The Unusual Mayor Marheart

Cassie Black is back, and she's now heading up MagicLand's newest detective agency.

Well, sort of.

Cassie Black may have just defeated an evil wizard, but that hasn't stopped her from getting kicked out of the Academy's detective training program. The upside is that it's forced Cassie to start her own agency. The downside? A complete lack of clients.

Cassie thinks her career is on the upswing when Rosaria's new mayor hires her to find a missing jewel. It's a huge case that could turn the agency around. Trouble is, the jewel hasn't been seen for well over 500 years, and Cassie suspects there's something fishy behind the mayor's sudden demands the jewel be found ASAP.

What's more… something besides tea is brewing over at Magic HQ, but thanks to a little snag in the Magic bureaucracy, Cassie isn't allowed to lend her skills to the problem. In fact, if she doesn't sort out that bit of bureaucracy in the next few days, her sleuthing career will be over before it ever begins.

It all has Cassie looking wistfully back on the days when all she had to do was save the world.

Perfect for readers who like:

•Comic fantasy mysteries where incompetent magical bureaucracies, impossible cases, and workplace absurdity are all part of the job.
•An amateur detective who'd love to tackle some paranormal mysteries—if only someone besides her parents would hire her.
•Magical mayhem involving diabolical office chairs, missing jewels, suspicious mayors, and a bureaucracy that has absolutely no interest in making anyone's life easier.
•C.K. McDonnell's The Stranger Times and Kim M. Watt's DI Adams series, with quirky supernatural mysteries, wry humor, magical mayhem, and a heroine who has never met a situation she couldn't accidentally make worse.

Lengthy, Over-Explaining Book Note

This is book four of the "hilarious" and "highly recommended" Cassie Black Trilogy. Yes, "book four," because trilogies refuse to be tamed! Or, if you prefer, you can call it Book One of The Cassie Black Trilogy 2.0. Either way, The Unusual Mayor Marheart kicks off a new, unputdownable, laugh-snort-filled fight against even more evil than Trilogy 1.0!

Readers tell me this book can be enjoyed if you haven't read the first three books. But if you want a deeper understanding of the characters, Cassie's ability to attract trouble, and what all those pastries are really all about, reading Books 1–3 can't hurt (unless you drop them on your toe).

Series Note

The Unusual Mayor Marheart launches The Cassie Black Trilogy 2.0, a new three-book arc featuring new mysteries, new adventures, and even more fantastical disasters (and pastries). It also serves as Book 4 in the broader Cassie Black universe. While you can start here, reading Books 1–3 first will give you the full story of how Cassie ended up where she is now.