Cosy mystery Books

Murder's a blast!Rosa Reed's holiday with the Forester Family in Santa Bonita has turned into an extended stay, and Rosa decides to make use of her Metropolitan Police training and sets up a private investigative business ~ just like her mother! But she...

Murder is so sang-froid! When the Reed family-temporarily exiled to France-is once again safe, Ginger decides to turn the event into a much needed holiday. And the absolute cake is Ginger's reunion with her American friend Haley Higgins, who is working...

Murder's a knockout! Despite her misgivings and general distaste for fighting sports, Mrs. Ginger Reed, also known as Lady Gold, agrees to attend a boxing match to support her adopted son's cousin, a street fighter who's quickly risen in the ranks.But...

Murder's a piece of cake!Wedding bells are ringing in Belgravia, and Ginger couldn't be happier to attend the nuptials of Felicia Gold and Lord Davenport-Witt. If only she could put her mind at ease about the things she knew about the groom's past.When a...

Murder's frightfully unlucky!Mrs. Ginger Reed, known also as Lady Gold, settles into homelife with her husband Chief Inspector Basil Reed, son Scout and newborn daughter Rosa, but when an opportunity to join a dinner party at the renowned Savoy Hotel is...

Murder's a pain in the aria!Nothing ruins a night at the opera faster than a duchess falling to her death. Mrs. Ginger Reed, also known by some as Lady Gold, is at the Royal Albert Hall with her husband, Basil Reed, a chief inspector at Scotland Yard,...

"Clever and entertaining, you'll love this charming Golden Age mystery series. And the fashion is to die for!" - Molly C. Quinn, actress, CastleMurder's a Deadly SecretMrs. Ginger Reed-the former Lady Gold-thought her past was dead and buried, but when...

"Clever and entertaining, you'll love this charming Golden Age mystery series. And the fashion is to die for!" - Molly C. Quinn, actress, CastleCadavers can be deadly...Unregistered corpses are showing up amongst the cadavers in the mortuary of the...

"Clever and entertaining, you'll love this charming Golden Age mystery series. And the fashion is to die for!" - Molly C. Quinn, actress, CastleFor fans of Ginger Gold and Basil Reed - this is the wedding you've been waiting for! The bride and groom...

"Clever and entertaining, you'll love this charming Golden Age mystery series. And the fashion is to die for!" - Molly C. Quinn, actress, CastleEspionage, intrigue...murder...It's 1924 and war widow fashionista Ginger Gold's new Regent Street dress shop,...

"Clever and entertaining, you'll love this charming Golden Age mystery series. And the fashion is to die for!" - Molly C. Quinn, actress, CastleA poltergeist guilty of murder?In order to keep Bray Manor afloat financially, Felicia and Ambrosia have...

There's a skeleton in the attic!After a weeklong passage over the Atlantic from Boston to Liverpool, Ginger Gold arrives at her childhood London home--Hartigan House--to find decade-old remains from some poor woman on the floor in the attic...

De la richesse à la misère... Les vieux dossiers ne meurent jamais... L'amour traverse les décennies... même quand il n'est pas réciproque !Bien que son mari - dont elle est séparée - continue de la harceler, Doreen est à la recherche...

Murder is a hit!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 Presley. The...

Joy in the Woods is the second in the humorous Spiteful Village, Coldstow series by Jo Kemrich. It follows the four broken. main characters as they struggle with personal problems and their relationships develop and change. Meanwhile the villagers...

Oberon the Irish wolfhound is off to Portland to smell all the things with canine companions Orlaith and Starbuck, and, of course, his human, ancient Druid Atticus O'Sullivan. The first complication is an unmistakable sign of sinister agendas afoot:...

What would you do if your husband got you the worst anniversary present ever?Mollie McGhie is hoping for diamonds for her tenth wedding anniversary. Instead, her clueless hubby presents her with a rundown boat. She's not impressed.When she discovers...

Down South Cafe owner Amy Flowers learns her chocolate truffles might not be the only things her patrons find "out of this world."When her cousin, Jackie, asks her to give a presentation to her online class, Amy thinks all she has to worry about is...

Christy Jameison's reputation is at stake when the Dean of a local college is murdered at a fundraising gala she is attending along with the wealthiest and most influential people from the community.The press has a field day when it's discovered the Dean...

Fresh off her first assignment as a travel writer, former investigative reporter Samantha "Sam" Powers is ready for a new adventure. When her editor at Carmel Today magazine instead asks her to write a travel piece about the local Monterey County...

Lowcountry PI Liz Talbot returns to the streets of Charleston in the seventh installment of Susan M. Boyer’s USA TODAY bestselling mystery series.  Between an epic downpour and a King Tide, those historic streets are flooded—and...

Fish or Cut Bait, the latest installment in the Guppy Anthology Series, presents a collection of mystery stories by rising stars of the mystery and suspense field. Tales of revenge and retribution...police detectives...cozy characters...hardboiled P.I.s....

A treacherous race to stop an extinction. A mysterious death linked to the past. Can a silver-haired sleuth track down the clues in time to save a life? 'Mama Rose' Hardie has always fought to conserve Kenya's precious wildlife. Officiating at an...

USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR CAROLYN RIDDER ASPENSON IS BACK WITH ANOTHER LAUGH OUT LOUD SOUTHERN COZY MYSTERY!  Nothing will bring your acting career to a halt like literally crashing through the stage floor. But that's exactly what happened...

The party was over.In a world where art is power, the greatest illuminator of all time, Marcellus Overton has met an untimely demise, leaving his assistant, Ancilla Walstrand, with all eyes on her. Enter Prime Inspector Beaumont, a man who no longer...

What if Santa came to town and promptly dropped dead?Christmas time in Mulbury, Australia. Plum puddings, roast turkey, and blistering hot days.Rosemary Exeter has a couple of mysteries on her mind. Who is the Kris Kringle leaving presents hanging from...

An enchanting, feel-good journey about a woman's search to rebuild her lost life, with only her trusty dog, a very special set of hammers, and sudden mysteries happening all around her. "I'd drive a stick-shift box spring mattress down the highway if I...

When aggressive television network news producer, Elle McCord, is assigned to Iraq at the beginning of the Gulf War, she feels her career is beginning to take off. But when her mother informs her that her elderly and ill aunt is about to give away the...

Hilarity ensues when Bumfuzzle and Cattywampus are on the case.Retirees and best friends, Marge and Joey are investigating mysterious events at Rutherford Mansion.Is the mansion cursed? Is it haunted? Secret passages, a cryptic journal, and missing...

"Hello, my name is Selena.Welcome to the Flamingo Lounge. Your secrets are safe with me."Some of Palm Beach's most successful misfits indulge themselves at the Flamingo Lounge Speakeasy.Secluded within the prestigious Opulence Resort, old man...

Haunted houses, paranormal pursuits, and now hot flashes? Someone, get this woman a drink. Connie Keys is ready to move on. After decades spent catering to her family, the fifty-something widow has an empty nest and a new career pairing compatible...

A Murderer stalks a cruise on Lake Erie!When a book collector, with a love for going au naturel, is discovered dead on the cruise ship, and there is more missing than his clothing, Sammi, Cleo, and Courtney are tossed into yet another whodunnit! Not only...

The Taste of RainCollege student and part-time health aide, Amira Connors, wants nothing more than to graduate and successfully launch a non-profit with her latest crush, Attorney Darius Browne. But when a nursing home patient (Claire Stewart) shares...

I'm tone deaf, I have no sense of rhythm, and yet I'm allowed to sing karaoke, occasionally, while solving murders in Po'thole aka Pothole to anyone north of the Florida Georgia state line. Locals call it Po Ho.My childhood friend and local politician is...

The Night Visitors is a fanciful fictional Christmas cozy mystery story set in the near future. This holiday book is ideal for adults, families and young adults alike, for anyone who enjoys some magic, fantasy and nostalgia, with humorous overtones...

When the wife of world-famous golf pro Carl Strauss asks Odelia to help her divorce her philandering husband, little did she suspect this would lead to big trouble with the law. Meanwhile I had my own problems to deal with, in the form of Brutus having...

When a woman showed up in Odelia's office asking her to look into a case of a missing cat, obviously I was on the case. And lo and behold, it took me less than a day to find the missing cat... and a dead body, too! Luckily, the dead body was human, not...

I don't know if you've ever shared your home with a fitness fanatic. I have, and it's a disturbing experience. Both my humans are fitness nuts, you see, and like nothing more than to contort themselves into strange positions, or jump up and down while...

Luke, a mirror dealer, leads a safe existence in a market town surrounded by the English countryside.On the surface he and his long-term partner, Eva, a psychotherapist, seem happy.But when a younger woman enters his shop past history breaks through the...

The last thing I would have expected when Odelia announced she was taking me and Dooley along on her honeymoon, was that I'd need to develop sea paws for the occasion. Yes, the honeymooners had decided to take a Caribbean cruise. Now if there's one thing...

Ideally reporters aren't supposed to take on paying clients. It's against the reporter's code-if there is such a thing as a reporter's code. I may be thinking of doctors. At any rate, when Joshua Curtis showed up in Odelia's office, asking her to catch a...

I was going about my usual business (napping, eating... more napping) when I was approached by a client to take on a very intriguing case. Yes, I know cats aren't supposed to take on cases, since A) we aren't licensed and B) we're not allowed to carry a...

When we were called to the home of a banker who'd taken his own life, little did I suspect this would lead to an actual case. But then the banker's daughter asked Odelia to investigate, convinced her father had been murdered. And so we set out to prove...

I've never been one to complain about my lack of good fortune, figuring I lead a pretty blessed life, but when suddenly people all around us started having their greatest wishes come true, I couldn't help but wonder when this would happen to me. As it...

A Murder Mystery weekend on a Calabria island. Sounds like fun. Or... maybe not? When feisty travel writer, Giò Brando, receives an invitation to join her long-time friend on an island in Calabria for a Murder Mystery weekend, she is excited by the...

A bestselling author of mafia thrillers is throwing a book launch party in Carmine, New Jersey. But when Bernie stumbles on a corpse at the event, murder jumps right off the page. As Bernie works to untangle the mysterious death, she learns that her...