Cozy Mysteries Puzzle

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 ...

Solving crimes at a crusty old Florida inn was NOT in Lilly Livingston's 5-year plan. But when she discovers she's the executor of her forgotten stepfather's will and inherits Magnolia Manor, things get a little off track... Despite local law enforcement's warnings to mind her own business, Lilly refuses to back down when things don't add up. And when it comes to murders in sleepy Drifter's Cove—and even Magnolia Manor itself—this amateur sleuth has an uncanny knack for finding both trouble AND answers. Join Lilly alongside her quirky gang as she continues to unravel scandalous town ...

Pumpkins, pranks, and pandemonium! Pumpkin spice and everything nice? Not this Harvest Festival! As autumn leaves fall, new business owner, Harper Sullivan, plans for a calm first festival in her new home. Havenwood's magical town is buzzing with excitement, but Harper's tranquility is shattered when a mischievous magical prankster starts wreaking havoc, threatening to reveal Havenwood’s secrets to the world. As the pranks escalate, Harper puts her amateur sleuthing skills to the test as she races against time to protect Havenwood’s magical allure from going public.

Cold brew, summer crowds… and a dead developer. Maplewood’s annual Cold Brew Crawl is supposed to be good for business at Brewed Awakenings. Instead, barista Hattie Calder watches the town’s most disliked developer collapse after grabbing the wrong tasting cup. Within minutes, Brent Sleedy is dead. Most of Maplewood already has a suspect. The activist who fought his construction projects. The banker furious over missing money. The carpenter with a temper and a public grudge. But Hattie saw something no one else noticed. With her sister Sam, tech-minded friend Liam, and Beans—the ...

Maplewood Museum’s most despised security guard drops dead after dessert. When the coffee froth and glitter settles, the only thing missing is the museum’s prized artifact…and everyone’s alibi. Hattie Calder planned to spend the evening serving coffee, not stumbling into chaos. But when whispers of theft, blackmail, and betrayal echo through the gala hall, the barista with a talent for noticing what others miss becomes the prime candidate to untangle the truth. Armed with her quick wit, her friend Liam’s tech savvy, and her cat Beans’ uncanny knack for being in the wrong place ...

MOUNTAIN SPRINGS COZY MYSTERY SERIES – Books 1-3 Book 1 – Missing, Presumed Unwed Book 2 – Curses, Fowled Again! Book 3 – Beasties and Butterscotch Pie Introduction Sharon Triplett’s life-change was to retreat to the majestic mountains, settle into her inherited family home with her two kids, plucky pet parakeet, Seymour, and try to recover from the tragic death of her husband, a hotshot, undercover, city detective. It was an elegant plan. It should have worked. But then, astoundingly, Seymour, began eerily communicating to her in her dead husband’s voice and Sharon’s life was...

Welcome to The Berry Home: where the food is to-die-for! When Kylie's friend Jack is accused of murder, she must go the distance to uncover the real killer... Meanwhile Kylie's nemesis, Detective Gregson, appears to be joining forces with her BFF Zoey - but to what end? "Winters will have you giggling into your book!" Zoey refuses to tell Kylie about Gregson's secret, leaving her to figure it out on her own. Meanwhile, the odds seem to be stacked against Kylie's friend Jack. He had every reason to want the horrible Gary dead - but then again, so did quite a few other people. Will Kylie ...

Alan Smith ordered the most expensive pour-over on the menu, tipped forty percent, and never stopped watching the door. By Sunday night, his rental car was at the bottom of Miller’s Creek. Hattie Calder knows when something feels off. She noticed Alan Smith’s shaking hands before he touched his cup. She noticed the sheriff closed the case too quickly. And when her cat, Beans, bats a crumpled receipt out from under the radiator, she notices the coded notes a frightened man left behind. With her sister Sam and their tech-savvy friend Liam, Hattie starts pulling on a thread that leads to ...

When a billionaire’s assistant drops dead clutching a cup from Brewed Awakening, Hattie Calder’s cozy coffee shop becomes the scene of Maplewood’s biggest scandal. A friendly note on the cup—her signature smiley and heart—turns from charm to evidence overnight, painting her as the town’s prime suspect. Determined to clear her name, Hattie follows a trail of gossip, greed, and poisoned secrets to the doors of Maplewood Manor, where eccentric tycoon Graham Larken offers her an impossible deal: help solve his assistant’s murder, and earn ten million dollars in the process. With ...

