Mia has made great strides turning a former magical school into her dream business, even though there are lingering spirits working against her. Enough business growth that she feels the need to hire addirional staff.
In addirion to her business, Mia has a reputation for solving mysteries.
When a friend's mother dies, and Mia's company caters the funeral meal, she is asked to look into the mysterious death. It didn't seem natural, even for an "unnatural" being.
The local nonmagical detective is reoccupied and doesn't believe it wasn't just due to old age.

Great characters, an interesting environment, where the building is as good as another character.
A possed cat, spells going wrong, just a fun book and great mystery.

Four Charming Spells is the 4th book in the Kitchen Witch Mysteries written by Lynn Cahoon. I've read most of her other work and all the books in this series to date, including three or four in-between novellas. I've enjoyed each one for different reasons, but collectively they show the author's wide array of talent when it comes to story-developing, character creation, and plot devices. In this installment, the murder happened way before the book started, and there are two different mysteries to solve. Eventually they intersect, but the how and why takes some time to decipher (in a good way). I found the age spell a fun side story in this book, but wow did it make the protagonist's grandmother semi-unlikable for most of the book! LOL All that said, it moved the overarching series story along and had several hilarious and poignant moments. My only caution... the ending is super abrupt without any wrap up or rationalization of the why and what happens next. Normally, some of the details come out in the next book but in this one, it felt like either a chapter was missing from the early copy I received or there was an intention that we don't yet understand.

This q a a fun cozy mystery how witches can do good things for people. This book was approved by netgalley and the publisher.

I enjoyed this book. I thought the ending wrapped up a little quickly and easily. I liked the characters, they’re interesting. #FourCharmingSpells #NetGalley

Another great mystery book by Lynn Cahoon, it had what I enjoyed from the previous three books in this series. Each book has improved on the other and I was really glad I was able to continue reading these. The characters were interesting and unique and I really enjoyed how well they were written. I hope the series continues as I enjoyed this.

"Of course it is. I’ll come back tomorrow to work on fortifying the wards. After talking to Dorian, I’m concerned that not all the graves were moved. He’s reporting that he’s seen several ghosts where the cemetery was located.” Al leaned forward. “You have to understand, I wasn’t part of the committee to move the cemetery. All I can do is report what they told us. That all of the graves were moved."

Thank you NetGalley and Kensington Publishing Corp. for a copy of "Four Charming Spells" in exchange for my honest opinion.

This is book #4 in the Kitchen Witch Mysteries set in Magic Springs. Mia Malone runs Mia's Morsels a catering, cooking school, dinner delivery and event planning business. She bought an old schoolhouse which she is slowly renovating. The 3rd floor has her apartment, storage and a library that houses spirits. The 2nd floor has all the old classrooms. Mia's company operates out of the 1st floor. Christina Adams - Mia's almost sister-in-law and good friend helps her as she continues with her college courses. Trent Majors is Mia's boyfriend and he runs Majors Grocery.

This time they have a problem with the wards on the house and spirits that are running around the school. Something or someone keeps trying to get in through the kitchen where the door knob turns ice cold.

Mia's cat Mr. Darcy still has the spirit of Dorian, Mary Alice Carpenter (Gran's) old boyfriend sharing his body as she works to reverse the spell she had cast.

Mia is once again mixed up in a couple of deaths. She also has to cope with a wedding, her Gran casting age spells and a new employee that might not be who she appears to be.

Another great story in this series. The book ends very abruptly. You keep turning pages thinking that there is a recipe there and the story will come to a conclusion after that but it is a jarring ending, not the usual neatly wrapped up one.