New England Cozy

They say you can never tame a wildflower... From the 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 daddy’s business...

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” ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

The Buttercream & Batter Mysteries The Complete Six-Book Collection Welcome to William's Cove, a small coastal New England town where the harbor smells like salt and possibility, the bakery on Main Street is always warm, and the locals are exactly as charming and complicated as small-town people tend to be. Fanny Fairchild owns The Sugared Spatula, bakes the best shortcake in three counties, employs the most endearingly clumsy apprentice in the history of pastry, and — through absolutely no plan of her own — has become William's Cove's most reliable solver of murders. Her partner in ...

Class is back in session! New York Times bestselling authors of The Academy Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham return with The Thoroughbreds September at Tiffin Academy is always a heady time, especially for the senior class—“sixth formers,” in Tiffin-speak—a season of college...

Fanny Fairchild has exactly one goal for the William's Cove town planning meeting: deliver her Millionaire's Shortcake, collect her check, and fix the walk-in cooler that's been humming in the key of B-flat ever since her apprentice tried to repair it with duct tape. But when the meeting's most controversial guest — a big-city developer with powerful enemies and a knack for making small towns miserable — ends up dead, Fanny's beautiful shortcake suddenly looks less like dessert and more like a motive. With her bakery's reputation on the line and her name in everyone's mouth, staying out...

Three More Clever Mysteries. One Charming Town. Still No Escape for Killers. Ashford Creek has settled back into its quiet routines—foggy mornings by the harbor, familiar faces on Main Street, and the comforting creak of floors at Bookmark & Brew. But in a town where everyone knows everyone’s business, secrets don’t stay buried for long. Former Portland detective Eliza Prescott may have traded her badge for a bookstore, but her instincts are as sharp as ever. When a new string of suspicious deaths shakes Ashford Creek, Eliza finds herself pulled into investigations no one else seems ...

IN THE LAKE DISTRICT’s natural larder, deadly poisons lurk unseen. Pretty flowers and exotic fungi may flatter to deceive, and they should not be underestimated. Their toxins evolved in prehistoric times to deter great grazing beasts like bison and elk and the Ice Age aurochs. But in the modern fashion, rare plants and other wild fare – Grizedale venison, Arctic char, Herdwick lamb – are blended with traditional ingredients to make Cumbria a gourmet’s paradise. The rugged and beautiful county boasts more Michelin stars per head than any other part of the British Isles. And each year...

Grace Thornfield’s life falls apart on a Tuesday. Unemployed, burned out, and unsure what comes next, she’s summoned to the tiny coastal town of Willowbrook to settle her estranged grandmother’s estate. But instead of dusty heirlooms and paperwork, Grace inherits something far stranger: a magical sanctuary, a house full of secrets, and a talking cat with strong opinions. Turns out her grandmother wasn’t just the town eccentric—she was its fairy godmother. And now Grace is expected to take her place. As Grace stumbles into wish-crafting, fae politics, and the delicate art of ...

STAND-ALONE MURDER MYSTERY, #14 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "MAD, BAD AND JUST A LITTLE BIT COZY."‘A KILLER IN OUR MIDST?’ cried a newspaper headline to commemorate the disappearance of Mary Wilson. It is two decades since Britain’s first mass DNA sweep failed to incriminate a single local male. Mary was listed merely as a missing person. Now archaeologists have unearthed human remains in Cummacatta Wood. The forensics match – age, sex, fragments of clothing... and dental records. But the murder hunt has only just begun when an outsider, a convicted...

STAND-ALONE MURDER MYSTERY, #16 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "MAD, BAD AND JUST A LITTLE BIT COZY." NOBODY SAW HER. NOBODY CAN FIND HER. When 37-year-old Lisa Jackson sets out for work one Friday morning she is in high spirits. Things are going well with her new boyfriend. But when she does not reach her desk, or answer her mobile phone, her colleagues and family raise the alarm. Suspicion immediately falls on co-worker Ray Piper. A married man, he and Lisa have recently ended an affair. But steely-eyed Piper denies any knowledge of Lisa’s ...