History hides its most dangerous secrets in Bloomsville… When a Revolutionary War painting vanishes, a chilling legend resurfaces, and an explosive newspaper investigation threatens to expose the town’s deepest scandals, amateur sleuth Grace Thompson and her friends find themselves in the center of Bloomsville’s biggest mysteries yet. This exclusive box set includes three full-length cozy mysteries filled with small-town charm, clever twists, spirited sleuths, and the cutest four-legged detectives around. Join Grace, Chloe, Tom, Oscar, Matilda, and Benji as they uncover buried truths...

In Maplewood, the coffee is strong, gardens are perfect, and chamomile is deadly. One cup drops the town’s most notorious gardener. A living will plants a new owner squarely in the fallout. Hattie Calder runs Brewed Awakenings on routine, loyal regulars, and a stubborn smile. When Doris Bloom collapses like a cut flower, the town calls it a sad, simple end. But Doris’s living will hints at a different story—leaving Hattie The Bloom Works and instructions that read less like a gift and more like a warning. With her sister Sam, tech-savvy best friend Liam, and a watchful cat Beans, ...

Welcome to The Berry Home: where the food is to-die-for! Kylie is thrilled when the space next door is finally leased out to a bookshop owner. Unfortunately, opening day doesn’t go as planned. Instead, the bookshop becomes the scene of a murder. Who could’ve killed Charlie Mccoy, a man of many secrets and just as many enemies? With a murder to investigate and a friend’s wedding to plan, Kylie must call on all her friends to help keep the Berry Home afloat as she scrambles to uncover the truth before it’s too late. Meanwhile, Brad is left to fend for himself as a newly minted ...

Hollywood comes to Michigan when a film producer decides to turn a local author's romance novel into a blockbuster. Although the movie mogul's chocolate labrador is charming, Lee McKinney thinks the producer's talk is a bunch of sweet nothings-and she grows even more suspicious when she stumbles upon a dead body.

A talking cat, a charming ghost, and an enchanted library in this magical cozy mystery book! This book club does more than read their books – they are absorbed right into the story to become the amateur sleuths! To exit the book and get back home, they need to solve the mystery and reach The End. In this journey, they travel to a mountaintop ski town to experience the enchanting setting of a famous film festival. They’ll meet movie stars, producers, and directors. They’ll watch a film premiere, go skiing, and eat at fancy restaurants. It’s all very glamorous and exciting – until a...

A short read cozy mystery with a twist... Dive into a twisty whodunit cozy mystery set in Cloverville on St. Patrick’s Day! Come join the town’s thrilling annual hunt for the hidden Leprechaun Emeralds, only this year, the joy turns to dread when renowned jeweler Liam O'Brien is found murdered in his shop. Step into the shoes of Detective Annie Murphy and unravel clues while interrogating quirky suspects like Liam’s mysterious brother Seamus, his struggling business partner Maggie, and rival jeweler Sean. It’s your chance to crack the case! Can you solve the St. Patrick’s Day ...

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...

Something deadly is brewing at Jordan & Walsh Books, and security analyst Grace Jordan is dead set on figuring out what. When murder returns to Jordan & Walsh Books and Detective Sherwood's investigation stalls, Grace finds herself caught between cryptic riddles from an imprisoned mastermind known only as The Puzzler and warnings about a mysterious drifter named Silas who's recently arrived in town. As clues point to both blue-collar workers and those who wear the badge, Grace realizes someone is hiding in plain sight—and they're not finished. With pressure mounting to solve a case the ...

When amiable old village eccentric Quentin Andrews dies, the good folk of Cherringham are astonished at the crowd that turns up to his funeral. But even more astonished are the beneficiaries of his will: Quentin has left a veritable fortune to whomever is the first to solve an intricate "Cherringham crossword". That puzzle is only the first of many that Jack and Sarah will uncover as they follow the treasure hunt for clues and learn the truth about who Quentin Andrews really was... and the biggest mystery of them al... was he - in fact - murdered?

Six years after moving to Cottageville and opening Carter's Canine Coiffure, Sarah and her red heeler Australian cattle dog Whiskey discover their elderly neighbor has disappeared and that some people in their town are not who they seem. Whiskey, Sarah, and Sarah's assistant Emily Colt—as well as other townsfolk—embrace being amateur sleuths (and work with local police) to piece together clues to determine what happened to Mrs. Janice Jenkins and why.

Oxford, 1920. One body. Three impossible clues. And a woman mathematician who will not accept “accident” as an answer. Women can study at Oxford, but they still cannot earn degrees. With a historic vote on women’s degrees approaching and the city caught up in the spectacle of Eights Week, Oxford’s annual rowing races, the last thing the university needs is a scandal. Then the Duke of Calverley—a powerful patron of the university and outspoken opponent of women’s education—is found dead in a locked boathouse. Oxford is quick to call it a tragic accident. Celia Wren, a brilliant...