A Flytrap Fiasco: A witchy cozy mystery (Trouble Down Under)

This was a really fun and creative read. It is fast paced and has many twists and turns.The characters are pretty realistic and the story is well written. I am looking forward to reading more from this author.

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Good book. Enjoyed reading it as it had no sex in it at which made it more enjoyable. Would like more like it.

This book was really well written and it was a fun read. The thought of magical plants was fascinating. I wish Kat had tried to salvage maybe a piece of Pete. What a hero!

I loved the author's Gretchen series so had to read this prequel to a new one. Kat's new hydroponics store is the scene of the murder of someone who happens to be suing her boyfriend's family. It's also where she keeps some magical plants that shouldn't be in the human public's eye, so there's no knowing if it was a human or magical person whodunnit. By the end of the story we see that her new life has made a major change, with more to come. This was a short story to give some background on Kat and her magical family. Will be looking for more characters and world building in future volumes.

Kat Crowe has moved from Arkansas to California to be with her boyfriend, Damon Carrington.
She sets up her botanical shop and seems to be doing well. Her huge Venus Fly Trap, Pete, is fed steak, possibly in the hope he won’t eat a customer or two. They often seem oblivious to the giant plant they wave their hands around.

A call from All Hours Security late one evening brings Kat to her shop to see if Pete set off the alarm. Surprisingly, Damon still wasn’t home and didn’t answer his phone. When Kat got to the shop, it was surrounded by police cars because a body was found inside. She noticed her magical singing Fire Lily was missing from the shelf. But she couldn’t tell the police because the magical items in her store would get her in trouble with the Council. Detective Swan noticed her glance at the empty shelf and asked what was taken, but she said she forgot she had sold the item. His eyes revealed he knew that wasn’t true.

The next morning, she woke to pancakes. Damon was home but oddly, he was doing laundry! He never did that. He was more upset about the magical plants in the shop than about the dead body… at least until she mentioned the victim’s name – Bobby Maynard was the man who was currently suing the Carrington family’s business! This didn’t look good at all.

A customer, Randall, came by while Kat was cleaning up the shop. Apparently he knew the victim well since they both were involved with orchids. With the victim suing her boyfriend’s family, being an old friend of her best customer, and with the same last name as another of her customers, it was getting complicated. Can she discover the murderer of Bobby Maynard? Can she do so before the murderer gets to HER?

bossy felines really seem to never like any paramour, at least not when they are present with both of you

cannot blame a gal for not asking more questions when her familiar says her guy is a jerk

how will she unravel a murder at her shop when the victim has unsavory connections to her beau and his family

Does that charmer have more secrets and lies?

green witch finding her way

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Our Girl Kat does what a lot of us do, follow their love to another place, state out of their element. She opens a hydroponic shop in California, and has supplies and plants for hydroponic gardens.
When somone is murdered in her shop after hours, she returns to her shop thinking that its a false alarm.
From the security alarm system. Her troubles go from bad to worse, her boyfriend Damen is MIA, her cat never has liked her boyfriend or the move, ect. She has a special few magical plants, one which was stolen during the murder, cant report, her gianormas Venus flytrap named Pete will help her, but the cost is.....
This a a must read and find out you will get hooked!

A solid 3.5 stars -- I really appreciate the different and creative spin on the concept of the cozy mystery storefront backstory! It definitely made me reminisce on The Little Shop of Horrors, and I think the author could really take this series in a lot of directions by exploiting this side of the character's magic. I think the main issue I had with the book was that I needed more world-building. I felt like a lot of assumptions about the magical world had to be made in the moment, rather than having them introduced organically. Still, this was an enjoyable read and I would certainly follow this author to read future works.

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Cute story line, easy and somewhat entertaining read. I would enjoy reading something else of this authors amusing stories soon.

WOw! This book is a keeper. Kat Crowe is a witch that relates well to plants. She has s hydrophobics store sells plants, plant foods and soil. She is strong, independent woman who love her plants and her store. She really loves her flytrap Pete. Her world is turned upside down with a murder in store. Her plant is eye witness to the murder. A spell on plant and plant can communicate with her. What a adventure to find the killer with lots of twists and turns along the way to final conclusion. I cried over a plant of all things. I had an ET moment about Pet when Pete died. What a cute premise between Kate and Pete. Love it.

For Kat, running a hydroponics shop can definitely be challenging. Not only that, she now has to deal with the dead body found in her store. The story is fun and easy to read. It has magical plants, Pete, and Gus her ginger feline familiar.

There is enough twists and turns to keep you interested until the very end. The characters were well-crafted and the story was quite enjoyable.

Kudos on this new mystery.

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Our heroine is enjoying her time in California, right up until she becomes a suspect in a murder investigation. Which (or witch) leaves it up to her to clear her own name.

This is a prequel to the series, so a fine place to start.

This is a cozy witch mystery story. The story is well written and easy to read with a some wonderful characters and a nice short mystery. I really liked our heroine with her green thumb and great sense of humor. As a prequel, we don't get a lot of time to develop the characters or setting, but we get enough of a taste to know what the series should be like. For myself, I am sold and looking forward to the next story..

Highly recommended

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