Bait and Witch – A Witch Way Librarian Mystery
Cozy Mystery
1st in Series
Publisher: Kensington (December 29, 2020)
Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages

Synopsis

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 . . .

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Guest Post

Writing a novel is loaded with little pleasures, and for me one of the greatest is creating the town where the story takes place. In Bait and Witch, librarian Josie escapes Washington, D.C. for tiny Wilfred, snug against Oregon’s coastal mountain range. I had a lot of fun building Wilfred, a failing timber town on the verge of reinvention, from scratch, and a big part of the fun was naming people and places.

First on my list was the library. Sure, I could put the library in some municipal building, or, Wilfred being a small town, the back of the post office. But wouldn’t it be more fun to have the library in an old house? Say, a Victorian mansion? Yes! My heroine Josie would live in the top floor’s former servants’ quarters. I’d place the home on a bluff overlooking the—hmm, my friend’s Chihuahua has a cute name—Kirby River.

Following the pet theme, I named one character’s grandchildren after another friend’s Dachshunds, Buffy, and Thor. A good friend, Lalena Dolby, became the town’s trailer park psychic, and I included a role for her terrier mutt Sailor.

And then there’s Bait and Witch’s most significant animal role, that of Josie’s cat Rodney. While I don’t know any animals named Rodney, people who’ve met my black cat Bitsy la Mouche will note some striking similarities.

The best part is that there’s still room for the town to grow! I hope you’ll pick up Bait and Witch and come visit Wilfred in its pages. Josie, her cat Rodney, and her fellow Wilfredians look forward to welcoming you.

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.

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