Cosy mystery Books

""An Artist in Crime"" is a mystery novel written by Rodrigues Ottolengui and published in 1892. The story follows the investigation of a series of art thefts in New York City. The main character, detective Ebenezer Gryce, is tasked with solving the case...

A too-close encounter with murder in the desert turns a guide into a gumshoe. A survival test turns deadly for the property owner, and dangerous for the survivors. One is a killer.Gabe Ramsay left his position as a science professor under a shadow, one...

Sid Hackbirn and Lisa Wycherly knew that their latest assignment in Lake Tahoe was not going to be your basic pick up of secrets. After all, their bosses upline sent them as people who would never be suspected as the domestic espionage agents they were...

Get ready for a festive dose of mystery and merriment in the charming Australian town of Lilly Pilly Creek.In the third instalment of the Lilly Pilly Creek Ghost Mystery series, amateur sleuth Jones and her spectral sister Autumn are back at it again...

The second instalment in The Lilly Pilly Creek Ghost Mystery series finds sisters Jones and Autumn embroiled in yet another local mystery. Jones has been assisting Iris, a bride-to-be, in creating a memory box for her wedding. But at the final dress...

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...

Dead Yesterday is a mystery novel written by Mary Agnes Hamilton and published in 1916. The story revolves around the murder of a wealthy businessman named John Maitland, who is found dead in his study. The investigation is led by Detective Inspector...

Anna The Adventuress is a novel written by Edward Phillips Oppenheim and published in 1904. The story follows the life of Anna, a woman who was raised in poverty but is determined to rise above her circumstances and become a wealthy and respected member...

At The Sign Of The Red Swan is a novel by Ambrose Elwell, first published in 1919. The story is set in 17th century England and follows the adventures of a young man named Johnnie who inherits an inn called The Red Swan from his father. Johnnie is...

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...

Tasha Martin has recently graduated from her local college and takes an HR job at a law firm in the city, leaving the comfort of her childhood home to embark on her adult life. A self avowed introvert, this brings about challenges as she interacts with...

Haunted by nightmares of her troubled past, Valerie Russo is determined to turn a new page in the seemingly innocent village of Fort Langley, British Columbia, where she takes up a house sitting position. With the 2010 Olympics approaching, Valerie...

Anne Marshall is at it again!It was the anniversary of the day her fiancé, Jason, was murdered by infamous drug lord Enrique Salvatore. As Anne reels with grief, she is hit with the news that her law partner's wife, Celia, has been accused of...

'...Powerful...entertaining...clever...' Elaine Ouston - authorWhen heroic war dog, SGT George develops Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Agoraphobia and a crippling fear of any man with a black beard, he is sent home from Afghanistan, to retire in an...

Glamorous cult movie director Prue Scythe went missing at a film festival in Sydney, and was never found... until her dead body turned up on a miniature goat farm in rural Tasmania, fifteen years later.Where has she been all this time? Why was she...

A Regency widow shouldn't be hunting spectres all night. Lady Judith Avely's magical gift for divining the truth makes her prodigiously good at lying. To absolve a guilty secret, she travels to the exiled Duke of Sargen's estate, but the last thing...

Jesse Clarke's 10-year school reunion boasted a few shocks - and that didn't include Jesse running a publicity and private investigator business. The talk of the reunion was Alex Bryson, the overweight kid who transformed himself thanks to winning a...

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...

The Costumes of Covent Garden, a new traveling exhibit of costumes worn by the British Royal Opera, is making its debut at the Maine Museum of Art, and director Dulcie Chambers couldn't be more thrilled, especially since the woman in charge of the...

Set in 1980s England, Blackthorn Panther, at the age of twenty-four, sets up his own private investigation agency, Panther Investigations, after leaving the police force as a disillusioned young man. However, he soon evolves into a heroic young PI who...

Somewhere over the Alaskan wilderness a plane has disappeared.As winter approaches Anchorage, flight instructor Beri Quinn races to find a student who took off in one of her planes, and hasn’t been seen since. She’s convinced he’s still...

**Agatha Award-winning Series!**Wedding planner Annabelle Archer is ecstatic about her wedding-free weekend getaway . . . until she realizes she's booked a hotel room next to an unfriendly ghost.A vacation is just what Annabelle and her team need after a...

