Enjoyable read ( )

Too much empty chatter.... Too many similarities to her other books...... Magical Realism is one thing, this ISN'T Any type of Realism....

More and more Alt's books are becoming mainstream Chick-Lit, without much substance.....

Color me bored ( )

I like this series - although her mother and sister drive me nuts. :) This was a good addition, although maybe not her best one, to the series. I found I was getting impatient with the many many internal dialogue's about what is going on in the town that is causing so many murders. I like that she ties all the books to that theme, just found in this book she harped on it too much. Still, I'm looking forward to the next book. ( )

Home For A Spell is the ninth book in the Bewitching Mystery series.

Maggie, recovering from a broken ankle, is staying with her boyfriend, Marcus. But when Marcus decides to put off returning to college, she figures it is time for her to look for a place to live while hobbling around with a cast on her leg. Marcus' uncle gets a lead on an apartment and Maggie goes to check it out. The next morning she returns to sign the lease, only to find the manager has been murdered and floating in the pool. The office had been ransacked and a computer that the manager had gotten the day destroyed.

Maggie and Marcus start do some looking around the complex and find that almost all of residents are single and attractive women. That almost all the possible suspects have ties to a fraternal organization. The police find a flash drive for the manages computer in his office and ask Marcus, who is a computer guru, to attempt to recover any and all data on it and old hard drive.

Once Marcus has recovered the data it basically answer the question as to the killer is. Then pass the information to the police before anyone else becomes a victim.

I feel that Maggie missed a very obvious clue, but overall a well told story. ( )

Nice cozy mystery, as usual I enjoyed the antics of Maggie as she tries to muddle through life. The ending for this book seemed a little abrupt, a long lead in to figure out "who done it" then the book was over. Nice light read. ( )