Cosy mystery Books

The Milltown Chamber of Commerce throws their first annual barbeque competition. One of AJ's old friends even believes she has a chance of winning.Until one of the competition organizers drops dead.Poisoned.Murdered.And all the clues point at AJ's friend...

The Best Man is a Dead Man in Marriage and Mayhem, a Cozy Mystery by Jeanne GlidewellLexie's daughter, Wendy, and Stone's nephew, Andy, just want a simple wedding at The Alexandria Inn. But when the best man collapses during the ceremony,...

The day Truth Diamond and her dog, Razz, find a woman’s charred hand at one the Golden West Resort’s campsites, is the day her busy life spins out of control. A search for a body turns up nothing. Truth believes her resort on Lost Girl Lake...

A talking cat, a dead magnate, and a town full of secrets-welcome to Ophelia's world.In the enchanting yet enigmatic 1950s Cicero, Illinois, Ophelia's life takes a magical turn when her beloved cat, Figaro, suddenly begins to speak. Determined to uncover...

Liv, the owner of the White House Dollhouse Store in Minneapolis, strives to keep her store afloat while investigating the murder of an employee. The employee was an actress in the neighborhood production about President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson. When the...

Phee's friend, Nellie, is in a dilly of a pickle.  Her husband, Mike, purveyor of pickles, is found drowned in a vat at his factory. It wasn't an accident, and Nellie is a suspect in his murder. Phee and her sister, Juliet, put on...

Fingers and feelers and paws and wings,Solving thrillers and chillers and secretive things!In which animals help their animal friends, or human sidekicks, solve diabolical crimes and whimsical mysteries in 19 stories by Australian, American and Irish...

From USA Today bestselling author Dionne Lister comes an exciting paranormal cosy mystery series.All it takes is one morning for Sydney Photographer Lily Bianchi's life to go off the rails and over a cliff. A well-dressed English woman turns up at...

Can Gwen Strong solve a 50-year-old homicide? How about two? When two dead bodies are found behind a fake wall in the basement of a pre-civil war era mansion, the grisly discovery rocks the world of centenarian Emelina Bidwell who believes her...

Sift out the clues with Gwen.   A nut allergy almost turns deadly at Milford's daffodil festival. When former kindergarten teacher Gwendolyn Strong starts delving into the elderly woman's claim that someone is trying to kill...

When Will invites Lily to meet his grandmother at the Saint Catherine Laboure care home for witches, she learns the residents have been dying at an alarming rate. Will’s grandmother is scared she’ll be next—but they put it down to the...

When she found the dead body......it ruined her day.Would they now try to ruin her life?Isabella Proctor is desperate for a normal life - her own apartment, a job that pays the bills, and maybe even a boyfriend. As a potion-witch-in-training, she's...

Nature photographer Penelope Trigg has landed the job of her dreams: documenting the transformation of over-grazed rangeland into an eco-dude ranch and spa, owned by her boyfriend Tyler Hawkins. Then a body is found on the ranch and Ty is arrested. The...

ACONITE Queen of PoisonsBased on a True StoryThe adventures of Dr. Josephine Reva, a first woman doctor in Brooklyn, who moonlights as a detective to solve paradoxical "poison cure" crimes. It's the Roaring 20's in New York, and a feisty orphan rises...

A DIARY - Secrets hidden in a war diary pull Kate and Harry into a battle to halt a murderer's quest for power.With two snowstorms keeping a pregnant Kate house-bound, she feels safe in promising her mother she'll stay away from crime. But when an...

Tearoom sleuth Gemma Rose is looking forward to a holiday filled with delicious Yuletide treats, time with friends and family, and maybe even a "white Christmas" in Oxford... But when she's snowed in at a country manor, she finds herself stumbling on a...

Paperback 5 inches wide, 8 inches tall Neil’s body is found on a sandbank. Murder or…? Lockie, retired widower, works with Detective Inspector Georgia Lear again.  Another murder… two more attempts …...

Gemma verlässt ihren prestigeträchtigen Job und kehrt nach Oxford zurück, um ihren Traum von einem englischen Tearoom zu erfüllen. Sie setzt ihre Ersparnisse aufs Spiel, zieht bei ihren Eltern ein und erträgt ihre herrische Mutter, die Heiratskandidaten...

Poppy never imagined she'd move to the English countryside and fall in love with a smug, demanding, ginger-haired male. Of course, that was before she discovered that she'd inherited a cottage garden nursery, and before she met a certain talkative orange...

Just when Lily’s settling into life in Westerham and making new friends, the Paranormal Investigation Bureau needs her help again. A witch has been misappropriating millions from unsuspecting retirees, but she’s destroyed all the evidence...

