Cosy mystery Books

After finishing her bachelor degree, an island holiday was just what Elise wanted, and the chance to discover stone carvings. Any place with a carrot juice stand couldn't be all bad. It might even be ... interesting. But the first thing she found was a...

"Clever and entertaining, you'll love this charming Golden Age mystery series. And the fashion is to die for!" - Molly C. Quinn, actress, CastleMurder isn't a walk in the park...War widow fashionista, Ginger Gold, makes a gruesome discovery while walking...

From a USA TODAY Bestselling author, the first book in the acclaimed Ginger Gold Mystery series.Murder's a pain in the bow!It's 1923 and war widow fashionista Ginger Gold (a former British Secret Service Agent) makes a cross-Atlantic journey from Boston...

Murder's a fashion faux pas. . .The summer of 1926 brings high fashion to Hyde Park. Ginger's Regent Street dress shop, Feathers & Flair, is a major sponsor, and when top designer Coco Chanel makes an appearance, the London fashion scene lights up...

Flappers meet gangsters at the hottest nightclub in Soho. When a night out at the glamorous Harlequin Club ends in a suspicious death, apprentice sleuth Marjorie Swallow goes undercover as a dance hostess to find out what really happens behind the...

A locked room in a castle contains a dead body. Or does it?Trapped in a medieval wine château, a fierce snowstorm raging outside. This is not how I imagined celebrating the Beaujolais Nouveau. A sparkling extravaganza had seemed the perfect escape from...

When retired police detective Clifford Shaw hesitantly steps off the train in his former hometown of St. Marys, Ontario, the last thing he expects to greet him is a murder. The only thing worse than being inadvertently roped into the investigation is the...

A series of bizarre events lands Rozanne Rayvern in the emergency room. Gage Auburn, her lifelong best friend, steps up and pays a debt to help Rozanne. A headline in the local paper the following day unravels one of the bizarre events connecting...

Love thy neighbor... or kill them?When the house across the street sells and Sylvia moves in, Bernie's quiet neighborhood is turned upside down.Demanding, rude and determined to have things her way, Sylvia threatens to have Bernie's bed and breakfast...

In a big city restaurant, a romantic plot unfolds between Chefs Lady Pepper King and Sir Basil G. Soupstone. Meanwhile, Arabella, the leader of a Spy Cat ring, sneaks into the restaurant to steal Chef Pepper King's secret sauce recipe for her boss. This...

Book 6 in Southern Beach Cozy Mystery Sure, folks may say having your house on the Christmas Home Tour is murder. But until now . . . did they really mean it?Sophia Island is decked out for the season. White lights line the Centre Street...

The Kilts & Quilts saga continues with more than stitching and a love match. This time it’s mystery and murder…In Scotland, the Gandiegow quilters are in an uproar when their favorite fictional quilters—the Buttermilk...

Spend time in the Big Apple with your soon-to-be-favorite wise-cracking amateur sleuth, Melanie Deming, as she follows clues from glamorous Park Avenue mansions filled with super-rich moms to gritty soup kitchens. Snarky writer and health fanatic Melanie...

Jacqueline Finch is a lifelong book lover, which is why it was a literal gift from the Universe when she inherited Three Tomes Bookshop at the ripe old age of forty-eight.But she's had a few adjustments to make along the way, including the fact that her...

With a veritable explosion of torn flesh and sundered bones, bloody, bestial death came to a railway magnate in his speeding private coach, to another wealthy tycoon in his swank New York apartment ... even into the exclusive luxury of the Adventurers...

St. Lucy Found Dead in Funeral Home Sauna-Freshly Anointed Chief Of Police, Hatti Lehtinen, Investigates in A Yarn Over Murder, a Cozy Knitting Mystery from Ann Yost-Red Jacket, Michigan, On the Keweenaw Peninsula-A year after her marriage...

A WITTY MYSTERY FULL OF SUSPENSE AND ACTION.Thanks to a children's writer with a gambling addiction, editors Carolyn Neville and Stephen Ames are caught up in a cross-country flight while evading an organized crime family.Carolyn and Stephen are playing...

"If you are looking for a perplexing plot, with a suprising end and a spicy thread of humor and romance, this is it!" ~Daniel Kelty, Verified ReviewerStormy the Cat, rescued by journalist Quinn Armstrong, is not what he seems.Young mother Christy...

Long arm quilter Harriet Truman and her friends from the Loose Threads, decide an applique conference in Galveston, Texas, is just the change of pace they need after a difficult year in Foggy Point, Washington. The fact that local chef James Garvin will...

"A phenomenal read."-Sharon Sala, New York Times and USA Today bestselling authorIs it a flesh and blood killer-or restless spirits?According to Sophie the psychic, beautiful Edisto Beach becomes a hotbed of troublemaking spirits every August. But when a...

It's January in Rosedale, Tennessee, and Mae December is preparing for her March wedding to Sheriff Ben Bradley. Mae, who boards dogs for a living, is also busy tending to her pregnant dog and scouting locations for the movie featuring the music of...

Meet Adelaide Adams, spinster and amateur sleuth, who is sometimes irreverently referred to by members of the younger generation as "Old Battle-ax." As Miss Adams says: "I was knitting in the lobby of the Hotel Richelieu the morning it all...

