Cozy England

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 ...

Lady Frederica knows she needs to stay away from the Earl of Wetherby. However, she cannot seem to remove thoughts of him from her mind. The London Season has just begun, and one of the first gentlemen Lady Frederica meets behaves most improperly, indeed! The Earl of Wetherby’s social blunders keep happening and her own reputation is at risk. Percy, the Earl of Wetherby, is embarrassed by his own behavior and mistakes. However, most of the mistakes are not his fault. Someone is out to get him. He does not understand why a mysterious woman is trying to force his hand in marriage. Lady ...

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” ...

A fraught family reunion. A corpse by the coast. Can an amateur sleuth crack this egg‑xtraordinary mystery, or will she be left scrambling for answers? Spring signifies new beginnings, yet rookie antiques expert Dotty Sayers is uncertain about her future. A colleague’s invitation to Northumberland, in search of hidden family treasure, offers her a fresh start. Once there, she befriends her neighbour and assists with a prestigious project at a nearby castle. But when her mentor vanishes and a body washes up in a secluded cove, Dotty wonders why the people around her keep turning up dead....

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, #15 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "MAD, BAD AND JUST A LITTLE BIT COZY." VIRILE; HANDSOME; RUTHLESS. When gamekeeper Lawrence Melling takes over at traditional Lakeland sporting estate Shuteham Hall he soon ruffles the feathers of not only elderly Lord Edward Bullingdon and his younger model wife Miranda, but also their adult offspring and fellow estate workers. Meanwhile local conservationists perceive an existential threat to rare hen harriers nesting on nearby Over Moor. And when Miranda’s jewellery worth a six-figure sum goes...

“Every Manor Keeps Its Secrets—Some Too Perilous to Remain Silent, and One Woman’s Courage Stands Against a Century of Deceit.” It was on an autumn afternoon, golden yet heavy with the foreboding hush of evening, that Rosalind Harrington stepped from her carriage and crossed the threshold of Montrose Manor, a place she had once called home. She has been summoned home to fulfill the dying requests of Lady Beatrice Montrose. In the serene yet shadowed corridors of Montrose Manor, an estate of grand but fading splendor, widowed Rosalind Harrington, a woman of wit and quiet strength, ...

Three generations of women, an unforgettable summer of music, and the epic cross-country road trip they'll never forget. Summer, 1969: Eleanor Bell doesn't have anything to lose. According to the doctors, she might not remember how to sing or play guitar soon, so why not head west now? Why not...

Four psychological cozy mysteries. One small town on Cape Cod. And a dog who knows when something is wrong before anyone else does. Former psychotherapist Molly McBeal arrived in Blue Heron Bay with a dream, a coffee shop in the making, and Star — the mini Aussiedoodle who chose her at a Colorado shelter on the way across the country. What she didn't expect was to find herself reading micro-expressions across crime scenes instead of across her old therapy office, or to discover that twenty years of listening to people had prepared her for something she never asked for. Across these first ...

Book 5 in the Molly McBeal Cozy Mystery series Autumn settles over Blue Heron Bay, and Molly McBeal is finally finding her rhythm—until her intuitive Aussiedoodle, Star, begins stopping daily at a weathered gate, uneasy and insistent. Three weeks later, Molly follows her lead… and finds a body no one thought to look for. Drawn in by instinct—and years spent reading what others miss—Molly can’t ignore the unease curling beneath the town’s polished surface. With Star’s watchful presence and uncanny sensitivity guiding her, she begins untangling a past no one wants uncovered. 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...

Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, Richard Osman, and the golden age of English detective fiction. A body beneath an oak tree. No wound. No struggle. No explanation. The village is content to look the other way — Ashgrove Hall has always managed its affairs quietly, and no one dares ask questions of the manor. Clara Hart is not from the village. A former nurse with a sharp eye and a sharper stubbornness, Clara came to Ashgrove at the invitation of an old friend. What she found was a dead man arranged with suspicious neatness in the frost, a second death no one wants to explain, and a ...

Everyone always says that your honeymoon should be a holiday to remember… 'This is a cosy series which is like a hug, I love the main protagonists and the locations’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'The characters are what draw me back to this series, and also the humour’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ***...

A crumbling country manor. A house party filled with dreadful bores, retired colonels, theatrical aristocrats, suspicious gardeners, and far too much sherry. And a corpse in the conservatory. When amateur criminologist Emiline Stavely accepts an invitation to a lavish weekend gathering at Cornwallis Hall in the heart of the Cotswolds, she expects little more than jazz records, croquet on the lawn, and polite gossip over cucumber sandwiches. Instead, shortly after a fiercely competitive croquet match, one of the guests collapses and dies. The local doctor declares it a heart attack. Everyone...

THE MILLSTONE MURDER A Derbyshire Cozy Mystery — Where the River Keeps Its Secrets The Flour Power Mysteries — Book Two Derbyshire’s peaceful hills hide more than postcard charm… and when the river runs quiet, it’s never without reason. After the chaos of the Bakewell Bake‑Off, the village hopes for calm. Instead, dawn breaks with a chilling discovery near the old millstone bridge — a body lying at the water’s edge, the river whispering around it as if guarding the truth. What should have been an ordinary morning becomes the beginning of a mystery steeped in folklore, old ...

A couple more weeks of peace. That's all Megan Brown wants after solving two murders in her first eight months in Maplewood Cove. When a construction crew unearths a skeleton in her beloved client's garden, Megan swears she's staying out of it. The victim is Betty Morrison, a schoolteacher who vanished in 1952, and the past should stay buried. But the past has a way of demanding attention. A wealthy widow offers Megan money to stop asking questions she hasn't asked. A desperate grandson makes veiled threats. And the victim's great-niece arrives with a family legend that refuses to die: ...

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 ...

Lady Juliet wants answers. Lord Strickland does not want her involved. Finding a mysterious letter, Juliet becomes entangled in a scandal she would rather avoid. Her situation becomes worse when she overhears someone planning an attack on Lord Strickland. She cannot keep this information to herself. Duncan, the Earl of Strickland, did not expect a disastrous Season—but that is precisely what has happened. Along with Lady Juliet, Duncan is thrown into a great mystery that surrounds them with danger. With the threat growing ever closer, they must find a way to unearth the truth – and then...

Spring is in full bloom in the Cotswolds… but someone is dancing rings around the truth! When a body is found tied to the maypole, sharp-eyed antiques expert Dotty Sayers can’t ignore the mystery tangled up in a village's May Day celebrations. Alongside her cafe-owning friend Keya, Dotty begins pulling at the threads of the dead man's life. What they uncover is a web of financial deceit with victims far closer to home than either of them expected. But will revealing the betrayal destroy the very community they're fighting to protect? Grab your ribbon and unravel the answers in A Maypole...

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 ...