Cosy mystery Books

When Matt met Aurelia, he knew she was the one, and when he asked her to marry him and she said yes, he was the happiest man alive. Until he met her dad and discovered that her dad... was his dad, too! And so when Matt and his dad walked into Odelia's...

All I ever wanted in life was to be able to enjoy my daily naps, my daily dose of kibble and spend quality time with my friends. But lately Hampton Cove, the small town I like to call home, seems to have become the kind of crime-infested borough you hear...

Familie Mantoni unter MordverdachtCarlina und Commissario Stefano Garini sind gerade erst zusammengezogen, da wird Lucio, der frisch gebackene Ehemann von Carlinas Cousine, in einer kompromittierenden Situation gefunden: Er liegt bewusstlos in den Armen...

Ein Mann ermordet seine Mutter. Vorausgegangen sind jahrelange Demütigung, Erniedrigungen und Beleidigungen. Ein gebrochenes Verhältnis seit er seiner Kindheit. Er hat fast alles verpfuscht, Karriere und Liebesbeziehungen. Die Schuld gibt er der Mutter...

A Seer in the City...While visiting an estate sale to pick up new items for Missing Pieces, Aly gets hit with a surprise: the elderly homeowner didn't have a heart attack--she was murdered. Aly's got the evidence in her hands, and the killer is offering...

Just when Aly thinks she understands her psychic powers, a new mystery puts them to the test. Life in Shady Grove is looking up. Aly's excited to start classes at Maloney College, she loves her job, and her unrequited crush might be starting to turn...

Aly doesn't believe in psychics. Too bad she just had a vision.Future scientists don't see things that aren't real. Aly's got enough on her plate, with finishing her degree and taking care of her nephew and starting her new job at the antique store while...

Ivy Bradshaw has all the training in the world when it comes to soap, but there's no schooling when it comes to murder.When a missing box of lye from Ivy's store links her to a murder, Ivy will have to pull out all the stops to maintain her squeaky clean...

Who killed Baubles the Clown?The beloved performer Baubles, hired to entertain children with Sparkles his Shetland pony, is found slumped over in the corral strangled by his trick lasso.Lily Rock's librarian, Meadow McCloud, wants to help find the killer...

Wren's fourth and final writing assignment: a haunted campground near a Florida beach.Wren and Rascal, her protective Labrador Retriever, arrive at a nearly abandoned, neglected campground. Wren discovers clues to a cold case in old letters. Are the new...

April 1774 - Within the colonial capital of Virginia, Faith Clarke awakes in the middle of the night to discover a man savagely murdered in her tavern. Phineas Bullard was no stranger. Faith's late husband had borrowed heavily from the man and left Faith...

After the disaster of the month before, Dahlia Poplar, cursed witch and helper extraordinaire, is ready for her serene, supernatural small town life to return to normal. However, her hopes for a more peaceful existence don't last when a childhood friend...

The death of Gabriel Rhodes on Halloween night sent a shock through the Santa Fe Goth community. Three months later, the fallout continues.Ellen Rosings is too busy for dead bodies. With a wedding to plan, a move to organize, and business at the Wisteria...

Un meurtre au sein de la haute société. Une lady détective brillante. Saura-t-elle démasquer l'assassin avant qu'un innocent ne porte le chapeau ?Londres, 1923. Olive Belgrave a besoin d'un travail. Malgré son éducation aristocratique, elle est...

When Homicide Inspector Rebecca Mayfield's would-be boyfriend, Richie Amalfi, is named as one of San Francisco's "most enticing bachelors," she's not amused, but she never expected it would lead to his life being threatened. As a...

Out of her jurisdiction with no backup, except for the one man she doesn't want to trust ...When San Francisco Homicide Inspector Rebecca Mayfield inquires about the murder of an old friend, a gang of Russian mobsters takes note, soon thrusting her...

San Francisco Homicide Inspector Rebecca Mayfield has vowed to have nothing more to do with mystery man Richie Amalfi, but when he tells her about the strange deaths of clients of a local psychic medium, her decision changes. Rebecca has always been...

Moorehaven Mysteries: Book 3Christmas has come to Moorehaven. With only one guest to take care of in the Victorian writer's-retreat B&B, Pippa decides to attend a swanky party with her boyfriend, Lake, and his estranged one-percenter family. But...

Lady Katherine only has one week to catch the Pink Ribbon Killer.  Not only to stop the killing but also to prove her skills at detection to her father and win her dowry and independence. There’s only one catch—she has to take one...

It's hard keeping secrets in small towns.At first, librarian Ann Beckett is delighted her director hired another full-time staff member. The Whitby Library is a busy place and another librarian should make life much easier there.Instead, she soon...

Chasing the Dead: Death Stings is a stand-alone mystery introducing Sir James Marchant, a recently widowed landowner who is running a sanctuary for retired Police horses. It is also the first of three books featuring Sir James and reveals an ancient...

'So evocative of Victorian London that you'll be brushing Tom Wasp's soot from your shoulders' - Debbie Young, bestselling author of the Sophie Sayers Village Mysteries.'Tom Wasp is one of the most engaging characters I've encountered in years' - Ellen...

When a journey to New York is interrupted by missing diamonds and a body in the lifeboat, there is only one woman who can help: Fen Churche!1945. Fen Churche follows her dreams and sails for New York. She books passage on a steam ship from...