A mysterious package, a rumor about a missing painting, and a dangerous game of hide and seek…Zoe loves working as a consultant for a company that specializes in the recovery of stolen art. Her only complaint is that the jobs are few and far...

Freewheel takes readers for a spin in the real world of personal injury litigation, where the drama takes place outside the courtroom. Olympic gold medalist, Ryan Peterson can’t seem to get a break. He was ousted from professional cycling for...

I raced in to the sight of her sitting placidly on my couch – completely, utterly, stark naked.Only a small blip in the lives of lifelong best friends Arnie Fischer and Zellie Morgan, who with no license and even less practical experience form a...

It all began as just a little landscaping. Lily Pierce dreams of magnolias blooming next to her front porch. But nothing seems to be easy for Lily especially when she digs up a mystery in her very own yard. That magnolia tree may never find a...

After working in asylums for nearly three decades, Valerie Martin is set to retire but one phone call changes everything and she finds herself on a train bound for Northampton and the asylum where her career began on the wards in 1959. Finding herself...

In 1982, Lisa Wycherly was broke, out of work and desperate. So when Sid Hackbirn offered her a job as his live-in secretary, she jumped at it, little knowing just how dangerous it would be. Living at Sid's house was scary enough, given Sid's...

Saving the world is such a bother when it makes you late for your nap.Blessed (or cursed, depending on who you ask) with human intelligence, Sir Edgar Allan Kipling, magical talking cat extraordinaire, spends most of his time keeping his human out of...

Xana Bard comes home one muggy afternoon to find a murdered man in her back yard. Knowing that even with an airtight alibi she and anyone living with her will be a suspect, she warns her off-the-grid lover Thorne Ardall to stay away until the murderer is...

Love can be a very dangerous thing. At least it seems that way to Adri Pyper, the premier wedding planner in Sun Valley, Idaho. When one of her clients dies mysteriously, Adri takes the advice of the local detective and swears she will stay out of the...

Whose bones lie in Caroline’s grave?A mysterious drowning. A dead person seen alive. A secret society reviving ancient rites. Rumours of smuggling, espionage and betrayal.When a handsome stranger asks Jayne for help, her quest takes her to Greece...

A delightful romp as our country police sergeant puzzles out several cases - from simple theft all the way to murder!His journey takes him from the depths of despair - and then back again as he cracks case after case, all the while pursued by female love...

A scarlet key, a bittersweet secret, a corpse with cryptic tattoos.When an envelope containing a key and address lands on his newsroom desk, veteran reporter Seth VerBeek is thrust into a thrilling crime adventure. His challenge is to investigate the...

One fall night a mystifying fog captures a young girl from the 20th century and a captain of an old sailing ship from the 18th century bringing them together.Belinda Brady, a young girl who lives next to a soaring old lighthouse becomes part of an old...

Spring has come at last with cheerful daffodils and plump crocus blooms, and Poppy is hoping that the new season will magically resurrect the cottage garden nursery she's inherited. But with her stock failing to grow and a mysterious "peeping Tom"...

DCI Kulī Fīnau of the Tonga Police is suspicious of the goings-on at the Paradise nightclub, where government ministers and officials are entertaining expatriate representatives of a new tourism development with underage girls. But the untimely...

 Creed sparks something inside me, I was blissfully unaware of the danger I was in until Creed shatters my reality. When I learn that my whole life has been a lie and I'm not who I thought I was everything around me falls apart. Creed may hate me...

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...

Autumn has arrived, with crisp, cold mornings, dew on the grass and hedgerows full of blackberries...When budding garden sleuth Poppy is invited to a party in a beautiful orangery, the last thing she expects is to witness a lethal wasp attack! As...

Tick Tock. Time is running out.My parents are missing in outback Australia. Only they’ve left me clues. Clues that tell me they were close to a significant discovery – the location of a copper scroll that leads to untold treasures. A scroll...

Hodgkiss doesn't miss a trick. Four adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen.Hodgkiss and his friend Pat Strong visit a friend in a rented house adjacent to a council car park. When a...

OUR CRIME BUFFS ARE BACK! This time they're hunting for a missing woman-and have just 3 DAYS to do it.THE IMPOSSIBLE MYSTERY: Young Chanel has vanished on her daily walk. Her mother's in a flap and the police are dragging their feet. So the sleuths...