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.
Poisonous snails: murder by mollusc solved by a cozy alien octopod. A Devilly Peen murder mystery. The village of Nether Vortex nestles in the outer spiral of the Great Pacific Gyre, where colonizing octopods have built a civilization out of a giant swirl of plastic waste. With its nosy neighbou ...
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 ...
Hetta Coffey is a woman with a yacht and she's not afraid to use it! Hetta Coffey's a woman with a yacht, and she she's not afraid to use it!
And this time she's steering us into hot Mexican waters.
Miffed that vacation plans with her chronically absent boyfriend, Jenks Jenkins, have ...
A slice of southern charm and murder à la mode. A sudden midlife crisis leads Poppy across the country to a charming, yet deadly, pastry school in the heart of southern Georgia. Gathering the courage to follow in her grandmother’s footsteps, Poppy tosses her fear of carbs and soggy pastry bottoms as ...
From Book 1: From New York Times bestselling author Debra Burroughs comes THE LAKE HOUSE SECRET...
"I loved this book!! I can't wait to read the next one." ~ Natalie Hardie
"Very engaging boo ...
Paris – the city of love, lights… and murder? Join tour guide Lana Hansen as she escorts five couples on an unforgettable Valentine-themed vacation to France! Unfortunately it will be the last trip for one passenger… Lana Hansen’s future is looking bright. She has money in her bank account, a babysi ...
"If you love your cozy mysteries with a side of zany, you’ll love this book."
Dating a Cop when Your Family’s in the Mob? That’s the Textbook Definition of a Birdbrain Idea.
Just when Doreen Diller thinks her newfound Mafia Family have given up their sketchy ways, she discovers ...
Rosie Weaver treasures her simple, steady life — tending her garden, sharing tea with her monthly book club, and keeping danger safely tucked inside her books. Still, widowhood has left her the time to be watchful, even when she pretends otherwise. When a young man’s coffin is discovered empty in ...
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!
Veronica Valentine, a sharp and inquisitive journalism student at USC, is tired of the routine of college life. Between dull lectures and endless assignments, her restless curiosity craves a bigger challenge—a mystery worth solving.
When petty thefts sweep through her dorm, Veronica’s ...
When Salem Grimes stumbles onto a dead body on her way to an AA meeting, she does what any self-respecting Christian would do—freaks out and screeches words that would make Jesus blush. However, learning her ex-husband, Tony, stands accused of the murder spurs Salem into action. Eager to help, sh ...
A bouquet of roses, a bottle of wine, a crystal butterfly…and a dead man.
Midnight gifts for Lindsay.
As the body count rises, Lindsay begins to see danger everywhere. Not bad enough he kills people. He also murders the English ...
When a killer strikes during a freak May blizzard, suspicion falls on his neighbor - Emma Rand's best friend, Kristy Castle. Kristy's past casts a long shadow across the Summer Solstice celebrations, but did she kill to keep her secret? Book two of the Casper Crime Boss Trilogy.
A handsome chocoholic comes to Death by Chocolate, eats three of Lindsay’s desserts and rescues her from her ex, Rickhead. The mysterious man is her new best friend. She sends him on his way with a complimentary box ...
Aiden O’Rourke needed cash to help pay for college so he made money by selling his sperm. He was young, attractive, smart…and popular. Now many years later, his offspring are coming forward—ele ...
Plunged into the middle of a celebrity murder investigation, horoscope writer Amber Reed is desperate to convince the scarily handsome special agent assigned to solve the case that she can help him catch the killer. Hmm...maybe she shouldn't have wished for more excitement in her life after all!
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 ...
Returning home to star in a movie about going home, Jan Fairchild stirs up old resentments galore. When the actress is found dead the morning after a nostalgic pajama party, several of her former high-school girlfriends become murder suspects—including amateur sleuth Ginger Barnes. Before the pol ...
When Violet Hartwell’s FBI agent husband, Mason, dies under suspicious circumstances the night before their long-dreamed-of Airstream adventure, her world shatters. Fleeing the suffocating wake in a haze of grief, Violet hits the road alone—only to land in the middle of a murder investiga ...
From Book 1: USA Today bestselling author, Anna Celeste Burke, brings you an unconventional sleuth hot on the heels of high-living lowlifes in book 1 of the Jessica Huntington Desert Cities Mystery Series. Even in a desert paradise, life is full of surprises like A Dead Husband.
