Carolyn Ridder Aspenson has 19 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 7 narrators. The most-rated is Ghosts Are People Too.
Witch This Way
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Welcome to Holiday Hills, where there is magic and mystery in the air... I wear many hats. I'm a friend. A sort-of girlfriend. A ghostwriter, and...oh yeah, a witch. My editor always tells me to “write what you know.” Unfortunately, that’s what’s happening...literally. When the main character in my latest novel - a witch herself - takes a new job with the Magical Bureau of Investigators, she stumbles upon a threat so big, it could destroy everything she holds dear. Fiction, right? Nope. For reasons beyond my witchy sixth sense, everything I write is now happening to me in real life! Did I mention my character gets into really bad situations? Now I’ve got to figure out who’s cast this awkward spell and find a way to reverse it. And if I don’t do it soon, I might just wind up the "dead" in my deadline. If you like paranormal cozies, you’ll love this series!
©2020 Carolyn Ridder Aspenson (P)2020 Severn River Publishing
Realtor Rub Out: A Lily Sprayberry Realtor Cozy Mystery
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Bramblett County Georgia realtor Lily Sprayberry's brand new listing is a hit, just not the kind she expected. When Lily stops by the staged home, she finds the dead body of another realtor lying on the living room floor. With only a week until her destination wedding, and no leads, no potential suspects, and no possibility to leave the state until the murder is solved, Lily's sheriff fiancé thinks they should postpone their nuptials. But that doesn't work for the soon to be bride. Determined to find the killer in time to say I do, she does a little investigating herself. But the killer knows of Lily's knack for solving crimes and sets his eyes on her. Now Lily must race against the clock and catch a killer - before the killer gets to her first. If you like charming southern cozy mysteries, you’ll love the Lily Sprayberry series. Buy your copy of Realtor Rub Out today!
©2020 Severn River Publishing (P)2020 Severn River Publishing
Who's That Witch?
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My name is Abby Odell, and I’m leading a double life. Don’t get me wrong. I love it! But being a witch in a predominantly human world is challenging sometimes. My hometown, Holiday Hills, isn’t your typical small town. It’s a magical town, but not to the humans. At least not until recently. Something’s happening, and it’s not good. Magic is no longer hidden, and people are starting to witness events that don’t seem humanly possible. And that’s the problem. They’re not! Now my friends and neighbors are on edge, and some residents are even ready to turn Holiday Hills into the next Salem, Massachusetts. Someone’s changing the way Holiday Hills works, and it’s my job to fix things before they change humanity and magic forever. The problem is, I don’t know the who, what, when or why...just the where. Now I’ve got to find the witch who’s joining worlds and stop them before they tilt the axis. So far, Holiday Hills will never be the same.
©2021 Carolyn Ridder Aspenson (P)2021 Severn River Publishing
Deal Gone Dead
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Meet Lily Sprayberry. Selling homes is her career. Solving murders, her calling. There’s money buried somewhere on Myrtle Redbecker’s property, and people are dying to find out where. Literally. When Bramblett County, Georgia’s number one realtor, Lily Sprayberry, finds her cantankerous older client dead on the kitchen floor, she lands herself smack-dab in the middle of a long-running property battle and a 100-year-old rumor. Lily made a promise to sell Myrtle’s land whether her client’s alive or not. But whoever wants that money doesn’t want the property to sell and will do whatever’s necessary to stop her. Can Lily keep her promise, or will she wind up another victim in this deal gone dead? Listen now!
©2018, 2019 Carolyn Ridder Aspenson (P)2019 Carolyn Ridder Aspenson
Signed, Sealed and Dead
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Small town folk don’t always take care of their own. As Bramblett County, Georgia realtor Lily Sprayberry preps for the annual community yard sale fundraiser, she discovers the body of the newly hired lacrosse coach lying in the high school gym. At first, all signs point to natural causes, but when Lily finds an empty syringe lying under the bleachers, the coroner decides the coach was murdered. Lily learns the coach wasn’t liked by the lacrosse parents, and when word got out about his murder, the state athletic association suspended the program entirely. When a few of the lacrosse moms decide to take matters into their own hands, they threaten someone close to Lily - her county sheriff boyfriend and his reelection status - by bullying Lily. And soon, Lily’s had enough. As she searches for answers, she’s dragged deeper into an angry mob of high school sports parents all seeking revenge and gunning for their kids to sign with the most elite schools offering the best scholarships. And some of them are willing to do whatever it takes, including murder. When the killer figures out Lily is close to cracking the case, things take a dangerous turn, and Lily’s life is on the line. Can she save herself, or will she be the next victim in Bramblett County? Grab your copy of this stand alone audiobook in the Lily Sprayberry Realtor Cozy Mystery series today!
