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Urban Fantasy Mystery

Outside the Circle Collection, British Urban Fantasy Mysteries

Inspired by the Grimm Fairy Tales and Enid Blyton’s children’s books about working as a team to solve mysteries…this series will feature an indomitable heroine who teams up with a dedicated group of multi-cultural friends to solve supernatural mysteries in present-day Kent, UK.

Meet Abbie Grimshaw...a Grimm descendant.

Outside the Circle Mystery Boxed Set: Books 1-3

Outside the Circle Boxsets and Bundles, Volume 1

 

Do you believe in magic?

A Grimm descendant, with a family legacy of saving innocents, is drawn to solve supernatural mysteries in present-day Britain.


Book 1: Death Takes a Detour
Feuding with her over-protective mother, Abigail Grimshaw rebelliously stops at St. Michael's church against her mother's order to "hurry home," and runs straight into danger.

Book 2: Death Shifts Gears
Abbie must prove she can be a fit guardian for two young orphans, but a shape-shifter friend needs her to find out why his sister was killed. This new investigation drives Abbie straight into the cutthroat world of magically modified food.

Book 3: Death Smells Disaster
A powerful witch offers to watch over Abbie's kids so she can attend a memorial for the friends and colleagues she lost to a bombing a year ago. When that witch goes missing, all her plans change.
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If you enjoy magical tales with a fairy tale flavor, you'll love discovering this new face on the Grimm scene.


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​​Outside the Circle Mystery Boxed Set: Books 1-3

Death Takes a Detour

An Outside the Circle Mystery, Book 1

 

A murder. A mystery. A legacy to uphold.

Feuding with her over-protective mother, Abigail Grimshaw rebelliously stops at St. Michael's church against her mother's order to "hurry home," and runs straight into danger.

There, Abbie encounters an unexpected supernatural complication: she sees—and talks to—the Earl of Ashford. He died in 1816, but death doesn't stop this Regency ghost from charging Abbie with the safety of two scared children. A demon has murdered their mother.

She never imagined life would give her an actual mystery to solve, innocents to protect, and evil to banish, but Abbie discovers that she's a Grimm, like her mother before her. There's a long legacy of defending the innocent at stake.


If she cannot master child-guarding and demon-slaying simultaneously, her own legend will be short-lived.

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Death Shifts Gears

An Outside the Circle Mystery, Book 2

 
A guardian. A friend. A paranormal investigator.

EMT Abbie Grimshaw must prove she can be a good guardian for two young orphans, but a shape-shifter friend needs her to find out what got his sister killed.

 

The investigation drives Abbie straight into the cutthroat world of magically modified food.

 

If she doesn’t get it in gear and solve the mystery quickly, she could lose her friend, her kids, and her life.

 

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Death Smells Disaster

An Outside the Circle Mystery, Book 3

A mysterious present. A dangerous past. An uncertain future.

A powerful witch offers to watch over Abbie Grimshaw's kids, so she can attend a memorial for the friends and colleagues who died in the bombing a year ago.

When that witch goes missing, everything changes.

The investigation takes Abbie and her brother deep into their family’s past where they uncover powerful secrets.

If they don’t right the past and make it back to the present, disaster awaits Abbie and her kids.

If you enjoy witchy tales with a fairy tale flavor, you'll love discovering this new face on the Grimm scene.

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Death Swipes Right

An Outside the Circle Mystery, Book 4

New clue. New murder. New threats.

EMT Abbie Grimshaw turns to her electromagnetic wizard friend to help solve the bombing mystery that still haunts her.

But before Talin can help Abbie, his aunt’s murder plunges them into a new supernatural investigation.

This time, they’re the prime suspects.

If they fail to stop the killer quickly, dark forces will become bolder and the body count could soon include Abbie and Talin.

If you enjoy wizardly tales with a fairy tale flavor, you'll love discovering this new face on the Grimm scene.

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Death Comes Up Short

An Outside the Circle Mystery, Book 5

A missing boy. A deadly contract. A new target.

 

Having recently caught a killer, EMT Abbie Grimshaw thinks things might settle down.


She’s mistaken.

A boy goes missing, and the clues point to powerful traffickers targeting magical children.

Worse, a child in her care, Jimi, might be the true target, and he’ll do anything to find his friend.

If Abbie doesn’t find the missing child and stop the traffickers, she could lose Jimi forever.


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Death Is Uncovered

An Outside the Circle Mystery, Book 6

A frantic search. A powerful opponent. A hard choice.

 

EMT Abbie Grimshaw accepts that danger is a part of her life, but this time, the danger isn’t to her.
It’s to her two kids. One gets kidnapped.


The clues lead Abbie and her friends to an informant specializing in magical artifacts and the discovery that the villain may be after Abbie’s Grimm artifacts.

These powerful items are the world’s best defense against dark forces. But can Abbie sacrifice her kid’s life for the chance to save the world?

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Death Is Delayed

An Outside the Circle Mystery, Book 7

A family secret. A timeless connection. A child awakens.

EMT Abbie Grimshaw reluctantly agrees to help hunt a dangerous mage hundreds of years in the past where she makes a shocking discovery.

Every mystery she's ever solved could be connected.

She also meets a special child in imminent danger.

If Abbie fails to keep this girl safe, there might not be a future to return to.

If you enjoy time-travel mysteries with a fairy tale flavor, you'll love discovering this new face on the Grimm scene.

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Death is Unleashed

An Outside the Circle Mystery, Book 8

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Special Note:

A regular side character in the Outside the Circle Mystery series, a Regency Ghost named Matthew Robert (Stone) Livingston, Earl of Ashford, is in To Capture Love, back when he was alive during the Regency era.

To Capture Love

Outside the Circle, Book 0

Where there is love, there is life.

In April of 1812, a female sculptor-in-hiding gains a priceless commission to make a replica of a slain soldier. On the day she’s set to reveal her identity to his grieving brother, a man she once secretly loved, he gives her a public set-down, ensuring that the truth gets buried under a mountain of grief and illusion.

Can love help heal this painful situation or will these two broken hearts remain forever separated?

If you crave sweet Regency romances, you’ll love this touching tribute to a soldier romance during Regency times.

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Meet and Greet!

Check out the cast of characters in the Outside the Circle series, interviewed by Godfrey Plowright, from Paranormal Walk*.

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Abigail (Abbie) Grimshaw, a 22-year-old Grimm descendant who works as an EMT

Mathew Robert Livingston, a 26-year-old Regency earl who died in 1816 and woke up in the 21st century

Jimi and Nica Gill, 5- and 8-year-old British South Asian orphans respectively

Judith Chan, a 23-year-old British Chinese Taoist witch who works as a Kent Police Constable

Talin Higgins, a 24-year-old British Trini (family is from Trinidad) who is an electromagnetic wizard and who also works as a Kent Police Constable

A stray Siamese cat

*NOTE: ALL ANIMALS, PERSONS, AND NEWSPAPER BUSINESSES MENTIONED IN THE ABOVE INTERVIEWS ARE WORKS OF FICTION CREATED BY SHEREEN VEDAM

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