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'An atmospheric village mystery with enough unexpected twists to keep readers fully engaged.' -- Booklist Fingerprints left on Time. This is the premise on which Peter Marsh -- a former policeman invalided out of the force --- and his daughter, Georgia, base their investigations into unsolved past m ...
Kapellmeister Joseph Haydn would like nothing better than to show his principal violinist, Bartó Daboczi, the door. But with the Empress Maria Theresa’s visit scheduled in three weeks, Haydn can ill-afford to lose his surly virtuoso. But when Bartó disappears—along with all ...
So About the Money romps through eastern Washington with its rivers, wineries, Native American casinos, and assorted farm animals. Add in some wicked fun chemistry between the CPA amateur sleuth and a local detective and Holly Price better solve the case before the next dead body found beside the ri ...
When the home security alarm awakens Cait Pepper in the middle of the night, she assumes there are bugs in the new system but has it checked out the following day. The security technician finds a halberd--a Shakespearean weapon--and knife on the ground which are construed as evidence of an attempted ...
Small town council meetings are usually boring, but not when Ricki and murder are involved! When Waterton councilman and local pharmacist, Ralph Waites, takes a wrong turn after a council meeting and ends up face down in the Ohio River, the Waterton police at first think it was an accident. The m ...
From the depths of past ghost hunting adventures, an old case emerges to haunt Marna Langley and the relentless Midnight Calls crew.
In a treacherous twist of fate, an ill-fated investigation leads Marna to once again confront the malevolent poltergeist that once sought to claim her ve ...
May you enjoy this third book in the Natalie Seachrist Hawaiian Mysteries First Place Winner for Fiction, Adventure-Drama in the 2019 New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards...Honolulu journalist Natalie Seachrist and her boyfriend, private investigator Keoni Hewitt are delighted to plunge into a Chinese New ...
Pat is hired by attorney Jason Forman to “get some dirt” on his daughter’s fiancé. Before she gets very far in her investigation, the young man is murdered. Did his past catch up with him or is what Pat fears, that there’s a serial shooter going after Christmas Eve grooms, the reason he was killed?
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 ...
The hunt for the elusive Douglas Diamond continues with the murder of a respected centenarian who leaves Cat Wright a tell-all-diary accusing a prominent political family of a cover up that strikes at the foundation of Barkview’s elite. Has the tale of the Douglas Diamond just been an elaborate hoax ...
From Book 1:When Houston reporter Lucy Resnick cashes in her retirement to buy her grandmothers farm in Buttercup, Texas, shes looking forward to a simple life as a homesteader. But Lucy has barely finished putting up her first batch of Killer Dewberry Jam when an oil exploration truck rolls up to t ...
When a family friend is bilked out of her life savings, the sisters and their father (a retired chief of police), seek a way to right the wrong. But they soon discover their well-intentioned investigation could turn deadly. Follow the amateur sleuths as they dig into their latest case and find t ...
Cozy up in a comfy chair, here are 7 full-length cozy mysteries for you to binge-read!
In the picturesque town of Sparrow Haven, tranquility is shattered, and mysteries are found around every corner.
Olivia Harper, the town’s insightful l ...
A classic murder mystery set in the unusual surroundings of The Gyre -- that giant swirl of garbage in the mid-Pacific Ocean colonized by octopods, a race of eight armed aliens who have built a civilization out of plastic waste. There, amidst the empty water bottles and yogurt pots you will find ...
#5 in THE DEAD RED MYSTERY SERIES Like Janet Evanovich? Sue Grafton? You’ll love this humorous mystery series! Your dirt-bag boss is murdered, what a relief, right? Until his killer lets you know a list you don’t have means you’re next. Thinking to jump start their careers as private inve ...
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 ...
ezabelle Jingle and her neighbors in the Penderghast section of Brilliant, Minnesota, have a mystery on their hands.Someone is stealing sections of hardwood floors in their homes and the thefts may be connected to a long-hidden treasure left by the founders of Brilliant. Not only that, there's a dea ...
A quiet new chapter disrupted by a submerged skeleton. Facing cryptic clues and falling for a mysterious man, can she solve a puzzling cold case? Aubrie Ann Anderson is brimming with excitement. Putting her librarian days behind her after inheriting her aunt’s 500-acre lakeside estate, she dreams ...
Who killed Russell Dixon?
