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About Leanne Leeds
Leanne Leeds is a humorously acerbic, good-natured, contemporary paranormal/fantasy cozy mystery author who writes fun, lighthearted, and optimistic adventures where characters and events intersect in magically unexpected ways. With a cast of quirky characters inhabiting her fictional world, Leanne provides a unique blend of comedy, clues, and twisty action—all with a touch of magic that keeps readers turning pages.
Leanne is a proud member of Novelists, Inc., The Alliance of Independent Authors, The Authors Guild, Mystery Writers of America, and Sisters in Crime.
For information on Leanne Leeds visit: https://leanneleeds.com
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Blog postOwl Spell Broke Loose is on track to be released next month in mid-August, and with just 3 more preorders (we usually get a few a day,) we’ll surpass the number for Against Owl Odds. As the folks on my mailing list know, I’ve been a smidge worried about the series’ longevity, so seeing those preorders tick up instead of down is awesome! Just a reminder that I’ve added the first book to the new 2023 series, Silver Circle Cat Rescue Mysteries, on the site and Amazon for .99 for a very limited tim2 weeks ago Read more
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Blog postAgainst Owl Odds was released this month, and Book 8 appears to be doing pretty well! So far it’s garnered 4.7 stars on Amazon and a bunch of positive reviews. I’m glad you like it! On the audiobook front, Book 3 is in production now and I think we’ll be able to get it to Amazon this month. I’ve added the first book to the new 2023 series, Silver Circle Cat Rescue Mysteries, on the site and Amazon – for a limited time (and because its release is so far off) it’s the preorder price is just .99!2 months ago Read more
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Blog postFirst, for release updates! Bring Your Beach Owl in the Owl Star Witch series was released last month, and Against Owl Odds is due out next month. Everything’s on time and moving forward as it should. On the audiobook front, Owl’s Fair was released this month, and we’ve got Book 3 in production now, so that should be out within a couple of months. On the mailing list, we’re talking about a possible additional series coming out next year—if you’re interested, definitely hop on there! It’s the on3 months ago Read more
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Blog postBring Your Beach Owl in the Owl Star Witch series was released last week, and the response has been extremely positive. Several reviews have proclaimed this book to be the best so far in the series, which makes me very happy. I’m currently working on Against Owl Odds, a vampire-themed installment with a star-card case that Astra would rather let someone whack because he’s such a villain. He is, however, a lot of fun to write about! That book will be released in June 2022 and is currently availa4 months ago Read more
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Blog postOwl Melt with You in the Owl Star Witch was released in February, and I got so busy I forgot to make an updates post. Oops. I definitely try to keep this updated, but I’m religious about sending out weekly newsletters so if you want to make sure you get the skinny, sign up! I’m currently writing Bring Your Beach Owl, a Spring Break-themed mystery that will take the Arden sisters to Cocoa Beach, Florida, and smack into the center of another murder. That book will be out in April 2022, and is ava5 months ago Read more
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Blog postOwl Melt with You in the Owl Star Witch will be coming out in just a couple of weeks. This one is lightly Valentine’s Day themed, and marks a return to classic murder mystery for me. (With Covid, I took a bit of a break from dead bodies at the beginning of the series.) I’m currently writing Bring Your Beach Owl, a Spring Break-themed mystery that will take the Arden sisters to Cocoa Beach, Florida, and smack into the center of another murder. That book will be out in April 2022, and is availabl6 months ago Read more
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Blog postOwl About Yule in the Owl Star Witch series came out this month, and so far it’s gotten . Thanks so much to everyone who took the time to rate and review it! It was my first Christmas-themed para-cozy, and I was a little nervous about it’s direction, but I’m very glad you liked it. I’m currently writing Owl Melt with You, a Valentine’s Day-themed mystery. For just a few more days, the full 8-book Magical Midway series will be available in a .99 bundle in all markets on Amazon. January 1, 2022,7 months ago Read more
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Blog postOwl About Yule should be out in a week or two, it’s just getting polished and primped for its debut. This is a Christmas-themed entry in the Owl Star Witch series, and as such it will be a bit different. While there’s still a mystery to be solved, it will also borrow a bit from Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol as Astra struggles with her lack of belief in the Greek gods that have given her Archie and the star power. I’m beginning work on Owl Melt with You on Monday, a Valentine’s Day-themed m8 months ago Read more
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Blog postHeavy Meddle Magic (Book 4) was released a couple of weeks early this month, and some of the reviews actually made me tear up a little, people. Specifically, Butterflies and Birch Reviews said: Leanne Leeds is an author that’s great at translating a moral of the story in her books. Few cozy authors convey the “heart” of a book better than Leeds. It’s one of the reasons I’m such a fan. This book was especially deep with lots of ideas to contemplate. and I had an “Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww” moment. Tha9 months ago Read more
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Blog postHeavy Meddle Magic (Book 4), is just about done. I’ve got one more chapter to do, and then it will be off to the editor for a spit and polish. Heavy Meddle Magic (Book 4) will be out in time for Halloween, so no worries. Thank you for all the kind words that we’ve received for Book 3. I greatly appreciate your feedback and am happy to hear that you liked it! I’m always grateful to be able to make my living doing something I love. Writing these books is like the dream job that I have always want10 months ago Read more
Titles By Leanne Leeds
I’d planned to spend the rest of my life in the witch military, with its pink berets, dramatic drumming, and black ops missions. Now I’m living with a high priestess mother who disapproves of me and three witch sisters who barely know me.
