Witch's Tail

A Paranormal Cozy Mystery

By: Melanie Snow

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Can she awaken her dormant powers and stop a desperate killer destroying the forest?

Sarah Spellwood feels she’s hit bottom. Divorced and jobless, she relocates to the enchanting village of Witchland intent on solving the murder of her late mentor. But as she pursues clues buried in the man’s fight to save the endangered forest-dwelling lynx, she makes an enemy of a ruthless land developer.

Encountering fairies in the woods, Sarah discovers she’s been repressing unique gifts passed down from her ancestor and founding witch, Lativia Spellwood. But though she can now hear her deceased friend’s dog speak, she isn’t sure her abilities are enough to expose the greed and corruption covering a killer’s lies.

Can Sarah work with the magical beings to bring a murderer to justice?

Witch’s Tail is the charming first book in the light-hearted The Spellwood Witches cozy mystery series. If you like paranormal puzzles, delightful canine companions, and environmental enlightenment, then you’ll love Melanie Snow’s wagging-ly fun whodunit.

Buy Witch’s Tail to set a snare for an assassin today!

Heavy telling rather than showing but it has a dog!

I prefer an immediate first person point of view with the character experiencing the various senses rather than a semi first person with a large amount of telling and then telling a lot more.
If you find a work that never really "takes off" it may suffer from telling rather than showing.
The author here clearly loves the genre and it's expected tropes are present regardless of the telling. The voice is clear. I did not notice any jarring misreading or problems with continuity.
It has a dog. Three stars for the authors obvious love of the genre and inclusion of the dog.