfully written. Ms. Sanders has a way of transporting me from wherever I am to Wilford, Oregon, where I can help Josie solve a mystery and see how she is doing with Sam Wilford.

Witch Way Librarian Mysteries

Thank you for dropping by! I hope you enjoyed this review of The Witch is Back by Angela M. Sanders.

Until the next time,

Happy Reading!

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About Angela M. Sanders

Angela M. Sanders writes the Amazon bestselling Joanna Hayworth Vintage Clothing Mysteries and The Booster Club Capers. Under the pen name Clover Tate, she’s the author of the Kite Shop Mysteries (Berkley), which Romantic Times praised for their “well written wit and intrigue.” Angela’s articles on food, personalities, and perfume have appeared in a variety of magazines, and her monthly newsletters have nearly 2,000 subscribers. She interacts with readers on Facebook and Instagram and is a prominent blogger for Now Smell This, which garners 1.5 million monthly page views. Angela has two cats—one of whom is black of course—a witch’s freckle in her left eye and learned to read tarot cards from a pagan priestess.

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