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  • Bibliography:
    79 Books (14 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 2014
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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Full Series List in Order

The Aussie Witch

0.5 - Witch Christmas (Dec-2016)
1 - No Time to Witch (Feb-2017)

Australian Amateur Sleuth

1 - Live and Let Diet (Apr-2016)
2 - Natural-Born Grillers (Apr-2016)
3 - Dye Hard (Apr-2016)
4 - The Prawn Identity (Apr-2016)
5 - Any Given Sundae (Jul-2016)
6 - Last Mango in Paris (Oct-2017)
7 - Tequila Mockingbird (Sep-2020)

A Cocoa Narel Chocolate Shop Mystery

1 - Sweet Revenge (May-2016)
2 - The Sugar Hit (Jun-2016)
3 - Murder Sweetly Served (Jun-2017)
4 - Chocolate To Die For (Sep-2017)

A Colt Calling Horse Rescue Mystery

0.5 - Sixty, Sassy, and Sleuthing (Aug-2021)
1 - Saddled with Murder (Mar-2022)
2 - Murder Hot to Trot (Jun-2022)
3 - Foal Play (Aug-2022)

A Deadly Habit Cozy Mystery

1 - Nun of That (May-2015)
2 - Nun the Wiser (Aug-2015)

His Ghoul Friday

1 - A Tale of Mer-der (Apr-2019)
2 - The Witching Hour (Apr-2019)
3 - Arts and Witchcrafts (May-2019)
4 - Make Some Magic (Jul-2019)
5 - Witch Hunt (Nov-2019)

The Kitchen Witch

1 - Miss Spelled (Nov-2015)
2 - Dizzy Spells (Nov-2015)
3 - Sit for a Spell (Feb-2016)
4 - Spelling Mistake (Sep-2016)
5 - ExSpelled (Sep-2016)
6 - The Halloween Spell (Oct-2016)
7 - Spellcheck (Apr-2017)
8 - The Halloween Love Spell (Oct-2017)
9 - Spell It Out (Jan-2018)
10 - Wedding Spells (Aug-2018)
11 - The Halloween Pumpkin Spell (Oct-2018)
12 - Sweet Spell of Success (Jul-2019)
13 - The Halloween Onesie Spell (Nov-2019)
14 - Christmas Spells (Dec-2019)
15 - The Halloween Truth Spell (Nov-2020)
16 - The Halloween Time Spell (Nov-2021)
17 - Baby Spells Trouble (Sep-2022)
18 - The Halloween Camping Spell (Sep-2022)
19 - Spell of Silence (Sep-2023)
20 - The Halloween Cat Spell (Oct-2023)

A MenoPaws Mystery

0.5 - But Wait, There's Myrrh (Feb-2021)
1 - A Midlife CatAstrophe (Mar-2021)
2 - Signs and Pawtents (May-2021)
3 - Start from Scratches (Aug-2021)

The Middle-aged Ghost Whisperer

1 - Christmas Spirit (Dec-2015)
2 - Ghost Hunter (Feb-2016)
3 - There Must be a Happy Medium (Nov-2016)

A Misty Sales Cozy Mystery

1 - A Motive for Murder (Nov-2014)
2 - A Reason for Murder (Nov-2014)
3 - A Basis for Murder (Dec-2014)
4 - A Plot for Murder (Aug-2015)

A Sea Witch Cozy Mystery

1 - Broom with a View (Jan-2018)
2 - Broom Mates (Apr-2018)
3 - Broom for One More (Apr-2018)
4 - Broomed For Success (Jan-2020)
6 - Broom Service (Feb-2020)

A Sibyl Potts Cozy Mystery

1 - A Cereal Killer (Jan-2015)
2 - Murder Most Fowl (Feb-2015)
3 - Never Say Dye (Apr-2015)
4 - A Matter of Wife and Death (Jun-2015)

Witch Woods Funeral Home

1 - A Ghost of a Chance (Nov-2015)
2 - Nothing to Ghost about (Dec-2015)
3 - Make the Ghost of It (Mar-2016)
4 - Ghost Stories (Dec-2016)
5 - Ghost Blusters (Jul-2017)
6 - Repossessed (Aug-2020)

Witches and Wine

1 - Witches' Brew (Feb-2017)
2 - Witches' Secrets (Feb-2017)
3 - Witches' Charms (May-2017)
4 - Witches' Magic (Aug-2017)
5 - Witches' Spells (Dec-2017)
6 - Witches' Craft (Nov-2018)
7 - Witches' Cat (Jan-2020)
8 - Witches' Diaries (Sep-2021)

Book List in Order: 79 titles
















  • Dizzy Spells (The Kitchen Witch, Book 2)
    Amelia's spells have improved, but her baking has not. She needs to make enough dough to save her crumbling cake store business. Yet that is soon the least of her worries, when a body is found on her porc...



