Cass Shipton Books in Order

Cass Shipton is the center of Dolores Stewart Riccio's cozy paranormal mystery series, set around Plymouth, Massachusetts. Cass owns Earthlore Herbal Preparations and Cruelty-Free Cosmetics, lives near the water, and would prefer a reasonably peaceful life. Trouble has other ideas.

Cass is also clairvoyant. Her visions are not a neat detective tool that arrives on command, and that uncertainty gives the mysteries much of their tension. When she senses danger, she often has little more than a feeling, a fragment, or a troubling image to work from. That is usually enough to pull her, and eventually her friends, into a case.

The friends are the real heart of these books.

Cass belongs to a close Wiccan circle with Heather Devlin, Phillipa, Deidre, and Fiona Ritchie. They are very different women with their own families, work, worries, talents, and opinions. Heather puts her energy into animal welfare. Phillipa is a poet and cookbook writer with a sharp sense of humor. Deidre makes dolls and raises a busy family. Fiona is a librarian with a gift for finding information. Their gatherings include tea, food, conversation, holiday observances, and the occasional spell, but the series treats their spiritual practice as part of everyday life rather than as costume magic.

The first novel, Circle Of Five, introduces the group when Cass's unsettling encounter with a stranger leads to the case of a missing boy. From there, the books widen the circle of friends, relatives, pets, neighbors, and people who need help. Cases involve murders, disappearances, arson, threats, old family secrets, ghosts, and crimes that reach beyond Plymouth. The women investigate with persistence, local knowledge, intuition, and a willingness to step in when someone is being ignored or harmed.

The tone is warm but not weightless. The books make room for jokes, meals, romance, awkward family moments, and Scruffy the dog, while the crimes can become genuinely dangerous. Readers who like character-rich mysteries will find that the ongoing relationships matter as much as the solution. Each adventure brings a fresh problem, but the pleasures of returning to the same group are a big part of the appeal.

Start with Circle Of Five. It lays out Cass's life, the five friends' bond, and the mix of mystery and modern Wicca that runs through the series. The books work best in publication order because personal relationships and past events carry forward, even as each novel offers its own main investigation.

Think of it as a mystery series about friendship first, with clairvoyance and trouble close behind.