Cozy Gothic Mysteries

The hidden compartment in Violet Pennington's bookshop has already given up one secret. She didn't expect it to have kept another. A note, dated 1840, written in a precise copperplate hand. A witness who could not be silenced and could not be heard. A man drowned in a millpond, and a verdict returned by the inquest was wrong. In Brambleford, the past has a habit of staying put. The Larch family still runs the mill. The solicitor firm that handled their affairs still handles them. And someone has just been killed to ensure that what Carmel Valliard wrote down one October morning nearly two ...

When Ruth Townsend discovers Tessa Martin’s body in an abandoned factory, sprawled across a Ouija board, she does the responsible thing and calls 911. But by the time Sheriff Blevins arrives, the girl’s body has vanished. Blevins is convinced that Tessa is playing an elaborate hoax. But Ruth and her daughter, Cassie, know better. They both saw the body.

Arias and Apparitions Retired opera diva Melody Vance thought her greatest challenge would be swapping the spotlights of Covent Garden for the leaky pipes of Vance Manor. Inheriting her late Aunt Agatha’s crumbling Victorian B&B in the heart of the Cotswolds was supposed to be a quiet encore. But when a guest screams about a spectral figure pointing toward a floorboard and turns up dead the next morning; without a mark on him the village of Upper Skimmington starts whispering about the "Vance Curse." Armed with her aunt’s hidden journals and a family legacy of ghost-hunting she’s long...

Welcome to Madison, Georgia, where the magnolias bloom, the tea is sweet, and the monsters are real. In this cozy horror anthology, the charming town of Madison hides secrets in its flowerbeds and shadows in its attics. Behind every wrought-iron fence and sun-warmed porch lies something unexpected: a banshee who quilts in the carriage house, a wight who prefers crossword puzzles to haunting, a wendigo who wears sweaters by the fire, and cryptids who just want someone to talk to. But don’t be fooled by the cobblestone streets and Southern charm. The ghouls here are real and love has a ...

A Renaissance fair in rural Louisiana is not the kind of place you'd expect to encounter any real danger. All the dragons, jousting, sword fighting, and public executions are only make believe, right? Our favorite lettering artist, Mila Breaux, is not so sure about that. When she receives a mysterious note summoning her to hand letter the signage for the local Ren fair, some of the Dark Age performances seem to be way more realistic than she bargained for.

Mystery, mortality, and a dash of the macabre… London, 1882: A Christmas draped in shadows, a city gripped by fear, and a mystery that defies the laws of life and death… When Professor Gilbert Fitzroy unveils a revolutionary theory that mocks the inevitability of decay and whispers to eternal life, the Royal Society is left reeling. Clearly, this does not apply to him, for a few hours later he is found dead in his rooms. Lady Agatha, a young woman high in intellect, low in patience, with the help of her husband Eustace 'Useless' and their Lothario basset, Talleyrand, investigate. As the...

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.

Welcome to Whimsy Hollow—where a hidden family register whispers murder. When Nora Vale inherits her grandmother’s rare-book shop, she expects dust, old paper, and too many memories. Instead, she finds a missing register page, a forged family line, and a ghostly warning that someone has been rewriting the town’s bloodlines for years. With Ink, her sharp-eyed black cat, and the steady but suspicious Elias Thorn, Nora follows a trail of altered records, hidden nursery entries, burned scraps, and private corrections buried deep inside Whimsy Hollow’s oldest families. Someone changed ...

“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, ...

Bubble, bubble, toil, and murder... When a woman is found dead near her village in Norfolk, the verdict is suicide. Not everyone agrees. Detective James Simpson is ordered to investigate and he brings Agatha Aston, a young woman high of intellect and low in patience, Betty Stevens and a lovelorn hound called Talleyrand, with him. They stumble across a tale of murder that stretches back two centuries. Part occult story, part murder mystery - this creepy tale is steeped in witchcraft and strange rural festivals where everything is not as it seems. The second Agatha Aston murder mystery is ...

Every bargain has a trap with good manners. By day, Darcy Leclair trades in oddities and honest prices in the heart of New Orleans. By night, the supernatural community stops pretending and starts paying in secrets, ash, and debts that refuse to stay buried. Darcy doesn't do melodrama—she does inventory, carefully managing cursed objects with warnings she pretends she can't read. But her carefully ordered world shatters when a prominent vampire client turns to a pile of ash just hours after purchasing an antique silver mirror. Suddenly, the Night Council arrives at her door with a ...