  • A FUNNY Cozy Mystery - with ghosts. Nobody knows that Laurel Bay can see and talk to ghosts. When she inherits a funeral home, she is forced to return from the city to the small town of Witch Woods to breathe life into the business. It is a grave res...



  • Amelia Spelled has had a bad week. Her boyfriend dumps her when she inadvertently gives him food poisoning. Her workplace, a telecommunications center, fires all their staff as they are outsourcing offshore, and she is evicted due to smoke damage res...



  • Prudence Wallflower tours the country, making live appearances. She connects people with loved ones who have passed on. However, her reputation as a psychic medium is failing, and even Prudence has begun to doubt herself. She has never seen a ghost, ...



  • A fun, humorous cozy mystery - with ghosts! Laurel Bay is conducting a funeral when someone is strangled in the bathroom. Now that there have been two deaths in the funeral home, business is as dead as a doornail. As Laurel sifts through the clues, s...



  • Ghost Hunter (The Middle-aged Ghost Whisperer Book 2)

    A fun cozy mystery. Is Alum Mullein a ghost or not? When Prudence Wallflower discovers Alum’s secret, she has a short time to save him from complete destruction. The key lies with the m...



  • Sit for a Spell (The Kitchen Witch, Book THREE) A fun cozy mystery - with witches! Amelia Spelled is playing Clue at Camino’s house when one of the guests drops dead in the dining room. There was no sign of weapons, so was it Amelia’s food? Or so...



  • A fun, humorous cozy mystery - with ghosts!

    Laurel Bay has discovered Basil’s secret, but there are soon more important things on her mind. Lewis Lowes, an old friend of Basil’s, is dying to go skydiving with him. Basil agrees, although ...



  • A fun cozy mystery! Obnoxious ghost hunters descend on Cressida Upthorpe’s boarding house, convinced it must be a source of paranormal activity given that three murders have occurred there in a short space of time. After one of the ghost hunters is...






  • Live and Let Diet (Australian Amateur Sleuth, Book ONE) Live and Let Diet is based on the #1 Cozy Mystery Best-seller and All-Star Awarded Book, A Cereal Killer, which has been rewritten and lengthened. Sybil Potts moves to Little Tatterford, a small...



  • A fun cozy mystery! When one of the new boarders, an eminent professor of Socratic philosophy, is found poisoned by hemlock in a meal of grilled quail, eccentric boarding house owner Cressida Upthorpe soon becomes the main suspect. Sibyl Potts, with ...



  • The Australian Amateur Sleuth Book FOUR A fun cozy mystery! There hasn’t been a murder in weeks, so Sibyl and her eccentric friends, Cressida Upthorpe and Mr. Buttons, breathe a sigh of relief. Yet no sooner have honeymooners, a famous businessman ...



  • A fun cozy culinary mystery - with chocolate!

    Narel Myers was given the ironic name Cocoa Narel by the cruel popular kids in high school, as she was far from elegant and was obsessed with chocolate. The truth of the matter was that her love ...



  • A fun cozy mystery - with chocolate! Buy the Paperback, get the Kindle book for free! Book TWO, the next book in the Cocoa Narel Chocolate Shop Mysteries series. Narel is excited about the grand opening night of her Cocoa Narel’s Designer Chocolate...



  • Any Given Sundae (Australian Amateur Sleuth, Book FIVE) Sibyl Potts has finally been awarded her long-awaited property settlement, and her ex-husband has been sentenced for her attempted murder. Yet just as all seems well in her world, the body of on...



  • ExSpelled (The Kitchen Witch, Book 5) A fun cozy mystery - with witches! Egged on by Amelia’s recent success in the kitchen, her friends send her to a cooking school on a remote tropical island resort. Her teachers’ tempers reach boiling point wh...



