Cozy England

A prestigious yacht-club event could give Sabrina Jordan’s tea house its biggest break yet. Instead, it serves up another murder. Former Chicago court reporter Sabrina Jordan is finally learning to charge what her work is worth. When The Steeped Daisy lands a high-paying catering job for Bellweather Cove’s season-end regatta, Sabrina should be thinking about invoices, shortbread, and whether her aging furnace will survive another Maine winter. Then wealthy summer resident Whit Calloway is found dead near the docks. At first, everyone wants to call it an accident. Whit was charming, ...

Three years after news of her scandalous husband’s death, Adelaide Fiske is at the altar again, her groom a soldier on the Marquis of Wellington’s staff. The prospects seem bright for one of the most notorious women in Kent—until Jane Austen discovers a corpse on the ancient Pilgrim’s...

Three murders. One bookseller who keeps saying she'll stay out of it. One detective who keeps turning up at exactly the wrong moment with exactly the right questions. And one spaniel who has been ahead of everyone from the very beginning. Welcome to Bramblecombe – a honey-stone Cotswold village of winding lanes, beautiful countryside and neighbours who know rather too much about one another. Bookshop owner Molly Thornwood would be perfectly happy running The Cracked Spine and walking her self-possessed spaniel, Crumpet. Instead, she keeps finding mysteries. And then there's former ...

Primrose Thorne has been in Hartsboro fourteen months, and the first person to threaten her business is the first person to turn up dead. Victoria Devonport wanted the little soap shop on Main Street closed. She said so at the zoning board, in the post office, and to anyone who would stand still for it. Four days later Prim finds her on the north slope, under a rhododendron bush, with a length of hemp rope beside her. The rope is the problem. It came from Cross's lumberyard, and Ethan Cross worked for Victoria Devonport for three years — long enough that half the town saw him look at her ...

A peaceful Cotswold village. A bitter dispute. And a murder that exposes secrets some residents would rather keep buried. When a centuries-old footpath through the Ashford estate becomes the flashpoint for a very modern quarrel, bookshop owner Molly expects heated words – not murder. But after a body is discovered, the picture-postcard village of Bramblecombe suddenly seems rather less innocent. Everyone has a theory. More than one resident has something to hide. And as Molly begins asking questions, old grudges, blackmail and long-kept secrets rise rapidly to the surface. Fortunately, ...

A fresh start, a quirky bookstore, and one very nosy schnauzer… what could possibly go wrong? Newly divorced and craving a reset, Agatha Royale loads up her vintage Ford Falcon and heads to Bristol Lake, a postcard-pretty Maine town where she’s inherited her late stepmother’s charming old bookstore. Agatha’s plan is simple: coffee, cozy mysteries, and long walks with Mike, her mischievous miniature schnauzer. Then Mike makes a discovery that turns Agatha’s fresh start upside down. Suddenly, Bristol Lake’s friendly smiles come with secrets—and everyone has an opinion about the ...

Community police officer Keya Varma’s dream of opening a cafe is buried when a thirty-year-old skeleton is unearthed in a quiet Cotswold village. With her sister’s wedding looming and the cafe still weeks away from selling its first pot of tea, Keya barely has time for her new rural beat, never mind a murder enquiry. Alongside her police colleagues, she reopens the case of a missing girl, but local villagers refuse to answer her questions. When a friend is found dead on her building site, confusion over identities threatens to sour the investigation. Can Keya close the case and open her...

Two people have been targeted. Shots have been fired. Who stands to inherit? Who has the most to lose? Evangeline "Evie" Parker, Countess of Woodridge, thinks it's nothing but an accident but then an attempt is made on her host's life. Suddenly, all the guests attending the Duke of Hetherington's house party think they are being targeted. Who will be next? Evie and her new chauffeur form an unlikely alliance to discover as much as they can before the killer can get it right.

Twelve sweet Regency Christmas romance stories to make you fall in love this holiday season. Christmas Mystery of the Heart Escaping her past, Lady Sarah Sayers seeks a simple life as a governess. Her world is turned upside down when she meets the Duke of Huntington. Together, they must solve a mystery, but will they also find love in this troubled time? A Duke for Christmas Isabella did not want to end up on Charles’ doorstep, but it might be exactly what both of them need… A clean, Regency romance to warm your heart Christmas Masquerade Ball A Christmas tale of mystery and love from ...

In the picturesque coastal town of Sunrise Harbor, Maine, where salty ocean breezes mingle with the scent of freshly caught lobsters, a chilling mystery unfolds. When a supposedly idyllic lobstering cruise takes an unexpected turn, steamy romance author, baker and amateur sleuth, Tabitha Clive, finds herself accused of murdering her husband’s former sister-in-law, Ethel Brownville. As whispers of her guilt spread through the town, Tabitha's closest friends refuse to let her face the weight of false accusations alone. In The Women Sleuths Club Murder, a vibrant group of “mature” ...

