Cozy Comedy

Mystery writers and church ladies derail on a cross-country train, chuffing with intrigue, shenanigans, and romance. Too bad Sandra can’t concentrate on honing her writing. Or purifying her heathen soul. Because, she keeps discovering dead bodies. Sandra has an aversion to a particular detective Lt. Hottie. She can’t let things get stirred up with him again. Because of what she did during the hurricane.

Just when it seems like Meg Walton can get back to business as usual running the family's donut shop, another murder occurs in the once-sleepy town of Enchanted Bay. This time, a double-crossing carpet salesman turned theater owner is the victim...the police suspect one of Meg's friends as the possible killer. Meg knows she can't stand idly by. In order to prove her friend's innocence, she decides to find the real killer herself.

C-list actress Rosie Collins’ name is making headlines...unfortunately it’s only with the tabloids. Now, with a freshly minted reputation for being a troublemaker, not even the local Dollar General store will hire her to twirl their sign. Problem is the job offers stop, but the bills don’t. Rosie needs cash fast, like, express-lane fast. Might professional mourning be the answer? Sure, yeah, whatever.

When snarky food critic, Josie Tucker, heads to Austin, Texas, to wax philosophical about the local barbecue joints, she stumbles on to a decades' old missing person case. With the help of a local reporter, a Goth ghost hunter, and a bunco-playing transvestite, she tries to unravel the heart-tugging, hidden history before the whole place goes up in smoke.

El jardinero no siempre es el asesino, a veces es el cadáver... Angela Merkel se enfrenta a esta extravagante situación cuando su perrito Putin descubre el cadáver de un jardinero en el cementerio de Klein-Freudenstadt. El muerto está en una posición imposible: boca abajo y enterrado de manera que solo sus piernas sobresalen. Los sospechosos de este asesinato se pueden encontrar en dos familias rivales que dirigen sendas empresas de pompas fúnebres: hay un oscuro director gerente, una contable algo inestable, un adorador de Satán.

Charmante Dilettanten: Monsieur Lipaires Gauner-Truppe träumt vom großen Coup an der Côte d'Azur – doch irgendwas geht immer schief. Ein Rätsel, das zum Familienschatz einer südfranzösischen Adelsdynastie führt, versteckt im Kanallabyrinth der malerischen Küstenstadt Port Grimaud? Das klingt zu formidable, um wahr zu sein. Gelegenheitsgauner Guillaume Lipaire sieht endlich seine Chance, schnell an viel Geld zu kommen. Er versammelt ein ungewöhnliches Team um sich, das ihm dabei helfen soll, das Rätsel zu lösen.

Winterruhe auf dem Campingplatz? Nicht bei den Hirschgrundis: Sofias alter Gartenpavillon wurde nämlich demoliert - und bei den Aufräumarbeiten findet sie ein Skelett! Wer wurde damals im Fundament des Pavillons begraben? Und warum? War es Mord? Und hat Sofias Opa womöglich etwas damit zu tun? Das mag von den Hirschgrundis keiner so recht glauben. Aber bei ihren Nachforschungen gibt es diesmal ein Problem: Kommissar Jan van der Linden! Der sieht nicht nur aus wie der nächste James Bond, sondern ist auch fest entschlossen, den Fall ohne die Hilfe der Dauercamper zu lösen.

Herr Heiland geht auf große Fahrt: Der alljährliche Ausflug mit den Messdienern steht an. Und dann noch in eine abgelegene Jugendherberge - ein Graus! Wie viel lieber wäre Heiland auf seiner Sonntagskanzel... oder sogar bei einer seiner Mordermittlungen. Ein Wunsch, der ihm leider viel zu schnell erfüllt wird: Der Herbergsvater Sigismund Grumpelmoser liegt im Gras - erschlagen! Doch von wem? Der wohlhabende Charmeur war allseits beliebt.

A beautiful television personality comes home to mourn her mother, as well as the life she lost when her husband became ill and the pandemic shut down her show. When her husband dies suddenly, was she simply expressing her grief with murder? Was he the intended victim, or did she narrowly escape the well-deserved wrath of her neighbors?

The sleuths at the Beautiful Bird Over-55 RV Park in Florida are back for a third unofficial investigation, this time with three possible crimes. Their friend Detective O'Connor is missing, and they suspect he's in trouble. People find themselves on dating sites they never signed up for. And even though the two men hauling away the contents of a former resident's trailer are authorized to so do, they seem off somehow. As our intrepid retirees investigate events in the park, they will uncover evil deeds and face mortal danger. But really, shouldn't they be getting used to that by now?

Es geht heiß her am Hirschgrund-See: Auf dem Campingplatz wird mitten in der größten Sommerhitze ein berühmtes Barista-TV-Duell ausgetragen. Und natürlich nimmt Evelyn höchstpersönlich daran teil. Und die Damen vom Hirschgrund schmelzen endgültig dahin, als klar wird, wer ihr erster Gegner ist: Leon de Ricci, der unglaublich gutaussehende Star-Barista. Nur Sofia hat andere Sorgen: Denn im Wald stolpert sie über den am Boden liegenden Kameramann - erschossen.

