Cosy mystery Books

Ditching her fiancé at the altar, Alice Hartford bolts to her childhood hometown to reconnect with the last, happy remnant of her past: her mom's old bookstore.But the bookstore is falling apart. And when a handyman working there falls to his death, the...

The annual Chestnut Fair brings visitors from far and wide to the sleepy village of Trecchina. This year, one will be coming to die.The moment Vanda Riccardi makes the grisly discovery in the forest, a blow to the head knocks her cold. By the time...

Something - or someone - is haunting Blithedale. And when a ghoulish murder takes place at the annual Halloween haunted house experience, one of Alice's best friends is framed.Now Alice must summon all her detective know-how to catch the ghostly killer...

Anty Boisjoly is back with his reddest-of-herringed, twistiest-of-turned, locked-roomiest manor house mystery yet.It's a classic, manor house, mystery-within-a-locked-room-mystery for Anty Boisjoly, when a death is foretold by a mystic that Anty's sure...

When a suspicious airplane crash kills Fiona's soon-to-be ex-husband and owner of the local airfield, she becomes the number one suspect. Surrounded by antagonistic in-laws, land-hungry developers, and drug smugglers determined to get their hands on the...

In Fair City Blues, Marshall Jack Dillon searches for the identity of a headless, handless body discovered in Dublin's royal canal. In the 5thaction-packed Dublin tale by Mike Faricy. US Marshall Jack Dillon is still detailed to Dublin's special...

A man hiding from his past. A detective hunting for a murderer. This is no time to bake a pie.Today is Owen Hunter's first day in the coastal city of Costa Buena, California. He's the new owner of Rockafellers, a vintage record store struggling to find...

In 1990, Katherine Kenny described the book as the most successful of Sayers' early fiction, coupling a slick detective plot with vivid details of post-war English life. "The book is a tightly constructed little drama based upon the old joke about an...

Andrea "Ande" Nilson is the spunky 28-year-old owner of "Picture This on Main" photography studio in the college town of Brookings, South Dakota. The petite gal spends her days photographing everyone from her favorite subjects - pets, to her least...

Christie O'Mara is thrilled to finally be living her dream of running her own flower shop. With her grandmother's legacy guiding her, she sets out to create beautiful floral arrangements and unique gifts for the small town she calls home. But little does...

April May needs a new hobby-something other than finding dead bodies!There's more to life than running a tearoom and baking tasty treats. As the weather cools and fewer tourists visit, April decides to explore a new hobby. At a painting class, she's...

Food for thought: seasoning with these berries results in a dash of murder.It's been a quiet autumn so far in the small town of Bradley, North Carolina. Or, as Myrtle would put it, a boring one. The slow pace and lingering post-summer heat are...

"Will and Betsy Black have become two of my favorite sleuths, a married couple who solve mysteries whether in Key West ... or in this latest adventure, much of the Caribbean. Authors David and Nancy Beckwith tell an engaging story that sounds remarkably...

Ellie is right back in the thick of it. The Cliff Haven Strawberry Festival has returned after a long hiatus and the mayor is determined to make it a success. When Ellie finds herself in the middle of a Mayor for a Day race, everything seems...

In this case, fashion is death...Bianca's determined to live a normal life in Edenville with her family, and she has no intention of getting involved in another case. While attending a fashion show, a model, also a childhood friend of her sister,...

Salvaging old books is one thing. Finding bones is entirely another.Salvager Paisley Sutton has been wanting to go inside the old two-room school for years, but when she finally gains access, just before a local community group begins a full restoration,...

A CLASSIC AMATEUR SLEUTH ROMP!Scrappy student Cassia Lemon plans her life perfectly. She'd locked in her plans to conquer the world.Until a disaster turns her perfect plans into a pile of metal spaghetti.So now she has to survive with no income and no...

Ein nächtlicher Anruf - und schon steckt Gemma Rose, ihres Zeichens Besitzerin des Little Stables Tearooms, mitten in einem neuen Mordfall. Und diesmal ist ausgerechnet ihr guter Freund Seth der Hauptverdächtige! Alles an der blutigen Tat hinter den...

Book 12 in the bestselling, fun, magical, action-packed Paranormal Investigation Bureau Cozy Mystery series.There's a witch burglar on the loose, and they're stealing more than the usual.There's a prolific cat burglar on the loose who's stealing more...

Honey, Romance, and Danger... As August winds down, George Sheth and Murphy Baird are ready to put months of murder mysteries behind them. They hope for calmer days as they move in together. But it's all for nought when his pug, Bumble, stumbles on...

1862. A group of brides from Australia have arrived in British Columbia, and love is in the air - until their new-found happiness in the prospectors’ town “Run’s End” is shattered when the hotel-owner is murdered. To make matters...

Step into a world where dragons once soared and mysteries abound. Enter a magical realm full of secrets, strange goings on, and a castle crammed with lies and twists.In the quaint otherworldly Ithric Realm, a land of magic, castles, and royal households,...

Murder, blackmail, and a maze. Eliza Thomson Investigates...An anonymous victim, a missing murder weapon, and a trail back to Moreton-on-Thames.An unexpected finding disrupts the church day out to Hampton Court Palace, the former home of King Henry VIII...

