Being a witch is hard. It’s even harder when you live in a town that doesn’t believe in witches.When young witch River Halloway moves to sleepy Brimstone Bay for her very first journalist job, she doesn’t expect to cover anything ground-breaking. That is, until a paranormal festival comes to town and a body is found on opening night. Now, with all evidence pointing towards a witch, River must … towards a witch, River must find the true killer before she becomes the prime suspect.
Or worse, the next murder victim.
So much for it being a sleepy little town.
Orignally published in 2016, Murder Any Witch Way is the first book in N.M. Howell’s Brimstone Bay Mysteries young adult cozy paranormal mystery series. Pick up this re-released edition with a brand new cover! If you’re a fan of Amanda M. Lee, Juliette Harper, and Amy Boyles, then be sure to get your fill of magic, mystery, and murder with this fun, bite-sized series filled with magic, mystery, and a whole lot of cats!
Brimstone Bay Mysteries:
Murder Any Witch Way – December 22, 2018
Witch Way to Hallows’ Bay – December 23, 2018
Bewitch You a Merry Christmas – December 24, 2018
Witch Souls to Save – January 13, 2019
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The book was a very good book to read i love too read more books like this one
She is a witch in a town who does not believe in witches. She will need all her skills when a body turns up and another witch is being accused. Can she find the real culprit? See how she gets on
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A well wrote, who did it mystery. Dead bodies, many suspects, witches, ghosts and darn good writing makes this book one to read. Who to blame for murder? Who not to blame? Good reading.
I enjoyed this cozy mystery. I thought it was great. I liked the characters and the story.
This is a good book for a young adult about A young witch named River Halloway moves to sleepy Brimstone Bay for her very first journalist job. River is covering a paranormal festival when it comes to town and a body is found on opening night. Now, with all evidence pointing towards a witch, River must find the true killer before she becomes the prime suspect, or worse, the next murder victim.
Simple, fun, spooky murder story with some love able witches & a strange mayor in it’s cast. River, the new girl, still learning her way aroundBrimstone Bay, trying to figure out the mystery that has shaken the town
Too predictable. Candy read.
While I too can do without too much swearing, I simply skip over what I find annoying in today’s stories if they are good enough. I do like the characters and I felt they were all appropriately developed. As a first in the series, this was great and I’m looking forward to reading more.
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Young witch River Halloway has moved to Brimstone Bay to start her new job as a journalist. The town is considered sleepy by nature, so River doesn’t expect to be writing any newsworthy stores for the weekly newspaper. Outside of births, natural deaths, weddings, and lots of senior birthday parties, the paper really doesn’t have much to report on. So River is thrilled to hear that the paranormal festival will be passing through town. This will allow her and her other witch friends the opportunity to “act” like themselves without arising any suspicions and a few juicy stories that she can write for the paper.
Things don’t go as planned when a body is found on opening night and fingers point to the witch community. River sets her sights on solving the mystery before she or one of her friends are taken in as prime suspects and even worse another murder is committed.
The first book doesn’t have a lot of character development and it does take a while for the mystery part of the story to unwind. However, the author does have a good writing style, plot, and there are red herrings so you don’t know the true killer right away. Which means to me a a lot of untapped potential that I feel will improve as the series continues.
River is a fun character, she write for the local paper in the small town of Brimstone Bay but wants more, so when the idea of getting the Shadow Festival to come to town she gets excited and even more hen she doesn’t need to convince the Mayor. Alas what was meant to be a good thing for the town as well as her journalism turns into murder and trying to find out who did it. The fact that people in the town know of witches but its never talked about nor anyone asked if they are one they don’t mind a little helping hand when needed. I liked how I didn’t know who the murderer was for quiet a while and the fact that Harper gets help from her housemates and Mrs Brody was great as it shows everyone needs a helping hand. I look forward to reading more in this series and hope the Mayor is in those too 😉
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too much sarcasm and stubbornness.
Very enjoyable story, moved from funny too serious.
I will say that the ending surprised me. I figured it (you know what I mean when you start reading it.) In the last few chapters, but still was a good book to read. A quick, entertaining book.
Fun and interesting mystery
Loved the various characters and their interactions. Nice descriptions of setting and mood. Lots of creepy alternatives to keep us guessing. Enjoyable read.
Character’s are perfect. You could just picture some of the sticky situations that arosed
This was a fun and relaxing before-bed read. I would have loved for this book to have been just a bit longer and launch into the story’s fantastical elements earlier. The romantic side plots were also weak and could have been fleshed out better; as the first in a series, it wasn’t strong enough to make me want to read more because it did fall a bit short of world and character building. I could barely distinguish the narrator’s roommates from one another. It was also riddled with typos that disrupted the flow of the writing.
Cute book easy to enjoy
A fun read. I liked the quirky characters.
An entertaining read.
over thought writing