When Verity Hudson goes missing, Peddyr Quirk—with assistance from his wife Connie—investigates a strange new case which unfolds in an unsavory part of town. It soon becomes apparent that they are not the only ones looking for Verity. A freelance researcher is searching for her birth mother. An influential man of power and money is desperate to find his estranged sister. A local politician is determined to expose a hidden tragedy. A TV journalist will stop at nothing to expose the true story…if it can be uncovered. Where is Verity, who is Verity, and who will find her first?

Scott Fletcher is dead—his lifeless body in a pool of blood. Sarah Holden’s life is turned upside down the day she is discovered with her fiancé’s body next to the motorbike he’d been working on. She has blood on her hands, but the screams do not come. If she didn’t kill him, then who did? The answer seems too easy, the culprit too obvious. Peddyr and Connie Quirk, husband-and-wife private investigators, are brought in to unravel the tangle, prove Sarah’s innocence, and find the true culprit. As they are about to discover, the truth is sometimes more than skin-deep.

As if finding out her boyfriend Billy had been killed in an automobile accident was not bad enough, Kate soon found out that he had been across town with another girl at four a.m. at the time. Terry had been driving his precious car that he would not even let Kate drink her coffee in. Together with her best friends, Connie, Linda, and Stella, she decides to solve this mystery. The plot thickens when she finds out that Terry had been shot. Kate was then accused of being a stripper, then arrested for attempted murder. It was a good thing that Billy was there to help them—in ghost form.

Accepting an offer from his uncle, Lord Beddington, to learn about estate management, William Duncan gets involved in raising money to support their local hospital. After a series of unfortunate accidents to Lord Beddington and his wife, William is persuaded by his aunt’s rival on the council to enlist the help of his father, General Duncan, whose previous visit resulted in a yachting catastrophe, still remembered with anguish by his uncle. Her daughter, Lavinia, is coordinating the hospital PR campaign and sets out to trap William into marriage.

Meet Daphne Buckley, a psychiatrist in search of a great love. He hasn't turned up yet. But surely he will. He could be any one of the respondents to her old-fashioned 'looking for love' classified. He could be one of the men her overbearing mother tries to set her up with, or even someone she already knows. It doesn't matter. Daphne is determined and brainy and prepared to bend all the rules. With old school friend Celeste by her side and her mother's grooming tips for unkempt leg hair, love is likely just around the corner.

With no job prospects on the horizon, former fashion buyer Samantha Kidd convinces boyfriend and shoe designer Nick Taylor to give her a job. But when close friend Eddie asks for help with an exhibit of vintage Hollywood costumes, she splits her time between romance and comedy—until a dead man claims all of her attention. Brimming with good intentions, she leave the investigation to the cops, but the killer keeps Eddie in the crosshairs. If Samantha can tear the lid off the investigation, it might mean a feather in her fedora. And if she can't? Her best friend might get capped.

Henry Silberbaum ist kein Rabbi, wie er im Buche steht. Er liebt Kriminalromane, Polohemden, seine Espressomaschine und sein Rennrad. Aber auch seine Schüler und die Bewohner des Jüdischen Seniorenstifts in Frankfurt liegen ihm am Herzen. Als eine alte Dame überraschend stirbt, ist sich der Rabbi sicher: Das war Mord. Doch keiner glaubt ihm. Kann er den brummigen Kommissar Berking davon überzeugen, der ihn kürzlich verhaftet hat? Henry riskiert seinen Job, um die Wahrheit zu finden. Und plötzlich befinden sich der Rabbi und der Kommissar mitten in einem lebensgefährlichen Mordkomplott.

Cosy Crime im Altenheim. Das Leben im Seniorenheim ist langweilig. Helmut wusste das vorher, aber seine Frau Margot schwört im Alter auf drei geregelte Mahlzeiten, einen Wäscheservice und einen Fitnessraum. Seinen Einwand, dass eine JVA die gleichen Vorzüge bietet, überhört sie großzügig. Nun teilt sich Helmut mit Gerhard eine Flasche Bier, sucht in Séancen Kontakt zu verstorbenen Haustieren und berät Hannelore bei der Vorbereitung ihres Begräbnisses. Bis zu dem Tag, an dem Küchenhilfe Selma mit einer Fleischgabel in der Nase tot aufgefunden wird. Endlich kommt Leben in die Bude und Helmut läuft zu Hochform auf.

Maggie Pill’s characters seem like people we know: In The Sleuth Sisters Series, it’s siblings we love but can’t always relate to. In the Trailer Park Tales Series, we meet the residents of an RV park in Florida: Fussy husbands, smart-aleck wives, grumpy neighbors, conspiracy lovers, and more. The residents of B-Bird Over-55 RV Park are mostly snow-birds, so for months each year they face the joys and irritations of living in tight spaces with people from all over the place. Usually they cope with politeness and good humor, but at times it’s difficult.