Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead

<p>Betty Erlanger's murder was dramatic-shot through heart by an arrow in a public park on Valentine's Day-but the solution was prosaic. She'd been killed by her spurned lover Troy Braggs and everybody in the small town of Erin Ohio knew it. This wasn't a case for the unique mystery-solving talents of Sebastian McCabe mystery writer and amateur sleuth. </p><p></p><p>But when an alibi emerges for Bragg Mac and his best friend and brother-in-law Jeff Cody are dragged into the matter by the desperate police chief Oscar Hummel who hopes they can prove the obvious. But it doesn't go well. </p><p></p><p>Despite the mystery writer's special skills in strange cases all seems hopeless until an eyewitness to the murder comes forward and will only speak to Mac. Her evidence is convincing-except for the fact that she's a witch. And then come new murders with a not-so-obvious solution one that will stun both long-time McCabe & Cody fans and newcomers to the series. Only Sebastian McCabe could solve this ably assisted by Jeff Cody. </p><p></p><p>This 16<sup>th</sup> volume in the series (including two books of shorter tales in addition to the novels) also includes a bonus novelette with a new kind of McCabe & Cody mystery. <em>The Puzzle of the Purple Beret</em> is narrated by Jeff's wife Lynda Teal Cody as she tells the tale of a tantalizing mystery solved by her and by Jeff's sister Kathleen Cody McCabe with no help from their spouses. </p>