Potions Are for Pushovers

The second installment in Tamara Berry's charmingly quirky paranormal cozy mystery series finds Eleanor Wilde, the American scam psychic who's set up shop as town witch in a quaint English village, contentedly casting spells on anyone desperate enough--or gullible enough--to request her mysterious potions...

Selling mystical elixirs and tantalizing tonics is a pretty good way for a fake medium to earn a living--until a villager turns up dead. The cause? Murder by poisoning. Suddenly Ellie's the prime suspect. Her only recourse is to find the culprit who did do away with Sarah Blackthorne. No one liked the mean old battle-axe. But did anyone hate her enough to kill her?

It's enough of a mystery to tempt Ellie to take millionaire beau Nicholas Hartford up on his offer to keep her afloat. Except Ellie is not the kind of woman to lean on a man. Besides, she's taken on two young witches-in-training who are convinced a werewolf is the murderer. Just as Ellie's wondering if there really is something otherworldly going on, animals begin to disappear--including her beloved cat, Beast. Now Ellie's on the warpath to uncover the wicked truth about the people and the place she's only just begun to call home...

Cea de-a doua transa din seria misterioasa, paranormala si fermecatoare, paranormala, a lui Tamara Berry, o gaseste pe Eleanor Wilde, psihicul american inselator, care a facut magazinul ca vrajitoare din oras intr-un sat englezesc pitoresc, aruncand vraji cu satisfactie pe oricine suficient de disperat - sau suficient de credul - pentru a-i cere potiuni misterioase ... Vanzarea de elixiruri mistice si tonice tentante este o modalitate destul de buna pentru un mediu fals de a-si castiga existenta - pana cand un satean devine mort.