Showbiz comes to Oxford in the form of Britain's hottest new talent show and tearoom owner Gemma Rose gets a peek behind-the-scenes when she's asked to cater for the event. But with the Old Biddies entering the contest as England's first "granny band",...

When Gemma's romantic holiday with her boyfriend is cancelled, the tearoom sleuth finds herself heading to Vienna instead, with her cat Muesli and the nosy Old Biddies for company. And it's not long before they stumble across a murder right in the heart...

Champagne and ball gowns, fairy lights and music... Oxford summer balls are one of the highlights of the calendar and tearoom sleuth Gemma Rose is looking forward to taking a break and slipping into something gorgeous for the evening. But when the night...

While she's basking in love's glow, an old enemy strikes. Can a clever witch solve a mystical mystery before the wicked win?Sarah Spellwood has found the most adorable house and can't wait to share it with her gorgeous boyfriend. Except it's haunted by...

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...

What does a human finger bone found by a signing gorilla have to do with Detective Matthew Finn’s case of two missing girls? Maybe nothing. Maybe everything.Memorial Day starts off strangely when a signing gorilla hands Detective Matthew Finn a...

When sabotage threatens the Rudin Sugar Factory, Detective Jasper Hollock believes this will be his first real case. But dear Mr. Rudin—the only father Jasper has ever known—holds a different assignment for his private investigator...

Small town etiquette columnist Hope Springs is the latest victim of a murder—only she isn’t the  one who died…Determined to celebrate her birthday with quiet decorum, Hope's peace is shattered when she witnesses the hit...

When flamboyant senior sleuth Sadie Kramer learns the owner of Cioccolato, her favorite chocolate shop, is in trouble, she heads for the California wine country with a tote-bagged Yorkie and a slew of questions.The fourth generation Tremiato Winery...

Her dear friend is dead. She finds the body. Follow Stella Kirk and Detective Aiden North as they uncover Paulina McAdams' secrets. Will a diary reveal her life story once the code is broken? In their search for answers, Stella and Aiden untangle the...

Police line, do not cross.Rose Devlin is a fun friend with a good heart. Sage Tanton is her BFF with a psychic sense for trouble.Protective of her family and friends, Rose is confident she can handle any situation without Sage's supernatural intervention...

Spring is a time for new beginnings, but for Lady Sarah, it's about closing an old case...It has been almost a year since Lady Sarah's friends were kidnapped. A year of hopelessly searching and worry. But now there is a new lead. Word from Wales and a...

When her parents die from fever, Lady Sarah Montgomery Baird Watson-Wentworth has to leave India, a land she was born and raised in, and travel to England for the first time. Finding it almost impossible to adjust to London society, Sarah flees to the...

Who Dares WinsHow can any self-respecting, slightly clumsy, highly caffeinated private eye pass up a dare? Short answer, she can't. Now up I'm a certain creek trying to figure out how to live without coffee for an entire week!With my mood sour, my temper...

Shattered Falls by Wayne RussellRebecca Ford never thought she'd return to Shattered Falls, the small Australian town where her childhood ended in tragedy. But with her life in turmoil, she finds herself drawn back to the place she once called home-a...

Book 4 in the Paranormal Investigation Bureau Cosy Mystery series. When violent crime increases in Westerham, Lily and the PIB agents have to step in to sort things out. But nothing is quite as it seems, and danger lurks in every shadow. Just...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE QUARANTINE STATION.THE SEASONS OF BELLE READING ORDER:The Summer of Everything (#1)To Autumn, With Love (#2)The Colour of Winter (#3)The Spring Farewell (#4)A year on from Paris and Belle Hamilton is still...

From author Helen Goltz, the fifth book in the exciting mystery series about love, fate, and putting to rest more than the dead.Accustomed to speaking with spirits as they leave this life on their way to the next, Miss Phoebe Astin of The Economic...

Now on exhibition for a few days only, the strange, the wonderful, sights you have never beheld before - Burnham's Carnival, Including Mrs Anna Tufton, the Giantess. Matilda Hayward is determined to have a career, after all, it is 1888! While...

Beautiful muse, Miss Sapphire Reubens, the inspiration for her lover's latest art exhibition, is missing - items of her clothing found in the river. Worryingly, Miss Matilda Hayward and her fellow writer for the Women's Journal, Miss Alice Doran,...

Redcliff Marine Rescue volunteer Shiraz Jones unwittingly opens a cold case when she discovers a vintage sports car buried in a landslide.When a 1976 storm destroyed Golden Beach Village, its secrets remained entombed. Now it's up to Shiraz to unearth...

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...