  • Spelling Mistake, The Kitchen Witch, Book FOUR A fun cozy mystery - with witches! Amelia Spelled discovers an old spellbook, which to her delight contains a spell to improve one’s baking. When a spelling mistake is thrown into the mix, she accident...



  • The Halloween Spell (The Kitchen Witch, Book SIX) A fun cozy mystery - with witches! An mysterious woman arrives on Amelia's doorstep claiming Amelia's departed Aunt Angelica did a spell for her every Halloween. She insists that Amelia do the spell f...



  • Ghost cozy mystery Like ghosts? Like cozy mysteries? There Must be a Happy Medium (The Middle-aged Ghost Whisper, Book THREE) When Prudence’s elderly neighbor is murdered, she has more than one reason for wanting to solve the case. Now that Prudenc...






  • A fun, humorous cozy mystery - with ghosts!

    Ghost Stories (Witch Wood Funeral Home Book 4) When Laurel’s mother, Thelma, hosts a group of writers in the belief they are writing about the Holy Ghost, she is horrified to find they are, in fa...



  • Witch Christmas

    A cozy mystery - with witches!

    This is a Novella.Set in mid 1930's Australia.Thelma and Wolff Spelled are enjoying a quiet Christmas, when a neighbor, Dagma Miles, comes to ask their help. Dagma’s husband has been mi...



  • No Time to Witch (The Aussie Witch, Book 1) Novella Newly married witch, Thelma Spelled, finds a body in her garden. The detective who attends the scene asks her to make a statement at the police station. When she arrives, the desk sergeant informs h...



  • Romantic cozy mystery - with witches, vampires, and Shifters! Pepper Jasper, an Australian witch who has long practiced traditional witchcraft, does not believe in the supernatural - such as Werewolves and Shifters, or Vampires. Pepper moves from Syd...



  • Romantic witch cozy mysteryPracticing witch, Pepper Jasper, thinks she's had more shocks than anyone should have in one lifetime, yet more sinister secrets lie in wait for her. And when one of the guests is murdered, Pepper discovers a Shifter is clo...



  • Witch Cozy Mystery

    SpellcheckBook SEVEN in the best-selling fun cozy mystery series, The Kitchen Witch. Australian witch, Amelia Spelled, has had her fill of murders, but this one takes the cake. Her boyfriend, Alder, has been battered in the...



  • Romantic cozy mystery - with witches, vampires, and Shifters! When Pepper finds the local internet provider representative washed up on the beach and sporting suspicious injures, another Cleaner arrives in town. Is Pepper in his sights? As Lucas doe...



  • A funny cozy mystery

    Cocoa Narel Chocolate Shop Mysteries Book THREEWhen an advertising executive dies after taking a bite of chocolate at his retirement party, chocolates caterer Narel is at once the detectives’ main suspect. Though Narel ...



  • A funny cozy mystery - with ghosts!

    When Laurel’s mother, Thelma, becomes possessed by the ghost of a punk rocker, Laurel is tasked with solving the ghost’s murder. If Laurel succeeds, the ghost will release her mother, which seems a sham...



  • Witch cozy mystery

    Witches and Wine, Book FOURSince her arrival in Lighthouse Bay, Pepper has faced one adversary after another and come out winning. Yet what happens now will test her faith in everything she thought she knew and someone she ...






  • Cocoa Narel Chocolate Shop Mysteries, Book FOURA funny cozy mystery series.Narel calls a plumber to fix the outdoor toilet behind her chocolate shop, but finds the plumber dead. At first the police think he died from a redback spider bite, but tests ...



  • Witch Cozy Mystery

    When Marina Mercer comes to claim her yearly spell, Amelia’s protests fall on deaf years. The last Halloween spell nearly got Amelia killed; the house is distracted, and Amelia accidentally cooks up something she shouldn'...



  • A funny cozy mystery

    Australian Amateur Sleuth, Book 6Now that Dorothy is out of the way, Cressida employs a French Chef on the advice of Lord Farringdon alone. When a particularly untidy and rude builder is smothered by a mango, Mr. Buttons ...



  • A fun witch cozy mystery!

    A mysterious woman arrives on Amelia’s doorstep, claiming Amelia’s departed Aunt Angelica did a spell for her every Halloween. She insists that Amelia do the spell for her, and that’s when the trouble starts.Al...



