title: Home for a Spell (A Bewitching Mystery)
author:  Madelyn Alt 
description: Maggie O'Neill, "empath, intuitive, and sometimes witchy nice girl," is oh-so-slowly recovering from a broken ankle in Alt's sprightly seventh paranormal cozy set in Stony Mill, Ind. (after 2010's A Witch in Time). Though Maggie loves her temporary digs with Marcus Quinn, her doting wizard boyfriend, she doesn't want him to delay his back-to-college plans to care for her. Maggie finds a great deal on a place at New Heritage, a local apartment complex, but before she can sign the lease, she and Marcus discover its manager, Rob Locke, floating in the complex's pool, dead from blunt force trauma. Maggie's ex-boyfriend, policeman Tom Fielding, isn't thrilled that Maggie is once again connected to a murder case. As Rob's involvement in some unsavory doings at New Heritage becomes clearer, Alt's light brew of mystery and romance turns deliciously chilling. (Jan.) <br />(c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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  # Mrs Medwin
  
  
  ### Henry James
  
  
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  "Well, we are a pair!" the poor lady's visitor broke out to
  
  
  her, at the end of her explanation, in a manner disconcerting enough.
  
  
  The poor lady was Miss Cutter, who lived in South Audley Street,
  
  
  where she had an 'upper half' so concise that it had to pass, boldly,
  
  
  for convenient; and her visitor was her half-brother, whom she had not
  
  
  seen for three years. She was remarkable for a maturity of which every
  
  
  symptom might have been observed to be admirably controlled, had not a
  
  
  tendency to stoutness just affirmed its independence. Her present, no
  
  
  doubt, insisted too m