WHEN THE CROW'S AWAY

The good witches of Connecticut get another chance to use their distinctive individual talents.

Evenfall has long been the home of the Warren family, which currently includes young widow Brynn, her aunts Izzy and Nora, and her uncle Gideon, who together run the Ivywood Hollow Bed and Breakfast. Izzy is a gourmet cook whose recipes contain a little extra something in the way of spells. Imperious Nora has a talent for growing all types of plants. Gideon keeps to himself in the attic, and Brynn can see ghosts. When Mortimer Sweete, from the Sweetes’ Shoppe, appears to her, claiming to have been murdered, she’s forced to get involved since he’s heard the witchy rumors and knows that she’s solved a murder. Unfortunately, the little he remembers about his end isn’t enough to challenge the police assumption that he had a heart attack brought on by eating a box of candy in the town gazebo and triggering his diabetes. Although Brynn tries to get Mort to go with her and give a message to his wife, Angie, he refuses. A vision in the family cauldron gives her a clue but not the answer to Mort’s death. As she investigates, she feels uneasy. Cookie, the wife of Mort’s partner, is all too eager to sell the shop, and Angie’s handsome neighbor Elias Blumenthal seems overly solicitous. Could the answer lie in his poison garden?

A lighthearted tale of good witches, romance, and hope.