Witch Way Is Up? (Lily Sweet Briar Witch #2)

A confrontation leads to murder. Accusations follow. Will the showdown with the killer leave Lily struggling for the surface and survival or will it be lights out?

Being the new dark witch in town isn't what it's cracked up to be. Or so Lily Sweet finds out in the second book of the Lily Sweet Mysteries. Lily is settling into her new life in Sweet Briar, Georgia, fixing up her art studio and trying to stay out of trouble. But it looks like trouble finds her anyway in the form of one irate librarian named Edith Plank.

When Lily's great-grandmother passively antagonizes Edith over her draconian rules at the village library, and her bully tactics over her hapless assistant Martha, Lily inadvertently gets drawn into the hullaballoo. Especially when confronted by Edith at the local cafe, even though Lily had never met the woman nor set foot in her library! Things go from bad to worse when Edith winds up dead under the very aged wood boards Lily chose to build shelving in her new studio.

Needing to clear her name and Martha's, Lily goes on another sleuthing mission with her cousin Andrea and other members of her family and friends. Throw in mysterious happenings at the local watering hole where generations of Sweet Briar residents would cool off in the hot summer months, the appearance of an enigmatic feline, and a search for whatever the hand-drawn map is leading to, and Lily has her hands full trying to solve another mystery.

Trying to keep her cool as her dark witch abilities seem to be getting her deeper in the very trouble she has been trying to avoid has Lily realizing that sometimes she needs to sink to the bottom to find her way back to the top. A Lily Sweet: Briar Witch Mystery 2.