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NEW SERIES FROM USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR TONYA KAPPES Laurel London is one tough cookie. Orphaned and with one heckuva checkered past, she’s grown street smart and no one is going to tell her different, even if it means getting tangled up with the wrong side of the law. After terrorizing Walnut Grove, Kentucky all her adolescent life, she’s back and she’s ready to go on the up and up. Make something of herself. Prove the citizens of Walnut Grove wrong and make them admit she’s somebody. But when mobster Trigger Finger Tony Cardozza jumps in the back of Laurel London’s car ...

‘A sparklingly delicious confection to satisfy the mystery reader’s appetite’ Helena Dixon, bestselling author of the Miss Underhay Mysteries The first book in a NEW cozy mystery series! Still spinning from the hustle and bustle of city life, Jodie ‘Nosey’ Parker is glad to be back in...

A dead biker. A missing aspiring writer. A life changing decision. In the first in the series, A Deadly Course, married couple Emily and Henry Fox move to Vermont seeking covered bridges and antique shops but instead find themselves knee deep in a murder investigation. Can the sleuthing doctor and true crime writer use their skills to bring peace back to Sugarbury Falls? Murder of Course is the second clever cozy in the Sugarbury Falls Mystery series set in Vermont. A midnight knock by their neighbor stirs Henry and Emily into action. Who is the mystery dead girl on the rental cabin floor? ...

"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. ...

The second installment in the We Solve Murders series from Richard Osman, the #1 bestselling author of the Thursday Murder Club...

NEW to the Peridale Café series? This is the PERFECT jumping in point! The truth always rises to the surface... Julia South-Brown is thrilled to unveil her café’s latest creation—cruffins—at the grand opening of Peridale’s new community square. But her excitement turns to dread when Wendy Michaels, a sharp-tongued food critic and Julia’s former college nemesis, publicly accuses her of negligence, then dies under suspicious circumstances. As whispers of sabotage spread through the village, Julia’s café becomes the focus of scandal, threatening her livelihood and reputation. ...

When magic meets murder, this witch means business… With a passion for magic and all things macabre, Penelope Primrose spends her days hexing dust bunnies and haggling over haunted hatboxes at her curio shop, Thirteen Treasures. But her All Hallows’ Eve party goes from spooktacular to spectacularly wrong when a shady antique dealer ends up dead. And nobody ruins her favorite holiday and gets away with it! Armed with her snarky feline familiar, Malarkey, and more determination than a ghost with unfinished business, Penelope vows to crack the case. But solving the mystery isn’t as ...

From the gritty streets of 1960s Soho to the lofty galleries of present-day West London, two interlocking mysteries decades apart unfold in this latest instalment in the award-winning, New York Times bestselling Castle Knoll Murder Mystery series Some secrets are deadlier than others 1968...

Small-town cozy mystery with divorced sleuths Holly Harper’s life is finally back on track after her divorce from “what’s-his-name.” Along with a group of women who’ve sworn off bad marriages and worse men, she’s formed a self-help group known as the Divorced Divas—meeting regularly inside her bead shop, The Beaded Dragonfly, in the heart of Swanee, Kentucky. The Divas may joke about revenge, but things turn deadly when the town’s wealthiest bachelor, Doug Sloan, is found murdered on the floor of Holly’s shop—with a string of cat-eye beads wrapped around his neck. With ...

I love living in a town that celebrates Halloween all year long. And I would do anything to keep my small town from being destroyed by a rumor of an old curse that haunts the place. Rumors fly about an old witch placing a curse on the town of Pumpkin Hollow when a dead man is found in the haunted house. But Mia knows the rumors of a curse are untrue. She needs to find out who killed local businessman Greg Richardson and why he was left in the haunted house before the Halloween season is ruined. Mia and Officer Ethan Banks are on the case to solve the murder, and they’ll do everything they...

Small-town cozy mystery with divorced sleuths In Swanee, Kentucky, a beading class meant for healing after divorce has turned into something far more dangerous. The Divorced Divas are a tight-knit group of women who meet at The Beaded Dragonfly to make jewelry, share laughs, and joke about revenge on the men who broke their hearts. Their “murder plots” are nothing more than pretend play—until one of the Divas’ ex-husbands turns up dead. When Bernadine’s ex is murdered using a crimping tool from the beading shop, suspicion falls squarely on the women who joked about wanting him ...

