Cozy Mysteries
Small towns, nosy neighbors, amateur sleuths, and just enough murder to keep things interesting. Our cozy mystery shelf is full of clean, funny, puzzle-driven whodunits (bakery, bookshop, cat, and retirement-community capers included) with plenty of free and bargain ebooks. New cozies and sale prices land here all the time, so grab a cup of tea and start sleuthing.
He’s trying to forget all about crime. But now targeted as a suspect, can he keep from going down for murder? England, 1964. Retired inspector Tom Ramsay wants to leave the past behind. Hoping to get on with his plans to hike the beauty spots of his homeland, a vacation to North Yorkshire strik ...
Missing ring. Stolen passport. Dead body. Getting engaged can be murder.
A dead man was found with my passport…but how did he get it? To make matters worse, my engagement ring is missing.
I’d planned an elaborate proposal in Australia. Now, I’m tracking down clues ...
USA Today bestselling author brings you fun, food, cats, and mystery. A second chance romance, too, for Georgie Shaw and Detective Jack Wheeler who meet in an unusual way! Read the first three novellas in the Georgie Shaw Cozy Mystery Series. Here's a message for you from Georgie: "Welcome to my wor ...
3 full-length novels of paranormal cozy adventure fun! This is no boring librarian shushing people from behind a desk. This librarian corrals rogue magic. But more importantly, she has a frog and a cat, and she’s not afraid to use them!
Julienne's ideal resort management career may come to an abrupt end when a celebrity pastor dies at the buffet table. Julienne has her ideal job as an event planner at a prestigious resort. During a luncheon event she coordinated, a renowned celebrity pastor is killed next to the buffet. All eyes ...
Rhee Abbott is a reluctant witch with powers that never seem to do what she wants. But her new job as manager of the Drake's Rest Inn is her chance to start over with the normal life she has always yearned for--until she finds a dead body in a guest room just days before the Inn's grand opening. Eve ...
Magic can rewrite reality. But it can’t rewrite the truth.
After decades of hiding her magic, Fiona Cross has found refuge in Everveil, a hidden sanctuary where witches live openly and magic is woven into everyday life.
Determined not to repeat the mistake that cost ...
Another exciting series from Award-winner and Author of MURDER AT THE CONVENT - Tanya R. Taylor Lucille Pfiffer sees, but not with her eyes. She lives with her beloved dog Vanilla in a cozy neighborhood that is quite "active" due to what occurred in the distant past. Though totally blind, she pl ...
A dead body is found floating in a lake. A child's drawing places her at the crime scene. The shocking connection lands her in deep water.
For fans of Clue, Nancy Drew, and small-town coz ...
When Amanda's lying, cheating, scam-artist husband, Charley, saves her life in a near-fatal motorcycle accident, she can almost forgive him for dragging his feet on their divorce. Then she discovers he'd been dead for several hours at the time she thought he rescued her. And not ...
Jimmy Katz, a young journalist from the Big City, throws in the towel after he's robbed at gunpoint at a gas station. He finds a job at the Twinkle Independent News in Twinkle, Texas, 385 miles from the closest shopping mall. He settles into country life in the town of 3,000 at Mrs. Potts' boardi ...
Greece, 1970. Twenty-year-old Melina Freris is down to her last drachmas. Stitching her life back together on the small island of Lifnos is hard. Until a warm British shopkeeper tosses her a lifeline. And a resistance fighter she keeps running into gives her something other than grief to think ab ...
A heartfelt and hilarious mystery. A dead body swan-dives into the pool at a wedding, bringing gossip about disgraced paralegal and former rodeo queen Emily to a halt. Enter Jack, a secretive attorney and sexy mix of cowboy and Indian, and a job offer. Emily refuses the man and the job, until she le ...
Boston, 1933. Amanda Burnside yearns for more. Dutifully hitting the social scene and volunteering for charity, the young former debutante is delighted to be dating a doctor yet wishes for excitement. But she wasn't expecting a stroll on Boston Common with her beau to end with the discovery of a ...
Makeup. Mannequins. Murder. When ex-cop-turned-P.I. Maggie Doyle scores a lucrative undercover job at the makeup counter at a fashionable Galway department store, she expects discounted lipstick and an easy paycheck. After an altercation with a customer leads to a dead body in Maggie’s bathtub, she ...
