There are 7 books in the The Essex Witch Museum Mysteries series. The newest book is The Twelve Even Stranger Days of Christmas which came out in 2021.

Rosie Strange doesn't believe in ghosts or witches or magic. No, not at all. It's no surprise therefore when she inherits the ramshackle Essex Witch Museum, her first thought is to take the money and run.

Still, the museum exerts a curious pull over Rosie. There's the eccentric academic who…

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Strange Sight

Book cover of Strange Sight

The La Fleur restaurant has a slew of unusual phenomena. Bonnet-clad apparitions pass through walls, blood leaks from ceilings and rats besiege the dining room. Experts from the Great Essex Witch Museum are called in to quell these strange sights. But before Rosie Strange and Sam Stone can do their…

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Strange Fascination

Book cover of Strange Fascination

It's summer in Adders Fork. The sun is out, the sky is blue and things are going swimmingly for Rosie Strange, thank you very much. The Essex Witch Museum has been relaunched with a new Ursula Cadence wing and picnic grounds.

Then developers roll into the sleepy village to widen…

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Strange Tombs

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The fourth instalment in Syd Moore's spooktacular witch detective series

Halloween in Essex and the Mystery and Suspense creative writing course at old Ratchette Hall is off to a satisfyingly creepy start. But things take a turn for the worse when the course administrator is discovered dead, clutching a marble…

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The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas

Book cover of The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas

Stop Press: Two stories, 'Easily Made' and 'Death Becomes Her', were nominated for a Crime Writers Association Short Story Dagger!

Nothing says Christmas more than a good old fashioned ghost story on a dark winter's night, so sit back and enjoy a little pinch of Yuletide mayhem.

These extraordinary tales,…

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Strange Tricks

Book cover of Strange Tricks

Rosie Strange is back in the latest of the fabulously creepy Essex Witch Museum Mysteries

Secretly Rosie Strange has always thought herself a little bit more interesting than most people - the legacy her family has bequeathed her is definitely so, she's long believed. But then life takes a peculiar…

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The Twelve Even Stranger Days of Christmas

Book cover of The Twelve Even Stranger Days of Christmas

'A treat for anyone looking for an antidote to the usual saccharine Christmas fayre.' NB magazine

From the twice CWA Dagger shortlisted author of The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas come twelve thirteen stories to transport you to the macabre world of inexplicable phenomena.


As dark winter nights draw in,…