I didn’t think they’d dismantle the paranormal military with a wave of their bureaucratic magic wand, but they did. Everything I’d spent the previous fifteen years of my life doing and being was ripped away from me in an instant, out of my reach—and now that the paranormal military’s gone, I’ve got nothing left to fight for.
So here I am, thirty-three years old, in cutesy Forkbridge, Florida, living in my childhood home and once again being manipulated by my magical mother. She conjured a talking owl “sent by the goddess Athena.” This “divine” owl, Archie, claims I’ve been chosen to unravel a mystery unfolding in Forkbridge—I must solve a murder planned but not destined, stop a crime before it can occur.
For fifteen years, I chased down paranormal fugitives. For fifteen years, I served with the toughest witches in the world. For fifteen years, I commanded decorated soldiers and changed the course of paranormal history.
Now I take orders from an owl.
The Owl Star Witch Mysteries are novel-length paranormal cozy mysteries full of twists, turns, and clues written for adults—but are free of intimate scenes, gore, and swearing.
The book’s blurb is not quite ready yet, but this will be Book #11 in the Owl Star Witch Mysteries!
This series stars Astra Arden, a witch who’s life is turned upside down when she returns to her small hometown fifteen years after she made the calculated decision to leave her Mother’s coven and join the paranormal military. In this clever, modern mystery full of humor, heartbreak, family ties and lots and lots of magic, Astra must face down criminals, ghosts, and more than one irksome Greek deity with her sarcastic, flying, foul-tempered owl sidekick Archie.
They are novel-length paranormal cozy mysteries full of twists, turns, and clues written for adults—but are free of intimate scenes, gore, and swearing for younger readers.
When Emma suggested Jason and I spend a week at a four-day, four hundred person festival of health and self-discovery with my best friend and her boyfriend sounded like the perfect way for me to help my fizzling relationship. So I agreed, picturing cabanas and tropical drinks.
Instead, I got a pop-up tent, green juice, a meddling goddess, and a murder.
When an unexplained storm hits and communications with the mainland are cut off, Archie and I have to figure out whether it’s just a coincidence or someone on the island is trying to help themselves a little too much.
The Owl Star Witch Mysteries are novel-length easy reads full of twists, turns, and clues—but are free of intimate scenes, gore, and swearing.
When the star card glows in the direction of a vampire, I wonder how we're supposed to stop him from dying—since, you know, he's already dead.
Forkbridge's local dance club/underground vampire lair Sanguine hasn't caused too many problems since Rex opened it. Sure, the blood bank seems to always run low and the town's budget to replace lights that mysteriously go out is always high, but those are small problems considering the population size.
When Ami reads her tarot cards at a fundraiser and the star card glows for a particularly rude vampire—one who's committed some terrible crimes of his own—I wonder if the rude undead is truly threatened, or if the goddess is pointing us to a larger undead threat in Central Florida that we're not seeing. When another vampire's found dead outside the club that very same night, it only makes things more convoluted.
And if things weren't bad enough, my partner Emma is keeping secrets—secrets that will bring a werewolf pack into town. As if I didn't have enough to deal with.
It's gonna be a long night.
The Owl Star Witch Mysteries are novel-length easy reads full of twists, turns, and clues—but are free of intimate scenes, gore, and swearing.
I get the divine talking owl bit. I understand the part about star magic. But if the “goddess” knows someone’s going to die, couldn’t she send a file with information on how to stop it instead of a sparkly card?