There's nothing worse than a witch who can't magic, except for a bad case of wishcraft, a curse, and the body in the bakery.
Unable to bake any better than she can magic, Harper Dade, in the aftermath of a divorce and the theft of her inheritance, returns to Willow Hollow, Tennessee, w ...
Hairstylist Marla Shore has a bad hair day when one of her clients dies in the salon’s shampoo chair. As if that’s not enough, handsome Detective Vail accuses he ...
Hubba Bubba’s Fish Camp in Po’thole, Florida is striving to become a bona fide Florida tourist destination with the addition of Miss Maisy, a pink flamingo, courtesy of Miss Trixie Delight, the star performer at Babes, Babes, and More Babes Gentlemen’s Club. Because you can never have too many flami ...
Daisy O'Connor worked hard to earn the title of "Fashion Show's Best Caterer" for Atlanta's prestigious annual event, just as she worked hard to forget a troubled childhood in South Dakota. When adopted Lakota grandfather, Charlie Tall Tree summons "Red-Tail" to search for her missing stepbrother ...
When an asthma patient under Laurel Benson’s care dies, the ER nurse quickly realizes it wasn’t of natural causes. Faint bruising around the neck indicates the woman was strangled, right there in the recovery room! Always a champion for her patients, the headstrong nurse is determined to find out wh ...
A brand new female vicar. An accident-prone nun. Two friends. Two killings. Annabelle and Mary are best friends. But when one gets framed for murder, can the other one save her? Assigned to St. Clement's Church in an inner-city borough just outside Hackney in London, Reverend Annabelle Dixon brings ...
An exorcism gone wrong. An unfathomable, other-worldly encounter. And a web of corruption only she can stop. Recently divorced, Quinn Delaney has enough on her hands trying to win a culinary contest that could put her new café on the map. One cordial short of an entry, she doesn’t have time to he ...
When this odd couple signs up to be extras in a fitness video, it’s lights, camera… murder. Sho Tanaka is desperate for normalcy. Uncomfortably getting by in a tiny Texas town after prescription drugs cost him his job, the last thing the disgraced nurse needs is a former tween TV star roping him int ...
Amanda is still haunted by her ex-husband, Charley…literally haunted. He’s stuck between this life and the next, unable to move on, unable to get more than a couple of hundred feet away from Amanda and unwilling to go even that far. She’d like to take a shower without worrying a ...
“A hilarious, mile-a-minute ride! Amazon Reviewer Getting Ahead Ain’t Easy There’s a fine line between quirky and crazy. How do you know when you’ve crossed it? Everybody’s got their coping mechanisms. Val Fremden is no exception. But when her longtime boyfriend Tom Foreman takes off witho ...
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In a charming southern town, a historic manor hides deadly secrets, and one determined advice columnist must uncover the truth to save her friend.
For fans of Nancy Drew, Clue, ...
When Bernie, the star of breakfast show TV Rise & Shine, is murdered in her dressing room, Celebrity Crimes Investigation Agents Abi and Jake are sent undercover to catch the killer. With suspects aplenty, the snow building up outside and the holidays fast approaching, they’ve certainly got thei ...
Danny’s life was ready for a wife, but what he found was a pink-haired woman stranded on a beach at Lake Powell. Danny did what he always does, he put aside his own fishing plans to rescue the injured woman wearing nothing but a teeny, weeny pink bikini. Having no identification, no money, and no ...
Morgana has spent the last year undercover in sweater sets and pearls, searching for a magical serial killer. When she follows a lead to Ireland, she sets off an unforeseen chain of events – a death in Oracle Bay and the waking of an ancient curse. Donovan Davies is a thorn in Morgana’s side and pos ...
In The Bird That Fished at Dawn, Holmes and Dr. Watson are called to a quiet garden beside the Thames, where valuable koi carp are disappearing from dark ponds surrounded by mist and Japanese bridges. No footprints point to a thief — and yet the fish vanish one by one.
The i ...
Oops, I did it again… Leave it to me, Lexi Carmichael, to become a target for an elite organization of cyber criminals simply by being in the wrong place at the right time. As if I weren't already freaking out about planning my best friend's bachelorette party, I now have to keep my eyes peel ...
