Halloween Fun:
Perhaps frightful
I love all types of mysteries including fantasy, science fiction, and paranormal novels that have a mystery bent. Because we give something a name doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t jump out of our comfort zone once in a while to explore other genres. Even Sir. Author Colan Doyle had Sherlock Holmes explore the paranormal. Many fantasy books have a mystery element to them and are excellent reads. Perhaps the Halloween season is a time to try something a little out of our comfort zone. Some of these authors are fantasy heavy and some are fantasy light or paranormal light. I’ve included books that are Halloween themed, but not necessarily paranormal or fantasy in nature (in case you don’t want to go all out into fantasy just yet.) All are fun to read if you give them a try!
Esme Addison this year came out with “An Intrigue of Witches” which is the first in her new series the Secret Society Mysteries. Her hero is Sidney Taylor, a early American historian, looking for an important artefact, but finds her way blocked on every side. She doesn’t give up and starts to find her own history of witchcraft. I really enjoyed her other series Enchanted Bay Mysteries which includes “A Spell for Trouble” as the first in the series.
If you want to delve into a heavier duty fantasy series, you could start light with Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files. The first book in the series was “Storm Front.” Harry Dresden is a private investigator and a professional wizard. This is a terrific series and was turned into a television series. Jim’s son James Butcher is following his father’s footsteps with his series Unorthodox Chronicles which started with “Dead Man’s Hand.”
Patricia Briggs’s Mercy Thompson series is a great starter series to drag mystery readers into the fantasy genre. “Moon Called” is the first in the series. I cannot say enough about how great this series is and how the characters grab your interest.
Jennifer Estep’s Elemental Assassin series is another fantasy series which I love to read. “Spider Bite” was the first book in the series. “Spider” is an assassin who is always on the right side.
Leigh Bardugo’s series with Alex Stern started with “Ninth House” and is absolutely a murder mystery series with a fantasy twist.
Keri Arthur has a wonderful fantasy series called Crown of Shadows. The first book is “Relic Hunters” wherein Bethany Aodhan searches for godly artifacts in the midst of murder and the threat of chaos being released in modern-day England.
Emmeline Duncan’s new series started with “Chaos at the Lazy Bones Bookshop” which is her first book in the Halloween Bookshop Mystery.
Alyssa Day’s Tiger’s Eye Mystery series started with “Private Eye” and her latest is the 14th book in the series “A Dead End Halloween.” Private investigator Jack Shepherd and pawnshop owner Tess Callahan work their magic to solve the latest mystery to hit the town of Dead End, FL.
Addison Moore’s latest in her Brambleberry Bay Murder Club series is “Nightmare in Halloween Hollow.” Kathi Daley’s first book in her Zoe Donovan mystery series was “Halloween Hijinks” and the series has grown to include 36 books.
Victoria Tait’s tenth book in her Dotty Sayers Antique Mystery series is “Halloween Parade Peril.”
I’ve read several of Tonya Kappes’s mysteries that I’ve enjoyed. She has a couple Halloween books and paranormal books. Her series Magical Cures Mystery started with “A Charming Crime.” Her Ghostly Southern Mystery series started with “A Ghostly Undertaking.” One of her books in the Camper and Criminals Cozy mystery series is “Jackets, Jack-o-lantern, and Justice” (she has other fall related books in that series). Her holiday cozy mystery series includes “A Halloween Homicide.”
Morgana Best’s latest book is “The Halloween Mystery Spell” which is part of her Kitchen Witch series.
This list could go on forever! Most of the books I’ve included are cozies. Perhaps next year, I will step it
up and include Horror.
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