As a witch who was used to being told where to go and what to do for the greater good—after all, that’s how the witch military worked—being told what to do with the rest of my life by a goddess I didn’t believe in and a talking owl with a chip on his shoulder wasn’t all that far-fetched. The military prepared me to accept all sorts of things that make no sense.
But at least in the military, I had a manual.
During Alice Windrow’s card reading with my sister Ami, the glowing star card announces she is marked for death by someone and marked for rescue by the “goddess Athena.” Mom tells me the cheerful girl is known throughout Forkbridge for her philanthropy (funded by a distant relative’s substantial inheritance.) Alice claims she only wanted assurance that the marathon she sponsored will come off without a hitch. Nothing crazy going on in her life.
And yet someone wants her dead.
Can we unravel the plot in time to stop Alice’s murder? Or will the generous girl find that her marathon is officially over—for good?
The Owl Star Witch Mysteries are novel-length easy reads full of twists, turns, and clues—but are free of intimate scenes, gore, and swearing.
I’m a witch, so I have to ask the tough questions. Is it a bad omen to finally agree to go out on a date with someone only to have him land in jail, suspected of murder? I think that’s probably a bad omen.
With the star card dim and the goddess Athena seemingly otherwise occupied, I was enjoying the chance to work on regular old boring human police cases. Humans are far less complicated than witches. Far less complicated.
Or so I thought.
Everything seemed to be going well—Mom and I were getting along, my sisters were doing good, and I’d agreed to go out with Jason Bishop on Valentine’s Day. Everything seemed to be coming up roses (and chocolates, and maybe even a little champagne) until Unity Priestpoint, a retired local teacher, was discovered shot dead and stuffed in a trunk covered in magical symbols.
Worse? Jason Bishop was the last person to see her alive, and quickly becomes a suspect—putting me on the other side of the investigation from Detective Emma Sullivan
Can I clear his name before our first date, or will I spend Valentine’s Day eating takeout at the Forkbridge Jail?
The Owl Star Witch Mysteries are novel-length easy reads full of twists, turns, and clues—but are free of intimate scenes, gore, and swearing.
I assumed that everyone the “goddess” wanted saved was worth saving. But then the glowing star card flashes in the direction of a sleazy alcoholic insurance salesman, and I’m left wondering what the divine logic is behind this one.
I didn't want to return to Forkbridge, Florida, but I had to. And it hasn't turned out too bad. Mom, the high priestess, is beginning to relax. My four sisters are becoming more at ease with me. My divine owl Archie is still a pain in the neck, but I didn't return for him. I've even made friends with Detective Emma Sullivan of the Forkbridge Police Department.
Things seem to be going well.
I don’t give Gloria Fisher much thought when she comes in for a reading with Ami at Mom’s New Age shop. She suspects Will, her alcoholic husband, is cheating on her. It’s basically the same reading as half of Ami’s readings. But when the star card drops and glows pointing toward her husband’s danger and the goddess’s demand he be saved, I realize the gods really might be crazy.
My investigation further devolves into chaos when a painting Will Fisher insured goes missing. What’s even worse? Detective Emma Sullivan thinks he might’ve been in on the scheme.
Can I find the painting, clear the man, and keep his whole life policy in force? Or will William Fisher’s accidental death insurance pay out?
The Owl Star Witch Mysteries are novel-length easy reads full of twists, turns, and clues—but are free of intimate scenes, gore, and swearing.
Do you remember the Christmas story about the chain-rattling ghosts who taught life lessons? Well, how about a Yule tale involving a beachfront mansion, multiple Greek gods, an Orphic priest, and a kidnapped divine panther?
It’s my first Yule at Mom’s in fifteen years, and she can’t stop complaining about that. (That I hadn’t shown up for fifteen years, not that I was there.) It doesn’t make much of an impact, though—I have a great job as a psychic consultant with the Forkbridge Police Department, the “goddess” has been leaving me alone with no sparkly star cards in sight, and my family—including the persnickety owl, Archie—and I are getting along.
For the most part.
It appears that my holiday vacation will be uneventful until a Dionysian priest arrives on the Arden doorstep to report that the Greek god's favorite panther has vanished. Worse, the god accuses his sister, Athena, of the prank—and blames the priest for assisting her. Their divine argument threatens to derail our holiday festivities—and even the Orphic's life.
The absolute worst?
I don’t believe in any of this “gods” bunk, but Detective Emma Sullivan never met a mystery she didn’t want to solve—unfortunately, this one may be far more than she bargained for.
