Genres : Cozy

In the tradition of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, our amateur sleuth, Josiah Reynolds, finds herself embroiled in yet another Southern murder mystery. This time it involves the disappearance of a good friend whose house burns down to the ground.Josiah Reynolds opens her front door to find her neighbor, Sandy Sloan, clutching her little dog, Georgie. “Hi Josiah. Sorry to bother you. Can you keep my dog for a couple of days while I check on my mother? She’s ill and...

Who is trying to find a little girl named Glory? What do you do when you suddenly find out you have an orphaned granddaughter you never knew existed? When Kate takes custody of her young granddaughter Glory after the death of Ally, her long missing daughter, she soon discovers that the little girl is mute and seemingly traumatized. To help her, she must try to solve the mystery of her granddaughter's origins. As she struggles to deal with her own...

Higher education, lower survival rates.Cassandra Sato traded the beaches of Oahu for Carson, Nebraska, and her first year as Vice President of Student Affairs has been a crash course in subzero winter, academic politics, and murder investigations. She's a Hawaiian Japanese woman navigating a predominantly white Midwestern campus, juggling a slow-burn romantic triangle, and building a found family one awkward friendship at a time.Fiercely competent and deeply loyal to her students, Cassandra still carries grief from a lost fiancé she's...

BIMBOS, BUSTIERS, AND BOTOX! MURDER MOST FASHIONABLE…Author Elaine Viets kicks off this funny and fresh cozy series—about a woman on the run from her ex—with a rollicking tale of crime and vanity in the shadow world of wannabe molls. When unlikely sleuth Helen Hawthorne flees St. Louis, she fetches up in Fort Lauderdale, suddenly surrounded by the beautiful and the Botoxed.They all shop at the same place—Juliana's, the overpriced boutique where Helen works. And they're all looking for a wealthy...

The dead don't frighten Saffron. That's her job: guiding lost souls onward, providing comfort and guidance to the newly departed. And she's good at it, despite a busy life of raising toddlers, running an animal welfare foundation, and baking sourdough bread. What she's never been is a detective.Lucas Troy is about to change that.He doesn't want peace. He doesn't want to be gently guided anywhere. He says he can't move on until he knows what happened to him, and why...

Four Cozy Mysteries. Four Deadly Secrets. One Charming Town You'll Never Want to Leave. Welcome to Willowberry, where neighbors know your name, coffee is always brewing, flowers are always in bloom... and murder has an unfortunate habit of crashing every celebration. Join amateur sleuth Stella Ray as she uncovers long-buried secrets, untangles impossible mysteries, and proves that life in a small town is never as peaceful as it seems. This special box set includes the first four books in the...

From USA Today bestselling author and genealogist Eliza Watson!It’s been a rough year for 26-year-old Mags Murray. First she learns that her dad isn’t her biological father, a secret her mother took to her grave three years earlier. Then her beloved Irish grandmother passes away at Christmas while Mags is visiting her from the States. Now Mags must host her grandmother’s wake and sell her cottage. A cottage filled with cherished memories. A cottage Mags inherited but her odd jobs...

On Monday, Grace Reagan meets a teenager who says he is her son. Two days later her world is unrecognizable and there’s a dead woman on her doorstep.She’s been ignoring the warning signs for weeks. Something bad is coming, but until it’s right in front of her, Grace refuses to see it. When three seemingly unrelated disasters hit, her life flies out of control. In the center of the chaos is the stranger who believes she is his mother.Small town...

FIVE STARS! A Josiah Reynolds Mystery, is an engaging and entertaining whodunit! Keam’s plot is agreeably reminiscent of classic drawing-room detective novels, and her characters work so very well together. Death By Drama: A Josiah Reynolds Mystery is most highly recommended." -Readers' Favorite Josiah joins an amateur thespian group that puts on plays in quirky places like public parks and crumbling antebellum mansions. It is a way to socialize, and Josiah feels lonely when her friend Hunter stops calling. Since...

When Sydney Bonner overhears a fellow mah jongg player arguing on the phone with her husband, she realizes the couple’s “perfect marriage” isn’t all it appears to be. A few days later, the husband is found dead, his head bashed in. Fearing she’ll be considered the most likely suspect, the widow prevails upon Sydney and her three friends—Marianne, Kat and Micki—to find out who really killed him. Though none of these four fun-loving, take-charge retirees has any training as detectives,...