Six Stunning Sirens by Lynn Cahoon is one of my favorites in the Kitchen Witch series!
It follows Mia our budding witch as her catering company, Mia’s Morsels hosts the Miss Magic Springs Harvest Pageant. She's dealing with rival pageant mom's, and coven politics that are threatening the event. She also has some sabotage going on at her other job, The Lodge and her ex-fiance Trent is getting married too! Lots of drama to keep the story interesting.
Mia finds hidden potion bags all around the school and they end up causing the death of one of the pagent queen's mothers. She must track down who is out for blood at the event and if there is more than one culprit. Working with the local police who knows about the magic in the town, but is not involved with it, he leans on Mia for insight. Needless to say she has a lot on her plate.
There's also a final resolution to the Mr.Darcy mystery that has been going through the whole series. I really enjoyed this 6th instalment to the series!

Book six in the Kitchen Witch series. Filled with twists and turns. Mia is such a delightful character. The story is excellent. Lynn Cation always delivers a fun cozy that has readers waiting for the next. Love her books! Thanks #Netgalley and #Kensington for the eARC in exchange for a honest review. All opinions are mine.

Book #6 in the kitchen witch series. Lynn Cahoon is one of my favorite cozy authors. In the Kitchen Witch series, Mia is a caterer in a small town coven who manages to find trouble.....or does it find her? She's catering the Fall Festival which includes a beauty pageant where the mothers will do anything to make their daughters the queen. It sets the stage for several mishaps that Mia and her friends must solve before things get too far out of hand.

Six Stunning Sirens by Lynn Cahoon is a Kitchen Witch story. Fun, for all. And now Mia’s Morsels is hosting the Miss Magic Springs Harvest Pageant. They had won the bid over the Lodge, despite the fact fact that their vid was higher. Seems the Coven was worried about some of the “problems” the pageant had had the last few years and thought it could be better contained at the old school house. That meant Trent and Levi would have to build a runway in the back, though. Couldn’t have those spike heels sinking into the grass! Frank was doing everything he could to make her life miserable at the Lodge, where she had taken a full-time job as event coordinator to help pay the bills at the school house. She wan’t giving in, though. She would quit when she was ready. Hopefully she could hold out. Levi andChristina were fighting, which was never fun, but so were Trent’s parents. In fact his mother had moved into the school house with Mia. His father was a judge for the pageant and she was worried for him. He wouldn’t budge. She and Trent were fine, even though Isaac had made a last minute trip (days before his wedding) to Magic Springs to convince Mia to take hime back.

Mia is a fabulous character as are all of her friends. She comes to magic hesitantly, but respectfully. She has seen both good and bad and although her mother wanted nothing to do with it, she was coming around. Trent was the perfect boyfriend. Thoughtful, kind, giving. Lynn Cahoon has created a bevy of interesting and clever folks to round out this fun series. The mystery is a good one, rooted in magic, but easily solvable without resorting to magic, which make the local cop happy. Rooted in the past, as so many are. It is just, flat out, a good time.

I was invited to read Six Stunning Sirens by Kensington Publishing. All thoughts and opinions are mine. #Negalley #KensingtonPublishing #LynnCahoon #SixStunningSirens

Harvest Queen pageants, baby showers, magic spells/curses, family drama, a cute and fluffy hellhound...Mia has her hands full in Cahoon's newest release in her Kitchen Witch Mystery series. I flew through reading this book and enjoyed every page.

I love this series so much. The mix of magic, mysteries, intriguing characters, twists and turns, and red herrings always has me eagerly awaiting each new book release.

Many thanks to Kensington Publishing and NetGalley for an advance copy of this book. My thoughts and opinions are my own and without bias or favor or expectation.

I love this series, especially because it doesn’t dance around the magical aspects but rather embraces them. This one we get delightful autumn imagery & a beauty contest gone wrong. It also has one of the best supporting cast of characters for the lead. I like when they’re helpful in the sleuthing & these ones are. The mystery gets interesting really fast, as you realize it’s involved with the coven’s politics & the need for people to want to win badly. We also get a lot of deal with Mia’s romantic life, both past & present. And Christina’s love life too. After six books I think we’re going to be transitioning in those areas in the upcoming novels. I loved this book! This is one of my current favourite cozy series, each one I’ve enjoyed & it only seems to get better each one. I’m looking forward to the future.

Six Stunning Sirens is book #6 in the Kitchen Witch Mysteries series by Lynn Cahoon.

Mia Malone is a kitchen witch. She has a catering business as well as working;g at the Lodge to help make ends meet. She has her hands full with an obnoxious boss at the Lodge, catering the Miss Magic Springs Harvest Pageant which literally turns into a killer competition, and family chaos. Mia’s friends and family are wonderful characters. This was a challenging mystery. Thank goodness for the little hellhound or things could have been much worse. I wasn’t expecting the ending. This was a great book and series.

