April Fernsby

April Fernsby is an English author of paranormal cozy mysteries, especially series in which ordinary investigators encounter magical communities. Murder of a Werewolf opens the Brimstone Witch Mystery sequence. Its protagonist, Cassia Winter, learns from her grandmother that she is a witch and enters Brimstone, a town inhabited by supernatural beings, where she investigates the death of a werewolf with her cat Stanley. The book establishes the recurring mixture of crime-solving, family discovery, and otherworldly setting that defines the series. Fernsby lives in Yorkshire and has linked her interest in supernatural stories to local legends and to childhood reading that offered entrances into strange worlds. She has written numerous connected mysteries beyond the Brimstone books, often using witches, ghosts, or magical shops to frame episodic investigations. Murder of a Werewolf therefore serves both as Cassia’s introduction to her abilities and as the foundation for a longer fictional community in which unusual creatures face recognizable motives, disputes, and secrets.