The White Magic Five and Dime

Posted on 24 August 2018 by Steve Hockensmith

Much to Alanis McLachlan s surprise, her estranged con woman mother has left her an inheritance The White Magic Five Dime, a shop in tiny Berdache, Arizona Reluctantly traveling to Berdache to claim her new property, Alanis decides to stay and pick up her mother s tarot business in an attempt to find out how she died.With help from a hunky cop and her mother s live in teenage apprentice, Alanis begins faking her way through tarot readings in order to win the confidence of her mother s clients But the she uses the tarot deck, the Alanis begins to find real meaning in the cards and the secrets surrounding her mother s demise.Praise 2015 IPPY Award Bronze Medal Winner in Mystery Cozy Noir2014 ForeWord IndieFab Gold Winner for Mystery Cozy readers with a taste for humor will welcome this hilarious series debut and will eagerly await the next installment PUBLISHERS WEEKLY STARRED REVIEW Hockensmithand coauthor Falco deliver a charming comic mystery, which one hopes is the beginning of a series BOOKLIST A clever and compelling tale filled with colorful and engaging characters and a whodunit plot FOREWORD REVIEWS From the unique title to the cool cover, this book has it all A across the board SUSPENSE MAGAZINE Fun and light ELLERY QUEEN S MYSTERY MAGAZINE New Read [ The White Magic Five and Dime ] by [ Steve Hockensmith ] – kino-fada.fr The White Magic Five and Dime A Tarot Mysteryis not a good book, but it is fun Written by Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Dreadfully Ever After author Steve Hockensmith assisted by SME subject matter expert Lisa Falco, The White Magic Five and Dime A Tarot Mysteryis a nicely done puff piece of a cozy, complete with Tarot spreads While much of the plot was predictable, the one line...I m truly ambivalent about this one Setting and characters were done well, although I had some problems with the plot Will probably read the second book for the psychic aspect of the series, as the co author who handles that angle really did a good job in this one.Absolutely LOVED this book A great start to a series Can t wait to finish it I highly recommend this book It sthan meets the eyesI picked this book up in a charity shop for 50c on Friday Bargain says I It sounded like something I d enjoy and for that price how could I not Yesterday I remembered to add it to GR and discovered that this was the first of three books The other two books are not on kindle and they are 11 each on Book Depository It s like Age Action Ireland and Steve Hockensmith have partnered up for some elaborate book selling con Obviously I bought Fool Me Once oh how ironic and Give the Devil His Du I picked this book up in a charity shop for 50c on Friday Bargain says I It sounded like something I d enjoy and for that price how could I not Yesterday I remembered to add it to GR and discovered that this was the first of three books The other two books are not on kindle and they are 11 each on Book Depository It s like Age Action Ireland and Steve Hockensmith have partnered up for some elaborate book selling con Obviously I bought Fool Me Once oh how ironic and Give the Dev...Alanis McLachlan has not seen her mother in 20 years so when she is summoned to Berdache, Arizona to collect her inheritance she is very surprised Her con woman mother has left her The White Magic Five Dime, a small shop where her mother has her tarot card reading business Unsure what to do with the place she decides to temporarily open the store to try to figure out how and why her mother died She assum...The Good Though this book didn t have what I typically consider a cozy feel itthan made up for that with it s wonderful quirkiness I loved Alanis and her sarcastic personality We get to know her little by little throughout the story and by the middle of the book I was completely in love with her character It s no secret that paranormal cozies are one of my favorite genres and this one delivers without being too out there Is there really something to the Tarot Or is at all about the r The Good Though this book didn t have what I typically consider a cozy feel itthan made up for that with it s wonderful quirkiness I loved Alanis and her sarcastic personality We get to know her little by little throughout the story and by the middle of the book I was completely in love with her character It s no secret that paranormal cozies are one of my favorite genres and this one delivers without being too out there Is there really something to the Tarot Or is at all about the readers ability to read not the...I thoroughly and completely loved Steve Hockensmith s Holmes on the Range series, so I was very pleased to see he d been writing another mystery I scarfed up White Magic Five Dime the second it hit the public library shelves.I was not disappointed It s freakin hilarious My favorite part is the tarot card reading given by the protagonist, who has no clue what she s doing Now, I think a lot of tarot cards are very pretty, and I know a little about them, but Hockensmith s description of I thoroughly and completely loved Steve Hockensmith s Holmes on the Range series, so I was very pleased to see he d been writing another mystery I scarfed up White Magic Five Dime the second it hit the public library shelves.I was not disappointed It s freakin hilarious My favorite part is the tarot card reading given by the protagonist, who has no clue what she s doing Now, I think a lot of tarot cards are very pretty, and I know a little about them, but Hockensmith s description of each card used in the reading scene ought to come with a swallow first warning, as the reader will undoubtably spew choke on anything in her his mouth while laughing uncontrollably This book is billed as a cozy mystery, but I think I ll term it cozy noir instead It s a bit darker than most cozies.The basic plot is that a 36 year old woman whose real name might possibly be Sophie, b...I received an ARC of The White Magic Five Dime through NetGalley 3.5 Stars I expected The White Magic Five Dime to be a good guilty pleasure read for yet another snowed in winter night and was happily surprised when it turned out to be less guilty pleasure andgenuinely enjoyable While the book s premise young woman inherits new age shop from her estranged con artist mother, finds herself at the center of a revenge plot engineered by her mother s marks errs a bit on the I received an ARC of The White Magic Five Dime through NetGalley 3.5 Stars I expected The White Magic Five Dime to be a good guilty pleasure read for yet another snowed in winter night and was happily surprised when it turned out to be less guilty pleasure andgenuinely enjoyable While the book s premise young woman inherits new age shop from her estranged con artist mother, finds herself at the center of a revenge plot engineered by her mother s marks errs a bit on the absurd side, Hockensmith and Falco manage to keep things reigned in.The present day predicament of Alanis inheriting her mother s new a...Do you believe in White Magic After reading this book you mightor might not Alanis is notified that her mother has died and she has been left everything Yet when she arrives in Berdache AZ, she finds things maybe aren t as cut and dried as it seems.For some reason, I thought this book was going to be a cozy mystery I don t think I would put it in that genre Mystery yes Cozy hmmm, borderline However, that doesn t matter because this is still a GREAT book I have always been fascinated Do you believe in White Magic After reading this book you mightor might not Alanis is notified that her mother h...Really enjoyed this one, though it isn t really a cozy Our heroine was brought up by her con woman mother her boyfriend She ran away as soon as she was old enough to fend for herself and never looked back After years of no contact at all, she ssurprised when she gets a call that her mother has died and left all that she had to her Once she arrives in Arizona she finds that Mom s death wasn t natural She was murdered Even though she had no relationship with her mother, she fee Really enjoyed this one, though it isn t really a cozy Our heroine was brought up by her con woman mother her boyfriend She ran away as soon as she was old enough to fend for herself and never looked back After years of no contact at all, she ssurprised when she gets a call that her mother has died and left all that she had to her Once she arrives in Arizona she finds that Mom s death wasn t natural ...

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24 August 2018

Steve Hockensmith