"Do you really think he murdered her?""I tell you, Crystal, she'd never been sick a day in her life! The woman was a walking, talking, medical miracle. Winston used to say if everyone in Rowan Springs were as healthy as Millicent Grazziani, he would have...

The After House by Mary Roberts Rinehart is a gripping mystery novel that blends suspense, intrigue, and psychological tension. Set aboard a luxury yacht, the story follows the crew and passengers as they embark on what should be a peaceful journey...

If you're a youth in 1941 living in San Francisco and a graduate of Stanford University, fluent in speech communications, especially Japanese, your talents were needed by Army intelligence immediately.The youth of America stepped up to the challenge,...

Who can you trust when everything you believe is wrong?Artist Lia Anderson survived the murder of her boyfriend and betrayal by a friend, emerging from trauma with a hunky new detective beau, an exciting commission, and a straight-talking therapist to...

During Prohibition in 1920s Galveston, the Island was called the "Free State of Galveston" due to its lax laws and laissez-faire attitude toward gambling, girls and bootlegging. Young society reporter Jasmine (Jazz) Cross longs to cover hard...

Dr. Dulcinea (Dulcie) Chambers is honored to have the esteemed British artist Logan Dumbarton as a guest at the Maine Museum of Art. The abstract expressionist painter has come all the way from London to teach a master class. His students, a group of...

What happens when the Internet service provider in a small town spies on his clients' cyber-lives and blackmails them for gifts and services?Murder; that's what happens.Penelope Trigg moves to Lost Hat, Texas to open a photography studio and find herself...

Then she saw it – a sheet of paper in the mailbox, underneath the mail. It was white with large black letters and said LEAVE IT ALONE.Mrs. B has a quiet life, and she likes it that way. Morning pinochle games at St. Mary’s Senior Center...

Murder, fraud and secrets. A cat-astrophic combination.Hettie Parke is pleased and relieved when her mother's charity auction at the Sunny Vale Community Centre gets off to a great start. Until a body turns up. And tragic as that is, Hettie is just...

In the space between what you can see, and what you believe.Uncle Roscoe's sudden death is believed to be an accident, so what is Aunt Alice hiding? With holes appearing in her story, and her behaviour going from odd to bizarre, it isn't just the police...

He was an irritating man, but just because she'd argued with him didn't mean she wanted him dead. Hettie Parke enjoys her position as president of the Parke Croquet Club, but she can't believe her eyes when she finds her croquet mallet wrecked beyond...

Young love. A troubled mother. Christmas dinner under threat.The Christmas in July Sundowner is an event looked forward to by members of the Parke Croquet and Bowls Clubs. But this year not everyone is full of Christmas spirit. When someone falls in the...

An empath witch should be able to keep everyone happy, right?Hazel has put magic and men out of her mind. A break-up meant her own thoughts were bad enough, without sensing everyone else's emotions too. The ghost in the attic and her sarcastic dog...

The stakes are higher and more personal than ever for feline investigator Joe Grey when death comes to his beloved coastal California town in this twentieth installment of the enchanting cat mystery series.While new father Joe Grey is overjoyed to teach...

From the author of Sasquatch, Baby! this cozy mystery delights with twists, turns, tarot readings and MURDER. When tarot card reader Carrie Dettwiler stumbles across the mayor's dead body on a random Tuesday, town gossip reaches a fever pitch-and...

All Ellison Russell wanted was an update on her stock portfolio. Instead, she found her broker dead. With an unexpected out-of-town guest at her house, Ellison is too busy for a murder investigation. Only this time, Detective Anarchy Jones wants her...

When obnoxious steampunk author Vernon Sledge is found dead at the 19th Annual Steampunk Convention in San Diego, it is up to high school teacher Emily Carter and her students to help unravel the mystery. Assisted by convention...

"One Deadly Chapter": Dive into a Cozy Mystery in Picturesque Bristol LakeAgatha Royale, seeking a fresh start after a challenging divorce, envisioned new beginnings in Bristol Lake, complete with a quaint bookstore and time to pen her own mystery...

"A rare book that sucks the reader in and demands to be finished.""Alchemist V is realistic, what makes it great is its fantastical alchemist's hijinks.""This novel is rich with plots, subplots and suspense.""The characterizations are exceptional...

It is their job to protect the mortal realm, but are secrets the only way they can protect each other?Lin Thoren, a beautiful Norse goddess turned private detective, embarks on a new case to locate a missing girl in London. But the fantastical always has...

Abby's husband Ben discovers a daughter, Emily, that he never knew. Now her adoptive father is dead and Ben is a suspect. Meanwhile, the couple's many relatives suddenly descend on their small town at Thanksgiving to meet Emily. Can Abby and Ben host the...

A wedding and a murder do not mix...Katy Cross has worked hard to make her daughter, Eudora's wedding perfect. The church is decorated, the caterer hired, and the dress is gorgeous. Katy's even arranged for Eudora to have her bridal portraits made at the...

When Minerva identifies a murder weapon as a priceless sixteenth-century artifact, she's sure her eyes must be deceiving her. Even by Bryd Hollow standards, five hundred years seems like an absurd amount of time to hold a grudge.The knife can't possibly...