Book excerpt: A failed crime investigator turned interior decorator. A strange new client who smells like rotting corpse. A creepy old house known as Murder Manor. What could go wrong? Failed crime investigator, turned interior decorator, Violet Vance, moves to a new town, where she gets a big surprise. Well... several of them. Okay, so things aren't going so well for Violet Vance, the one who'd just lost her dream job, and yeah, she has been called the worst investigator to ever live, but that's all about to change. Born into a family of witches, Violet is not one-the only mortal member of her magical family to be conceived in last one-hundred years. Yeah, that's right, no special powers, no magical abilities, not even any cool vampire fangs. Nothing. Or so she thinks. The move to Hex Falls changes all that-from the picturesque waterfall outside her new home that appears to be haunted, to the winds of change that suddenly rise. But the slime really hits the cauldron when her fingers begin to spark, and an overweight talking fox shows up claiming to be her familiar. Then a head rolls out onto the carpet of her first-ever decorating job, and Violet knows she's in trouble. But honestly, what's an ex-crime investigator turned interior decorator to do-just let a perfectly good murder lie there unsolved? . Hopeless Pocus (Hex Falls Cozy Mystery Series, Book 1 ) is a humorous full-length paranormal cozy mystery. Hex Falls Cozy Mysteries: Hopeless Pocus, Book 1 Bedknobs & BroomHilda Sticks, Book 2 Witchity, Glitchy, Boo, Book 3 Abracastabra, Book 4 In Charm's Way, Book 5 Witchity, Glitchity, Glamour, Book 6 Pre Order Today. For readers of Adele Abbott, Belinda White, Constance Barker, Amy Boyles and Annabel Chase.