


Books in series

#1
Familiar Magic
2020
A Crafty Witch, a Wily Kitty Familiar and a Murder in a Gazebo
Thea Beal owns the Stitch in Time, a crafty shop in the middle of the sleepy town of Ardensville along the Mississippi river. She has all the knitting, crocheting and painting items needed for all your crafty projects, as well as a few witchy spells if you're so inclined. While her magic is secret to the mundane, her circle of close friends and family all have their own mysteries.
Take Sybil, her fluffy tabby kitten familiar. While Sybil may look young she's much older and has been by Thea's side since she was a wee sprout. She's a sassy kitty who can take care of herself. Thea's half human friends include a detective bear shifter and a best friend fox shifter. Granny rounds out Thea's inner circle. Granny has raised Thea from a small girl when her parents disappeared. A mystery that haunts Thea to this day.
When the small town of Ardensville is rocked by a murder of a young woman found in the city park's gazebo, the mundane and the magicals must work separately to find a killer. The victim was just starting her own craft store, which puts a target on Thea. But others, including members of the victim's family and friends, have reasons of their own to wish the victim dead.
Can Thea, Sybil and her friends discover the fiend who's taken out one of their own without getting themselves into deep dodo?
\\\Find out in the First Book in the Tabby Kitten Familiar Series\\\

#3
Adventure Magic
2020
With foxes and wolves at each other’s throats, the only solution is to listen to the witch!
Homecoming fever is gripping Ardensville and it’s all Thea Beal can do to keep up in her shop. Life has been going great, recently. She and Blaine have been dating and thoughts of a future together fill her mind.
But then...another murder rocks the festivities.
The victim? A local bad boy wolf shifter. He was also a lady killer. Maybe it was his wolfish good looks that women were drawn to. And perhaps the reason husbands abhorred him. He lived with his kind on the edge of town in beaten up trailers and campers. Most folks leave them be...there’s nothing good that can come out of there, at least that’s what’s been told down through the years.
But this murder will prove they weren’t really all that bad. And it might even bring up some of the town’s older, deeper secrets that everyone wants to keep buried.
Just in time for homecoming.

#4
Spooky Magic
2020
Somebody Wanted the Homecoming Queen Murdered
The annual homecoming parade isn't as jovial as it should be when the Homecoming Queen is found murdered on one of the floats. She was rumored to be a siren. Did one of her suitors get tired of being strung along? Or was jealousy part of the equation? With young girls vying for the attention of certain men, mundane or magical, sometimes envy can turn evil.
Aunt Tiegan and Granny have their own ways with teaching magic. Will Thea be stuck in between their feuding?
And what does Thea learn when she meets a college professor who went to school with her mother?

#5
Ghoulish Magic
2020
Two Murders Exactly One Year Apart, During the Harvest Moon
When Thea encounters the ghost of the first victim after a second is murdered a year later, she knows the murders are related. But who would want both women murdered and wait a year to commit the second one?
Aunt Tiegan is a suspect when it's discovered the second victim was a thorn in her side. Also a ritual circle found at the crime scenes was also discovered in Tiegan's home.
The head chef at Maline Cuisine dated the second victim until he found out she was cheating on him. Has jealousy reared it's ugly head?
Annie was bullied by both victims. Had she finally had enough of their despicable ways? But why murder them a year apart if that's the case?
Dean is the current boyfriend of the most recent victim. He should be anguished but instead he shows no emotion and is immediately seen with other women. Was the victim too clingy for his taste? Or did she have something on him that he didn't want revealed?

#6
Shadow Magic
2021
Thea Doesn't Know Who is Friend and Who is Foe
When a woman goes missing, leaving her 8 yr old son behind, Thea knows treachery is in the air. The woman, Marie, is connected to a magical rebel group. Are they part of the disappearance?
Marie's late husband left her with a substantial gambling debt that she was attempting to pay off. The man collecting the bills was not the shy type. Did he decide that Marie was payment enough?
Thea seems closer to finding out what happened to her parents, but just as she's about to discover the truth, Granny goes missing. Now Thea must face some hard truths about her parents' fate and who she can actually trust.
\\\Don't Miss This Last Book in the Tabby Kitten Mystery Series\\\
Authors
Constance Barker
Author · 202 books
Constance Barker lives in the Midwest with her husband and two Akitas where she can look out from her screened porch onto a wooded area brimming with activity. Since she was a young girl she read mysteries, often given to her by her grandmother. She loved figuring out who the culprit was and sometimes she was right and other times startled at who the author picked as the assailant. Now she enjoys writing mysteries herself. When she isn't writing stories, she can be found in her favorite vacation spot, Las Vegas or shopping for bargains.