A Hint of Mischief
Courtney has thrown a few fairy garden parties for kids. But if a local socialite is willing to dip into her trust fund for an old sorority sister’s fortieth birthday …
Category: Cozy
Cozy mysteries, also referred to as “cozies”, are a subgenre of crime fiction in which sex and violence are downplayed or treated humorously, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community.
Peppermint Barked
As the holiday season lights up Seattle’s famed Pike Place Market, Pepper Reece’s beloved Spice Shop is brimming with cinnamon, nutmeg, and shoppers eager to stuff their stockings. Add to …
Friday the Witchteenth
Bay Winchester is newly married and happy. Things have been quiet since she returned from her honeymoon, which means trouble is just around the corner. Even Tilly has been behaving …
A Midsummer Night’s Fudge
During the Midsummer Night’s celebration, Allie decides to take her bichonpoo, Mal, home to spare her furry little ears from the sounds of fireworks. But on her way back, Allie …
Buried In A Good Book
Bestselling thriller writer Tess Harrow is almost at the end of her rope when she arrives with her teenage daughter at her grandfather’s rustic cabin in the woods. She hopes …
Renovated To Death
After a successful first season of Domestic Partners chronicling the renovation of their historic Craftsman Colonial, Peter and JP are taking on a renovation of a local Tudor Revival inherited …
The Diva Says Cheesecake!
Old Town’s midsummer festival is getting a tasty addition this year. To coincide with a public performance of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Bobbie Sue Bodoin, the Queen of Cheesecake, …
Double Shot Death
At Campathon, an annual eco-friendly music festival held on a farm outside of Portland, fans celebrate the Pacific Northwest’s music scene in quintessential PDX style, with gourmet food carts, reusable …
The Burning Pages
One winter’s night, bookseller Delaney Nichols and her coworker Hamlet are invited to a Burns Night dinner, a traditional Scottish celebration of the poet Robert Burns. She’s perplexed by the …
Mining For Murder
Zo Jones is enjoying the sunny season at her Happy Camper gift shop in Spirit Canyon, South Dakota, when a murder reminds her all that glitters isn’t gold. The South …
A Margin For Murder
Addie leaves her Greyborne Harbor bookstore, Beyond the Page Books and Curios, in the capable hands of her assistant while she travels to the neighboring town of Pen Hollow to …
The Vanishing Type
While January snow falls outside in Miracle Springs, North Carolina, Nora Pennington encourages customers to cozy up indoors with a good book, perhaps a classic novel. Even though the shop …
Murder Most Grave
With a new grandkid to care for at home, Stella has little time to spare. Her hands are especially full since Savannah, her teenage granddaughter, developed a crush on a …
Wedding Bell Blues
Jill couldn’t love police chief Greg King more, so why does that engagement ring still feel funny on her finger? At least she’ll have a chance to show it off …
‘Til Death
The staff at Salem, Massachusetts’s local station, WICH-TV, is looking forward to the wedding of their program director, psychic Lee Barrett. But when Lee heads off on her Maine honeymoon, …
Batten Down the Belfry
Carpenter Whitney Whitaker and her cousin Buck have successfully flipped houses, but this is the first time they’ve attempted to renovate a house of worship. Still, the colorful stained glass …
Danger On The Atlantic
Atlantic Ocean, 1926: Voyaging from Southampton to New York, self-reliant Jane is determined to prove herself a worthy investigator on the stately cruise ship, even awkwardly going undercover as the …
Three Shots To The Wind
Saloon owner Chloe Jackson appears to have a secret admirer. She’s pouring drinks at the Sea Glass Saloon in Emerald Cove when an airplane flies by above the beach with …
Murder Faux Paws
When a local PI’s untimely death is ruled a suicide by the police, budding sleuth Nora Charles has no intention of letting sleeping dogs lie, or sleeping cats, for that …
Pleading the Fish
Café owner and amateur sleuth Everly Swan, like every Swan woman before her, is cursed in love. The only problem? Her fiancé Detective Grady Hayes has something to say about …
Death of a Knit Wit
Pamela has organized a weekend-long knitting bee as part of a fiber arts and crafts conference at Wendelstaff College. But when pompous Professor Robert Greer-Gordon Critter, the keynote speaker at …
Put Out to Pasture
Shiloh Bellamy has saved her family’s farm from financial ruin, but now what? She’s barely scraping by on the farm’s new organic business model, and the fall festival she organized …
