Welcome to briarvale

In the heart of the Cornish countryside, Briarvale is the kind of village where everyone knows everyone, the tea is always on, and the locals have very strong opinions about everything. It's quaint, it's beautiful, and it's absolutely the last place Josie Appleton expected to find herself on her fiftieth birthday.

Josie didn't plan to become a witch. She didn't plan to lose her husband, her home, or her entire sense of normal on the same day she turned fifty either. But when she inherits a crumbling B&B from the grandmother she never knew, she discovers that her family has rather more secrets than she bargained for — including the small matter of unpredictable magic, a talking cat, and a dead body in the greenhouse.

Now she's running Briarwood Gables, learning to cast spells without setting anything on fire, and somehow stumbling into murder investigations with alarming regularity. Alongside her opinionated familiar Einstein and the maddeningly attractive caretaker Tom, Josie is figuring out that fifty isn't the end of anything. It's the most surprising beginning she never saw coming.

The Witchy at Fifty series is cosy, funny, and genuinely twisty. If you love a mystery with heart, a protagonist who feels like a real woman, and a world where magic arrives just when you need it most — you're going to feel right at home in Briarvale.