Cirrus@Austlit

'Matilda Hayward is determined to have a career, after all, it is 1888! While reporting for the Women's Journal newspaper, Matilda is sent to cover the visiting 'Freak Show' and to interview Mrs Anna Tufton, a giantess. During the interview, the giantess slips a note to Matilda begging for help to her escape the show she is forced to do by her husband. But then the giantess's husband, along with the owner of the Freak Show, Mr Alfred E. Burnham, is murdered. The giantess is a likely suspect.

'Matilda enlists the help of her lawyer brother, Amos, to prove the giantess is no killer and to free her from a life of exploitation. But close family friend, Detective Thomas Ashdown - who might just have feelings for Matilda despite having known her since childhood - would prefer Matilda was nowhere near his murder case. There is mystery, danger, and love afoot!'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'When Sophie Carell was eight years old, her eccentric Great Aunt, Daphne, predicted Sophie would be one of the greatest clairvoyants of her time. Sophie wanted to be a movie star. Her mother said not to worry about it—Aunt Daphne was daffy. Every Christmas, Sophie insisted on a new reading, expecting and waiting for it to change, for Aunty Daffy to reveal that one day Sophie would have a star on the pavement in Hollywood. But every year, until her death, Daphne predicted the same thing for Sophie. When Sophie is called to the grand dame’s rambling home for the reading of her Will, she is given a pair of reading glasses that will change the course of her life … depending on which road Sophie decides to take.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'The dead are walking and it is not even Halloween! Private investigator Jesse Clarke knew it wasn't going to be a normal week when two dead people are spotted alive but their death certificates say otherwise, Spiderman steals a collection of costumes made for the next Comic Con, and Batman drops in to warn her that all is not as it seems.

'Supported by her own man of steel–the tall, dark and handsome Dominic; business partner Ed; police contact Officer Jason who has more than a professional interest in Jesse; and, best friend Melanie, Jesse finds herself talking to witches, superheroes and morticians to solve her two cases and looking behind the disguises for answers!'

Source: Publisher's blurb.