Sea Witch Cozy Mysteries: 4 Book Box Set: Paranormal cozy mysteries Kindle Edition

A rollicking set of books that thoroughly entertains. Delightful characters from Australia, especially the ones from the retirement community and the police officers. Goldie certainly has her hands full.

This collection includes three previously released books, as well as a new addition to the series. There are well-defined characters, lots of humor, and plenty of twists to keep you guessing.Welcome to East Bucklebury. Where serving and drinking coffee is not legal.Book 1) Broom Mates (Sea Witch Cozy Mysteries Book 1)Goldie Bloom moves to the Gold Coast after catching her boyfriend and boss making out with another woman in his office, and also inherited a house from her uncle.The next morning, after waking up. She stumbles over a body; she later learns she was the intended victim.This story introduces us to the main characters in the series. In my opinion, it is way too short to be developed properly, and the murderer was announced without any real investigating happening.Book 2) Broom with a View (Sea Witch Mysteries #2)Goldie Bloom's second day starts off very much like her first one ended. Her new friend Oleander calls her early in the morning to tell her that the nursing home manager has been murdered, and the police think she is the guilty party because of an argument they had the night before.Ursula Hackles was a shrew. She enjoyed nothing more than making everyone's life miserable. She would take anything that made the home's residents happy (phones, games, photos. She even put things in the food of the residents that she knew they were medically sensitive to.)With such a large suspect pool, Goldie has her hands full with trying to clear Oleander's name.Book 3) Broom for One MoreGoldie Bloom takes her pet wombat to the vet to be checked over after he attacks a runner from another country and eats one of his sneakers. The sneaker was orange, the wombat hates anything orange and attacks it on the spot. (I actually think he sees orange and believes it's just a large carrot. His favorite snack.)When Goldie arrives at the vet's, the business is empty, she walks through an open door and discovers the body of the recently murdered vet.Because the lead detective believes Goldie to be the main suspect. She, Oleander and Athanasius investigate on their own. Their suspects are the vet's wife, his mistress, his best friend, and his mistresses' husband.Book 4) Broomed for Success (Sea Witch Mysteries #4)Goldie Bloom has her first showing for her new real estate business.When someone shows up early just wanting to see the house, they look through the house and start screaming that there is a dead man in the house.The murdered man is one of five people who around five decades earlier was part of a gang that robbed a bank, and made off with a large portion of gold.As Goldie is one of the main suspects, she and her duo of elderly friends set out to solve yet another murder in their once quiet town before Goldie moved in.This is a really fun series and I am glad to be able to recommend it to others to read.The only thing I didn't understand was the titles. I know they referred to Goldie being a witch. But after four books beginning with "Broom" in the title. There hasn't been a mention of said broom yet.

Morgana has such a lovely, upbeat style of writing that is great for moving the story along. While Goldie, the main character, takes a bit to warm up to, the supporting characters and her wombat familiar are so engaging, you'll keep reading until Goldie's sometimes prickly personality becomes more quirky than anything else.

I had heard of such, but never read about them or their abilities. This set had more neat characters within its pages, and an unusual storyline that carried across the decades! Read the series straight through to book 4!!!

