The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society
Content Warning: Murder, death, blood, grief, supernatural themes.
All of your 90’s and 00’s favorites – Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural – meets Mrs. Marple in Waggoner’s clever cozy-mystery novel.
All is great in Sherry Pinkwhistle’s quiet town. Sherry is thriving as a librarian, spending time with her friends, and having dinner with Alan (her beau) all while helping the police solve the murders happening in Winesap, NY. But when the murders start to get personal with Sherry, she realizes that something isn’t quite right and seeks help from her friends and the town’s new priest in order to solve the murders and the mystery of the supernatural that is tied up in all of it.
As someone who enjoys cozy mysteries, this was a fun twist to the genre since Waggoner added in the elements of the supernatural. She also writes the supernatural elements in a way that stays true with the character’s actual understanding of it – she doesn’t “Mary Sue” her characters into just knowing all and being without flaws, they struggle like real people would and that makes the supernatural element of this cozy mystery believable. I also appreciate that Waggoner has tied up the story but has also left it with potential for making this into a series.
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Kayleigh D. is Library Technical Processing Assistant at May Memorial Library.