Bait and Witch

by Angela M. Sanders

Overview

Librarian Josie Way moved to small-town Oregon to lay low. Instead, thanks to newfound magic abilities—and a killer on the loose—she’s leapt out of the frying pan and into a cauldron of trouble . . .
 
Josie Way loved working among the Library of Congress’s leather-scented stacks—until she uncovered corruption and made herself a target. As Wilfred, Oregon’s new librarian, Josie can stay undercover until the case goes to court. But life in this little town isn’t as subdued as she expected. The library, housed in a a Victorian mansion, is slated to be bulldozed. Still digesting the news that her safe haven is about to become scrap lumber, Josie discovers a body in the woods . . .
 
Almost as shocking, Josie learns that she’s descended from a long line of witches—and her powers have suddenly sprung to life. With help from a spoiled alley cat who just may be her familiar, Josie’s thumbing through a catalog of suspects, hoping she can conjure a way to save her library—and her life. . .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496728746
Publisher:	Kensington
Publication date:	12/29/2020
Series:	Witch Way Librarian Mysteries , #1
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	85,709
Product dimensions:	4.70(w) x 6.80(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Angela M. Sanders writes the Amazon bestselling Joanna Hayworth Vintage Clothing Mysteries and The Booster Club Capers. Under the pen name Clover Tate, she’s the author of the Kite Shop Mysteries (Berkley), which Romantic Times praised for their “well written wit and intrigue.” Angela’s articles on food, personalities, and perfume have appeared in a variety of magazines, and her monthly newsletters have nearly 2,000 subscribers. She interacts with readers on Facebook and Instagram, and is a prominent blogger for Now Smell This, which garners 1.5 million monthly page views. Angela has two cats—one of whom is black of course—a witch’s freckle in her left eye, and learned to read tarot cards from a pagan priestess.

Editorial Reviews

A D.C. librarian caught in a political scandal hides out in a small-town Oregon library job that deepens her connection to books in uncanny ways…Zippy and fun, with just enough ambiance to satisfy readers seeking spooks and humor.”
—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2020-10-27
A D.C. librarian caught in a political scandal hides out in a small-town Oregon library job that deepens her connection to books in uncanny ways.

After she lodges a whistleblower complaint based on political machinations she overhears on a break from her position at the Library of Congress, Josie Way gets as far out of town as she can. She winds up in Wilfred, Oregon, a place she’s quickly reminded hasn’t even technically been a town since the old mill shut down 25 years ago. Although Josie intends to remain as town librarian only as long as it takes for her complaint to get investigated, she’s shocked when Darla Starling, the librarian who hired her, and assistant librarian Roz Grover tell her that the librarian position is as temporary as she is. Now that social-climbing Ilona Buckwalter has pronounced the library’s site the perfect place for a retreat center, some of the library trustees are hopeful that this new business could be what brings Wilfred back from the brink. But Josie didn’t come all this way to let it all go, and she fights Ilona the best way a librarian can: by a well-researched report demonstrating the library’s value to the town. Take that! And Josie’s just starting to come into her real power, for her long-standing connection to books gets stronger and almost otherworldly. Maybe she should read that copy of Folk Witchthat’s always appearing in the background? Good thing she has books, and the library’s resident cat, Rodney, on her side, because she stumbles on a dead body she’s pretty sure was someone sent from D.C. to keep her quiet. Like anyone could stop her from telling the truth.

Zippy and fun, with just enough ambiance to satisfy readers seeking spooks and humor.

Kirkus Reviews