These books are HORRIFICALLY bad. HORRIFICALLY. I picked them up because (a) they were free, (b) cosy mysteries are my down-time. This series had the bonus of including a pet wombat - yay!But oh my god.Full disclaimer: I read the first two 'books' in this set. The first 'book' was a short story, and while it was awful, I figured I'd give the author a chance to prove herself and read the second. If anything, it just got worse. The editing is awful, the storyline dull and predictable, the characters *incredibly* unlikable, and I honestly find it difficult to believe the author has ever been to, lived in, or read anything about Australia. She may also not have encountered much in the way of the English language before.I'm going to share some of my Kindle highlights here:WORD REPETITION5% - "After quickly towelling myself dry, I put on the skirt and blouse Laura had poked around the door. I quickly applied some makeup and dried my hair. A quick glance in the mirror showed I was almost back to my old self."I'm starting to get the impression the author knows exactly one adverb.VOICE RECOGNITION GONE WRONGI can only assume the author writes these using voice recognition, because otherwise some of the errors don't make sense.7% - "When I walked back out, Laura was sitting with the others. “I didn’t hear you coming,” I told her." Come INTHE AUTHOR FORGETS WHAT SHE'S WRITTENOur (awful) heroine moves into a house, and gets her bed installed by removalists to replace the lumpy furniture from her uncle. Yet she apparently chooses to sleep in the removed bed anyway:9% - "I awoke in my new house in Queensland after crashing fully clothed on the lumpy bed"I CANNOT EVEN WITH INTOLERABLE HOT MENOkay, okay. We get it. The first man you meet is going to be your love interest, and he's going to be awful, but so good-looking you can't avoid him. He's even going to be morally ambiguous at first, which will allow a love triangle to develop. *Vomit*11% - "He was insufferable, although his jawline was amazing"THIS FREAKING SENTENCE13% - "For a start, the house wasn’t even seaside, although it was technically so, if you didn’t count the fact that there was no surf, only broadwater."= The house wasn't by the sea, but it was. Though something is only a sea if there's waves. Wtf. Also the protag talks about this so much. Why? Does the author have some kind of trauma involving seashores? Is there some kind of disillusionment at play here? Is it that she WANTS her protagonist and her internal monologue to be a bitter and idiotic shrew? Because nothing else makes sense.FURTHER UNLIKEABILITYIn book 2, the protagonist meets a ghost for the first time. She's been told the ghost is not very nice, and so she goes in yelling at her and being unkind. The ghost responds accordingly, having been given no compassion or chance to communicate herself, and yet the protag storms out saying that14% - “If she wasn’t dead,” I told her, “I’d have killed her myself.”Our protag is a grade-A d*ck.THE FOOTWEARDid I mention that all our protagonist wears is stilettos? She has 3", 4", and 5". Her 4" stilettos are the most 'comfortable' height for everyday wear while wandering around an oceanside country town (which is also a suburb of the Gold Coast - what), spying through windows, checking out swamps etc. She also deems silk clothing suitable workwear. Is this some kind of wish fulfilment fantasy? Is this book written for people who dream about being 'glamourous' (by which I mean uncomfortable and in painful corporate wear) while hooking up with obnoxious men and being a b*tch to everyone you meet? Because that is a VERY SPECIFIC kind of wish.14% - "When I got home, I realised I had nothing for dinner that night, so I pulled on my most comfortable four inch stilettos and went into town."16% - "I decided to dress down by wearing my three inch stilettos and a tight pencil skirt."CREEPS AND MISOGYNISTSExample:15% - "“Well, here’s me,” said Henry, pointing to his car. “I hope to see you around soon. And just so we are clear, Goldie, I never mind when a beautiful woman accosts me with microwavable dinners.”"Eugh, because there's nothing hotter than someone who feels the need to constantly remark on your appearance, right? Also, naturally our protag is both clumsy (how adorkable) and relatable (microwave dinners amirite).DOES THE PROTAGONIST HAVE DEMENTIA OR IS SHE JUST PAINFULLY DUMB15% - "I awoke the next morning at six. I knew that because I woke up, looked at the time on my phone, and said aloud to myself, “Wow, it’s six o’clock. I didn’t wake up at five after all. I wonder why?” I soon answered my own question when I realised that my speech was slurred."I also know the time at which I wake up by looking at a clock. I rarely exclaim the time afterwards, but each to their own. Also there's no explanation for why she's thinking about waking up at five until a couple of chapters AFTER this, when the point is raised for the first time.17% - "I figured I would need to get blockout roller blinds, and dispose of the old curtains that hung across my wide window. Perhaps I should also invest in an Eye Sleep Mask."Also real-talk, if you are waking up in the morning and you are so drunk that you are SLURRING, you have a serious alcohol problem. Nothing about this is charming.(And why in this world is 'eye sleep mask', aka an 'eye-mask', capitalised? Is this some new technology with which the author's just become acquainted? Does she think it's a brand name, or a proper noun? Mysteries abound.)AUSTRALIA FACTS20% - "A bindi was a nasty, low-growing weed that covered most lawns in Australia."Bindis are prickles that grow in some lawns in Australia. I've encountered them in one area in Sydney, but never in my time living in Tasmania, Melbourne, Jindy, or the Whitsundays. I *believe* they would be found in other places, but saying that most lawns in Australia are some kind of violent assault on your feet is wildly inaccurate.35% - (Speaking of codeine.) "“Until recently, it was available throughout Australia without a prescription. Most people in Australia would have it in their cupboards already.”"Codeine is available over-the-counter in Australia at lower doses, after consultation with a pharmacist. Prescriptions for higher-dose codeine has been in place for at least 15 years IIRC - I used to have to get prescriptions for it for back pain 17 years ago. Also please, people - check the expiry dates on the medicines in your cupboards.THE SHRIEKING! THE SCREAMING!Characters in this book only seem to be capable of shrieking or screaming, even over innocuous things. I could understand an argument that those at the old people's home were ALL hard-of-hearing (though this is not the case), but EVERYBODY shrieks/shouts. All the time. For no reason.IS THIS...COMEDY?I don't understand what genre these books are supposed to be, but it's full of uncomfortable moments. E.g. our protag is being slapped on the back by someone who is overly forceful in doing so. Until finally,33% - "This time she hit me so hard on my back that my head did hit the table."NOBODY REACTS TO THIS. This is ASSAULT. If somebody hits you so hard on the back that your head *hits the table in front of you*, report it to the police! And yet nobody at all reacts to this egregious display, it seems it's used as a 'funny' and 'charming' way to end the chapter.I did take some more notes but honestly I'm exhausted by how bad this book is. Burn it. Don't buy it. Run from it. It's awful. I would give it minus stars if I could.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this box set of these books they are so good the sea witch cozy Mysteries I couldn't wait to finish line so I could go on to the next one now I need to see if she's written more after this one give it a high ratingLaverne Chapman

