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It looks a little too cute for me, in any case.
I was wondering if there was something ... less cutesy out there where the detective is a witch/Wiccan. There were the Bast mysteries, I know, but everything more current is, like, magical bakeries or magical cats and lots of vintage and/or sewing stuff.
Ah, thanks, Amy!
So, Conseula, I loved Set This House in Order, by Matt Ruff! I'm definitely planning on reading the rest of his books now; I'm really impressed when writers can write such different books.
Amy, there's Dolores Stewart Ricco's series that starts with Circle of Five [link] .
The main character is part of a Wiccan group in Massachusetts. There are several books in the series.
whatwasthatbook at livejournal is awesome. The book was Witchdame by Kathleen Sky.
Answered in 4 hours in the middle of the night, too, and on the first comment!
Seriously - that was amazing.
So, Conseula, I loved Set This House in Order, by Matt Ruff!
He's really ridiculously talented. Everything he does is completely unlike everything else he does. I want to read Mirage, but I've got a real backlog of reading.
Still, I have great fondness for Fool on the Hill, which was his senior thesis at Cornell, because it's really romantic, it's a college novel, and it even has a very fannish woobie. (Not that I knew what a woobie was when I read it originally.)
I wish I knew who to thank for introducing me to him. Years ago, I was scrolling through my friendsfriends on LJ, and I came across a review of Bad Monkeys, and that was the inspiration for my List. That was the first book I wrote down somewhere to remind myself to read it because it sounded too awesome not to read. Thank you, random LJ person, for that review.
Amy, I consulted the most omnivorous reader of mysteries and fantasy I know, and she says:
Madelyn Alt. the first in her series is The Trouble with Magic, and there are 6 so far out in paperback. set in small town indiana, young witch works in gift/tea shop owned by older more experienced witch who becomes her mentor.
Juliet Blackwell. the first in her series is Secondhand Spirits, and there are 4 so far in the series. the witch was raised by her grandmother in texas, but then left and has knocked around the world some, to end up in san francisco running a used clothing store.
Shirley Damsgaard. first in her series is Witchway to Murder, and there are at least 6 in the series. the witch is a small town librarian in iowa, and consults with her witchy grandmother who raises and sells flowers and vegetables outside town.