Ophelia & Abby Mystery Books in Order

At the heart of the Ophelia & Abby books is a setup that works really well. Ophelia Jensen is a librarian in the small Iowa town of Summerset, and she would honestly prefer an ordinary life. Her grandmother Abby feels very differently. Abby is a practicing witch, comfortable with herbs, intuition, and the family gift, while Ophelia spends the early books trying to keep her psychic abilities tucked out of sight.

That push and pull gives the series its shape. Ophelia is practical, wary, and still carrying guilt after her gift failed to save someone she loved. Abby is calmer, older, and much less apologetic about the supernatural. When a murder, disappearance, or strange vision turns up, the two women step into it from very different angles. One wants answers. The other already knows the world is stranger than it looks.

The books are cozy mysteries first, but the paranormal side is never just decoration. Visions, ghosts, dreams, folk magic, and old family knowledge all help move the plots, whether Ophelia is dealing with a body in Abby's backyard, a missing teenager in Minnesota, or trouble tied to old family history. Even so, these are not huge, flashy fantasy novels. The magic feels domestic and lived in. It sits beside library shifts, coffee with friends, town gossip, and the everyday rhythm of small-town life.

That balance is the fun of it.

As the series goes on, the cast widens in useful ways. Friends and local law enforcement bring friction, support, or both, and later books add Tink, a gifted young medium who becomes part of Ophelia and Abby's household. That change matters. The series stops being only about a reluctant psychic and her stubborn grandmother, and becomes more about a handmade family, one that has to figure out how to protect each other while facing danger from both living suspects and restless spirits.

The setting also keeps the books grounded. Summerset, Iowa gives the series its cozy center, but Damsgaard is happy to send her characters farther afield when the case calls for it. The Trouble With Witches takes Ophelia and Abby into the woods of Minnesota, and The Seventh Witch opens up more of the family's Appalachian past. Those trips make the world bigger, but the tone stays warm, chatty, and tied to character.

From Witch Way to Murder through The Seventh Witch, the real ongoing story is Ophelia learning to stop treating her abilities as a curse and start using them on purpose. That arc gives the books a little more weight than a standard case-of-the-week setup. You get murders to solve, yes, but you also get a long, believable shift in how one woman understands her family, her responsibilities, and herself.