Art Cozy Mystery

A missing masterpiece. A murder at the museum. Can the parks director solve the mystery before disaster strikes? Maggie Willow is drowning in paperwork. Between council meetings, looming deadlines, and planning the town’s biggest festival, she’s barely keeping her head above water. The last thing she needs is a murdered curator and a stolen painting—especially when her dear friend is framed. Now, Maggie has no choice but to uncover what really happened between the brushstrokes. With her loyal K9 companion, Bruno, and the town’s nosiest councilman’s wife by her side, Maggie must ...

★★★★★ "The perfect read for lovers of cozy mysteries." The Montana Cozy Art Mysteries 7-Book-Bundle Box Set contains the first seven books in Award-winning author Mollie Mathews's cozy mystery series: Murder On The Canvas, Murder In The Frame, Murder In The Palette, Murder On The Lake, Murder at Brushwood Bluff, Murder By Numbers, and Murder on the Campaign Trail starring amateur female sleuth Cassandra Fairweather. Murder On The Canvas Where art meets murder, secrets hide in every brushstroke… When renowned and notoriously cruel artist Victor Deveraux is found dead at his easel...

“This author is sheer perfection when it comes to using descriptions and locations that are richly done and offering sharp details throughout the entirety of the story.” – Suspense Magazine When art recovery expert Laurel Beacham’s personal and professional worlds collide, she learns no good theft goes unpunished. Incomplete intel and a missing source compel her to make a huge mistake, and she’s left with a divided team. Every retrieved masterpiece has a price—and the cost of forgeries can be deadly. This time Laurel could lose not only her best lead, but also her most trusted ...

One grand gallery reopening. One very dead guest. And a killer hiding in plain sight. Sadie Stewart was hoping for champagne toasts and Instagrammable moments at the grand reopening of her fire-ravaged art gallery. Instead, she got a poisoned guest, a media frenzy, and her best friend fingered as the prime suspect. Now Sadie’s trading wine tastings for witness lists as she dives headfirst into the cutthroat world of Chicago’s art scene where egos are priceless, grudges run deep, and forgery isn’t just a crime, it’s a career move. With a black-market ring of stolen masterpieces, a ...

★★★★★ "The perfect read for lovers of cozy mysteries.." The Montana Cozy Art Mysteries 4-Book-Bundle Box Set contains the first three books in Award-winning author Mollie Mathews's cozy mystery series: Murder On The Canvas, Murder In The Frame, Murder In The Palette, Murder On The Lake, staring amateur female sleuth Cassandra Fairweather. Murder On The Canvas Where art meets murder, secrets hide in every brushstroke… In the picturesque town of Willow Hollow, nestled in the Montana mountains, the Willow Hollow Art Retreat promises a sanctuary of creativity and inspiration. But ...

Marty never imagined when she moved to High Desert, California, that her life would include a police detective husband, two dogs, a psychic sister, and solving mysteries, often involving murder. But sometimes you just have to bloom where you’re planted! Books in the boxed set of High Desert Cozy Mysteries Superseries 2 include the following: Murder and the Museum Murder in Palm Springs The Money Club Murder and High Rollers Murder at the Dog Show Murdered Mogul If you like dogs and recipes, this is a must-have series written by a USA Today Bestselling author. Buy or borrow now!

Artist Celeste Cabot welcomes the chance to show her paintings at a craft fair in her hometown of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, where she and her Chihuahua, Van Gogh, can park her vintage Shasta trailer and sell her creations, too. Unfortunately, her sales take a hit when a customer returns a painting, claiming it's haunted. When a fellow vendor discovers images hidden in Celeste's artwork - and a ghost pays her a late-night visit - she's shocked to realize she has psychic abilities.

When Savanna Robinson showed up at Wicklow College to assume her new teaching position, she was somewhat curious about the abrupt departure of her predecessor. Then she discovered he had been murdered. No one knew who killed him, or why, but everyone had their theories and suspects. Even the police—arcane and mundane—didn't seem very eager to investigate too deeply. But Savanna discovered a possible connection with the murder of a broker of rare arcane books. Were there really spells that could change your luck?

Former stand-up comic Juno Mulligan has been suffering a serious sense-of-humour failure. Not only has she lost the love of her life, but she’s having to relocate to the (admittedly idyllic) village of Inkbury to watch out for her elderly mother, who she’s genuinely worried might be marrying a wife-killer. She hopes that her old friend, disgraced-journalist-turned-novelist Phoebe Fredericks can help her crack the case of whether her mother’s perma-tanned, iceberg-smiled, three-times-a-widower fiancé is hiding a murderous past.

"When a small-town yarn shop owner unravels a developer's sinister plans, she discovers that in Meadowgrove, the most dangerous patterns aren't found in her crochet books." In the heart of Meadowgrove, Julie Sommers thought she had finally stitched together the quiet life she always wanted. Running her cozy yarn shop, Yarn Haven, with her loyal dachshund and sassy cat by her side, she spends her days wrapped in the comforting rhythms of small-town life. But when a high-powered developer rolls into town with big-city plans and a hidden past, Meadowgrove’s peaceful charm starts to unravel. ...

