Bøker av Mara Webb

Take a trip to Compass Cove, an enchanted town full of magic and mayhem... After a troublesome first month in Compass Cove Zora Wick is finally getting into a groove when the town goes into frenzy mode. There's a Bread Fair on the calendar, and the locals take their dough very seriously. There's a competition on the cards and prize money at stake, and apparently, it's worth killing over. If that wasn't enough to handle a new bread shop has opened in town, a voodoo-inspired bakery operated by a mysterious witch who is dabbling in dark magic or just very good at pretending. Her shop is full of rotting food and disturbing symbols, but the humans of Compass Cove are lapping it up, and lines are forming around the block. Zora's convinced there's more there than meets the eye. Zora also has to find a moment to wade through an awful morning of interviews for a bakery assistant, try and figure out why she saw her missing mother hiding in her bathroom mirror, and keep her boneheaded guardians from killing each other-if they don't get killed by a troublesome magical pest first. On top of that one of Zora's friends has fallen into trouble with sirens, a dark and brooding group of creatures that inhabit Compass Cove lake. Can she give the merfolk what they want without losing her friend? There's also a rather annoying wand insurance salesman that won't stop following her around... Zora might be pushed to murder herself if he doesn't let up. Tensions and dough are rising, and it seems like everyone in town has something to prove. There's no loafing around for Zora, she'll have to go against the grain and catch a killer before her plans go a-rye.

Elizabeth Sutton has moved back to her sleepy hometown in the English countryside and worries that her exciting days are behind her. She couldn't be more wrong. Her work as a reporter for the town's newspaper rarely involves covering a big story, so when she is sent to take notes at a local meeting about proposed building work she thinks it will be just like any other. All she has to do is keep her head down and avoid eye-contact with her ex - the town police sergeant. A wild group of protesters outside the town hall are shouting so loudly that Liz can barely hear what anyone is saying, some are angrier than others, and when they burst through the doors everyone scatters. Embarrassingly, her parents are among the mob. In the days that follow, everything Liz thinks she knows about her town proves false. Black Bridge isn't quite so sleepy after all. Tripping over a dead body is sure to shake anyone to the core, but strange events keep following her and Liz is beginning to think that some old legends might be based on truth. Could this place really be an old hideout for witches on the run? Surely not... Curiosity Killed the Witch is the first book in An English Enchantment Witch Mystery series.

Broken hearts and fresh starts. The winds of change are about to sweep me off my feet... The good thing about rock bottom is that things can't get any worse. After walking in on my husband in flagrante with a young nurse I'd been mentoring, I packed my bags and got out of there. I wish I could say I boarded a plane to start again somewhere tropical, but when you get to my age you tend to have too many things anchoring you to one spot. My 'new life' was going to take place roughly two miles away from my old one. Forty, financial un-stable, and fumbling my way into a new career courtesy of the run-down motel my grandmother left me in her will. Then fate intervenes. A body in the motel pool, a town full of people pointing fingers at me, and my only alibi? A ghost that keeps telling me that I've come of age, whatever that means. Who's gonna believe me though? I've heard people say 'life begins at forty', but if I don't want that to be a life sentence for murder, then I better figure out what happened on Saturday night. A dusty old box of books in my attic might hold some answers... I'm going to have to save myself, because no one else is going to do it for me. Life has changed, and now when adventure calls, I answer. Age is just a number, after all.

Take a trip to Compass Cove, an enchanted town full of magic and mayhem... After a troublesome few weeks in Compass Cove things are finally starting to look up for Zora Wick... or are they? With her replacement wand on the fritz, it's almost impossible to perform magic properly, and it results in a disastrous first lesson at her magical night school. Things are looking up in the bakery, however. When a famous musician walks in and puts down a stack of cash for a personal commission, the job almost seems too good to be true. He's rude, arrogant, and Zora is tempted to throw the money back in his face, but with the cash she can take on another new employee. Thrust into the middle of another murder mystery, Zora finds herself motivated by the fact that one of her closest friends is top of the suspect list. Clear a name, find the real killer, all in a day's work. Missing ingredients with the potential to produce a dangerous brew must be tracked down by order of a strange old witch, Nana Bucktooth, who is demanding Zora take charge. To make matters worse her two guardians have been stuck together with a joining curse, meaning the alpha male rivals can go no further than ten feet from one another. Will they finally learn to get on, or just get straight to killing each other? If her wand was working properly, it might all be a little easier, but there's only one creature in the town that can help get Zora a new wand, and they won't lift a twiggy finger until Zora manages to solve a riddle that makes no sense. With so many plates spinning around her it's enough to make a witch scream. Can Zora get through another week in the calamitous Compass Cove before she becomes its latest victim? Bad luck like this is enough to make a witch wonder if she's cursed, but sometimes that's just how the cookie crumbles...