Thank you to the author, Kensington Books, and NetGalley for the Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) copy of this book and I am voluntarily leaving an honest review.

This delightful series is enchanting and fun to read. This is the Sixth in series in the Kitchen Witch Mystery Series. This was a charming and exciting addition to the series by cozy author Lyn Cahoon. Thank you to the author,. Net Galley and to the publisher for the opportunity. My review opinions are my own.

In this excitng next in series our savvy protagnist is hosting a unique Fall theme beauty contest for daughters of the coven. When a murder occurs of one of the Mothers everyone is under suspicion. In addtion Mia is learning her powers and craft from her Grandmother that are not working and someone is attacking the cooking school with magic. Add in a new familiar in the form of a adorable small dog for Trent who adds humor and antics and everyone is on edge. Cats are added to the crew and much fun is going on while the cooking school is busy with orders for delivery and preparation for the contest. Mia and Trent are the perfect couple supporting each other. I love all the characters and how the author writes them all with such depth and fun.

This was one of the best cozy mysteries I have ever read. It was hysterically funny, engaging and a joy to read. I love the authors writing style as the well crafted characters are all a great addition to the series. Well done to the author. I cannot wait for the next in series. I read all her books cover to cover and love everything she writes. This is a outstanding paranormal series !

Lynn Cahoon's Six Stunning Sirens is about Mia struggling to make her grumpy boss (who sabotages her at every chance) happy while also trying to help put out the Harvest Moon Festival events with her small business, Mia's Morsels. Everything is going according to plan, or as according to plan as a festival of witches and wizards can go, until someone's magic bounces back and kills them. Mia must find out who has been using magic to tamper with the events before someone else ends up dead.

I really liked Six Stunning Sirens! I thought it was really fun for the fall season. I'm starting to get into spooky season books and holiday books and this one came at the perfect time. I really like Lynn Cahoon's writing here, I thought the whole thing was charming. My favorite part was that I did not figure out what was going on until it was happening in the page, all my guesses were wrong. While I really enjoyed the book, it took me a few days to finish which means it was more of a leisure read than needing to know what happens next, that's why I gave it 4 stars.

Thank you to NetGalley, Kensington Publishing | Kensington Cozies, and Lynn Cahoon for the opportunity to read this ARC in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

Mia’s catering business is hosting The Harvest Moon Festival and Beauty Pageant. They’re making enough money to make Mia think she could quit her side job which is paying the bills. But the festival which is selecting the local teen witch of the year, appears to be more trouble than benefit. When the mother of one of the witches is found dead and spell balls are found throughout the building, Mia now has to find the murderer. I love Trent’s new hellhound Cerby-he’s a handful for sure. This is one of my favorite series and I can’t wait to see where the next book goes.

Kitchen witch Mia Malone is seriously thinking about quitting her day job as catering manager for The Lodge, the renowned local ski resort. She’d originally taken on the position when The Lodge decided to stop outsourcing its catering gigs to independent businesses like her own Mia’s Morsels, making it much harder to keep her small business afloat. Though she has her trusted employees Abigail Majors and Christina Adams running the show while she works at the resort, she’s getting really tired of her boss Frank Hines constantly belittling and undermining her.

Frank’s terrible attitude isn’t at all improved by the news that Mia’s Morsels has just landed a lucrative contract to host the Magic Springs Harvest Queen pageant as part of their town’s annual fall festivities. He’s certain that she used insider information to give Abigail the scoop on The Lodge’s bid, allowing her employee to undercut the bigger company’s efforts. Mia strenuously denies this: not only is she a woman of integrity, but she honestly wasn’t that enthused about bidding for the gig in the first place. While most of the world sees the pageant as a cute small town affair, Mia knows that it’s one of the local witching community’s biggest events of the year. This, of course, carries with it a commensurate amount of drama.

Mia’s life is eventful enough without inviting other people’s histrionics into her life, though even she has to concede that the gig is lucrative and could lead to a stable financial pipeline for her company if they can pull it off. She’s just not thrilled about getting even more involved with the powerful local coven sponsoring the pageant. She’s much happier working on the coven’s outskirts and leaving most of the politicking to the better connected Abigail.

Things take a darker turn when Mia starts finding potion bags left around the grounds of the historic school building that houses both her business and her apartment. No one will admit to having placed them there, even before tragedy strikes and one of the budding pageant queen’s mothers seems to suffer a stroke on the premises and dies. Mia would be more than pleased to call the whole thing off but the coven is insistent that the show must go on. Besides, it looks like the deceased accidentally fell victim to a trap of her own making. Despite her better judgment, Mia allows the pageant to proceed, little suspecting that a killer is waiting to strike again.

