Murder at the Pumpkin Pageant
Lindsey prefers to keep her bakeshop’s Halloween decor light and autumnal rather than gruesome and ghoulish. But everyone knows her lighthouse home is haunted. Some intrepid teens have even tried …
Tag: Cozy Mystery
Mischief Nights Are Murder
Poppy is none too pleased when her B&B is coerced into participating in the Cape May Haunted Dinners Tour during the Halloween season. Pranks abound, and Aunt Ginny is none …
Steeped in Malice
Afternoon tea isn’t just about flavorful brews and delicious treats. It’s also about presentation—fine china teacups or fun tea sets (never mugs!) with carefully coordinated saucers and plates. With her …
Death of a Clam Digger
Food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell usually reserves judgment for local cuisine, especially anything with clams, not the people who serve it. But staying neutral isn’t so easy when caught …
Seams Like Murder
Abbey has barely arrived in the quaint, quiet town of Hideaway Grove before things turn from blissful to bloody as the new librarian is mowed down by a car. The …
Hiss Me Deadly
Charlie Harris remembers Wilfred “Wil” Threadgill as one of the outsiders during high school in Athena. Although Wil was a couple of years ahead of him and his friend Melba …
Blueberry Blunder
Bailey King, star of TV’s Bailey’s Amish Sweets, is building her dream candy factory in Harvest, Ohio. But no sooner is the frame of the new building up than she …
A Flicker of a Doubt
With a theater foundation tea and an art show planned at Violet Vickers’s estate, Courtney is hired to create charming fairy gardens for the event. It’s not so charming, however, …
Witch Way Out
When Violet Mooney’s coworker and fellow witch calls to say that their Connecticut crystals shop, The Full Moon, has been selected as a vendor at the Spring Equinox Fair, it’s …
Cinnamon Twisted
An ordinary late-spring afternoon for Deputy Donut Cafe owner Emily Westhill becomes one that will remain baked into her memory. When a customer gives Emily’s cat, Dep, a toy donut, …
Till Death Do Us Port
It’s June in Boulder, Colorado, and wedding season is in full swing. Vintner Parker Valentine is excited to attend the wedding of her cousin, Emma, where in addition to celebrating …
Poppy Harmon and the Shooting Star
Poppy never planned on speaking to her old acting rival Serena Saunders again, let alone accepting her as a client. But familiar drama barges back into her life when Serena …
Strike Out 4 Murder
When a member of the local pinochle club rallies everyone in the community to cheer on the softball team he’s joined, Sophie “Phee” Kimball can’t imagine a worse way to …
Witch Upon a Star
Josie is eager to show off Wilfred’s delights to her visiting sister, Jean, even though she must conceal her magic from her. In any case, Jean is excited to attend …
Primer and Punishment
Carpenter Whitney Whitaker and her cousin Buck are looking once again to rehab and resell a house, only this particular house is made of fiberglass, floats, and has been dubbed …
Irish Knit Murder
The Listers have been part of Arborville society for generations, though seventy-something Isobel Lister doesn’t fit the role of an upper-crust heiress. She’s always been a colorful, eccentric character, and …
Dedication to Murder
Wedding bells are about to ring again in Greyborne Harbor, and as Addie slips into her white dress, her thoughts are focused on a bright future with Dr. Simon Emerson. …
Death by Iced Coffee
It’s a brutally hot day in Pine Hills, and Krissy Hancock would love to sit in a shady spot and sip her favorite iced coffee. Instead, she’s lacing up her …
Gone But Not For Garden
Athena Spencer works with her big Greek-American family (whom she also anonymously blogs about) at their garden center near Lake Michigan. She’s also gained a reputation for crime-solving, and that’s …
Paper Cuts
Nora escaped her past a decade ago. So it feels like a visit from another world when Kelly Walsh, the woman her ex-husband left her for, walks through the door …
Intrigue in Istanbul
Istanbul, 1926: After her historian father makes a clandestine journey abroad, Jane and the dapper Mr. Redvers trace his footsteps while signs of danger loom back home in the United …
Death in Irish Accents
It’s been over a year since Megan was entangled in a murder, much to everyone’s relief, including her girlfriend, Jelena, and Detective Paul Bourke. So when a body of a …
