I’ve often heard tarot readers say they wish there were more novels with tarot readers in them. Well, here’s one to add to your summer reading list, especially if you like cozy mysteries with a big helping of humor. The White Magic Five and Dime, by Steve Hockensmith and Lisa Falco, is the first in the new A Tarot Mystery series. The main character, Alanis, learns that her estranged mother died and left her an inheritance: The White Magic Five and Dime, in Berdache, Arizona who slogan is: Divination, Revelation, Bargains. When she arrives, she begins to smell something fishy about her mother’s death and sets out to investigate. While snooping around, she decides to keep her

Death of a Cozy Writer, the first novel in the St. Just Mystery series by G. M. Malliet published by Llewellyn's mystery fiction imprint Midnight Ink, has won the Agatha Award for Best First Mystery. The Agatha Awards are literary awards for mystery and crime writers who write novels in the traditional method exemplified by Agatha Christie. Traditionally, these novels contain no explicit sex, excessive gore, or gratuitous violence, and usually feature an amateur detective and take place in a confined setting and contain characters that know one another. Awards are handed out in five categories: • Best Novel • Best First Mystery • Best Non-Fiction • Best Short Story,