Flimflam Fairy (Magical Cozy Mystery Bookstore Book # 1) by Elizabeth Pantley

 A fun cozy mystery adventure with an enchanted bookstore and a clever talking cat!

Best friends Willa and Lucy buy an enchanted bookstore full of charmed books. One wisp of magic later, they're whisked inside a story, transformed into amateur sleuths, and joined by Banjo, a charming talking cat. There is no way out until the mystery is solved.

This adventure drops them in Whisperglow Village, a world of color, wonder, and fairies, where one of the most beloved residents in town has just been murdered, found clutching a cryptic note from a con man.

Villagers don't lock their doors here. They never imagined this could happen, and they certainly never could have imagined whodunit.

Can Willa, Lucy, and Banjo unmask the killer, solve the case, and make it back to their own cozy bookstore before the story closes its final page?

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If you like the idea of an enchanted bookstore with charmed books, check out the companion series – The Magical Cozy Mystery Book Club. 11 book series available in eBook, paperback, audiobook, and Kindle Unlimited.  (Summary via Goodreads)

Elizabeth Pantley is the QUEEN of magical book clubs and mystical adventures and with this first book in her Magical Cozy Mystery Bookstore series, Flimflam Fairy, the titles say it all .... okay that's not true.  Obviously, some people will need more to go with so here we go ....

In this new series, Magical Cozy Mystery Bookstore, readers are introduced to Willa and Lucy who are two retired women who decide to throw darts at the map and take a vacation wherever the darts land.  Who would have known that both darts would land on the same place ....hmmm.  

Anyway, when they get to Thistlebloom in Arizona they fall in love with the town and somehow get talked into buying a bookstore.  They then find out that the bookstore and the house behind it where they move into are magical.  And that they get to travel inside a cozy book to see if they like it and will recommend it to book clubs.  Oh, and they are traveling with a talking cat, Banjo.

Their first adventure takes them to Whisperglow Village which is a place full of colorful fairies with colorful wings, everything around them is colorful and things are so different but in a good way.  That is until they happen upon a memorial in the park honoring a fairy, Meadow, who was recently strangled.

So, Willa, Lucy and Banjo figure they are there to solve Meadow's murder until they realize they are in a time jump and Meadow hasn't died yet .....

They begin their investigating and soon learn that there are a few fairies that were conned and maybe they are looking for the con artist.  Unfortunately, they are working against the clock to solve the case before it gets to the time when Meadow was strangled ....

If you are a fan of Harry Potter or Pantley's other's series,The Magical Cozy Mystery Book Club, I am sure you will love being swept into this one.  The Magical Cozy Mystery Book Club series has a whole group of members with a talking cat who can be annoying, jumping into the books but they get to pick their books and there are other differences that make both series unique.  I feel that readers will love the differences and look forward to jumping into the books.