The Heritage Hall book fair was my chance to showcase my bookbinding techniques. Instead, I become the main suspect in a murder. Paper flowers and leather bindings filled my Heritage Hall book fair booth. This was my chance to showcase traditional bookbinding techniques. Instead, I found a dead authenticator in my space. Mark Henderson, known for exposing forgeries, lay sprawled among tools stolen from my exhibit. Making me the prime suspect. Book preservation is my passion - being a murder suspect, not so much. I teamed up with Fitzgerald, my Maine Coon cat and journalist Jennifer Walsh to...

Mortimer Manor is known for far too many cats, its infamous crafts library, and the eccentric maven at the helm of it all—but none of that could save them from Bowie Binx, aka my shiny new identity. Humor with a side of homicide. A highly inaccurate vision. A grumpy writer. And a corpse. Welcome to Starry Falls. Running from the mob can be murder. Includes Recipe! A Cozy Mystery by New York Times, USA TODAY, & Wall Street Journal Bestseller Addison Moore. Cosmopolitan Magazine calls Addison's books, "...easy, frothy fun!" Confession. I’m no psychic. But I can sort of see the future—...

Retirement is bliss—or is it? Newly retired music teacher, Susan Wiles, puts her natural nosiness to work and discovers a talent for solving murders. In Murder is Elementary, Susan finds her former principal dead on the office floor, a half-eaten funfetti cupcake on the desk, and a list of suspects rivaling pre-pandemic lines at Disney! In book two, a dead body is discovered in a construction site behind a school. Susan puts her sleuthing skills into action to save her husband’s best friend, Tank, who is accused of the crime. While Susan works to solve this mystery and exonerate Tank, ...

January in Maine brings cold and snow. Lots and lots of snow. But just when I thought things were settling down around here, I stumbled over a frozen body. What else could go wrong? My boyfriend, Alec, retired from the police department at the end of the year because his boss was giving him trouble. But when he decided to become a private investigator, the bodies just keep coming. And as if things weren’t bad enough, the victim on ice was a schoolteacher and everyone like her. (Except for the killer, of course.) It was for that reason that I made up my mind to find her killer. Annoying ...

Sugarbury Falls in the fall—cinnamon spice, craft fairs, and pumpkin carving competitions. But when a reporter is murdered at a local haunted house event, the festive spirit takes a sinister turn, scaring the whole community. With one of the town’s detectives away on his honeymoon, true crime writer and former journalist Emily Fox steps in to help unravel the eerie web of suspects and motives. The victim made dangerous enemies in his pursuit of juicy stories—a wealthy businesswoman accused of killing a squatter in her warehouse, a jealous girlfriend, and even Emily’s daughter’s ...

Valentine’s Day means love, flowers, and chocolate. Except for that one time when it meant murder. What’s a girl to do when a dead guy tries to spoil the mood? All I really wanted was a romantic date with Alec on Valentine’s Day, but when we stumbled upon a dead guy a couple of weeks earlier, it threw a monkey wrench in the plans. And then when Alec went all out on romance on the big day, yours truly made a mess of everything. The biggest question was, why didn’t the dead guy’s wife know where he was that morning? And whose house was his car parked in front of when we discovered...

‘A sparklingly delicious confection to satisfy the mystery reader’s appetite’ Helena Dixon, bestselling author of the Miss Underhay Mysteries A PINCH OF PARANOIA It’s three days before Christmas, and detective-turned-chef Jodie ‘Nosey’ Parker is drafted in to cater a charity event...

It’s all hands on deck when a dead body is found near the small town of Briar Creek in this Library Lover’s Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of A Merry Little Murder Plot. Just off the shores of the coastal Connecticut town of Briar Creek are two small islands, which...

Magical cozy mystery with witches and murder Whispering Falls is a small town where magic is part of everyday life—and June Heal fits right in. As a healer and shop owner who provides spells and potions to the community, June balances magic, motherhood, and small-town responsibilities with ease. Until murder strikes. When a shocking death sends ripples through Whispering Falls, June is forced to step into a new role: investigator. With a magical daughter to protect and a town depending on her calm presence, June must uncover the truth before fear takes hold and the killer strikes again. ...