There was a lot going on in the sixth installment of the Kitchen Witch mystery series, as Mia juggles her professional responsibilities with her personal life and the lives of her friends and family. Christina, for example, has really blossomed from the awkward Goth girl she was when she fled her family home to live with the woman that her brother had just dumped instead. Christina and Mia are as close as sisters, and it was heartwarming to see their bond continue to grow despite the curveballs life keeps throwing at them.

There was one recipe included with this book, and it’s a good one:

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Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup

In a large stockpot or Dutch oven, put the carcass of a roasted chicken and any leftover meat from the chicken. Add a roughly chopped onion; two peeled, roughly cut carrots; a teaspoon of minced garlic; and salt and pepper. Cover the ingredients with water and simmer for 30 to 45 minutes or until the meat is falling off the bone.

Drain the liquid into a bowl, then return to the empty stockpot.

Clean the meat off the chicken carcass and shred it. Return the meat to the stockpot with the liquid (off the heat). Chop any onion and carrot bits into bite-sized pieces and return that to the broth as well. Add enough store-bought chicken broth to have approximately eight cups of broth (probably at least 4 more cups).

Put back on the heat and bring broth to a boil. Salt and pepper to taste. You can also add ½ teaspoon dried thyme and ½ teaspoon dried oregano if you'd like.

Add [12] ounces of egg noodles[.] Boil until noodles are done, then serve.
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Lynn Cahoon also includes a recipe for homemade egg noodles but I just used store bought. For the chicken soup recipe, I had the half-worked-over remains of a rotisserie chicken to toss into the stockpot, though really any roast chicken carcass will do. I also chopped up baby carrots instead of whole ones because the leftovers are easier to feed to my kids. I highly recommend adding the thyme and oregano too, as they add a delightful complexity to the dish.

I do think that I should have probably added much more than just four cups of chicken stock to this, as the noodles wound up absorbing a lot of the liquid later on. It was still very delicious, but my leftovers were definitely more chicken pasta than soup.

Next week, we travel back to the East Coast to whip up another chicken dish while navigating family drama turned deadly. Do join me!

Caterer and kitchen witch Mia has a lot on her plate, what with keeping her magic school running, working around an awful boss at her catering company, and organizing a witch pageant when mothers of the contestants start dropping like flies.

This was a cute fusion of an urban fantasy and cozy mystery. The characters were interesting, although there were a lot of them to keep track of. Which is partly my fault getting stuck on this, because I didn’t realize that this was sixth in a series.

And plot wise this story tried to do way too much. Too many characters that sounded similar, too many side plots what with three different romantic situations going on, the actual mystery itself, Mia’s work issues, and a random kidnapping. It made it difficult for me to get invested in the main storyline when there were so many other things going on.

And the story just kept info dumping from the previous books to catch us up. In addition, there were several instances of where wrong words were used, like picture instead of pitcher, and times where the narration accidentally slipped into first person. I’m sure these issues will be fixed before publication.

Thanks to NetGalley and Kensington Publishing for this arc.

Six Stunning Sirens is the 6th book in Lynn Cahoon's fun Kitchen Witch Mysteries series. The characters are very likable and the cozy mystery kept me guessing. Mia Malone owns Mia's Morsels, a catering business but she also works at The Lodge planning events. Mia's friends Abigail and Christina are running Mia's Morsels. They get the contract to host the Harvest Moon Festival including a teen beauty pageant. It is important to the contestants and their families because there is a scholarship and a position with the local witch coven. One of the parents ends up dead at Mia's school and magic is involved. Mia's sleuthing group, the Magic Springs Sleuthing Club, consists of her boyfriend Trent, Abigail, Abigail's husband Thomas, Christina, Christina's boyfriend Levi, and Mia's grandmother Grams. They are all wonderful characters and make this series so enjoyable! There are some changes happening with the group so don't miss this book! I really enjoyed this book and.series and I am looking forward to the next book. #SixStunningSirens #KitchenWitchMysteries #NetGalley #KensingtonCozies #Kensington #LynnCahoon

Over the years I've read several of the Kitchen Witch Mysteries by Lynn Cahool, so I was glad to pick up another one. These are always fun!

Description:
New York Times bestselling author Lynn Cahoon continues her enchanting Kitchen Witch Mystery series featuring everyone’s favorite, spellbinding kitchen witch Mia Malone. In a triumph for Mia’s catering business and cooking school, Mia’s Morsels is chosen to host a fall festival event in their Idaho mountain town—which means managing a bunch of stage moms and their social-media obsessed daughters as they get ready for the big beauty contest. There’s a lot riding on the results of the Harvest Moon Festival—it’s where the local coven leader is chosen for the following year. But after one contestant is found in a compromising position with a judge, and another drops out when her mother is killed in a freak hiking accident, the coven suspects magical meddling. With a week to go before the coronation of the new queen, Mia must draw on her sleuthing powers to find out what’s going on—and whether this competition has gotten a little too cutthroat . .