When her eyes were finally opened to the truth, she couldn't recognize her own life...
Italian-born Lella York is trying to figure out who she is.
Her husband has died. Her son is grown and, for the most part, gone. And now, her best friend is miss ...
When aspiring TV investigative journalist and self-proclaimed Elvis hater Ted Sherlock is sent to the small country town of Parkes to cover its famous Elvis music festival, he’s convinced both his career and love life are headed down the gurgler. Reporting on a town obsessed with sweaty sequined jum ...
If evil comes knocking don't sell it a death curse. Nicole Scott possesses a unique gift. She can see and hear ghosts. When a body turns up at her Aunt Patsy's doll shop, Nicole recognizes the victim. The woman is - or was a client of Nicole's estate liquidating company. Early evidence points to a d ...
Fred’s wife is found dead. Murdered. Skewered to a tree with an arrow.
What?! Fred has a wife?
Not anymore.
In other bad news, Rick is back together with Grace. When he stands her up, ...
Ten years ago, young Beth Ridley disappeared on her way to school. No trace of her was found, except for a single doll’s leg found in the street.
Now, on the anniversary of her disappearance, Detective Inspector Graham is giving Beth’s case another look.
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Welcome to the Bean Hive Coffeehouse where the coffee is as hot as the gossip! “Fabulous fun and fantastic fried food! Kappes nails small town mystery with another must-read hit. Don’t miss this one!” – Darynda Jones, New York Times Bestselling Author of Eighth Grave After Dark Roxanne Bloom (her fr ...
Was it something she wrote?
That’s the question investigators, DI Greene, DC Ford, and their journalist friend Carter are asking, when a popular author of mysteries, romance and erotica is found dead after a party. Were her new stories based on facts rather than fiction? Did the erot ...
A timid traveler. A New Orleans adventure. A Mardi Gras murder... Roxy believed that life never gives you more than you can handle. But when she's fired from her wage-slave job, bullied by her co-workers, and her boyfriend abandons her, she decides she’s handled quite enough. Eager for a change of s ...
Salon owner Marla Vail and her detective husband Dalton are having a blast visiting a Florida living history village over Fourth of July weekend. But when a Seminole battle reenactment turns up a real dead body, it sets off fireworks among the villagers. One of the cast members has gone off script t ...
“Danger was part of my job description, but none of my contingency plans anticipated an attack by a Maine Coon.” It’s summer on Whisper Island. Ex-cop-turned-private-investigator Maggie Doyle is looking forward to sun, fun, and romance. Instead, she gets bills, an assault allegation, and a busted wr ...
A Murdered Judge. A Dark Secret Silenced. Rookie reporter James Lalonde is bored. And, he isn’t a journalist. He’s an all-round dogs-body, to editor-in-chief, Rhys Kelly. But, his luck has finally changed. After eavesdropping in on the morning editorial meeting, James learns he has his f ...
Disco, Star Wars and Saturday Night Murder! "Try before you buy" with this FREE prequel to THE UNLIKELY MURDER CLUB series.
Before Agatha Shadewell became a master of burglary, forgery, and complex cons, she had one (and only one) legit ...
Mutterly Mistaken and a trail of confusion. Can Kibbles show Alex where the missing quilts are before she's out of the competition for good? Quilts have gone missing at the annual Christmas Quilt Show. Barely having had enough time to complete her own quilt between Pressing Matters and Threading Tro ...
Meet Jax Diamond, a sharp, sophisticated, skilled, no-nonsense private detective. Or is he? Glued to his side is his canine partner, Ace, a fierce and unrelenting German Shepherd whose mere presence terrorizes criminals into submission. Well, maybe not. But the two of them are a whole lot smarter ...
A stitch in time saves lives… When Eva Perkins, Annalise Jordan, Jennifer Ryder, and Sarah Pascal start a quilt club, the last thing they expect to be discussing at their meetings is their paranormal abilities. Even less likely—using them to find a killer. But when Jennifer finds her great-aunt S ...
Winner of Chapter.Con London 2017 Best Female Protagonist Dead man floating! Fiona Fleming is in so much trouble. Her recently inherited bed and breakfast might not actually be hers thanks to the underhanded misdealings of the local real estate bully. Despite her grandmother's last will and testamen ...
