Order of Carol J. Perry Books
Carol J. Perry is an American author best known for writing the Witch City Mystery series. The series began with Caught Dead Handed in 2014 and is set in the infamous town of Salem and involves a mysterious cat named O’Ryan.
Perry had a love of reading from a young age and would even ask Santa for books as a child. She always knew that she wanted to be a writer and went on to work for Southern Travel Magazine. It was while on an assignment for the magazine that she got the inspiration for her first young adult novel, Sand Castle Summer. That lead to many more books and her love of mysteries ultimately lead her to the Witch City Mystery series.
Publication Order of Haunted Haven Mysteries Books
| Be My Ghost | (2021) |    |
| High Spirits | (2022) | |
Publication Order of Witch City Mysteries Books
| Caught Dead Handed | (2014) | |
| Tails, You Lose | (2015) | |
| Look Both Ways | (2015) | |
| Murder Go Round | (2017) | |
| Grave Errors | (2017) | |
| It Takes a Coven | (2018) | |
| Bells, Spells, and Murders | (2018) | |
| Final Exam | (2019) | |
| Late Checkout | (2019) | |
| Murder, Take Two | (2020) | |
| See Something | (2021) | |
| 'Til Death | (2022) | |
| Now You See It | (2023) | |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Sand Castle Summer | (1988) | |
| 13 And Loving It | (1989) | |
| Make-Believe Love | (1989) | |
| Going Overboard | (1991) | |
| One Sister Too Many | (1998) | |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Halloween Cupcake Murder | (2023) | |
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Caught Dead Handed is the first book in the Witch City Mystery series and focuses on Lee Barrett who makes grew up in the famous witch town of Salem, Massachusetts. Life takes her back to her hometown when she goes to reply for a job as a TV reporter. The only job open is for a call-in psychic to host the late night horror movies and she reluctantly takes the job. She has no background in the supernatural, but when she looks into the obsidian ball she’s using as a prop she starts to see real events. With a killer on the loose, she sets her sights on unmasking them.
A great book in the series is Murder Go Round. In this book, Lee and Aunt Ibby head to a storage auction where the two win a locker and uncover a trove of beautiful curiosities, including a stunning wooden carousel horse with gentle eyes and fading paint. It is not long until the sight of a silver samovar awakens her psychic abilities and conjures visions of murder and give her another case.