Charm School

The Witches Three Cozy Mysteries, Book 1

By: Cate Martin

Narrated by: Tia Rider

Amanda Clarke thinks of herself as perfectly ordinary in every way. Just a small-town girl who serves breakfast all day in a little diner nestled next to the highway, nothing but dairy farms for miles around. She fits in there.

But then an old woman she never met dies, and Amanda was named in her will. Now Amanda packs a bag and heads to the big city, to Miss Zenobia Weekes’ Charm School for Exceptional Young Ladies. And it’s not in just any neighborhood. No, she finds herself on Summit Avenue in St. Paul, a street lined with gorgeous old houses, the former homes of lumber barons, railroad millionaires, even the writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Why, Amanda can practically hear the jazz music still playing across the decades.

Scratch that. The music really, literally, still plays in the backyard of the charm school. Because the house stretches across time itself. Without a witch to protect this tear in the fabric of the world, anything can spill over. Like music.

Or like murder.

“Charm School”, book one in the Witches Three Cozy Mystery series. This mélange of magic and murder mystery is sure to charm you.

©2018 Katie Ann MacLeod (P)2019 Katie Ann MacLeod

the narrator of this story wasn't great

although the story was a fairly good mystery, I figured it out after I met the killer. it wasn't involving enough nor drawing enough to keep me interested. it seemed long and drawn out. what would normally have taken me maybe a week to read between other things I managed to put off to almost 2 months, it just didn't grab me. I probably won't be reading anymore of this author and for sure won't be listening to anymore of this narrator. the narrator is very monotone and not enough delineation between character speaking.