©2019 Carolyn Ridder Aspenson (P)2019 Carolyn Ridder Aspenson
There's a New Witch in Town
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Welcome to Holiday Hills, where the coffee’s fresh and there’s magic in the air... I have a perfect life. I recently rented the most adorable little apartment on top of my favorite bookstore coffee shop on Main Street in Holiday Hills, the charmingest of charming small southern towns. I spend my days ghostwriting a cozy mystery series for a well-known author, and maybe just a minute or two crushing on the town’s police chief. But of course, I’d never let that cat out of the bag. I'm still dealing with my recent divorce, and no matter what my bestie says, I'm so not ready for anything in the romance department. Speaking of cats, my little Burmese Cooper follows me around like he’s my guard dog. Thankfully, Holiday Hills is animal-friendly. Everyone’s got a cat or dog, and that crazy old woman on the back end of town has the funniest talking parrot. Oh, that crazy old woman...she’s a local celebrity, which can be a lot of trouble for her daughter. How do I know? Because that’s me. I’m the crazy old woman’s daughter. The good news is everyone loves my mother, including me. The bad news is she recently died, and when she did, she opened up a whole new world for me - one I’d always thought was fictional. The magical world. Now, I have witchy powers, a talking cat, and a knack for finding dead bodies in my quaint little town. Ones that haven't died by accident. My name is Abby Odell and I’m a witch. Who knew? I sure didn’t. Thanks for that, Mom. There's a New Witch in Town is the first book in the Holiday Hills Witch Cozy Mystery series by best-selling author Carolyn Ridder Aspenson.
©2020 Carolyn Ridder Aspenson (P)2020 Severn River Publishing
Unbreakable Bonds An Angela Panther Mystery
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"Be careful what you wish for because karma has a way of biting you in the butt." That's what Angela Panther's mother always said. And boy was she was right. When Angela first discovered her gift to gab with ghosts, she fought it tooth and nail. But the second she decided it wasn't so bad, tragedy hit and the universe decided to teach her a lesson. Now she's unable to chat with the other side and is crying out for a re-do. When her best friend Mel suspects her husband of cheating, she asks Angela to help her prove it. They concoct the perfect plan to get the goods on him, but to make it work they'll need help from Angela's mother, Fran. There's just one tiny little problem - Fran's dead. As the two best friends set out on a cheater-catching adventure, they hope Fran can use her celestial super powers to help, and prove that the bond between those who've crossed over with the ones they've left behind is never broken.
©2014 Carolyn Ridder Aspenson (P)2015 Carolyn RIdder Aspenson
Unexpected Outcomes (An Angela Panther Mystery)
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Fourth book in the women sleuth's paranormal mystery series.
©2016 Carolyn Ridder Aspenson (P)2020 Carolyn Ridder Aspenson
Bidding War Break-In
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In a Small Town, Everyone Is in Your Business When Bramblett County Realtor Lily Sprayberry puts her deceased client’s townhome, the last in a sought-after mixed-use development community, on the market, she winds up in the throes of a bidding war. Knowing a portion of the money will go to a scholarship in her client’s name, Lily schedules a realtor-only open house to raise the bids even higher. But on the day of the event, she discovers the home’s been vandalized, and every potential offer is taken off the table. Someone is out to stop the sale, and ruin Lily in the process. With her reputation hanging by a thread and the community up in arms, Lily sets out to fix things, and lands right in the middle of a hot mess of vandalism, lies, theft, and cheating. Lily soon discovers that some people don’t want their secrets known, and they’ll do whatever it takes to keep them under wraps.
©2019 Carolyn Ridder Aspenson (P)2019 Carolyn Ridder Aspenson
Unfinished Business
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Sometimes the dead need our help and sometimes, we need theirs. Angela Panther has a perfect life: A lovely home, an attentive, successful husband, two reasonably behaved children, a devoted dog and a lot of coffee and cupcakes. But while her life might border on mundane, she's got it under control. Until her mother, Fran, dies - and returns as a ghost. It seems Fran's got some unfinished business and she's determined to get it done. Now Fran's got some nifty celestial superpowers and isn't opposed to using them to levy a little ghostly retribution on her granddaughter's frenemies and even her own daughter, which doesn't make Angela happy. While Angela's shocked and grateful to have her mother back, she's not thrilled about the portal to the afterlife Fran opened upon her return. Now every ghost in town is knockin' on Angela's psychic door, looking for help - and it's a royal pain in the butt. Now Angela's got to find a way to balance her family life with her new gift and keep her mother in line. And it's a lot for one woman to handle.
