Cosy mystery Books

Ye screw with this lass, ye get put on yer ass.Being bonded to a dragon means longevity of life... and that means I'll outlive my family and the people I love. I would never have chosen that.How much of life is what we choose?Were you born a boy or girl....

When life gets crazy for Fran Lightfoot, she moves home to the small town of Moose Creek, Wyoming, teenage daughter in tow. It sounds good: Hometown. Family. A fresh future. Fran and her sister Lucy open a small business, The Saucy Lucy Café, in an old...

Retired police detective, Dan Novice, and his wife, Karen, a retired social worker, arrive in France for a three-month vacation. The trip commences with a visit to Honoré and Michelle, their old friends, to celebrate Michelle's father's eighty-fifth...

Lydia runs her own B&B and restaurant in the tourist town of Lake Hope, in Central Washington. Though she works all the time, she enjoys the challenge. Family and good friends keep her spirits up, but no special someone that rocks her world. Just...

The ocean is vast and deep. What lurks beneath can tear boats asunder.Richard Shaw, an insurance investigator from Lloyds of London, arrives in Rio de Janeiro in 1851. He is there to discover why so many of the great sailing ships of the world are...

It's the beginning of a gorgeous September in the City that Never Sleeps. Summer may be officially over, but Labor Day Weekend means ethnic festivals and dancing the streets and lots of overtime for police officer Tony Cavalucci. When crowd control...

The NYPD has a name for the perps who live on the streets. They are called skells, people who cause trouble for cops trying to keep the peace. Night after night of run-ins with the skells takes its toll on NYPD cop Tony Cavalucci, who's just trying...

Tony Cavalucci is a New York City police officer fighting for his life. The crime and corruption he sees on the job combined with a failing family life leave Tony feeling drained, lost, and frightfully alone, causing him to look for happiness in all the...

A young man dies with a peculiar scent on his lips, drawing Inspector Fisk into an investigation into a strange series of murders with no apparent motive and the same lingering perfume. When Fisk's playwright friend Sidney Traherne finally joins the...

Prepare to be tricked & treated in this third installment of the Chrissy the Shih Tzu cozy mysteries!Fall has arrived in Knollwood, and Autumn Clarke is planning an elaborate Halloween event at The Peabody Mansion B&B to support the local animal...

Who’d have thought mulch could cause such a stink? Low Country dog walker Andi Grace Scott is happy to score some free mulch from one of her brother’s landscaping jobs—until she discovers the dead body buried beneath the bark...

It’s almost Christmas and Sheriff Ben Bradley and his wife, Mae, are expecting twins. All is quiet in Rosedale until elderly Mrs. Cooper falls off her porch. She is taken to Rosedale General and later dies. The Sheriff suspects foul play, but the...

Robert Barnard's classic murder mystery.

With her financial planning business beginning to flourish in Magnolia Hill, Oklahoma, Jillian Bradford is stunned to learn her old high school flame Stan Savage is not only back in town but suddenly cutting into her business with rash promises of...

This early work by Émile Gaboriau was originally published in 1870 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'The Count's Millions' is one of Gaboriau's novels of crime and mystery. Émile Gaboriau was...

Lynley Cannon is the crazy cat lady, but she's not quite crazy yet, though a bizarre connection to a bumbled heist and a double homicide has got her wondering. Retiree Lynley Cannon adores her old Portland home with her clowder of rescue cats, but...

Alastair, a man who runs a business based on his ability to interact with and banish spirits, encounters a young girl on the run by the name of Rachael, who has the same ability as him. The two join forces to bring peace to both the living and the...

Revenge wears many faces ... but what if it's someone you know?In a small town in Northeast Ohio the body of Alice Panabaker, a former Kirtland resident, is found gruesomely murdered lying alongside the banks of a river with her head under water. This...

Brainy Gabe and cowboy-booted Zoe never fit in. She's unaware she intimidates designer-clad boys. Uppity girls are threatened by her. Gabe is destined for greatness. Now a fabulous bundle of sexy, he wants the mother suspected of murder. So does the...

A killer dressed as a plague doctor is prowling London's docks.Able seaman Humphrey Wilkes is dead, shot between the eyes by the murderer known as the Plague Doctor. When Samuel Pepys's naval colleague, Robert Drake, finds a black cross daubed on his...

Shea is a biracial solicitor. She is strong minded but very sensitive. When her best friend, Jemma, is killed, she takes it upon herself to find out who is responsible. What she discovers on her journey is chilling. It seems her and Jemma had more in...

With her magic on the rise and business improving, life is finally looking shiny for Belinda Drake. Even if she can't exactly figure out where she stands on the romance side of things.But when people in town start acting strangely, together with a string...

Belinda Drake is a witch with a passion for mysteries, an addiction to chocolate, and a penchant for keeping to herself. In her new life in Blackthorn Springs, she's got everything she needs, even if she is the world's most incompetent witch.When her...

When Laurence Harford, a prominent businessman and philanthropist is found murdered in the historic Rocks area of Sydney, Detective Chief Inspector Fitzjohn is asked to solve the crime quickly and discreetly.  After barely starting his...