Goldie thought her life was good, until her boyfriend/boss promotes the girl he is caught kissing, so she quits and while she is packing up her desk a lawyer comes to tell her that she has inherited her uncles beach house. ..but there is 1 condition. She must live there for one year, with a room mate ( named Persnickle) who already lives there. Not liking to be around people much, she is reluctant about moving . This is the story of Goldie finding out who she is, meeting crazy ladies from the retirement home, and of course there is a sexy mysterious detective named Max Grayson.... This is a fun story to read. The characters gel together well. There are a lot of laughs and especially because of Persnickle !! Lol get the books and join in the fun.

Goldie finds her boss, and boyfriend, kissing a female colleague. To rub salt in the wound her rival is given the promotion and Goldie is being banished to a branch on the Gold Coast. Inheriting a property there, which she is to share with someone called " Persnickety, she accepts the job. The fun starts there when she meets him, only to find out that he is a wombat. He is not only a wombat, but Goldie's familiar, because she is also told that she is a sea witch. There are great characters who leap off the pages and bring more layers into the storylines, as well as lots of laughs and thrills.

Really good read, nice balance of magic, crime, romance. Thoroughly recommend this set of books, I couldn’t put them down.

Easy - read with murder mystery and witchcraft. Very relaxing

Love these stories

join the crew of sleuths as they uncover just who really "done it" .. just don't ever wear orange.. you'll find yourself wanting just one more page... then another and another until the story is done and then you're ready for the next book to see where this awesome group of friends will go next. great stories...a little adventure.. a little laughter...a little romance... and a whole lot of forbidden coffee!