Cozy Library

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 ...

After months of travel, former maid Lottie Sprigg returns to Fortescue Manor in the rolling hills of Shropshire. Her arrival coincides with a celebratory dinner to mend a family feud. But the flow of champagne dwindles to a trickle when a body is found in the library. Who committed the atrocity? Suspicion falls on several characters: some above stairs and some below....

Francie Vespertine has lived all her life in a supernatural town full of powerful witches, but her own magic is lackluster at best. The only place she fits in is the Magical Archives. Head librarian (and bookworm extraordinaire) might be a boring job . . . if it wasn't for the ghosts of fictional characters haunting the shelves.

"Fans of classic detective fiction are in for a treat." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) Book conservator Tory Van Dyne and a woman claiming to be Agatha Christie on holiday from the Great Beyond join forces to catch a killer in this spirited mystery from Amanda Chapman. A 2026 Edgars...

Some small towns hide their secrets in plain sight—Sweet Cove buries them six feet deep. When predictability-loving security analyst Grace Jordan returns home to help her whimsical Aunt Lyla with the bookstore, she's escaping her carefully controlled city life–and confronting a decades-long secret of her own. But what awaits her is something far more sinister: a body count that defies the odds in this seemingly peaceful coastal town. From a businessman's suspicious death to international intrigue involving shadowy power brokers, each case pulls Grace deeper into a web of deception that ...

'When fall term started two months ago, I had no idea I was going to be accused of murder.' Meera Patel is a first-generation American, born and raised in Swan Creek, Oklahoma — a college town where everyone knows everyone. Her father is a professor at the local university. And her mother … her mother has been missing since Meera was six. Back home after dropping out of college, Meera is trying to figure out what comes next while helping out at the local diner. As summer fades and a new semester begins, the town settles into its familiar rhythms — until a heated argument with her ...

THREE FUN, SMALL TOWN COZY MYSTERIES! They're Criminally Cozy! Do you enjoy baking, cozy small towns, and hilarious mysteries? Then you will LOVE the Murder in the Mix series! Cosmopolitan Magazine calls Addison's books, "...easy, frothy fun!" Humor with a side of homicide! A baker. One too many suitors. And a killer. Living in Honey Hollow can be murder. A laugh out loud standalone cozy mystery by New York Times, USA TODAY, & Wall Street Journal bestseller Addison Moore All books in the series can be read individually, so dive on in! Includes RECIPE! My name is Lottie Lemon, and I see dead...

THREE COZY MYSTERIES! THESE TALKING PETS SOLVE CRIMES! INCLUDES RECIPES! An innkeeper who reads minds. An ornery detective. And a trail of bodies. Cider Cove is the premier destination for murder. TALKING PETS! If you enjoy cozy small town feels, a seaside Maine inn, and talking pets who solve crimes then you will LOVE the Country Cottage Mysteries! Books included: Kittyzen’s Arrest (Country Cottage Mysteries 1), Dog Days of Murder (Country Cottage Mysteries 2), Santa Claws Calamity (Country Cottage Mysteries 3) *Cozy Mystery compilation* My name is Bizzy Baker, and I can read minds—not...

Welcome to the Haunted Book Barn Book Shop! An impending divorce. A hot homicide detective. And spontaneous time travel. Midlife in Glimmerspell is proving to be magical. Cosmopolitan Magazine calls Addison's books, "...easy, frothy fun!" If I thought the first half of my life was a bumpy ride, I’d better buckle up because I’m about to go over the hill and off the rails. Recipe Included! A laugh out loud Cozy Mystery by New York Times, USA TODAY, & Wall Street Journal bestseller Addison Moore. After catching my husband in bed with another woman, I gave him the heave-ho, put our house on...

Halloween is on its way and so is a killer. A baker who sees the dead. One too many suitors. And a killer. Living in Honey Hollow can be murder. It's so cozy it's criminal! Murder in the Mix is a USA TODAY Bestselling Series! Humor with a side of homicide. From New York Times, USA TODAY, & Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Addison Moore. Cosmopolitan Magazine calls Addison's books, "...easy, frothy fun!" *Includes RECIPE! This book can be enjoyed on its own without reading the other books in the series so dive on in! My name is Lottie Lemon and I see dead people. Okay, so I rarely see...

Your friend left a message today: Come at nine. I'll leave the side door unlocked. Take as long as you like. It is a clear winter night, cold and still, and a side door to an old library opens at your touch. Inside, small amber lamps line the corridors. The air smells of old paper and beeswax. A wooden staircase, worn smooth by a century of feet, spirals upward toward the sound of a ticking clock and the faint trace of woodsmoke. At the top, a private reading room is waiting. A fire burns low in a stone hearth. A leather chair — deep, broken-in, impossibly warm — faces the flames. On a ...

