Holiday Cozy

Raiders of the Lost Ark meets The Maltese Falcon in this Maizie Albright star detective New Year’s Eve action-and-adventure-styled, humorous, romantic crime caper. Before champagne toasts and the Big Peach drops, Maizie has 12 hours to reprise her most detested role to protect her family from old acquaintances best forgotten and never brought to mind. Will these ruthless villains pop Maizie’s cork before the clock strikes 12? Or worse yet, drop the ball on her baby sister?

It's time for the annual clam bake weekend, which promises to bring not only new guests to know and love but a mystery to solve and an important decision to make.

When Mayfair’s newly minted Chamber of Commerce goes off the rails, and decides to build an ice skating rink, a decades-old skeleton is uncovered. The secrets it reveals threaten more than the town’s Christmas plans. Feeling responsible since the let’s-attract-more-tourists idea was hers initially, service dog trainer Marcia Banks is determined to help her police detective boyfriend solve the mystery - whether he wants her help or not. Maybe she can wheedle more out of the townspeople than he can.

When Evelyn Eldritch’s landlord Randolph is poisoned at his own James Bond-themed party, she needs to find the killer fast. Who killed him? The nephew and heir? The best friend? Or the faithful secretary? Evelyn wants to prove to Detective Inspector Taylor that she’s more than just a bumbling baker with a missing witness—that cat-turned-waitress spell is proving hard to explain! But how many clues did Evelyn miss while wrangling her diva cat? It’s clear Randolph drank a poisoned cocktail, but was the cyanide really meant for him?