Cosy mystery Books

Five-star praise for the six-book Paranormal Talent Agency! (See the separate digital/regular paperback listings for additional reviews.)I enjoyed this entire series immensely... I suggest a binge read session because it'll keep you entertained...

Her happy holiday is about to become a dead man's funeral.College student Eve Sawyer is anticipating a fun winter vacation with her two friends until a dog sniffs out a body hanging from a tree in the yard of the house where they're staying.Implored by...

Five-star praise for the six-book Paranormal Talent Agency! (See the separate digital/regular paperback listings for additional reviews.)I enjoyed this entire series immensely... I suggest a binge read session because it'll keep you entertained...

Five-star praise for the six-book Paranormal Talent Agency! (See the separate digital/regular paperback listings for additional reviews.)I enjoyed this entire series immensely... I suggest a binge read session because it'll keep you entertained...

A missing girl. Her boyfriend, gone without a trace. Can a tenacious undergrad find them both before the case becomes a homicide? Eve Sawyer is ready to wave goodbye to summer. Fresh off helping solve a puzzling beach crime, the inquisitive...

Just when Maggie May Carver thinks her life is finally going to settle into happy newlywed bliss, a very scary man finds her and asks for her help in solving a thirty-six-year-old murder.While a smart person would say no, Maggie feels compelled to at...

LARGE PRINT EDITIONA high-society murder. A spirited lady detective. Can she out-class the killer before an innocent person takes the fall?  London, 1923. Olive Belgrave needs a job. Despite her aristocratic upbringing, she’s penniless...

Un magnifique cadavre. Aucun indice. La paix à Castillac une fois de plus brisée.Lorsqu'un autre habitant du village françcais est retrouvé mort, Molly et les gendarmes sont perplexes. Pour compliquer les choses, Ben est engagé pour défendre le principal...

Et si Valérie était encore en vie?Pratiquement personne dans le village de Castillac ne garde espoir. Après tout, cela fait sept ans. Sept ans depuis que la populaire et espiègle Valérie Boutillier a disparu sans laisser de traces. Les efforts des...

By all accounts, everyone loves Genny. So why does someone want her dead? There's something special about Genesis Baker, owner of The Sister's popular New Beginnings Café. With her dimpled smile and twinkling blue eyes, Genny has practically the entire...

No good deed goes unpunished… Newly widowed Kate Huntington agrees to help her closest friend's elderly aunt with a problem, but the "problem" ends up dead. And Kate finds herself embroiled in a police investigation. To clear Aunt Betty, she and...

Should auld acquaintance be forgot… The last year has been eventful for Marcia and husband Will. They've successfully launched their private investigation agency and completed their family with an adorable but creatively energetic baby girl...

Six "sidecar" companion stories set in E.J.'s Mythmatched universe! Second First Date (Vampire with Benefits sidecar)Rusty has a plan to win Cas again. Rusty's Really Bad Day (Vampire with Benefits sidecar)Something is terribly wrong, and it's up to...

That's no paper cut… No matter what my bestie, PJ, says about handcrafts, scrapbooking is not a deadly occupation. Or at least it never used to be. Then one of my crafting friends is found dead by, er, die, and it looks like PJ...

Sometimes the Yuletide spirit takes an unjolly turn...My name is Sarah Braxton, and I'm a witch. It's busy season in the bookshop, plus, Seashell Cove in the middle of Solstice preparations. The last thing I need is this elf, appearing out of nowhere...

When Lexy Baker makes it to the finale of America’s most prestigious bakery contest, Bakery Battles, she thinks her biggest dream has finally come true…Until she stumbles across the dead body of judge Amanda Scott-Saunders. 
 What starts out...

A chance meeting with a school friend of Lottie's brings Hannah a new case. She's confident Sandlin Private Investigations can find out who's responsible for the recent threats at Eliza's house. But, as she and Lottie begin to unravel the facts of the...

Rachel's plans to spend Christmas with her fiancé are in tatters after he is called to Italy at short notice.Rather than spend Christmas with her parents, Rachel decides to take a last-minute Canary Island cruise. Sarah, cruise ship nurse and...

How high does the conspiracy go?When the body of a homeless woman is found in a dugout foundation of the ancient ruins of a Roman bath-house, there is little... or no investigation. Why?The Museum Murders takes readers on a heart-pounding journey...