A quaint bookshop, a sprinkle of magic, and a dash of mystery.
Harper Sullivan yearns for a place to call home, preferably with a delightful bakery nearby. When news arrives that she's inherited her great-grandmother's bookshop in the charming town of Havenwood, Harper eagerly seizes th ...
She can spot a liar, but can she catch a killer?
On the run from two dangerous thugs, rookie investigators Juliet Marlow and her best friend flee to a small town in Canada.
Trading their sleuth hats for Santa hats, they lie low by taking jobs as holiday helpers at ...
Tj Jensen and her family head to Turtle Cove Resort for summer vacation, but their plans for rest and relaxation are thwarted when they find a dead treasure hunter in the attic of the resort’s main house. Initially vowing not to get involved, Tj quickly changes her tune when the Gull Island deputy o ...
Two botany professors with secrets to hide. A flower expert with something to prove. A dead body. Or two. Or three! Welcome to the Shellesby College greenhouse—where there’s always something dangerous blooming! Holly Jackson could be the next rising star in the botanical department at prestigious Sh ...
Witch way to Tree’s Hollow?
When Lenora “Lenny” Brewer finds herself fed up with her life in the city, she flees to her Aunt’s bed and breakfast in the small town of Tree’s Hollow. A local handyman turns up dead, and Lenny gets herself mixed up in a murd ...
A freak spring storm. A person out for revenge. How's Anne going to get out of this one? When the Brandywine Inn guests are trapped with a killer in their midst, Anne Freemont tries to uncover the killer before anyone else dies. But as the blizzard approaches, strange occurrences make Anne wonder if ...
Fall is always busy in the village of Shenandoah Springs, Virginia, and this year is no exception. Brynn McAlister is juggling the grand opening of a new local business and preparations for the big Harvest Festival.
But when expensive koi fish vanish from Sally’s Pond Plants & Supplie ...
Emily Parker thought she had a perfect life…until the night her dashing private-eye husband was murdered. After the police decid ...
Don’t sit under the apple tree… unless you’re ready for deadly secrets to fall.
Carolina Teal only wanted to serve pie on the porch and enjoy a cozy autumn at her inn. But when cocky orchard farmer Owen Longfellow turns up dead during her photography class, things at the Blueberry Hill In ...
What do Bigfoot and boxing have in common? Meet Raquel (AKA Rocky) Nelson, a retired single woman with a big heart and a deadly punch!
Rocky was looking forward to a carefree camping trip in the Sierra Nevada Mountains with her fraternal twin sister, Bridge ...
A Cozy Vineyard Mystery (Willow Creek Mysteries Book 1) Sun-soaked vineyards, a fresh start… and a murder that refuses to stay buried. Life in wine country is supposed to be simple—tending the vines, welcoming guests, and building a thriving winery. When Emma Hartley returns to her charming ...
If you've got a problem, Charlie Kingsley probably has a tea that’ll help make it right. EXCEPT when it comes to love. She does NOT do love potions. Not even for Courtney, her pregnant new client who showed up three weeks before Christmas seeking a love potion because her husband was cheating on ...
Help Yourself is the 41st book in the Dev Haskell series. Dev gets a call from two different woman needing his help. Jennifer Olson owns the Dream Puff Bakery. Dev knew her in high school and she has some security concerns regarding her bakery. Madeline Duval owns Sassy Secrets, a lingerie busine ...
A persistent grandmother. A twenty-five-year-old death. And a shaky clue to prove it was murder.
When Olivia’s grandmother GG stumbles upon evidence that the death of a friend 25 years ago was no accident, she begs Olivia for help to find the killer.
T ...
WANTED: HOTSHOT P.I. WITH NEAR SUPER-HUMAN SKILLS. Confirmed grump Eddie Valentino placed the ad. Hotshot twenty-something Talba Wallis knew exactly how to answer it. And thus was born the dynamic duo of New Orleans private detectives.
All Mai-Lin Song ever wanted was to be free of her cruel husband … well, that and to be young again … and pretty. The kind of beauty that turned heads as she walked down the street. And f ...
