Cozy mystery books to read after watching Practical Magic
- Dane Luna
- 7 hours ago
- 3 min read
Cozy season isn't complete without some movies to watch and books to read when you're staying in, and this list will hopefully help you add a few to your TBRs and watchlists.
Released in 1998, Practical Magic has since gained the status of comfort movie thanks to its cozy visuals. Sure, there's a murder, domestic violence, and the dark side of magic involved, but in the end the two sisters find a happy ending thanks to the power of family and female friendships.
Nearly thirty years after its premiere, a sequel will be released this year! To celebrate, here are eight cozy mystery books that have the same witchy, cozy feels as the Practical Magic movies.
Generations of Warren witches have lived in the sleepy New England town of Evenfall for four hundred years, with each witch secretly using her own brand of magic to help townsfolk in need. But these days, Brynn Warren and her aunts Nora and Izzy hardly ever need their magic to run Ivywood Hollow, their B&B.
All that changes when Constance Graves, a rather difficult guest, ends up dead during her stay. Her Aunt Nora is suspected of the murder, and Brynn has to result to some good old-fashioned sleuthing with a touch of magic to try and prove her innocence by finding the real culprit.
Lily Ivory has a magical knack for all things vintage and her newly-opened clothing store, Aunt Cora's Closet, is a hit.
But when a client is murdered and children start disappearing, Lily must solve the mystery while keeping her witchy identity secret from mythbuster Max Carmichael.
Felicity Jin's fortune cookies are a hit at her mom's magical bakery! But when a customer's ill-fated fortune comes true, the young baker becomes the prime suspect and must find a way to turn her luck around.
Bay Winchester, editor of the local newspaper, has a lot on her plate after a murder takes place in Hemlock Cove. There's speculation it might have had something to do with the occult.
But things can only get worse for Bay, descended from a long line of witches, when the killer seems to have set their eyes on her.
An eternally young alchemist, a mortal man, and their gargoyle move in to their enchanting dream home.
Unfortunately, their dream home was also the setting to a murder that took place forty years ago on the night before Halloween. And when an enigmatic stranger arrives, All Hallows' Eve turns deadly once more.
Alex Daniels visits her estranged aunts and cousins in scenic Bellamy Bay to help out at their herbal apothecary. But the quiet seaside town becomes awash in turmoil when a local is poisoned and her Aunt Lidia, rumored to be a magical healer and descended from mermaids, is arrested for the murder.
After the death of her beloved Aunt Eudora—known for concocting magical teas and widely believed to be a witch—Phoebe Winchester is left with her Victorian mansion, tea shop and Bob the orange cat. But trouble steeps quietly amidst her inheritance, and it all comes to a boil when a dead man is found in the tea shop's back step.
Josie Way moves to Wilfred, Oregon to lay low, working undercover in a quaint library housed in a Victorian mansion.
Then come a string of discoveries that threaten to blow her cover and leave her in danger: a dead body in the woods, that she may be descended from a long line of witches, and a spoiled alley cat that might be her familiar.
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