©2013 Carolyn Ridder Aspenson (P)2014 Carolyn Ridder Aspenson
Uncharted Territory: An Angela Panther Mystery
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It’s one thing to get attitude from her teenagers, but when Angela Panther’s newest ghost in distress is an in-her-face, snarky teenage boy, the psychic medium lays down the law. When an unidentified 14-year-old boy takes a dive off an interstate overpass, to solve the case, Atlanta area detective Aaron Banner calls Angela to get the truth about his junior John Doe. Was it suicide or murder? The problem is, the spirit can't remember who he was, or the night he died, and prefers Angela focus on an unknown energy. Bright lights and the big city mean exciting times for Angela and her BFF Mel, but soon the duo ventures into the dark underbelly of Atlanta and come face-to-face with a gang of saggy-pantsed hoodlums ready to take them out. Will Angela and Mel discover the truth about the boy’s death and the unknown energy, and make it home alive, or wind up DOA on the slabs next to the junior John Doe? Grab your copy now! A five-star listeners' favorite: "Grab a latté, a box of Kleenex and a clean pair of panties. Carolyn Ridder Aspenson has done it again." (Two Girls & a Book)
©2016 Carolyn Ridder Aspenson (P)2020 Carolyn Ridder Aspenson
Ghost from the Grave
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When psychic medium Chantilly Adair receives cryptic messages from the lacrosse park’s dead groundskeeper, she knows something bad is coming. What she doesn’t expect is tragedy to hit so close to home. Now her son’s best friend is missing and feared dead, and the only clues Chantilly has are the babblings of a confused ghost who won’t accept his death. Will Chantilly be able to decipher the obscure messages in time to save the boy, or will it be too little, too late? If you like Southern paranormal cozy mysteries, you’ll love this stand-alone cozy mystery!
©2020 Carolyn Ridder Aspenson (P)2020 Severn River Publishing
Open House Heist
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Small town realtor Lily Sprayberry can’t catch a break. You solve new murders and uncover old crimes,but can you save someone from doing hard time?To return what was lost, solve my riddle at all costs. Travel back to ’83 and the murder of a girl from Forsyth County. The note sat inside an empty lock box on the dining room table of Bramblett County realtor Lily Sprayberry’s open house listing. A lockbox that formerly contained an expensive coin collection she promised would remain safe. Lily knows the person that wrote the note meant it for her and knows she needs to do what it says to get the coin collection back. Determined to solve the 36-year-old murder, Lily discovers the clues lead her to a possible killer she’d never suspect, someone near and dear to her heart.
©2019 Carolyn Ridder Aspenson (P)2019 Carolyn Ridder Aspenson
Damaging Secrets
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Best-selling author Carolyn Ridder Aspenson is back, this time with a scrappy heroine whose bold detective work and well-timed one-liners will leave you riveted - and entertained - at every turn. Damaging Secrets, the first book of her newest crime thriller series, is an engaging story of corruption and cover-up that you won’t soon forget. New to town and a little rough around the edges, Detective Rachel Ryder finds herself on the receiving end of a suspicious person’s call in Hamby, Georgia. When the call turns out to be a dead body, the medical examiner is quick to rule the death a suicide. But was it something more sinister? Everyone in the small department believes the case is closed - except for Rachel. The sudden passing of a local politician during the mayor’s run for Congress strikes her as a little too coincidental, and Rachel is eager to follow her instincts. Her partner, Rob, a 30-year veteran, isn’t the type to disobey his boss or ruffle any feathers, but he can’t convince strong-willed Rachel to let it go. Obsessed with finding out the truth, Rachel begins to examine the evidence and drags her reluctant partner along for the ride. But the clues are confusing. Nothing is adding up. Puzzled and running out of time, Rachel and Rob rush to work every angle and bring the elusive killer to justice before someone else ends up dead.