  • Broom with a View (Sea Witch Cozy Mysteries, Book 2)Join Goldie Bloom, a thirty something, high flying real estate agent sent out into the wilds of quiet seaside Australia by the boss who broke her heart. She is h...



  • Fun witch cozy mystery! For Amelia Spelled, it's a case of d?j? brew when a man dies at a Tea Leaf Reading. Amelia and Camino are among the witnesses. Only trouble is, they were both asleep at the time. Luckily, Amelia is s...



  • Witch cozy mystery!

    Sea Witch Cozy Mysteries, Book 3Goldie Bloom’s womb is empty. Not that she minds -- only her dead mother’s busybody bestie, Gertrude Hyacinth Clutterbuck, won’t stop harassing her. Goldie’s got other things on her ...



  • Broom Mates was formerly released in the 7 anthology, Seven Pets for Seven Witches (which was available only for a limited time in early 2018).Broom Mates is a 10,000 words short. (The other books in this series are full length books.)Goldie Bloom ha...



  • It's time for Amelia to eat, drink, and be married: her wedding day to hunky Alder Vervain is finally here! Happily-ever-after certainly has a nice ring to it. Amelia is sure nothing can go wrong, even if Camino is designing the wedding gown. But whe...



  • Witch Cozy Mystery

    It's Halloween, and Amelia has a grave problem. She's batty about Alder and had a gourd time on her honeymoon, but now it's back to business as usual. Marina Mercer has arrived in Bayberry Creek to demand her yearly spell. ...






  • Pepper Jasper finally discovers what happened with her parents. But with another murder at Mugwort Manor, and someone close to home spying on the Jaspers, danger lurks around every corner.Can Pepper solve the murder and escape a near-death experience...



  • Book 1 in a fun witch cozy mystery series!

    Aussie journalist Misty Friday has several problems, not the least of which is her name. Misty's mean boss sends her to an island resort in the Great Barrier Reef to investigate a paranormal event, b...



  • A murder victim awaits Aussie journalist, Misty Friday, after she receives a mysterious letter summoning her to England.Misty has a witch of a time, stumbling across danger, a cat, bad coffee, and the enigmatic John Smith, who has his own reasons for...



  • With Aunty June in tow, journalist Misty Friday arrives in a touristy Aussie town to write about the ghost tours. But when she stumbles upon a centuries' old murder mystery, she will need to crack the cold case before those keen to bury the town's se...



  • Thanks to Aunty June, Misty has a devil of a time in an old gold-mining town.Can Misty discover an indigenous Australian spirit before anyone else dies?And what happens with John Smith?Join Misty as some secrets are finally revealed.In the His Ghoul ...



  • Camino asks Amelia to accompany her to the reading of a will in a remote location.Before long, the beneficiaries are trapped in a spooky house. The terms of the will spell out that the last person left alive will inherit everything.What could go wron...



  • Unable to exorcise her discretion, Amelia is forced to grant Marina Mercer the annual Halloween spell just as Camino reveals her latest onesie design, a haunting prospect.With Alder kidnapped and a dead body in the pumpkin patch, will Amelia creep ca...



  • Twists await you in Witch Hunt, the fifth book in the His Ghoul Friday witch cozy mystery series.Misty and Cordelia travel to an exotic location to write about the death of a politician. Helps comes from an unexpected source and more than one secret ...



  • Amelia is feeling extra Santa-mental and wants the Christmas spirit, just not the Christmas spirit who arrives to demand her help.The Ghost of Christmas Past was an elf-made man who was murdered the previous Christmas while in a Santa suit.Can Amelia...



  • In this USA Today Bestselling series, Goldie Bloom has started her real estate business, but a man is murdered at her first open home. Can Goldie keep her ex-boyfriend Thomas at bay, wrangle the orange-hating Persnickle, return a famous ...



  • The mystery of Shifter cat Breena’s past is revealed, and it wasn’t something Pepper Jasper suspected.A puzzling murder at Mugwort Manor throws suspicion onto those close to home.With Lucas away, can Pepper navigate her way through strange guests...



  • â˜...â˜...â˜...â˜...â˜... USA Today Best-selling series â˜...â˜...â˜...â˜...â˜...Witch cozy mysteryMax’s parents and stepmother visit, and while they are all at dinner, a town councillor is murdered. The victim wanted coffee to remain illegal in Ea...