BOOK #2 IN SERIESIn the rarefied world of wine collecting, murder isn't exactly a barrel of laughs... An invitation to dinner at the home of renowned wine collector Sir William Burton-Trent soon finds Chef Maurice in the middle of an all-too-real...

BOOK #1 IN SERIES"They say one should never trust a thin chef. By this measure, Chef Maurice was very trustworthy indeed."Take one sleepy Cotswold village, mix in one Poirot-esque murder mystery, add a larger-than-life French chef with an...

You are lying in the gutter, shot by a desperate fugitive, a ruthless killer, and your life is slowly slipping away.Travel alongside Ian McBriar, a police detective, whose last thoughts before losing consciousness are of the lives he hasn't saved and of...

Calm turns to chaos when a mysterious fortune teller comes to town. At first, the fortune teller’s pleasant predictions amuse the residents of Harmony Lake, lives are turned upside down when she uncovers deep, dark secrets that some people would...

Beware fair folk bearing giftsTiming had never been Reg's strong suit. It seemed like she was always arriving late or on the wrong day, starting a new venture at the worst possible time, or otherwise fouling things up. But her bad timing was nothing...

Riches to rags. ... Some things stay buried. ... Some things don't, ... and it's chaos once again!Spending time with Mack is always fun, but, when Doreen overhears a conversation that sounds like a murder confession, he disagrees, ... until a body shows...

Avid Ghost Hunter and wannabe Miss Marple, Beth Evans-Silverton and her best friend Monty Peebles, find themselves literally right under the scene of a crime.Along with Beth's husband, Jordan, and Monty's motorbike-loving 88-year-old Auntie Mildred, they...

Eve Caulton is looking forward to her first Christmas on Bramble Lane. Adding to the excitement are the new neighbours, the Merrinans, moving into Holly Cottage. Everyone is ready to welcome the family, but all is not as it seems. They've returned from...

A quiet Beaujolais village. A gruesome murder. What they need is... a pin-up photographer?Don't you hate it when a sexy young man shows up on your doorstep and wants to be your assistant? My criminal ex-husband's nephew seems to think I need him. But...

This royal visit is going to off with a bang...Edward, the Prince of Wales, is about to step foot on Kiwi soil and Grace is frantically finishing gowns for her wealthy clients to wear at the balls thrown in his honour. But then a horrible accident and a...

Jenny Ingram was sitting on the big sofa in the front lobby of the Happy Trails Retirement Village in Abilene, Texas. It looked like she had dozed off. She hadn't. She was dead. When Harriet calls Jenny's niece, Cheyenne McKinley, to tell her that her...

Family is everything. Unless they kill you Franklin and Wendy Becker's motorhome trip across the country skids off course when they discover Charlie Gosling's body in a campground. Charlie's dysfunctional family offers no shortage of suspects: the...

Will Dead Week kill Cassandra’s career? VP of Student Affairs Cassandra Sato has a desk full of problems and it’s not even Thanksgiving break. A student’s injury and a deaf advocacy project brings national media attention to...

In Kate P. Adams' delightful first collection of short stories, featuring old friends and new from the successful Charleton House Mysteries, enjoy a world of laughs, friendship, mystery and mischief.A young woman accepts an invitation to meet her...

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive...For the first time since her engagement came to an unhappy end, catering manager and amateur sleuth Sophie Lockwood returns to London from Derbyshire to run the café for an art...

The winter bears a berry,As red as any blood...As December casts its chilly eye over Derbyshire towns bedecked in festive cheer, the skeletal remains of a forgotten man lie hidden in the cellar of the historic Black Swan pub.The glow of a million fairy...

He would make a lovely corpse...When visitors gather deep in the frozen Derbyshire countryside for a sleepover in the opulent Long Gallery of Charleton House, joined by some notable guests from the past, no one expects that by morning Charles Dickens...

Reminiscent of the styles and stories of Agatha Christie, Rhys Bowen, and Richard Osman, Silent Winter Solstice is an intriguing mystery full of 1960s small-town nostalgia and memorable characters.Winter Solstice, 1968. While most of the world is...

When Emily Plankhurst is visited by the ghost of Gabriel Graystone, and learns he was murdered, she knows she must find justice for him. The only problem is, Gabriel was killed a hundred years ago, shortly after he broke off his engagement to the...

"An excellent mystery, intertwined with a little romance, monkey business and a travel adventure of a lifetime. A FINALIST and highly recommended." -Readers' Choice Book AwardsWhile working on a feature story on tribal arts in India, Finley and Whitt...