When murder follows Mimi Lee to her romantic island getaway, she puts on her best sleuthing hat with her sassy cat in tow in this adventurous cozy mystery by Jennifer J. Chow.…
Cozy Mysteries
There is nothing like finding a dead body, clad only in a red satin thong, on your property to jolt you from a quiet routine. Jules Keene, owner of the posh Fern…
To help save her family’s floundering Colorado bookstore, Starlit Bookshop, newly minted PhD Emma Starrs agrees to plan a mystery-themed dinner party for her wealthy, well-connected high school classmate Tabitha Baxter. It’s…
By Allison McKnight “There’s a dead guy in our shower.” Having reached Book 17 in the A Bad Hair Day Mystery series, hairstylist-slash-amateur sleuth Marla Vail is almost as familiar with murder…
By April Snellings If “Why did you become a writer?” were a multiple-choice question, “Because I needed to look busy” probably wouldn’t be one of those choices. But that’s exactly what led…
By Mindy Carlson We rejoin amateur sleuth Carrie Singleton in DEATH ON THE SHELF, Allison Brook’s fifth novel in her popular Haunted Library series. This time the focus of the book is…
The Goonies meets Charade in the latest Accidental Alchemist Mystery. A blackmailer obsessed with gold, a boyfriend who’s more than he seems, and a treasure hidden on the Oregon coast… Alchemist Zoe…
By Cathy Perkins Canadian author Joan Havelange has translated her love of travel into a fun series populated by middle-aged protagonists. THE SUSPECTS, the fourth book in the Mabel and Violet’s Excellent…
By Allison McKnight “Mulled wine has been around for a millennia. Initially created to salvage batches of subpar wine, the spices and honey leveraged to mask unpleasant flavors, these days it’s a…
By Charlie Cochrane Elizabeth Blake’s latest cozy mystery, DEATH AND SENSIBILITY, is set in the beautiful, historic English city of York. In it, bookstore owner Erin Coleridge seeks the scoundrel who silenced…
A summer of fun at a Catskills resort comes to an abrupt end when a guest is found murdered in this new 1950s set mystery series. It’s the summer of 1953, and…
Appalachian artist and local guide Miranda Trent opens a new murder investigation after her Paint & Shine tour group discovers the remains of a missing hiker along an ancient trail . .…
Most times of the year, the tight-knit community gardens in quaint Arborville, New Jersey, overflow with seasonal vegetables and herbs. But who planted the dead body? Farm-to-table enthusiast Jenny Miller had a…
By Dawn Ius When Paislee Shaw agrees to chaperone her son Brody’s class to the gardens of the Leery Estate, she hopes to get a message to Shawn Marcus, the son of…
Sarah Blair gets an education in slicing and dicing when someone in culinary school serves up a main corpse in Wheaton, Alabama. Sarah Blair, who finds being in the kitchen more frightening…
By Charlie Cochrane When the latest commission for an author interview for The Big Thrill dropped into my inbox, my eyes lit up at the inclusion of “crossword” in the synopsis for…
The Holmes family plans to celebrate the Easter holidays in London until a tragedy during the 1868 Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race puts Mycroft Holmes’s reputation on the line. When Mycroft Holmes identifies a…
By Charlie Cochrane Not all authors write for both adults and teens—but Emmeline Duncan does. Her latest for adult cozy mystery fans, FRESH BREWED MURDER, is the first in a planned series…
The Myrtle Beach Boardwalk is normally an idyllic place, until death arrives on recently widowed bookstore owner Clark Thomas’s doorstep. When the body of a local businesswoman and environmentalist gets dumped by…
By Charlie Cochrane Sometimes you read an author’s website and you go, “Well, what on earth’s that about?” That was certainly the case with Olivia Blacke, so when we sat down to…
A murder in the Cobble Cove cemetery on Halloween night follows the burial of John’s aunt. Could one of his cousins who have come to town be responsible? As Alicia, Gilly, and…
Monk Buttman is a man who foolishly believes his problems will somehow work themselves out, but Life rarely cooperates. In love with two women, one of whom is very sick, running errands…
By Charlie Cochrane USA Today bestselling author Ellen Byron brings us the sixth instalment of her Cajun Country mystery series with MURDER IN THE BAYOU BONEYARD. When Maggie Crozat—proprietor of a historic…
Emily Garland is getting married and looking for the perfect forever home. When the old, and some say haunted, Hadley house comes up for sale, she’s convinced this is “the one.” The…