Carolyn Ridder Aspenson

In small-town Georgia, digging into dangerous secrets can be deadly—and Detective Rachel Ryder is about to uncover them all. Reporter Layla Rowe made enemies by asking the wrong questions in the right places. Now she's dead, her laptop is missing, and someone in Hamby, Georgia wants her final...

When her former colleague is killed undercover, going back in isn't about justice—it's payback. Private investigator Jenna Wyatt walked away from undercover work years ago. But when GBI Agent Sierra Malone—her friend and former colleague—is found dead during a covert operation inside...

Divorced mother Chantilly Adair didn’t take the job as the head of the Castleberry Georgia Historical Society because she thought it would be easy, in fact, she felt the exact opposite, and that suited her just fine. Desperate to get away from Birmingham and her ex-husband, she took her...

The past comes back to haunt a small town when one murder leads to the discovery of another. When a troubled young woman, Jenn Berman, goes missing at the summer fair in Hamby, her uncaring family fails to notice.

I wear many hats. I'm a friend. A sort-of girlfriend. A ghostwriter, and...oh yeah, a witch. My editor always tells me to “write what you know.” Unfortunately, that’s what’s happening...literally....

I have a perfect life. I recently rented the most adorable little apartment on top of my favorite bookstore coffee shop on Main Street in Holiday Hills, the charmingest of charming small southern towns....

Being a witch can be complicated. We have powers, but with limitations. In a perfect witchy world, that works like a charm. But the witchy world isn’t perfect. Witches don’t always follow the rules, and when they don’t, bad things happen. Like Cassandra Bloom’s death, for starters...

My name is Abby Odell, and I’m leading a double life. Don’t get me wrong. I love it! But being a witch in a predominantly human world is challenging sometimes. My hometown, Holiday Hills, isn’t your typical small town. It’s a magical town, but not to the humans....

USA Today best-selling author Carolyn Ridder Aspenson returns to Holiday Hills where cozy mystery author Abby Odell writes books and casts spells with the help of her hilarious familiar, Cooper, the cat. My name is Abby Odell, and I’m a witch. Some call me a newbie because I didn’t know I...

A drug overdose case hits close to home when a body is linked to the family of Rachel's friend. But the seemingly simple investigation leads her down a rabbit hole from her past - a past she fears has finally come back to haunt her....

When psychic medium Chantilly Adair receives cryptic messages from the lacrosse park’s dead groundskeeper, she knows something bad is coming. What she doesn’t expect is tragedy to hit so close to home. Now her son’s best friend is missing and feared dead, and the only clues Chantilly has...

When her best friend Gen comes from Birmingham for an extended visit, psychic medium Chantilly Adair can’t wait to show her Castleberry, Georgia. Excited to introduce her to what makes her home town so unique, Chantilly plans to throw a party the size of Atlanta’s Mercedes Stadium. Though...

Talking to ghosts can be killer. Castleberry, Georgia is a small Southern town with a ton of history, and that history includes a lot of ghosts. How do I know? Because I can see them. And trust me, that’s not always a good thing....

In Atlanta's shadows, where secrets fester and the missing stay buried, one woman's quest for truth threatens to unearth her own haunted past… Jenna Wyatt thought she'd left her demons behind when she traded her GBI badge for a private detective's license. But when a desperate mother's plea...

Bessie Frone, the beloved owner of the Enchanted Bookstore and Café, is in BIG trouble. Her family wand, made of pure gold and passed down for generations, has been stolen....

Detective Rachel Ryder stumbles upon a case that will force her to confront her past like never before. At a local fair, Rachel unexpectedly crosses paths with Sean, a familiar face from her past. The encounter, laced with awkward tension, takes a harrowing turn when Sean sends her a cryptic...

A wealthy shut-in is found murdered in his mansion. Five other people were in the lavish home at the time of the crime—one of whom had motive enough to kill. And Detective Rachel Ryder is determined to discover who. But the more she and partner Rob Bishop learn about the wealthy and unsociable...

Every day usually starts out the same for me. A little snuggle time with my pups, and maybe my husband if he’s not already out of bed, a cup of coffee, and a chat with my dead mother. Of course, one in which she participates....

The thing that magicals fear the most has happened—our secret is out. No one knows magic is real except magicals. And now, Jessie Rosenblatt, the most ambitious reporter in Atlanta. She has learned that magic is real, and she's itching to tell the world.

Step back into USA Today best-selling author Carolyn Ridder Aspenson’s Holiday Hills, a magical, cozy town filled with quirky characters—a talking cat, a parrot with a movie quote addiction, shifters, werewolves, you name it—all living together in not-always-so-harmonic circumstances...