  • It's a battle of the hexes when a hunky witch hunter conscripts secret witch, Adeline, to help him solve a murder. It's certainly paws for concern.Can there be a happy ending, or will Adeline's snarky familiar turn this into a cat-astrophe? On...



  • What's worse than being possessed? Repossessed . . .Laurel thought seeing her mother possessed was bad, but she finds it hard to keep up her spirits when Thelma is struck by lightning and possesses a man with a less than wholesome reputation.There wi...



  • When the Fifth Earl of Mockingbird comes to Little Tatterford, all Mr. Buttons' fears come home to roost. And in a cheep shot, when a victim's tequila is poisoned, Mr Buttons becomes the prime suspect. This is where Sibyl and Cressida draw the lime. ...



  • A truth spell is an honest mistake . . .When the demanding Marina Mercer forces Amelia to do a truth spell over shares in a goldmine, Amelia expects nothing will go wrong. But when Marina's tenant is murdered in gold blood, Marina's boyfriend becomes...



  • Jennifer Darling is about to go through the change - only it's not the change she expected. Her husband has been playing cat and mouse, and soon Jennifer has a murder to solve. Yet it's all not cat and dried.Changes are happening. Is sh...



  • When Nell Darling moves to a small Aussie mountain town after a messy divorce, she decides her life will be purrfect. But life has decided to be no such thing! Nell discovers a body, buys a mysterious bookstore, and starts to suspect she is losing he...



  • There have been some fatal accidents in Wild Lime Mountain. The official police position holds there are no suspicious circumstances, but all the victims were of the Summer Court.With the killer playing cat and mouse, Nell and JenniFur decide to take...



  • The world is determined to put 60 year old Cally Colt out to pasture, but she's no one-trick pony.When Cally finds a dead body by a creek, she assumes it's an accidental drowning, that is, until the overbearing Detective Rick Bronco drives into town....



  • Detective Cole is missing. Nell has a gut feline all is not well, but JenniFur, Edison, Daphne, and Delilah do not seem concerned.When a man is found murdered, Nell and her friends discover all is not cat and dried.Soon they are chasing their tails. ...



  • Business at the Bed and Breakfast is bad, given that several boarders have been murdered in the cottages.Pepper and the aunts are thrilled when new boarders book in for a Clue-themed stay.It's not long before a murderer strikes, in the conserv...



  • Yes, it's Halloween again, and Marina Mercer is back. It's never the right time for her spell requests, but this year is worse than most. Amelia is all wound up and needs a hand to solve a murder - but has it happened yet?Only time will tell.The Hall...



  • It's Ab Fab meets Bewitched in this fun cozy mystery from a USA Today Bestselling author.A volunteer is murdered at the horse rescue, but that's not the only mystery for sixty-year-old Cally Colt. She has just discovered what the overbearing detectiv...



  • What murders and mysteries await sixty-year-old Cally and Bartholomew Buckingham-Winthrope II, the ancient cat?One thing's for sure, Detective Rock Bronco will do his best to rein her in. Still, Cally is on no foal's errand.Find out what awaits Cally...




  • Amelia and Alder's baby has finally arrived. Alder's former family friends come to town to see the baby at the same time Camino releases a set of dinosaur onesies.Sure enough, somebody is murdered. The culprit does not stick out like a saur thumb. Ad...



  • It's that time of the year again! Marina is back in town to demand her annual Halloween spell. This Halloween the dashing Alder has developed a cunning plan to avoid her. But when he whisks Amelia and the baby away on a camping trip, they stum...



  • Amelia's day is inundated with an overflow of men lining up to explain things to her. But when even Alder jumps aboard the mansplain train, Amelia can't bite her tongue any longer. She lets loose a wish that zaps the chatter right out of every man in...



  • The excitement of Halloween settles in Bayberry Creek, signalling the arrival of Marina Mercer and her yearly request for a Halloween spell. But this October is a little stranger than the others.While Amelia grants Marina's wish, she does not suspect...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Morgana Best has published 79 books.

Morgana Best does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Halloween Cat Spell, was published in October 2023.

The first book by Morgana Best, A Reason for Murder, was published in November 2014.

Yes. Morgana Best has 14 series.