A Potion to Die For

A Potion to Die For by Heather Blake
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is such a cute story, the cover is so pretty and that's what drew me to it. The mystery starts just a few pages in which is so refreshing instead of reading half way through it and then the murder.

The story is set in the south, in Alabama, Carly Bell Hartwell is a "witch" she is owner of Little Shop of Potions, her "witchy powers" are for health, happiness, and the heart. When a resident of the town predicts that the next day, the forecast for the day would be one couple in town will soon divorce, the rest of the town chases Carly Bell all around the town to get a potion from her to secure that they weren't heading for divorce. She beats the town folks to her shop, she locks herself in to prepare the potion that is high in demand for the day. When she heads to the back of her shop, she stops dead in her tracks when laying on her floor is a dead man, holding one of her potion bottles.

When the cops arrive one of them is her ex-fiance Dylan, whom she almost married....twice. He seems to still have feelings for her, and it looks like Carly Bell needs a stronger potion to keep her feelings for him at bay. Carly Bell decides that she herself wants answers as to who killed Nelson and why they left him in her shop with one of her potion bottles.

There's just a right amount of characters in the book that one doesn't get confused by who belongs to whom, and their part in the town. There's a lot of comedy in the story that makes this book just a fun read.



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