The Owl Star Witch Mysteries are novel-length easy reads full of twists, turns, and clues—but are free of intimate scenes, gore, and swearing.
Four witches, a beachfront condo, and spring break in Florida. I thought this vacation would be a relaxing holiday from work—that is, until my cousin Amelia washed up on the beach.
The police say she drowned suspiciously, but I know there’s even more to the story. I can't trust the cops to solve the murder, not with shape-shifting fish around every corner and secrets churning beneath every pier.
And that mermaid? What’s her deal?
When one of the investigators looking into Amelia's death claims my sisters and I were with Amelia when she died, I have no choice but to jump in, protect my sisters, and piece together Amelia's mysterious life—and death.
But I can’t help but wonder what else is hiding in these waters waiting to bite me in the rear.
The Owl Star Witch Mysteries are novel-length easy reads full of twists, turns, and clues—but are free of intimate scenes, gore, and swearing.
You thought Forkbridge, Florida was odd. Cassandra, Florida? It’s even odder. And just my luck, Emma and I have to go investigate arson in the psychic medium capital of the world. During Halloween.
The glowing star card doesn't turn over as frequently as I expected—I guess the "goddess" doesn't want to keep too many people alive. The Forkbridge Police Department, on the other hand, wants to keep everyone alive, including Cassandra's mayor.
Of course, that may have something to do with Mayor Thornton dating the Forkbridge Police Department captain.
But you didn’t hear that from me.
Houses of psychics are catching fire in Cassandra, and Mayor Thornton suspects a plot that even the town's spectral inhabitants can't solve—because they've all vanished. The town is overrun with Halloween tourists looking for communication with the dead that Cassandra's mediums can't provide, and the Mayor is concerned that her town—and her life—may be in danger.
Is there a conspiracy wafting through the homes of Cassandra like a poisonous incense? Or is it just filled with super weird people that need to take their heads out of their…sage smoke?
The Owl Star Witch Mysteries are novel-length easy reads full of twists, turns, and clues—but are free of intimate scenes, gore, and swearing.
I should have known that the gifts Athena sent always carry a price. I just didn’t expect the toy soldier’s arrival to be a test of Archie’s loyalty—and of our family.
The toy soldier wasted no time in starting. He strode up to my owl, Archie, ignoring that it was Yule, ignoring that we were gathered for a family party, and said, “I am here to give you a test. If you can pass it, you will be allowed to stay with Astra. But if you fail, you will have to leave.”
The goddess Athena gave nothing without expecting something in return. But what did she really want?
As my magical owl set out on several increasingly tough challenges, my three sisters and I set out to solve the mystery of why Athena had sent the toy—but with the stakes getting higher and higher, can we uncover what's going on before one sarcastic owl is exiled from his home, his family, and the human world with which he has become enmeshed?
The Owl Star Witch Mysteries are novel-length easy reads full of twists, turns, and clues—but are free of intimate scenes, gore, and swearing.
Enter the small town of Mystic’s End, Arkansas, and meet a cast of characters you never expected. This town has seen everything from misplaced spirits to psychic greyhounds—and one witch is determined to ignore all of it so she can run her art shop. The 8-book series is complete!
- Mystic Guests - A new beginning in an old town. A punk ghost raging in the middle of the night. She wanted to get away from the paranormal—but did she wake it up instead?
- Angel in Demise - An electrocuted millionaire at a garden party. One witch under suspicion. Can Fortuna Delphi clear her name before they shut her art gallery down?
- Sketchy Charms - A body in the woodlands near the crystal field. Smoky quartz that smoked the local mailman. Can Fortuna unearth the truth the authorities won’t?
- The Art of Scrying - A fake ancient urn. A suitor with a lot of secrets. Can Fortuna bring the truth into focus before her world cracks?
- The Greyt Escape - A champion greyhound gone. A sleazy detective out to get her student. Can Fortuna find the hound before the inept Mystic’s End Police hound an innocent teen straight into prison?
- Boozehounds and Ball Drops - A bright and festive holiday season. A non-stop bacchanal in the streets. Can Fortuna discover why the citizens of Mystic’s End are acting so strange?
- Scry Harder - A new year, a new crime. The charred remains of a brand new coffee shop. Can Fortuna uncover the spark that set off new drama in Mystic’s End?
- Captive Magic - A witch bottle in a dead man’s hand. A Mystic’s End councilman shot dead. Can Fortuna solve the case and free the spirit, or will the bottle disappear into evidence forever?
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