A brand-new library. A quiet village. One very inconvenient murder. Judith Spears expected the opening of Little Pickton’s new library to be blissfully uneventful. She was wrong. When a body turns up among the bookshelves, Judith finds herself pulled into yet another tangled mystery—this time with an enthusiastic (and thoroughly nosy) librarian determined to turn the case into her next true-crime obsession. As secrets begin to surface, it becomes clear that beneath the village’s polite smiles lies something far darker—something with roots deep enough to shake the town to its core. ...

The Complete Hot Flash Homicides Series in one boxed set! Books 1-4! Cosmopolitan Magazine calls Addison's books, "...easy, frothy fun!" An impending divorce. A hot homicide detective. And spontaneous time travel. Midlife in Glimmerspell is proving to be magical. If I thought the first half of my life was a bumpy ride, I’d better buckle up because I’m about to go over the hill and off the rails. A laugh out loud Cozy Mystery and Paranormal Women’s Fiction series by New York Times, USA TODAY, & Wall Street Journal bestseller Addison Moore! After catching my husband in bed with another ...

Book 1: The Ghost in the Stacks A cozy paranormal mystery featuring inconvenient ghosts, buried secrets, and one librarian who just wanted a quiet Tuesday. A skeleton in the wall wasn’t part of Ellie Ward’s plans. Her Tuesday had started normally enough: shelve books, help patrons, and ignore the cat scratching at the basement wall. Then the wall came down. The bones belong to Silas Vance—the architect who designed the Ashwood Library, then vanished in 1925 along with fifty thousand dollars in construction funds. Everyone assumed he ran. He didn’t get far. Now someone wants the ...

It’s beginning to look a lot like murder. Grab this cozy mystery boxed set and snuggle up to THREE chilling tales with a side of homicide! Books Included: Baby Bundt Cake Confusion (Murder in the Mix 31), Chocolate Chip Cookie Conundrum (Murder in the Mix 32), Wicked Whoopie Pies (Murder in the Mix 33) ***Each book can be read individually so dive on in!*** A baker who sees the dead. One too many suitors. And a killer. Living in Honey Hollow can be murder. Baby Bundt Cake Confusion (Murder in the Mix 31) My name is Lottie Lemon and I see dead people. Okay, so I rarely see dead people, ...

A baker who sees the dead. One too many suitors. And a killer. Living in Honey Hollow can be murder. Three books! My name is Lottie Lemon and I see dead people. Okay, so I rarely see dead people, mostly I see furry creatures of the dearly departed variety, who have come back from the other side to warn me of their previous owners impending doom. And that horrible scenario happens to be playing out at the moment where I see a beautiful long departed pooch hovering around a questionably two-timing Santa and all his naughty-hottie elves. Quite frankly, it’s a terrifying sight considering the...

The Midnight Library Club Returns Welcome back to the Midnight Library, where books know your heart, friendship lights the path and magic lives in every story. The Midnight Library Club: The Story Thief is a collection of magical short stories for children aged 8–12, set in a hidden library inside an ordinary school. Each story follows a different child facing everyday challenges — self-doubt, friendship worries, or struggles with reading and learning. With gentle magic, mystery, humor, and heart, these stories show that everyone learns in their own way, and that courage, kindness, and ...

Some stories don't end. They wait to be found… Book editor Lucy Thomas has just inherited her grandmother’s windswept Cornish home, and with it, a library bathed in sunlight, a spiral staircase that leads to secrets, and a battered box filled with unfinished stories… To honour her...

A haunted library, a crushed historian, and a five-pound dragon with a taste for curses. Hazel’s reading list just got deadly. Hazel Penrose finally has the Bramble Hollow Wayward Creatures Sanctuary running smoothly. The hellhound is behaving, the baby dragons haven't set anything on fire in days, and her undeniable chemistry with Gargoyle Sheriff Thorne is definitely heating up. But her peaceful streak ends when a Sumerian poltergeist possesses the Head Librarian, sending the town into chaos. Hazel is called in to wrangle the cause of the magical breach: a rogue Bookwyrm—a tiny, ...

A Small-Town Library Gala, Poisoned Coffee, and a Deadly Cover-Up Maplewood’s annual library fundraiser begins with speeches and smiles. Ivy is a former Chicago reporter now writing for the Bulletin. She knows that in Maplewood, secrets hide behind smiles and tidy budgets. Gordon Larch collapses at the VIP coffee station. The sweetener setup was left unattended. A packet looks tampered. The fundraiser display, The Misplaced Books, is hiding more than donations. Watson, her loyal beagle, tugs her toward trouble. Alice, her neighbor, offers cookies and steady advice. Ivy follows torn ledger...