Graves to the left, graves to the right, but there shouldn't be a body in sightWhen Hettie visits her friend Marlee at the Battye Library, she isn't expecting it to lead to a cemetery. And while she knows, of course, that there are bodies in a cemetery,...

The MURDER MYSTERY BOOK CLUB should have known better than to hold a Hen's Party on a luxury passenger train. It's not like trains and murder don't mix...When bride-to-be Alicia Finlay sees a body drop off the Indian Pacific in the dead of night,...

Juno's old curse has come back to haunt her... literally.After two blissful years of ghost-free marriage, the spirits have come knocking at her door again. Her late mother-in-law has taken possession of her home, and her late husband is obsessed with...

Glitz, glamour-and murder. Can the unflappable Lady Marigold outwit and outsmart a killer before more lives are derailed?Istanbul, 1922. Lady Marigold Grey-former British spy and daring adventuress-sets out for England after inadvertently robbing her...

Beneath the surface of perfection, darkness festers in unexpected places.A nearby quiet town becomes the backdrop for a perplexing murder mystery when a chiropractor is found dead. Sheriff Angus Reid is tasked with solving the strange...

"Stella's Very Special Summer" is a heartwarming tale that takes us back to the summer of 1955, when families packed up their cars and headed to the mountains, beaches, and other vacation spots to escape the city. The author has crafted a nostalgic and...

Adam Norcross is not in a good place. He recently buried his mother and now he needs something more than a power struggle between him and his mother's cat to distract him from his grief. That something comes in the form of an assignment from his...

Adam Norcross has many talents he employes in his clandestine job working for Walter Shapiro. On his business cards it should read international troubleshooter. Instead, people think he's a dull analyst. Sergeant Bethany Leith knows who he really is and...

It's Diagnosis Murder meets All Creatures Great and Small...As a house-call vet, Ginny Reese has seen her share of the weird and wacky. But nothing in her previous experience could have prepared her to find one of her clients facedown in her own swimming...

When Louise Lemay, self-proclaimed typical snowbird, has a chance meeting with a "funny little woman", through which she meets her new friend Julia Novo, Julia tells her that it's not merely chance, but some type of divine guidance that brings together a...

Danger looms once again over Carli. With a murderer on the loose and sinister secrets unearthed, can she solve these mysteries without becoming a victim herself? She must, except she promised Manuel she wouldn't ... yet if she doesn't, will she survive...

A dead body, a large inheritance from an ex-boyfriend, a scam netting three-quarters of a million dollars, and a love attraction throw Suzie Tuft's serene writing life into chaos.Textbook writer, Suzie Tuft, discovers a body near her rural home and...

Prepare for another hilarious misadventure as Jane Newell and her zany friends tackle the next Little Missouri mystery.With three months of teaching and one solved mystery under her belt, Jane Newell is back. In short order her Beetle plows into a...

A deathbed promise. A missing diary. Can she find her loved one's message and fulfill a last wish? Karina Walker is juggling an unexpected upheaval. Rushing to her dying grandmother's side, the grieving twenty-four-year-old agrees to move home, take...

Maggie Byrne is having a bad day. Her flaky sister shows up in the middle of the night. Her ex shows up with a fiancée. An annoying acquaintance shows up dead. How much more can a soccer mom take?Byrne Your Bridges is the first book in the Byrne Sister...

A catering calamity, pesky paparazzi, and a celebrity wedding whodunit...With Tilly's new assistant on board at the bakery, she agrees to take on a catering gig that could skyrocket her business to the next level. While jousting for her space in the...

It'll be easy, she thought. A writer's retreat will be fun and simple. At least until the plot twists sideways, and the mentor is murdered. Sam is still reeling from her newfound telepathic talents when she and Connie agree to host what should be a...

Buckle up for a wild ride with rebel life coach Joan Freed as she embarks on a thrilling adventure to check off items on her bucket list. From the bustling byways of the I-10 to the enchanting wonders of the Arctic Circle, join Joan and her quirky...

When an unpopular councilman dies at the launch party for Springdale's first organic food fair, everybody agrees it was an unfortunate accident. Everybody except Jessie Henderson. Jessie swore she wouldn't get involved in another investigation, but she...

Jessie Henderson is happy running the coffee shop and preparing for a visit from her cousin Melanie. A high-profile murder has shaken the nearby town of Rockfield, but Jessie's not getting involved this time. Why would she? Rockfield is miles away and...

A box set of The Falconer Files Brief Cases Books 1 - 4 Book 1. Love Me To DeathOn Christmas Day the two detectives are summoned to a block of apartments in Market Darley, to investigate the unexplained death of a young woman whose fiancé was due to move...

A box set of The Falconer Files Brief Cases Books 5 - 8Book 5. Driven To ItAbigail Wentworth is looking forward to her reunion lunch with Alison Fairweather. They are old schoolfriends who met twice a year, usually for Alison to dish the dirt on the...

~ A 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Best Mystery Finalist ~Candlemaker Hazel Wickbury has a secret. She knows when someone is going to die.Welcome to Crucible, a small town with a storied history. Founded by five prestigious families, Crucible has...