The rural, seaside town of Whispering Cove, Oregon holds many secrets. Catherine Landen has moved to the enchanting coastal community of Whispering Cove, after inheriting the Saltwater Inn from a grandmother she never knew. Ready for a fresh start in a quaint coastal village, she joins the Whisperin ...
Was that a shark? Clownfish Cay is Starla Shadowend's worst nightmare. She'll have to deal with sun, surf, and tourists. (gross) Oh, and a dead body turns up right as she's getting acquainted with the island. Starla will have to clear her name and steer clear of a grumpy Clownfish Cay Police officer ...
Go on a mysterious adventure with Wade and Mira Cullen, two teenagers who stumbled upon a house with a troubled history and a wandering soul. Thirteen-year-old Mira is very unhappy at home. She hates the way her father treats her mother, a woman who practically worships the ground he walks on. But t ...
Murder and conspiracy are exactly what the doctor ordered, if you ask The Dying Five. Who says you can't solve crime with terminal illnesses? When Eric Graham, the CEO of an Indianapolis start-up company is gunned down on his porch after a dinner party, a group of hospice heroes and their social wor ...
"PART ROMCOM, PART MURDER MYSTERY, THEY ARE THE PERFECT WEEKEND READ."
Find out why romantic comedy mystery fans love the light and funny Maizie Albright Star Detective series. “In a nutshell, it’s pure escapism.” Included in the first omnibus from a Wall Street Journal bestselli ...
Exactly whose handfasting is this? Senna feels like naught but an inconvenience at her own wedding.
Lyran’s father seems determined to take over in his pursuit of power, and Senna worries that the man she’s marrying is nothing more than his father’s puppet.
Written as a prequel to the He ...
New friends, a book signing, and a dead author. All the makings of an exciting mystery. When Jessica Murdoch, the successful, established author, Fiona, Lori, and Christie convene at the East Coast's largest book signing, they never expect to find one of the authors dead at the foot of the stairs ...
From seven time Amazon All Star comes a new cozy mystery series! What could go wrong at a world class fishing lodge in the charming town of San Martin de Los Andes, Argentina, home of gauchos, leather, and chocolate? When Ray Martin, the wealthy owner of Moving Graphics, is murdered on a cor ...
'The Heiress of Northanger Abbey' is a sequel to the Jane Austen classic that goes deeper into the Gothic. The story: Twenty-two years after the events of Jane Austen's classic, Catherine Tilney believes she must try to save her daughter, Phoebe, from the predatory Thorpe family. F ...
Ivan Sorokin is missing. Who wants him out of the picture—his wife, his business partner, or the stripper who holds his heart? Can grouchy food critic, Josie Tucker, unravel the puzzle with more twists than Lombard Street and find the missing software entrepreneur? Chinatown. Dim sum. Murder. ...
My name is Naida Griffith and I’m a sorceress. I actually found that out not too long ago. I’ve lived with an undefined something burning in my belly for a while, feeling as if something wasn’t quite right under my skin. Then, on my eighteenth birthday I started getting headaches. Bad ones. And rand ...
All Lizzie wants for Valentine's Day is for her fiancé NOT to be the prime suspect in a murder investigation. Is that too much to ask? Lizzie Hart is finally living the dream. She's engaged to the love of her life, Blake Morgan, and more importantly, she hasn't even given a thought to dead bod ...
Just as things are finally coming together for Daisy's life, another murder strikes the small, coastal town of Cozy Creek. This time a greedy real estate developer is the victim.At first, Daisy is content to leave this case to the police. She'd rather focus on her interior decorating and her blossom ...
Coming out of retirement can be deadly… After tragedy struck three years earlier, art sleuth Carmen De Luca vowed to never work in the field again. But fifty is too young to fill her days with water aerobics and bingo, so when her former partner calls and begs for her help, Carmen gladly agrees. ...
lthough Sheridan Hendley is not a sleuth, when her colleague is murdered she assists the Detective in gathering information. Unfortunately, a close friend quickly becomes the prime suspect and Sheridan is motivated to prove her innocence. As Sheridan draws connections among the people in Adam’ ...
Resthaven Cottage is managed by the ever-helpful Jillian Osborne and her husband, Peter. It’s a charming getaway where unexpected changes and mysteries unfold. Jillian’s unconventional problem-solving methods lead to transformations for the guests and uncover secrets. With the help of her loyal Labr ...
