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Maddy Wimsey
Series · 4 books · 2017-2020

Books in series

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#1

The Devil's Eye

2017

The epic brand-new mystery series by #1 bestselling authors J.R. Rain and Matthew S. Cox! For fans of The Witch and the Gentleman, A Discovery of Witches and Jessica Jones... Detective Madeline Wimsey tends to stand out with her wild red hair, pentacle amulets, and offbeat methods, but she has a tool few other cops use ― magic. Maddy knows the universe wants to balance itself out, so she isn’t above tossing around a spell or two whenever a killer’s karma needs a little nudge in the right direction. As a member of a practicing coven, she’s used to strange looks, hushed whispers, and rolled eyes, but couldn’t care less what people think of her. After a man turns up dead in a grisly satanic rite, her fellow detectives are quick to crack jokes. Since they can’t tell a pentacle from a pentagram, Maddy’s happy to get the case. She suspects the ritual to be the work of amateurs, a theory that pans out when they track down the pack of clueless high school students who made the shrine in the woods. Convinced all is not as it appears to be, Maddy asks the Goddess for a push in the right direction and learns a disturbing truth: The Devil’s Eye is watching her.
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#2

The Drifting Gloom

2018

Magical forces don't always play nice. In fact, they can be downright evil. Life is going fairly well for Detective Maddy Wimsey. At thirty-five, she's an accomplished detective, practicing Wiccan, has a wonderful relationship with her long-time boyfriend, and finds herself on a much-needed vacation after dealing with a cursed gem. Alas, her break doesn't last long. A creeping darkness interrupts the solace of the woods with a supernatural vendetta against her coven. Turns out, Maddy had opened a particular can of worms looking into the past, and the entity has decided to make her a target. With a deadly supernatural presence on the loose, the last thing she needs is for her day job to get in the way, but a new murder case lands right in her lap at the worst possible time. A sadistic serial killer—and with each new victim she fails to save, her guilt grows. Duty to her coven clashes with her oath to protect the citizens. Taking time from the case to fight a supernatural war means more innocents could die. Luckily, Maddy Wimsey is no ordinary detective. Click BUY NOW or READ FOR FREE to continue the Maddy Wimsey supernatural mystery series today!
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#3

Dark Mercy

2019

Book 3 in the bestselling Maddy Wimsey, Witch Detective series! Cops sometimes rely on hunches to guide them, but Detective Maddy Wimsey takes it a step further: magic. August opens with the bad omen of a suicide that she suspects is more than it appears. However, before she can even start to find evidence that won't get her a date with a shrink, an even worse case walks in the door. A local nurse claims she suspects one of her co-workers of murdering patients. Unfortunately, the woman has even less evidence than Maddy's belief that a spirit is throwing people off tall buildings. However, something about the story rings too true to brush aside. Believing her hunch is really the Universe nudging her to make things right, Maddy launches an investigation. One by one, she uncovers cases of abrupt patient deaths at multiple hospitals, the work of more than one killer. The victims have one thing in common: all had been hospitalized for terminal illnesses, leading her to suspect the murderers believe themselves agents of mercy. Her theory seems plausible... until she discovers a victim who should have survived.
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#4

Primal Wrath

2020

Homicide detective, Wiccan witch... and soon to be bride! Maddy Wimsey is back in all new mind-bending, thrilling mystery! Most brides have some anxiety over their wedding, but not too many have to worry a dead person might spoil it. Detective Maddy Wimsey is looking forward to her handfasting to Caius… mostly. She’s simultaneously on edge and can’t wait. About the only thing capable of going wrong is her catching a homicide investigation complicated enough to push back the date. Sure enough, someone is inconsiderate enough to get themselves shot in the face only a few months before Maddy’s wedding. Maddy can’t initially explain why a lawyer with an immaculate reputation had another dead body and a massive quantity of narcotics in his trunk. What at first appears to be a random act of violence leads to deeper layers of confusion. Without some help from the Goddess, a delay of wedding is the least of Maddy’s worries—a killer might just get away.

Authors

Matthew S. Cox
Matthew S. Cox
Author · 55 books

Born in a little town known as South Amboy NJ in 1973, Matthew has been creating science fiction and fantasy worlds for most of his reasoning life. Somewhere between fifteen to eighteen of them spent developing the world in which Division Zero, Virtual Immortality, and The Awakened Series take place. He has several other projects in the works as well as a collaborative science fiction endeavor with author Tony Healey. Hobbies and Interests: Matthew is an avid gamer, a recovered WoW addict, Gamemaster for two custom systems (Chronicles of Eldrinaath [Fantasy] and Divergent Fates [Sci Fi], and a fan of anime, British humour (<- deliberate), and intellectual science fiction that questions the nature of reality, life, and what happens after it. He is also fond of cats.

J.R. Rain
J.R. Rain
Author · 152 books
J.R. Rain is the author of 110 novels and counting. He lives on an island in the Pacific Northwest, where he's hard at work on his next novel... and fighting off sparkly vampires.
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