Witch Upon a Star by Angela M. Sanders

Item: Witch Upon a Star
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Posted April 19, 2023 by karenbaron in #HolidayMystery, Mystery, Review, Series / 0 Comments

Witch Upon a Star

by Angela M. Sanders

Series: Witch Way Librarian Mysteries #4
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Published by Kensington Cozies on May 23, 2023
Setting: Oregon
Genres: Cozy Paranormal Holiday Mystery
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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Also in this series: Bait and Witch, Seven-Year Witch, Witch and Famous, Gone with the Witch

Big things are happening in small-town Wilfred, Oregon! The retreat center is open for its first workshop, the local cafe is done remodeling, and librarian and witch-in-training Josie Way is hosting her sister--and a few suspicions about the new killer on the loose . . .

Josie is eager to show off Wilfred's delights to her visiting sister, Jean--even though Josie must conceal her magic from her. In any case, Jean is excited to attend Cookie Masterson's trademark "Ready-Set-Go!" workshop on becoming a life coach. Then there's the grand reopening of Darla's Cafe, where the doors are thrown open to reveal . . . a dead man, stabbed in the back. That was definitely not on the revamped menu...

Even more worrisome, the sheriff receives a report of a fresh corpse at the retreat center. Maybe murder isn't so uncommon in Wilfred anymore, but two unfamiliar bodies within an hour certainly is! Josie's willing to let law enforcement take the lead--after all, she's gotten into some trouble from the hints the library's spellbound books keep feeding her about the patrons. But when her sister receives the killer's chilling calling card, she'll use everything within her otherworldly powers to divine just who in town has homicide as his new slogan . . .

Witch Upon a Star by Angela M. Sanders has Jean coming to Wilfred for a workshop and staying with Josie at the library.

How is Josie going to keep Jean safe?

Josie and Jean Way

Josie is happy to have her baby sister staying with her for as long as the life coach workshop occurs. It’s been quite a while since the last book ended to the beginning of this one. Josie is happy with the way life is going for her. Of course, Josie is having an extra hard time with her grandma’s magic lessons letter. I can see it being an ongoing trouble game for her not to be butting into other people’s business.

Jean Way, the youngest of the Way sisters, is here to take this once-in-a-lifetime small life coach workshop in Wilford by this renowned life coach expert Cookie Masterson with the “Ready-Set-Go” formula that has helped Cookie with everything in life. She is excited to take the workshop even though both her mom and Josie think she drank the Kool-Aid, making it seem like Cookie is running a cult with all her crumbs just falling in line. I at first thought she did too, but part of me was like, let’s see how Jean does.

I have to say that Jean started to become one of my favorite characters, as I loved how she ended up helping Josie.

The Mystery

Josie finds a dead body in the cafe that just recently reopened, and Jean, along with the other workshop attendees, finds the dead body of a workshop participant in a separate room. Josie’s dead body also has written “Ready-Set-Go” in blood on one of the paper placemats. Josie, Sam, and Jean are on the case to determine if the two deaths are connected and have something to do with the workshop. In Jean’s case, she ensures that her sister doesn’t railroad Cookie as Cookie couldn’t be responsible for the deaths. I got who did it, but I was shocked at the why and how that person excepted to get away with it.

Five Stars

Witch Upon a Star by Angela M. Sanders lets us see Josie’s dynamic with at least one of her sisters. I absolutely loved Jean and how her little magical touch of healing works. Jean will go far, and I hope she won’t keep spouting off the Ready-Set-Go method for much longer. Josie being with Jean definitely helped her out even though she was the mother hen with Jean. Another character I missed was Darla, so I’m glad she is back and running her cafe.

I am giving five stars to Witch Upon a Star by Angela M. Sanders and a recommendation to anyone who loves a good, Cozy Paranormal Holiday Mystery. Granted, it is set in December, but who knows when so I’m still calling it a Holiday Mystery. Now to wait to see how the many things in this installment affect what will play out in the next one.

The Witch Way Librarian Mysteries

Thank you for dropping by! I hope you enjoyed this review of Witch Upon a Star by Angela M. Sanders.

Until the next time,

Happy Reading!

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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