With the weather usually dipping down into the low 50s, what better time to curl up by the fire (or heater if you don’t have a fireplace) and enjoy reading about magic, ghosts and occultists? ‘Tis the season!!
- BURN FOR ME by Ilona Andrews → woman detective based in Houston, Texas ; has magical ability to sense truth or lies ; teams up with a good mage (someone who practices magic from supernatural or occult sources) to defeat a violent mage ; kidnapping ; pyromania!
- I’LL BE WAITING by Kelley Armstrong → deceased husband ; wife seeks closure from spiritualists ; séance ; mysterious happenings and a dead body ; not the wife’s “first rodeo” with the dead…
- THE FAMILIAR by Leigh Bardugo → set during Spain’s Golden Age ; kitchen servant with a talent for little miracles ; forced to take part in the king’s battle against Queen Elizabeth ; desperate to avoid the Inquisition (she is Jewish) ; seeks help from an immortal familiar to help her survive.
- SILVER NITRATE by Silvia Moreno-Garcia → Mexican film industry in the 90s ; cursed cult film director ; Nazi occultist ; magical silver nitrate film stock.