My Thoughts:
All the fun characters are back in Magic Springs, Idaho. I really enjoy spending time with them. That coven is just scary in the lengths they go to in order to get a seat on the coven leadership. Each member who has a daughter seems to be going to extremes to make sure it's their own daughter who is chosen as the winner, despite the ban on using magic to influence the contest. And then there's a murder.

Also, there are some other things going on in at the same time. Mia is still having issues with her boss, Frank. Mia's ex-boyfriend turns up and causes problems. Christine is having security issues.
Trent gets a companion. Grans is working on a major issue. (I really like Grans as a character - she's fun). I highly recommend this series to anyone who likes cozy mysteries with a paranormal feature.

Thanks to Kensington Publishing - Kensington Cozies through Netgalley for an advance copy.

Lynn Cahoon became one of my favorite authors when I first discovered one of her books many years ago. When she first release this series, I was immediately drawn in to life at the school and Mia’s Morsels.

This quickly became one of my favorite series. Who doesn’t love a mix of magic, mystery, and murder? Each every time I see a new book drop, I got excited all over again. Then I clear my calendar and make some time to snuggle in and read the book in one setting. I just can’t put it down once I start. It’s always great read when it’s from Lynn Cahoon!

Mia’s Morsels wins the contract to host the Harvest Queen Contest hosted by the local coven, which irritates her boss at the Lodge since they usually cater the event. Mia balances stabilizing her catering business while working as the catering director for The Lodge to cover the expenses of building her business.

Unfortunately, plans for the contest go awry, and one of the contestants’ moms is found dead. Mia starts investigating the competition's history and then another stage mother is hospitalized.

When Mr. Darcy (Mia’s feline sleuth) finds potion bags around Mia’s property, she thinks magic is behind the recent death and hospitalization. Lynn Cahoon writes an intriguing cozy mystery for her sixth entry in the Kitchen Witch series.

This book was a lot of fun to read, as are all the books in the Kitchen Witch series. It's been lovely to watch Mia expand and grow her business, her relationship with Trent deepen and adding to their animal menagerie.

The beauty pageant featured in this book sounds like a nightmare and that's even before you add a Witch coven and those horrible stage mothers besides. Cerby the hell hound is turning out to be quite the asset in the investigation group.

As always a charming read from one of my favorite mystery authors. My thanks to Kensington Cozies and Netgalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Magic Springs is brimming with magical activity as the annual Harvest Queen Contest is about to start, but not all the magic is positive and sweet. A wonderfully woven plot that is fun, complex and entertaining! Several story lines are woven together to make one extremely well written plot and compelling story! If you haven't read the entire series, I really recommend that you start at the beginning as each book builds another layer to the main characters' personalities and creates back story that will be more impactful if you are in the know during this book! I love a good well written cozy mystery and this book definitely delivers that! I'm only sad that I am now waiting for the author to create the next story in the series so I can find out what is happening next for the characters in this wonderful magical town!

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Lynn Cahoon writes a paranormal cozy series like no other. #SixStunningSirens #NetGalley is the sixth in the delightful Kitchen Witch series--the best one yet, and that is saying something since they are all excellent reads.
It is time for the Harvest Moon Festival and the coven beauty contest in Magic Springs, Idaho, the most important event that Mia has catered. Mia has no idea how challenging the event can when the "stage" witch moms vie for their daughter to win the contest and the chance for power. What follows is a bumpy ride for the contestants, and our favorite characters.
I know I am in for an enjoyable read with each book in this series. I am looking forward to the next book and more of Mia, Tim, and crew. Other cozy readers are sure to love this series, too.

Thank you to #NetGalley #Kensinton #LynnCahoon for answering my request to read the Advance Reader Copy.

Mia’s Morsels got the catering job for the Harvest Festival pageant and there couldn’t’ve been more drama if it’d been special-ordered. When a contestant’s mom was killed, Mia had to wonder if there was magic afoot and just what someone might do to ensure their own daughter won.

There were some good side stories too which were pretty fun. Everything ended with the fellowship of the Sleuthing Club in Mia’s kitchen along with some more good news. There wasn’t anything happening to worry about at the end, just a nice ending. I really hope there’ll be more books because now I can’t wait to see what’s next!

I voluntarily read and reviewed an ARC of this book provided by Kensington Cozies via NetGalley, and my opinions are my own.