Cosy mystery Books

A Piano donated to Whistling Pines Senior Residence hides a dusty wooden puzzle box. The discovery leads to stories, rumor, and speculation about the piano's owner and her unusual death. Recreation director, Peter Rogers, and the overly helpful senior...

Everything Bonnie Keeler believes about life and marriage changes the day she discovers her husband's infidelity, which he says is caused by her romance writing. She feels shamed into giving up her passion - creating stories of mystery and romance;...

A celebrity chef brings his world-famous cooking show to Two Harbors for a special broadcast. The news quickly spreads that the show is looking for ethnic recipes, the winning submissions to be prepared during the live broadcast.  The residents of...

Tom Thomson, one of the painters belonging to the Canadian Group of Seven, disappeared on Canoe Lake in 1917. His death was confirmed eight days later when his body was recovered. Did he commit suicide or was there foul play at work? Was he murdered by...

Excitement runs high in the Whistling Pines Retirement community as the first annual Two Harbors Buccaneer Days celebration approaches. The city asks local fraternal clubs and city band to move their summer events to the weekend of the festival. To...

Someone on Sanibel is trying to kill world-renowned nature photographer Bertram "Birdy" McMurtry, the Indiana Jones of ornithologists. Will they succeed? It's up to reporter and amateur sleuth Guinivere Jones to stop them before they do.The...

Turin, in the eighties. On an unexpected train trip from Italy to England, Giorgio meets the love of his life. A few months later Giorgio and Margherita get a German shepherd puppy together.Everything seems perfect until a car accident in the Tuscan...

England in 1963. Alice is at boarding school in Sussex, Sylvia is drinking in her bedroom and Quentin is hatching plots to extend his poultry empire to Italy in cahoots with the Vatican. It is a year of family transitions and a summer trip to Rome .....

An old crush. A long-lost family member. A magical Labrador and a whole load of ghosts... At least Adeline can't say life is boring! Adeline yearns for family, but for years, the closest she's gotten is her assistance dog, Coco.When a frightening...

Doug and Jill Fletcher are dispatched to the Black Hills when a missing camper's mutilated body is discovered in a remote part of Wind Cave National Park. Jill searches remote portions of Wind Cave for the victim's missing companion while Doug tries to...

After Deborah Evenson's death, her paintings are gathered for a retrospective showing at a Duluth art museum. During the opening night gala, the museum discovers that two of the paintings, previously displayed separately, were created as a diptych/mural...

Why would anyone want to murder the most respected senior citizen, Niagara-on-the-Lake has ever had?Retired history professor Edward Mitchell was surely not long for the grave, so why would someone risk life in prison to kill him? Picking up the clues is...

A honeymoon couple disappear while canoeing the St. Croix River. With visiting VIPs due in days and quick searches revealing no sign of the missing couple, U.S. Park Service Investigators Doug and Jill Fletcher are dispatched to the scene. The Fletchers...

In the quaint town of Ledstow, Esther lives a good distance from her nosy parents, talks to anyone who will listen about musicals, and jams on her ukulele. But when murder comes to her workplace, everyone is a suspect.When her best friend is taken in for...

Adeline and Hemi finally have everything they ever wanted. A loving partnership, baby on the way, and who could forget Adeline's beautiful assistance dog, Coco?But... things never stay peaceful for long when magic is involved. Hemi's cousin arrives,...

Doug Fletcher's Thanksgiving vacation is interrupted by a phone call from his Texas U.S. Park Service superintendent. A Wyoming coroner determines that a climber's fall from Devils Tower isn't the accident it first appeared to be.Doug is thrown into an...

Excitement runs high in the Whistling Pines Retirement community as the first annual Two Harbors Buccaneer Days celebration approaches. The city asks local fraternal clubs and the city band to move their summer events to the weekend of the festival. To...

Ariel Anson thinks she has her life in order. She's young, smart, and beautiful, even she doesn't believe the beautiful part. She's a paralegal with a great career and a fiancé who's a CPA. You just can't get any steadier than that. Then she...

What goes around comes around. That's justice. Especially in small towns where everybody knows how many eggs you ate for breakfast before you've even left the Scales of Justice Café. Funny thing, though. Usually what everybody thinks they know-they...

Day one: check-in on the Iphigenia, a Boat & Bike home for thirty guests of diverse backgrounds on a one week excursion through Holland and Belgium. Personalities clash, conflicts arise. Day seven: a body is found in canal waters at the stern of...

An empath witch should be able to keep everyone happy, right?Hazel has put magic and men out of her mind. A break-up meant her own thoughts were bad enough, without sensing everyone else's emotions too. The ghost in the attic and her sarcastic dog...

The stakes are higher and more personal than ever for feline investigator Joe Grey when death comes to his beloved coastal California town in this twentieth installment of the enchanting cat mystery series.While new father Joe Grey is overjoyed to teach...

The sequel to IsobellaIsobella had lost it all, her husband, her lover and her millions.The promise she made to herself to find Tilly Dunnage’s tombstone was all that was left here for her, then she would move on elsewhere. Little did she know the...

Peter and Jenny Rogers return from their honeymoon to a pile of wedding presents including the deed to an old house. They open presents from the residents of Whistling Pines Senior Care Center ranging from thoughtful, to thrift shop purchases, and "what...

Texas PI, Kelly McWinter, has just landed a dream of a job. Nashville songstress, and family friend, Marcy Fischer has been nominated for the Academy of Country Music's female vocalist of the year award, but her husband is stuck in Russia on a special...