©2020 Carolyn Ridder Aspenson (P)2020 Severn River Publishing
Get Up and Ghost: A Chantilly Adair Psychic Medium Cozy Mystery
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Divorced mother Chantilly Adair didn’t take the job as the head of the Castleberry Georgia Historical Society because she thought it would be easy, in fact, she felt the exact opposite, and that suited her just fine. Desperate to get away from Birmingham and her ex-husband, she took her pre-teen son and high-tailed it straight to her childhood home in Castleberry, Georgia, and the echoes of her recently deceased parents. A tumble down a flight of stairs and causing a bump on the head hasn’t hindered Chantilly from rehabbing the historical presence in town, but finding the dead body of the town’s BBQ king just days before the annual BBQ competition puts her right in the local detective’s hot seat. When the spirit rumored to be haunting the dead man’s restaurant appears, Chantilly’s not sure which is worse, being accused of murder, or claiming a spirit might have had something to do with it. Now Chantilly must save herself from a life behind bars or a stay in the psychiatric ward, and still get the competition going on time. If you like Southern or paranormal cozy mysteries, you’ll love this first book in the Chantilly Adair Psychic Medium Cozy Mystery Series.
©2019 Carolyn Ridder Aspenson (P)2019 Carolyn Ridder Aspenson
Decluttered and Dead: A Lily Sprayberry Realtor Cozy Mystery
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Smalltown realtor Lily Sprayberry is back again in the second book of the Lily Sprayberry cozy mystery series! Every time the Bramblett County, Georgia, body count rises, so does realtor Lily Sprayberry’s popularity. And these days, she’s very popular. When a member of her decluttering and staging class winds up dead, Lily takes it personally and sets out to find the killer. Saddled with guilt, she struggles to accept that the killer just might be someone from her past. The problem is figuring out who before the killer catches on. You’ll enjoy this stand-alone cozy mystery even if you’ve not listened to Deal Gone Dead, the first book in the Lily Sprayberry Realtor Cozy Mystery series. Get your copy now!
©2018, 2019 Carolyn Ridder Aspenson (P)2019 Carolyn Ridder Aspenson
Praying for Peace: A Chantilly Adair Paranormal Cozy Mystery
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Talking to ghosts can be killer. Castleberry, Georgia is a small Southern town with a ton of history, and that history includes a lot of ghosts. How do I know? Because I can see them. And trust me, that’s not always a good thing. As the city’s historical society manager, I spend a lot of time in old buildings, and old buildings are filled with dead people. Take the Baptist church on the outskirts of town. I’m in the process of certifying it as a historical building. And not only is it full of ghosts, but...surprise!...there’s a body in the basement. And I’m the one who found it. Now I’ve got to pick through the history of a long ago fire and decipher the clues I’m getting from some very stubborn spirits, all while dodging someone - dead or alive - who wants me to mind my own business...And will do whatever’s necessary to keep me quiet. If you like southern paranormal cozy mysteries, you’ll love this stand-alone story!
©2020 Severn River Publishing (P)2020 Severn River Publishing
Foreclosure Fatality
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I’d sell more homes if the dead bodies didn’t get in the way. I made a promise, multiple times, actually, to my husband, the Bramblett County Sheriff. I promised I wouldn’t put my life at risk doing his job. But... When I find my potential client’s son standing over her dead body, all bets are off. I just can’t let it go, no matter how hard I try. Truth be told, I’d put myself up against a murderer any day if it kept me from taking sides between Henrietta and Bonnie, besties currently on the outs. Risking my life is one thing, but getting between those two is something no person in their right mind should do. Who am I kidding? I can’t stop myself from trying to help them too. I just hope I come out of this alive. If you like charming Southern cozy mysteries, you’ll love the Lily Sprayberry series. Buy your copy of Foreclosure Fatality today!
©2020 Carolyn Ridder Aspenson (P)2020 Severn River Publishing
Ghosts Are People Too
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When her best friend Gen comes from Birmingham for an extended visit, psychic medium Chantilly Adair can’t wait to show her Castleberry, Georgia. Excited to introduce her to what makes her home town so unique, Chantilly plans to throw a party the size of Atlanta’s Mercedes Stadium. Though she hasn’t attempted an event that big since her own wedding, she’s ready and willing to take the ball and run with it. But when trouble comes to town in the form of her best friend’s soon-to-be ex-husband, threatens both Chantilly and Gen, and winds up dead in the cellar of a local historical property, her plans change. The cops can’t find a suspect...other than Gen, of course. Now, for Chantilly to clear her best friend, she’ll need help from the property’s owner who just happens to be dead.
©2019 Carolyn Ridder Aspenson (P)2019 Carolyn Ridder Aspenson