Diana Bakewell and Zaf Williams are cementing their reputations as London's best tour guides. They've also learned that they're not bad at solving mysteries.But when Kamran Dadashov, the father of Zaf's new boyfriend, hires them for a tour, they know...

An amateur sleuth is tasked with clearing the name of an accused man...Julia Ford's dream of running a bookshop in the small Somerset town of Biddle Rhyne is fast becoming a nightmare, with the lack of traffic and high running costs.So when the door...

The best light-hearted mystery fiction you'll read all year!New to the private investigator game, Edie Fox is delighted when a handsome American client with disconcertingly dazzling teeth asks her to find his missing cousin, Isabella. Especially when he...

The second book in J Wilcox's 'Leslie and Bennett' series. It should be the perfect holiday; the boutique hotel, the picturesque Devon coastline, the uncharacteristically beautiful weather. But, away from his cooking and his garden, Leslie is bored. That...

Bookshop owner and amateur detective Flora Steele teams up with handsome crime writer Jack Carrington to unravel a curious murder in the village of Abbeymead!Sussex, 1957: When Flora and her partner-in-crime-solving, Jack, arrive at the charming church...

Irish whiskey, rolling green hills, a traditional Christmas feast and... a murder? Lady Swift will need the luck of the Irish to survive this holiday season! Christmas, 1924. Lady Eleanor Swift has received a rather unexpected invitation to the...

A winding path leads past the beautiful begonias to an overhanging oak tree. But underneath, a deadly secret is hiding... Beth Haldane cradles a warm cup of tea and admires the view of crisp, red autumn leaves scattering the lawn of her little...

Kitty Underhay feels the touch... of death. 1934. Accidental amateur sleuth Kitty Underhay is being escorted by ex-army captain Matthew Bryant on an errand of mercy, as she takes a basket of grapes to her nemesis Mrs Craven, who is recuperating from...

With its sweeping sandy beaches and rolling emerald hills, the island of St. Morwenna is an idyllic escape. But behind the perfectly pruned primroses and neighborly smiles a killer lies in wait...When librarian Jemima Jago is offered the...

A tense feeling of unrest has infiltrated the Hartsmere estate, along with the gangs who are now fighting for control over both the residents and the local drug trade. Can Detective Inspector Morgan unpick the tangled tales that have been weaved or will...

Nora Goodman had no idea how much her life, and the world as she knew it, would change when she packed up her car to leave college and the life her parents had planned for her in the rear-view mirror. The only joy in the first twenty-four years of her...

Some secrets don't go to the grave... they come to my bakery.I thought ghosts meddling with the last couple I got together was a one-time situation. But the spirits are interfering again, and my current mystery is more complicated and even a little...

Discover this delightful cozy mystery series, from the prize winning author of the American Fiction Awards and Chanticleer Award! When Katie's spring break plans for a romantic getaway with Pete fall apart, she skips a chance to go skiing with her...

Alex wakes up in the hospital after receiving a mysterious package, realizing that being an investigative journalist has never been more dangerous. His deteriorating health is a testament to this peril. Ever since his source vanished without a trace, the...

MURDER AT THE NO-KILL ANIMAL SHELTER is a prequel novella in the Cheater's Lake Mystery series.The story is set in the fictional town of Cheater's Lake, Washington. The main character is Homicide Detective Mark Walsh, who relocated to the town from...

Six old women living on an isolated island in Lake Winnipesaukee; teenagers vacationing on Newfound lake in 1959; paragliders and skiers on Cannon Mountain; an old woman in a house covered in gypsy moths; a man living off the grid in a shack he built...

In the town of Hollow Creek, South Carolina two separate murders, fifteen years apart, unite fifteen-year-old Pleasant Day and sixty-year-old Clarissa Blackwell. As Pleasant Day struggles with her mother's distance, her father's infidelity and the death...

Death and Gold Haunt Thea's Search for Max in Death by Doodlebug, a Cozy Mystery from Carol Caverly.--Present Day, Garnet Pass, Wyoming--When Thea Barlow is left at the altar by her fiancé, Max, everyone, including the police, thinks she's been...

A Disastrous Bridal Shop Visit Draws Amateur Sleuth, CiCi Winslow, Into the Path of a Drug Ring in Double Vision In Ripley Grove, a Cozy Mystery from Shirley Worley--Present Day, Ripley Grove, Kansas--CiCi is shocked to learn the owner of a local bridal...

"Just as animal rights are one of the most significant issues of our time, so it must be with the literary imagination. With Releasing the Animals, Brooke Biaz takes the lead in fashioning an unforgettable zoo of reversals where Dr. Doolittle would...

Christmas crimes hit close to home for Boston’s favorite art sleuths. “Charlotte MacLeod’s mysteries are witty and full of humor” (Maine Crime Writers).  The angry old men of the Comrades of the Convivial Codfish club...

Murder upstages a Kelling family theatrical production—and Boston’s art sleuths are on the case. “The screwball mystery is Charlotte MacLeod’s cup of tea” (Chicago Tribune).  Producing a Gilbert & Sullivan opera...

Waring's Peril is a thrilling novel written by Charles King and first published in 1893. The story takes place during the late 1800s in the American West and follows the adventures of a young man named Jack Waring. Waring is a cowboy and a skilled...