He was forced to hang up his badge. Now, a kidnapping has raced into his retirement England, 1960’s. Former inspector Tom Ramsay is taking advantage of having to step down. Invalided after getting shot in the line of duty, the plain-speaking man adopts a border collie and gets down to the serious business of hiking the scenic countryside of his ancestry. But after hearing over the radio about a missing local, the fifty-five-year-old ex-cop is shocked when a pleasant walk brings him face-to-face with the victim fleeing her captors. With the young woman reported as a runaway and no ransom ...

She followed the smoke into a house that was supposed to be empty. She walked out with a case that would consume the whole winter. Nora Vane never meant to become a witness. Driving home too fast on the worst night of her career, she sees smoke rising from a hunting lodge that has stood locked and empty since autumn, and steps inside to investigate, alone. What she finds is a young woman hidden beneath a pile of cushions, already dead, in a room with no explanation for how she got there. By morning, Nora is no longer just the investigator. She is the only person who saw a veiled figure flee...

Three Clever Mysteries. One Charming Town. Zero Escape for Killers. When former Portland detective Eliza Prescott traded her badge for a bookstore in the quaint coastal town of Ashford Creek, she thought she'd found peace. But in a town where everyone knows everyone's secrets, murder has a way of finding her. Armed with her detective instincts, her loyal retired K-9 partner Bruno, and an uncanny knack for noticing what others miss, Eliza can't help but investigate when suspicious deaths disrupt her quiet New England haven. From poisoned dinner parties to deadly cottage encounters, each ...

They say you can never tame a wildflower... From the USA Today bestselling superstar romance author of the Boston Bolts hockey series comes a spicy rivals-to-lovers, grumpy-sunshine romance about a young woman returning to her family’s daffodil farm only to find “Cowboy” running her...

STAND-ALONE MURDER MYSTERY, #11 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "MAD, BAD AND JUST A LITTLE BIT COZY." WHEN BEAUTIFUL YOUNG SOCIALITE Scarlett Liddell apparently commits suicide during a ‘Murder Mystery Weekend’, extravagantly staged at a Lakeland castle, the coroner calls in DI Skelgill to tie up the loose ends. Post mortem results, however, cast doubt upon the provisional verdict – and circumstantial evidence begins to point to one obvious suspect – the woman’s multi-millionaire husband, Will Liddell. And when Will Liddell is accused of a separate ...

One dead body. Multiple identities. In the Cotswolds even the truth is disguised! Young widow Dotty Sayers is delighted with her new auction house job until she discovers she’s about to lose her home and her chance at a fresh start. Concealing her disappointment, she reluctantly takes part in an autumn parade, but the day’s pageantry is tarnished when an unknown man is found dead. The police ask Dotty to appraise items from the victim’s home, but rather than learning his name, she uncovers a trail of false identities. When one of them leads to a client, her search for the truth takes ...

STAND-ALONE MURDER MYSTERY, #3 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "MAD, BAD AND JUST A LITTLE BIT COZY." WHEN A MAN IS FOUND STRANGLED by a climbing rope beneath the Lake District's notorious Sharp Edge, it is assumed he is the victim of a tragic accident. But Detective Inspector Skelgill suspects otherwise, and his fears are borne out when a second corpse is discovered close to Striding Edge. Soon it appears that a ritualistic serial killer stalks Cumbria's fells. As the body count increases, Skelgill must determine the connection between the seemingly randomly ...

A Sunday Times bestseller! "Highly atmospheric and tense."--Richard Osman, New YorkTimes bestselling author of The Thursday Murder Club Simmering with slow-burning menace, Mrs. England is a portrait of an Edwardian marriage, an enthralling tale of men and women, power and control, courage, truth...

STAND-ALONE MURDER MYSTERY, #4 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "MAD, BAD AND JUST A LITTLE BIT COZY." BY THE TIME Detective Inspector Skelgill becomes the tenth person to be stranded on secluded Grisholm (Pigs’ Isle in Old Norse) where a writers’ retreat is taking place, one of the assembled literati is already dead. Though natural causes may provide the explanation, a second ‘accidental’ death and a raft of curious experiences convince Skelgill that a cold and calculating killer is at large. But where is his evidence? Set around Derwentwater in the ...

When DCI Ian Ahmed agrees—reluctantly—to convalesce on a remote island in the Stockholm archipelago, he expects nothing more than bitter winds, silence, and boredom. But just across the bay, a sleek, modern house stirs to life. Staff arrive in dark clothing, cleaning and prepping with...