When Agatha Lapp’s brother and sister-in-law are tragically killed in a buggy accident, Agatha relocates to the new Amish community in Hunt Texas, nestled in the Texas Hill Country. She’s there to make a success of her brother’s dr ...
Someone at Professor Laura Murphy’s college appears to be playing a joke on her by planting sexually explicit stories in her research results, but the joke turns deadly when one story details the recent stabbing murder of a coed. Laura’s close friend, Detective Derrick Pasquis from the local police, ...
Detective Oliver Tucker never knew how perilous dying was until he stumbled onto William Mendelson—murdered in a hidden vault where Egyptian relics and World War II secrets were once stashed. Now those relics are missing. The secrets are coming out. The dead are talking.
Tuck, the detecti ...
An historic castle. A beautiful wedding. A dead groom. Former big city cop, Inspector David Graham, is now leading a small group of officers in the tiny coastal village of Gorey. One Sunday morning, as he walks around the imposing Orgueil castle, Graham’s peaceful life comes to a shuddering ha ...
A simple puzzle turned deadly. With scandal and folks with something to hide, can this retired inspector close the book on homicide?
North Yorkshire, 1966. Tom Ramsay can’t seem to escape mysteries. Reluctantly taking on a straightforward case to appease his assistant, th ...
In Prohibition-era America, college librarian Doro Banyon expects a quiet life among the stacks—not a dead professor in the library.
When Doro discovers the body and can’t resist investigating, her orderly world is turned upside down. The college president puts her under ...
Doro has it all—her dream job as college library director within reach, marriage to sweetheart Ev only weeks away, and deep gratitude as Thanksgiving approaches. Until a coach turns up dead and a wi ...
In Frost on the Bloom, the second in the Holly & Ivy mystery series, one of Holly’s former students, Becky Powell, asks the look-alike sisters for help when they all spend Christmas at Skyview Manor, and Becky becomes the prime suspect in the attempted murder of her manipulative grandmother, Lyl ...
Maggie Crozat is home in Cajun Country during the most magical time of the year. But the Grinch has come to stay at the Crozat Plantation B&B, and he’s flooding travel websites with vicious reviews. Maggie ID’s him as rival businessman Steve Harmon, who's been masquerading as a guest at the B ...
Wine tasting, murder, and more. A murder and a toxic substance in a vineyard would spell doom for the manager of any winery. And when that manager is a woman, a rarity in the wine industry, people are quick to place the blame on her shoulders. Even though Sheridan's husband, Brett, and his p ...
Alexandra Kustodia searches for rare gems in the most remote areas of the world. Descended from a long line of Russian jewelers, her family’s fate is tied into the legacy of the imperial family. Secrets from the past haunt her dreams as a killer hunts her. With her beloved borzoi, Hunter, by her s ...
Something’s got a spaniel familiar’s tongue…and it isn’t a cat. Charity Hughes is the first witch in more than a century to possess a gift like hers. She’s a “familiar whisperer” — someone who can communicate with other witches’ troubled familiars and resolve their problems. When Darla Fitzger ...
Lizzie Hart’s crazy love life has been leading up this moment…when she finally gets to marry Blake Morgan. But with their luck, will they make it to ’til death do us part before the wedding even starts? It’s June in the small town of Liberty, and that means it’s wedding season. Faster than you c ...
Anything can happen on a reality show, though finding a body on set—and live on air—is new. Melissa McBallister is young, rich, and beautiful but frustrated. She wants nothing more than to be a famous author like her mother. When the opportunity to be on a new reality TV show comes her way, she grab ...
Aliens, fairies and murder, oh, my! In small-town Doyle, California, UFO abductions are a budding tourist attraction. So when Susan Witsend brings a UFO festival to town, she’s ready for some well-deserved time in the sun. What she gets instead is the corpse of a UFO conspiracy theorist, brained wit ...
The Grand Opening is set for the Spirits of Texas Inn, and Hannah Duncan has one goal – Go Big, or Go Home!
After her uncle gifts her the tiny hamlet of Hannah, Texas, the reluctant owner accepts the challenge of a new career. The town (a loose definit ...
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 ...
Every holiday season, Kiki Lowenstein plans 12 days of classes, her Holiday Craft Extravaganza. And every year, it nearly kills her.
This year is no exception. As the holiday season approaches, Kiki over-schedules herself and winds up running herself ragged. To make life even more stressful ...