A former con artist, a retired FBI agent, and a teenage hacker walk into a murder investigation. Stop me if you’ve heard this one.
Ex-con Agatha Shadewell spent decades outwitting the law until…she sacrificed her freedom to save a life.
Now, at sixty-five, she’s tra ...
A Perfectly Proper Murder When Maddie Kosloski’s career flatlines, she retreats to her wine country hometown for solace and cheap rent. Railroaded into managing the local paranormal museum, she’s certain the rumors of its haunting are greatly exaggerated. But then a fre ...
Holly Donnelly, an adjunct English professor, and her younger sister, Ivy Donnelly, a recently widowed, retired nurse are reluctantly drawn into the investigation of an elderly neighbor’s murder when Juan Alvarez, Holly’s trusted gardener, is accused of the crime. Holly fears police detective, Nick ...
The only thing worse than living in a haunted house is somebody trying to make you the next ghost. And a dollhouse is the only clue.
When Elise takes a position at spooky old Montgomery Manor as companion to her friend Lavina’s great aunt, she’s expecting an easy job for the h ...
In this third book in the Holly & Ivy series, the Donnelly sisters are looking forward to a relaxing stay in the Catskills after Holly's break-up with Nick Manelli. Holly and Ivy have their plans thwarted when, once again, they become involved in a murder investigation. The day they arrive at Kate F ...
In small-town, Prohibition Era America, murder lurks around and beyond the library stacks.
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It’s 1967. Beatles’ songs are playing everywhere. Torrey is trying to put her broken-hearted life back together. She helps her dad and brother in the family’s surf shop in the friendly little beach community of Mission Cove. But when someone falls off Sunset Cliffs to their death, Torrey gets emeshe ...
In the heart of a raging blizzard Sheriff Jeff McQuede discovers a woman frozen to death in her car. At first he believes her death to be an unfortunate accident--until he finds clues that point to cold-blooded murder. Margaret’s husband, Arthur, left her in the stalled vehicle to brave the storm ...
A sassy, sexy, exotic, and lightning-fast romantic mystery. Temp worker by day, lounge singer by night, single mom Ava is having a rough go of it on St. Marcos, until she lands a too-good-to-be-true job with a boss who sends her to New York to record a demo. But when Ava stumbles across the raped an ...
How did an innocent cup of coffee end up in murder? Eager to rebuild her life after a painful divorce, author Harper Rogers finds herself back in her charming hometown of Palm Park. When Harper agrees to meet an old friend for a coffee catchup, she has no idea it will stir up a dark blend of mystery ...
Aggie Mundeen, who writes the column “Stay Young with Aggie,” plans to rendezvous with SAPD Detective Sam Vanderhoven, the man she loves, at a hotel on the San Antonio River Walk…a vacation from crime and a reset for their tumultuous relationship. In the midst of River Cit ...
A year has passed since the Hamiltons celebrated a holiday as one family. Blake Hamilton—the family patriarch—invited his growing family to a remote Colorado lodge for more reasons than enjoying Christmas. He should’ve known that with his sons and daughter, trouble would find them. The important new ...
It’s been a rough year for 26-year-old Mags Murray. First she learns that her dad isn’t her biological father, a secret her mother took to her grave three years earlier. Then her beloved Irish grandmother passes away at Christmas while Mags is visiting her from the States. Now Mags must host her gra ...
If you like smart women sleuths, murder and deception, you’ll love the Sister Sleuths latest case! A day at the rodeo ends up in murder, and sister sleuths Lea and Maddy find themselves defending more than one suspect. The weapon is a pistol belonging to Maddy’s close friend, Scott Miller, who ...
Holy Parrot is a captivating mystery that seamlessly weaves elements of culture, religion, science, and human emotion. Set in the idyllic Caribbean coast, the novel resonates with truths that may be lies and secrets potentially never revealed. Australian scientist, Leo, must either protect Maria and ...
"My first day as a sleuth was more Stephanie Plum than Miss Marple." Jessica Huntington, an amateur sleuth with a shopping jones and a black AMEX card, finds out money can’t buy happiness, or save your neck. Her well-planned life in shambles, she’s hiding out near Palm Springs. When her ...
