Cozy Crime Fiction

One of America's most highly acclaimed mystery writers brings us another installment in the career of Henrietta "Henrie O" Collins, an ex-reporter turned sleuth. These days, Henrie O is teaching journalism at Thorndyke University, where she encourages an ambitious student to pursue an investigative series about three unrelated and hitherto unsolved local crimes. But the student's study habits get her killed.

When Charlotte befriends Lisa Swanson, her dreams of owning a cupcake bakery finally begin to come true. But when a body is discovered and all signs point to Lisa being the guilty one, Charlotte doesn't know what to believe.

With cats to hide and crimes to solve, Lorilee and Jess, her ward, are pretty busy. Once again, they will find that amateur sleuthing can be dangerous—even deadly.

When salvage expert and historian Paisley Sutton heard that a 19th-century printing press was still in the old warehouse that was scheduled for demolition, she knew she had to get in there. But when her dreams of a salvage windfall lead her on the genealogical hunt for the owners of the press and their descendants, she uncovers a story that promises to stay with her far longer than the income from her salvage operations.

Business has been good for historian Paisley Sutton, but when she goes into her own church parish house to salvage some of the early 20th century fixtures before the building is demolished, she uncovers far more than vintage cabinets. Once the women from church hear about the secrets Paisley is uncovering, they are bound and determined to reveal the truth and unmask a murderer in the process.

A 300-year-old house should be full of metaphorical skeletons, not real ones. But when Paisley Sutton is invited in to salvage the valuables from the attic of an old plantation house, she finds more than she expected amongst the Christmas decorations and trunks of old letters. As she begins to research, she discovers the story of this house has ties to almost everyone she knows, including her own family.

When Paisley Sutton gets the chance to salvage from her first antique log cabin, she is ecstatic, until she finds the body of a murdered man in the back room. When she and her friends begin to look into who he is and why he’s dead, they uncover a heap of stories no one in town wants them to know.

On the day when Paisley Sutton goes to salvage barn board from an old chicken coop on her neighbor’s land, she thinks the worst thing she may find is rotten eggs. Little does she know...she’s about to unearth a mystery that has lingered for decades. She can’t help but research the story, but when she does, she finds far more than she hoped.

Paisley Sutton hates to see an old barn falling down, so when she has a chance to take in a crew of friends to salvage timbers, she goes in with gusto. But when they find the bones from a decades-old murder, Paisley begins to wonder if maybe some things should just be let go to ruins. Maybe some secrets need to stay buried. If Paisley decides to salvage more than just wood and reveal the murderer, will she be the next body buried in a barn?

Als Sophie Sayers das Cottage ihrer Tante in einem kleinen englischen Dorf erbt, hofft sie auf ein ruhiges und entspanntes Leben. Stattdessen findet sie eine Leiche auf einem Festumzugswagen! Die Tote schien nicht gerade beliebt zu sein und die Gruppe der Verdächtigen ist groß. Wem kann Sophie als Neuling im Dorf vertrauen? Ist der rätselhafte – und charmante – Buchhändler Hector Munro wirklich der, der er zu sein scheint? Und was ist mit dem überfreundlichen Nachbarn, der ihr Gläser mit Honig bringt? Ganz zu schweigen von den Mitgliedern des Veranstaltungskomitee, der Schriftstellergruppe und des Theatervereins.

When the most hated man in Harmony Lake runs for mayor and turns up dead on election night, two of the people closest to me are suspects in his murder. But needling out the real culprit isn’t easy when everyone in town has a motive and an alibi. Someone has to dig deep into the lives of the residents of this tight-knit community and unravel their secrets. That someone is me. My name is Megan and I solve murders. People have a knack of dying where I happen to be, and evidence has a way of finding its way into my hands.

Lucie Rizzo is forced to move home to her nutty, mob-infested family. When she parlays her temporary dog-walking gig into a career, she is thrown into a criminal conspiracy straight out of a gangster movie. One that, if she’s not careful, could leave her sleeping with the fishes.

Art curator Jessamine Rhodes has left behind her gig at a prominent gallery in the city to open her own community art center in the small town of Rose Shore. She's all set to host an extravagant opening watercolors class and has even booked a famous artist to teach it. Gabriella Everhart brings along her priceless painting Tranquil to showcase as the centerpiece of the event. The opening class is just wrapping up when suddenly Tranquil disappears before Jessamine's eyes. Next, the lights of the art center flicker out and leave the crowd in complete darkness as a scream pierces the air.

Für Paislee Shawn ist ein Traum in Erfüllung gegangen: Sie ist glückliche Besitzerin des Strickwarengeschäfts "Cashmere Crush“ und hat für sich, ihren Sohn Brody, ihren Großvater und ihren schwarzen schottischen Terrier Wallace im charmanten Shir Nairn ein Zuhause aufgebaut. Deshalb freut sich Paislee besonders, als sie die Gelegenheit bekommt, dem Örtchen etwas zurückzugeben. Um Geld für die Tafeln in Nairn zu sammeln, spendet sie ein selbstgestricktes Kaschmirpulloverset.

When Charlotte discovers a dead body her first day in the cozy town of Sweetwater Falls, she worries she may have made the wrong choice, moving from the big city to a small town. She was hoping for a family feel and a fresh start, not a shakedown from local law enforcement and an aunt who keeps disappearing right when danger nears.

Darcy’s got an interview with a local paper. Cool, right? Well, maybe not. Why’s she got reservations about doing the interview when anyone she tells about it encourages her to jump at the chance? So, Darcy jumps. Only she finds her remote interview over Zoom comes to an untimely end when her interviewer is attacked.

Stop by for some comfortable visits to Stewart's Crossing, where reformed computer hacker Steve Levitan and his crime-sniffing golden retriever Rochester are nose to the ground in this collection of mystery short stories that take place between novels. In the first of these stories, Steve is learning to love the big, goofy golden he has inherited on the death of his neighbor, and Rochester shows him how to open his heart and his home to his sweetheart Lili.

Another murder rocks the small Welsh town of Gilfach - the police are baffled, the corpse is getting colder, and only Granny Smith, the intrepid pensioner sleuth, stands between justice and all out anarchy. Granny has a talent for mayhem, and soon those talents are put to good use as our intrepid pensioner starts to unravel the case, which finds her provoking Chief Inspector Miskin as she comes up against a full-scale police investigation, proving that you’re never too old to make a nuisance of yourself and that 71 is actually the new 21.

Ganz Wendlebury Barrow steht unter Mordverdacht – Sophie Sayers ermittelt. Die beliebte Cosy Krimi-Reihe geht mit einem skurrilen Fall weiter! Als eine mysteriöse Fremde im verschlafenen Wendlebury Barrow auftaucht und das ganze Dorf beschuldigt, ein Baby ermordet zu haben, hat Hobbydetektivin Sophie Sayers sofort die wildesten Theorien. Da hilft es auch nicht, dass ihr Ex-Freund überraschend auftaucht, gerade als ihre neue Romanze mit dem charmanten Buchhändler Hector Munro in Schwung kommt.

New friendship, common interests and kindred spirits bring Bella and Kitty together as they strive to uncover the perpetrator responsible for the wave of deadly crime ricocheting through their respective Kent villages of Monhurst and Wynenden.