The Clockmaker's Silence In the quiet harbour town of Blackwater-on-Wye, antique dealer Tom Armitage has spent years hiding two things: his grief after losing his wife, and his unsettling ability to see ghosts. Most spirits drift through his life like reflections in old glass, restless but harmless. Until the grandfather clock arrives. Tall, black-oak, and cold to the touch, the clock begins whispering a single name every midnight: “Eleanor.” Local historian Nathan Vale insists the clock once belonged to the Ashcombe estate, where a maid disappeared without explanation in 1923. Before ...

IT'S HERE! SPELLBOUND BOOK THREE Some inheritances come with a key. Eliza Lakeland's came with a war. The Council is done watching. The protections her grandmother spent forty years laying over Ciderbrooke are failing one by one, and the power waking under Eliza's skin is older — and hungrier — than anything a small Vermont town was built to hold. She has the thread that ties her to Simon Sterling. She has Ginny at her back and a grimoire she's only beginning to understand. What she doesn't have is time. Because the woman who walked back through her door, nearly two decades later, is ...

Paranormal Women’s Fiction from bestsellers JR Rain and HP Mallory! Dory: I’ve never been a big fan of my family. My sister, Cressida, yes, but my father? No, not by a long shot. So, imagine my surprise when Alistair and I arrive at the airport to pick up Cressida, and I come face to face with my father. And he despises me just as much as he ever did. Good thing I’ve got my vampire mayor to play interference. But things in Misty Hollow aren’t great—not by a long shot. We now know what’s lurking in the depths of the swamp, but we still don’t know how to get rid of it. And that ...

When autumn drapes itself over Madison, Georgia, the days shorten, the nights deepen, and something restless stirs beneath the magnolias. In this Southern town, history lingers in the bricks of old houses and whispers ride the wind through quiet streets. Some say it is only memory. Others know better. Spirits have a way of keeping company in Madison, whether you invite them or not. Haunting Season in Madison gathers nine cozy horror tales where the monstrous and the human meet in ways that will tug at your heart and raise gooseflesh on your arms. Some stories bring laughter, with goblins ...

When a stormy evening leads Harper Finch to the Maplewood Historical Archives, she expects nothing more than a routine delivery. Instead, she finds a respected town historian dead—and Maplewood’s carefully curated past suddenly feels anything but settled. As whispers ripple through the square and long-buried records begin to surface, Harper finds herself caught between quiet loyalties and uncomfortable truths. The town she loves thrives on tradition, but someone has been manipulating that tradition for years—and they’ll do whatever it takes to keep it intact. With the help of her ...

Eleanor Finch is worried about the records. Fifteen years after the dead rose, Archive House has become one of the last safe places left in England: a fortified Victorian manor where survivors grow food, mend books, ration fuel, gossip over tea, and keep watch from the walls. Eleanor is the settlement archivist, not a detective. Her job is to preserve the record: harvests, patrols, births, deaths, repairs, council decisions, and the fragile history of a community that has survived the end of the world. But when perimeter guard Thomas Calder fails to return from watch during a storm, ...

Some mysteries are solved by evidence. Others must be solved by memory. Horace Graves is a detective unlike any other. Impeccably dressed, relentlessly logical, and quietly eccentric, he approaches every impossible case with calm precision. At his side is the steadfast Edgar Rusted, whose warmth and humanity balance Horace's unsettling brilliance, and Bastille, the magnificent wolfhound whose instincts often perceive truths long before any human mind. Together they are drawn into twelve extraordinary mysteries where reason and folklore seem hopelessly intertwined. An umbrella appears before...

Clara Wren came to Rosewharf to run a quiet apothecary by the sea. Instead, she inherited a village full of secrets — and a lighthouse that should not exist. High on the headland, the Lantern still burns. The villagers whisper that it remembers names, marks tallies in the fog, and demands silence from those sworn to tend it. Jonas Marlowe knows the truth. Scarred, solitary, and bound by generations of duty, he has kept the Lantern lit for years — at a cost no one else is willing to pay. He tells Clara there are only two rules: When the Lantern saves, you keep it burning. When it claims ...

Meet Andrei. He's a non-violent vampire who faints at the sight of blood, loves cats, and hopes to find someone to love. He's been alone for most of his life. In this Halloween cozy mystery, Andrei is looking for a home and wants a few real friends. He moves to a charming small town. But his new house is haunted, and he's accused of a murder he didn't commit.