One dead garden coordinator. One routine herb pickup. And a crime someone is desperate to pass off as an accident. Fiona Firth stops by Seacliff Springs’ community garden every Tuesday morning for fresh herbs. Finding Clara Pemberton dead among the rosemary beds turns a familiar routine into a nightmare. The explanation is convenient. A fall. An accident. Case closed. But the garden tells a different story. Missing tools. Broken stems. Disturbed soil. And Clara’s final notes suggest she wasn’t just tending plants. She was closing in on someone who’d been stealing from the garden for...

The journey continues! Hank and Flo Peavey head north from Maryland to Maine, completing their epic Route 1 adventure. But their retirement dream meets reality when murder strikes in five more picturesque coastal towns. From Maryland’s Chesapeake charm to Maine’s rugged shoreline, this beloved detective duo proves that justice has no retirement age. Hank’s insurance fraud expertise and Flo’s photographic memory combine to solve mysteries that baffle local authorities, all while they savor New England’s beauty and hospitality. Experience the satisfying conclusion of their cross-...

STAND-ALONE MURDER MYSTERY, #13 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "MAD, BAD AND JUST A LITTLE BIT COZY."MURDER ON THE MIDNIGHT EXPRESS? When the exclusive London-to-Edinburgh sleeper plunges into a snowdrift deep in the Cumbrian fells, DI Skelgill awakes to discover one fellow passenger dead and another missing. Through a blinding blizzard Skelgill leads a daring evacuation – but even before they reach the sanctuary of an isolated coaching inn, a third traveller suffers a life-threatening mishap. As suspicion pervades the elite group of apparent strangers, ...

One small town. One snowed-in night. One life-changing plus sign. Back home for the holidays, Nora Harper is braced for nosy questions and old ghosts—until a grocery aisle run-in with her high school almost-first-love turns into a quiet, irresistible second chance. Evan Holt stayed and built The Frosted Pine into the warm heart of the town. He pours cinnamon old fashioneds and offers Nora something she hasn’t felt in years: a soft place to land. When a whiteout strands them above the bar, honest talk and slow kisses turn into something deeper… and weeks later, two pink lines change ...

STAND-ALONE MURDER MYSTERY, #17 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "MAD, BAD AND JUST A LITTLE BIT COZY." TWELVE CLOSE FRIENDS, ONE DEADLY ENEMY. A Ouija board spells out ‘MURDER’ and next morning wealthy widow Daisy Mills is found drowned at a Lakeland beauty spot. Was this a warning from beyond the grave, or an agent provocateur among the house party? Could the earlier death of successful businessman Simon Mills really be the accident it seemed? And was it by coincidence that the same clique of old school friends had met before each tragedy? Pitched into ...

When snobby candle maker Darcy Bloom ends up dead outside Junie Carmichael's bookshop, all signs point to local antiques dealer Walter Fitch. But Junie knows he's not the one with a guilty heir. Junie came to Thistleberry Point to pack up her late aunt's bookstore-not stumble over a dead body during the Midsummer Market. Darcy Bloom had a fake lineage, a real brooch, and a knack for making enemies. Now she's dead, and Walter Fitch is the prime suspect. But Junie isn't buying it. With her chatty parrot Edgar, her aunt's spirited best friend Flo, and a stong cup of local gossip, Junie digs ...

NEW FOR 2022 – STAND-ALONE, #19 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "A COMPELLING BRITISH CRIME MYSTERY." EVIL LIES UNDETECTED. When shepherd Jud Hope finds an American passport in a fox’s earth, a connection is made to an unidentified fatality – an elderly female walker who fell to her death in a treacherous rocky gill near Ambleside. Meanwhile, a spate of ‘nighthawker’ incidents sees ancient monuments desecrated under cover of darkness. The spotlight falls upon Derek Shaw, a museum curator exploring Cumbria’s Roman heritage. Onto this stage emerges a ...