Psychics, Séances, and Tarot, Oh My!

For fans of YA missing person mysteries!

High school student Danika has mystery solving in her blood: her mom is a PI and her dad is a mystery author. While she gets to do some work in the family PI firm, she doesn’t get to do the actual sleuthing as a PI, which is all she wants. Instead, she secretly does tarot readings for her classmates at school. That is, until Gaby, a classmate, informs Danika that after she read her older sister’s cards—which included a death card—she disappeared. Danika decides this will be the case she uses to prove to her parents she is a PI-level sleuth for the family business. But she’s soon fired by Gaby’s parents, leading Danika and Gaby to investigate on their own…

For fans of past mysteries and detectives turning to a psychic for help!

Vivvy Bouchet is an astrophysicist, but she grew up with a mom who charged people for her psychic gifts, and while Vivvy does not call herself a psychic, she did save a boy once based on a vision. Now that boy is a police officer and he connects Vivvy to a detective on a missing child case where the child has never been found and the mom is in prison still pleading her innocence…

For fans of cozy mystery series, amateur sleuths, puzzle mysteries, and all the tropes!

Tempest Raj was a famous magician in Las Vegas until she lost it all and moved back to her family home. She now works for her dad’s business installing secret doors and rooms and staircases in people’s homes—and has to be an amateur sleuth ’cause dead bodies keep popping up as they do in cozies! This time around, she has to clear her grandfather’s name after a dead body falls from the ceiling during a fake séance. Clearly, someone in the room is the murderer, but they were all holding hands when the body fell, so how?!

If you want to start at the beginning of the series, pick up Under Lock & Skeleton Key!

For fans of odd couple PIs and fun historical mystery series!

Willowjean “Will” Parker is our narrator who is retelling how she was working in the circus and Lillian Pentecost, a famous detective, found her and made her her assistant. The first case she recounts involves a woman murdered with a crystal ball during a party in a locked room on fire. If that wasn’t eyebrow raising enough, it was a year after her husband’s death by suicide, and people are gossiping that the ghost of her husband did it. Now the family wants answers, so they’ve hired Will and Lillian to solve the case, which means dealing with a lot of family and business drama and a spiritual advisor…

For fans of suspenseful mysteries and the inheritance trope!

Hal took over her mom’s tarot reading clients after her death, but it’s not paying the bills, and a bad loan is about to sink her. In this desperation, she decides that a letter wrongly addressed to her—with a possible inheritance on the other end!—is worth pretending to be someone else to get. This is how she finds herself at Mrs. Westaway’s mansion, naively thinking her people reading skills will help her pretend to be someone else, when in reality, she’s just stepped into a family where something feels off…