★★★★★ “Absolutely gripping! I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough. If you love art, intrigue, and a good whodunit, this one’s for you.” The Montana Cozy Art Mysteries 2-Book-Bundle Box Set contains the first two books in Award-winning author Mollie Mathews's cozy mystery series: Murder On The Canvas and Murder In The Frame, staring amateur female sleuth Cassandra Fairweather. Murder On The Canvas Where art meets murder, secrets hide in every brushstroke… In the picturesque town of Willow Hollow, nestled in the Montana mountains, the Willow Hollow Art Retreat promises a ...

A missing photographer. A megalomaniacal millionaire. A drag queen hellbent on saving her club. The latest glittering mystery from the author of Murder in the Dressing Room… Misty Divine is bold, beautiful and back in action. She’s barely settled into her new role as the glamorous hostess of...

For fans of Nancy Drew! When art restorer Chloe Harper is called to assess a hidden painting discovered behind a wall in the historic Hawthorne House, she’s stunned to find the signature of Elizabeth Sinclair—a brilliant artist who vanished from Seabrook in 1965 without a trace. What begins as an extraordinary artistic discovery quickly turns into a tangled mystery. The painting may be one of a long-lost series, and clues hidden within its brushstrokes could finally explain Sinclair’s disappearance and threats to the environment. But as Chloe investigates, she realizes she’s not the...

Claude Monet, basking in the glow of his first success as a private eye (Claude Monet, Private Eye: The Pilfered Paintings), celebrates by taking a two-day cruise down the Seine to Le Havre with wife Alice and dog Toulouse. All goes well until another passenger’s dog, a Maltese named Chloe, goes missing. Everyone assumes the dog simply wandered off somewhere to take a nap. But then a ransom note appears, and the boat becomes a crime scene. That’s when the captain asks Claude to look into the matter. Claude begins questioning the passengers and crew, and to his dismay finds more than a ...

A murdered art dealer. A link to a tragic cold case. And a killer hiding among the Christmas bidders. Taylor Holm's holiday antique auction is a massive success... until she finds a body in her storage room after the last gavel falls. The victim? A slick Chicago dealer named Pete Butler. The case is already personal, but it becomes dangerously complicated when Detective Ryan Sterling recognizes the victim. Pete Butler was the prime suspect in the art fraud investigation that led to the death of Ryan's first partner, Sean. Now, Ryan and Taylor must work together to untangle a web of forged ...

A ghost story with a true crime twist. Based on the largest, unsolved art heist in history, GHOST AT THE GARDNER is a gripping, paranormal suspense mystery with a bit of added romance. Supernatural occurrences unfold as an old museum ghost and a young art intern team up to solve an investigation that has remained an FBI cold case for over 20 years. Readers won’t be able to put down this fast-paced novel full of ghostly spirits, mystical séances and first kisses in a spooky graveyard.

A dead body is found in an Egyptian sarcophagus. No surprises there, except this corpse is not two thousand years old and it’s not wearing bandages; it does have an Egyptian sword sticking out of its body, though. When Bobbie Flynn goes to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art one Sunday accompanied by her father, Inspector Flynn and a precocious eleven year old child called Violet, she doesn’t expect to become embroiled in a murder case, an art theft and a kidnapping... …her own kidnapping. The Bobbie Flynn Mysteries are by turns a thrilling, twisty, romantic cocktail set in 1920’s ...

Frances and her husband, George, have two points of interest in Paris. One is an impromptu holiday to visit the Paris Exposition. The other is personal. George’s Aunt Julia has requested her nephew’s help in looking into the suspicious death of renowned artist Paul Ducasse. Though Julia is not entirely forthcoming about her reasons, she is clearly a woman mourning a lost love. At the exposition, swarming with tourists, tragedy casts a pall on the festivities. A footbridge collapses. Julia is among the casualties. However, she was not just another fateful victim.

The national bestselling hit hailed by the New York Times as a "vibrant medieval mystery...[it] outdoes the competition." In medieval Cambridge, England, Adelia, a female forensics expert, is summoned by King Henry II to investigate a series of gruesome murders that has wrongly implicated the...

When Pegasus Quincy, sheriff’s deputy, steps into the leaky rowboat to investigate a murder at a mysterious artists’ colony, her troubles have just begun. A new detective blames Peg when she gets snake bit. A friend gets caught in a drug raid and asks Peg’s assistance. Her new roomie monopolizes the kitchen, until Peg’s coonhound Reckless eats too many French macarons. And then there is the cat lady who accuses Peg of stealing a valuable painting. Surely Peg wouldn’t do that, would she? Join Pegasus Quincy as she delves into the nefarious underworld of art auctions, mid-century ...