A captain's dinner to die for...Rachel Jacobi-Prince and Lady Marjorie Snellthorpe are delighted to be invited to dine at the captain's table. A pleasant dinner, shared with Marjorie's son and troublesome daughter-in-law, becomes less palatable when the...

A captain's dinner to die for...Rachel Jacobi-Prince and Lady Marjorie Snellthorpe are delighted to be invited to dine at the captain's table. A pleasant dinner, shared with Marjorie's son and troublesome daughter-in-law, becomes less palatable when the...

A field trip ends in disaster when Morgan Iverson falls down a gulley and into a cold case. She wants to learn enough geology to keep the family rock shop in business, but suddenly the only knowledge she needs is how to survive a night in the mountains...

Business at the Rock of Ages is as dead as the fossils cluttering the shop’s dusty shelves. Morgan Iverson, recently widowed and jobless, expects managing the family rock shop for two weeks will be more vacation than work. When she arrives in...

Poisonous snails: murder by mollusc solved by a cozy alien octopod. A Devilly Peen murder mystery.When writer's block finally ties Devilly in knots, our eight-tentacled author and amateur sleuth decides her muse needs feeding and is persuaded to...

Murder's got the blues!It's the summer of 1956 and Private Investigator Rosa Reed (former Woman Police Constable from the London Metropolitan Police) attends her first rock and roll concert featuring the young and upcoming music sensation Elvis...

Riches to rags ... Finally it's calm ... At least for the moment ... If she's lucky ...Needing a break from all the murder and mayhem, Doreen and Mack plan an outing to see the local orchid show. Some of the displays are in the community center, but the...

A body.A theft.A good cause gone bad ... Miriam has never seen eye-to-eye with her sister. But when a body's dumped on the doorstep of a Women's Institute meeting and all signs point to Rainbow, Miriam knows her sister's being framed. Rainbow might...

A dead chef is bad for business... and so is being accused of murder.When restaurant owner, Sally Turner, finds her chef murdered, she realizes she's in deep trouble... especially when she was the last one to see the victim alive and they'd been arguing...

When Hollywood comes to small-town Connecticut, it should be the stuff of dreams-but when a fading movie star ends up dead, a whole different kind of stuff hits the fan.  Unity Historical Society head and antique household items-stuff!-expert...

It's springtime in Washington, D.C. and congressional staffer Kit Marshall has more on her plate than she can handle. With her boss campaigning for an open U.S. Senate seat, Kit is left to run the office in her absence and manage a new week long American...

That Christmas Eve, when a snowstorm lays siege to Seattle , there will be disappearances, unseen terrors, and unexpected encounters in small, tight places. The Rossi family is about to learn the meaning of Christmas.

“Susan M. Boyer gets it. And by ‘it,’ I mean ‘the Southern voice.’ And by that I do not mean she throws “Y’all” into every other line of her dialogue. I mean she understands deep down how Southern people...

Tea and sympathy have never been so deadly.Schoolteacher Adam Matthews just wants to help select a new headteacher and go home. The governors at Lindenshaw St. Crispin's have already failed miserably at finding the right candidate, so it's make...

Cassandra Monroe (Cassie) has taken a trip to visit her longtime friend. On the way back home she notices pigeons attempting to fly in the windy, fall weather. Why are Olan Grubb’s pigeons trying to fly under such weather conditions? Obviously,...

The Heart Case: Romance and MurderTwo novellas, one story; since every story has two sides. Sam the young detective has his version; Georgia, a young wife in a loveless marriage has hers. Sam's story begins the day he meets the lovely Georgia Heart...

The Less Than Spectacular Times of Henry Milch begins a new mystery series called the Wyandot County Mysteries. Set in a mythical county in northern lower Michigan, the series begins in the spring of 2003. Things have not been going well for Henry...

Book 1 in this award-winning, endearing cozy murder mystery series. Before there was The Thursday Murder Club, there were The Fog Ladies. Fans of Richard Osman will enjoy them. Overworked, overtired, overstressed young medical intern Sarah James has no...

 After a number of years of working every waking hour as a way of dealing with the grief in her life, private investigator, SONOMA (Sonny) WHITTINGTON, takes time out and heads to England for a term of study at a university there. Those studies...

How can you determine if someone is telling the truth? Did Thalia Thalassos try to kill her cheating husband, despite her denials? Why is nurse Bryce Gilbertson giving a false name to visitors as he roams hospital hallways with a deadly syringe in his...

Can Private Investigator Hugo Flynn solve the peculiar case of one man and both of his deaths, or uncover the deadly meaning behind a series of numbers whispered by a doctor in his dying breath?Does the English countryside lose its appeal for the Emerald...

When New York reporter Paige MacKenzie heads to Tres Palomas, New Mexico, the resort of Agua Encantada seems a perfect destination to combine work with pleasure. A quick article on the healing mineral springs and a few leisurely soaking sessions in the...

Murder is bad for business, especially when the hot local crime writer is garrotted between the shelves!With grudging permission from Heathcliff, Mina Wilde has transformed Nevermore Bookshop. She’s running author events, hosting Quoth’s art...