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Funerals and Familiars by Carmen Radtke

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Funerals and Familiars (A Cozy Midlife Witch Mystery) Willowmere Mysteries
Paranormal Cozy Mystery
1st in Series
Setting – Oregon
Independently Published (May 23, 2025)
Digital Print length ‏ : ‎ 248 pages
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0F4S6S3DP

Midlife can be murder – or magic…

Almost fifty and freshly divorced, Bex Merriweather is going through The Change – battling hot flashes and night sweats. Little does she realize that when an elderly relative dies and leaves her a lending library in sleepy Willowmere, complete with cat, her whole life is going to change…

Turns out Aunt Violet left behind more than books and home-made herbal teas, like full-blown witch powers, and a small town where murder is very much on the menu. Even Cosmo the cat is no ordinary feline, but a sassy talking familiar. And when rumors about her aunt’s death begin to circulate, Bex has no choice but to embrace her witchy inheritance, and her inner detective.

Now the novice witch, armed only with her circle of lifelong friends and a snarky, judgemental cat mentor, must uncover the truth, before her newly acquired magical life goes up in smoke.

Perfect for fans of cozy mysteries, magical mayhem, and heroines who believe it’s never too late for a new chapter—or a little witchcraft!

About Carmen Radtke

Carmen has spent most of her life with ink on her fingers and a dangerously high pile of books and newspapers by her side.

She has worked as a newspaper reporter on two continents and always dreamt of becoming a novelist and screenwriter.

When she found herself crouched under her dining table, typing away on a novel between two earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, she realised she was hooked for life.

The shaken but stirring novel made it to the longlist of the Mslexia competition, and her next book and first mystery, The Case Of The Missing Bride, was a finalist in the Malice Domestic competition in a year without a winner. Since then she has penned several more cozy mysteries, including the Genie and Adriana Darling ghost mysteries and the Jack and Frances series set in the 1930s.

Carmen now lives in Italy with her human and her four-legged family. Although she possesses no witchy powers, she’s known to be easily held spellbound by animals.

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It’s time!!! ARC sign ups for Like Father Like Son by @darksmutauthor_kaseyr Are now open!! You can find the form in @darksmutauthor_kaseyr BIO. Sign ups will be open till June 21. ARC’s will go out the last couple of weeks of June. A MFM age gap taboo dark romance. Blurb: They were, by all accounts, the picture perfect couple. Then, Raze’s betrayal—a wound of the deepest kind—shattered Bailey’s world, and he vanished like a cloud of smoke. Bailey’s broken heart, seeking solace, found an unexpected haven in the arms of someone she had long considered off-limits. Yet, when a long-kept secret, meticulously hidden from her, finally surfaced, Bailey was torn. Would she honor the call of what’s right or surrender to the intoxicating, dangerous dance of family loyalty and chaos? The solid ground of her former life was already dissolving. The familiar lines of her existence blurred, smudged by hushed confessions and stolen glances that promised both rapture and ruin. Now, with Raze’s sudden return, the chaos was no longer a contained tempest; it was a raging hurricane. Bailey was caught between two men whose desires, as potent as they were treacherous, tore her apart in opposing, ruinous directions. The true question wasn’t who she would choose, but how much of herself she was willing to lose in the process. The combined presence of her men, intricately woven with secrets and danger, presented a challenge that transcended her heart, threatening to redefine her entire existence. The choices ahead weren’t about right or wrong, but about survival, and discovering who she was becoming in this whirlwind of conflicting desires and unfolding darkness. ✨️Release day has been moved from June 19 to the beginning of July. ✨️ #arcreaderswanted #bookispost #darksmutauthor_kaseyr #arcopportunity

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