Old Women Cozy Mysteries

The first three books in the Essie Cobb Senior Sleuth Mysteries---BINGOED, PAPOOSED, and VALENTINED

Contractor and part-time sleuth Shannon Hammer specializes in improving the quirks and flaws of the Victorian homes in Lighthouse Cove, California. The quirks and flaws of their residents are another story... Valentine's Day is approaching, and while Shannon is delighted to be friends with not one but two handsome men, not everyone in town is feeling the love. After her elderly neighbor Jesse Hennessey fails to make his daily appearance at the local diner, Shannon swings by his place to check on him.

Murder in Patchwork — The Patchwork House Mysteries, Book 1 When Nora Whitfield returns to the English village of Ashcombe after nearly twenty years away, she expects to find fabric, familiar faces, and the particular low-level social warfare of a place that never quite forgets anything. What she doesn't expect is a mystery stitched into a hundred-year-old quilt. Commissioned to examine a patchwork quilt discovered in the attic of Elmwood Hall, textile conservator Nora finds herself reading more than fabric — she's reading a family secret buried for sixty years. When the woman who first...

The ghosts haunting Alison Kerby's Jersey Shore guesthouse are sad. Maxie wants to know who murdered her ex-husband, and Paul pines for his still-living almost-fiancee. The only one who isn't missing her ex is Alison-because The Swine just arrived on her doorstep...

When a former colleague is implicated in his neighbor’s demise, Sheridan Hendley returns to Cold Creek to prove his innocence. Annoying as Max can be, she can’t imagine the quirky professor is capable of murder. Unfortunately, not everyone shares her opinion. Of course, it doesn’t help that Max threatened his neighbor in a public place soon before the man was murdered. Or that the victim’s drug shipments had a habit of turning up on Max’s doorstep. Only as Sheridan asks more questions, she again puts a target on her back.

Pie Contest Turns Deadly Fall is in the air and the Eastern Shore Pie Contest has come to Pelican Cove. So has a woman who became a pariah when she was banished from town forty years ago. Now she is back with a vengeance amidst loud protests. The town is split over whether a decades old edict is still valid, especially since the woman holds a lot of power as a judge of the contest. The competition heats up as local women break their backs trying out different recipes, determined to win. Then an unexpected murder shocks the town. Roped into investigating the crime, café owner and amateur ...

In Quillhaven, the yarn doesn’t lie. When Nettie Silverloop discovers a box of strange crimson yarn in her cozy shop, Yarn to Be Wild, she has no idea it carries a power far more dangerous than charm or coincidence. As Nettie and her knitting circle begin creating a Valentine’s charity afghan, the yarn starts exposing hidden truths—old loves, buried regrets, and long-suppressed desires. Secrets surface without permission, pulling the past into the present and tightening its grip with every stitch. But the magic doesn’t stop at revelation. The yarn grows warmer . . . heavier . . . ...

Lieutenant Ethan Hendricks greatest nightmare just also happens to be his grandfather’s newest business venture. Logan Hendricks is thrilled about his brand new detective agency’s first case, but things weren’t turning out the way they were supposed to, including the attempted murder of one of his brand new employees. But he figures their next case, which involves finding a missing sister, should go a lot smoother. How dangerous could it be? Ethan Hendricks wasn’t quite as confident about his grandfather’s new hobby, or that the supposedly straight-forward case of finding a ...

A secret on the savannah. A bewildering death. Can a silver-haired sleuth solve a mystery before the sun sets? Community vet “Mama Rose” Hardie just wants to enjoy her golden years in Kenya, taking care of local animals, and supporting her disabled husband. But her tranquil life is blown apart when a childhood friend returns and stirs up a hornet’s nest. When a long-forgotten tragedy is dragged out into the open, she barely catches her breath before her former classmate falls prey to a wily predator. With the police warned off, this incorruptible woman agrees to help the victim’s ...

In Carraway, Colorado, the dog park has three rules: pick up after your pet, keep them leashed until you reach the run, and don't dig up the town councilman. Rosie the basset hound just broke rule three. Now Lorraine Mercer (66, former PI, widow, not ready to be put out to pasture) is on the case. She's joined by Cecil Ashby, a retired funeral director who's buried half the town and knows where all the secrets went with them, and Dixie Farrow, a stroke survivor and a total wildcard with a sharp tongue, a sharper mind, and zero patience for nonsense. The victim? Wade Purcell—councilman, ...

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James Calloway moved into unit fourteen at Pelican Reach two days before Martin Forde, the quiet man in unit eleven, died of an apparently natural cardiac event. Calloway walks at five-thirty, tends his allotment with the focused precision of a man who needs something to do with his hands while he thinks, and expresses, when told about Forde's death, the controlled absence of surprise of someone who already knew. Ted Barlow notices this, because Ted has learned to notice things. Six weeks after the events that changed Pelican Reach forever, Ted, Shirley, and Arthur are still learning what ...

“An uproarious romp!” —People “Pooley weaves together the most cleverly flawed and lovable characters and then sets them free to prove that we are limitless at any age.” —Annabel Monaghan, bestselling author of Summer Romance A senior citizens’ center and a daycare collide with...

When he believed there was little time left, there were only two people he wanted to talk to while he still could. One was the only woman he’d ever loved. And always would. Rendon was seriously wounded…in searing pain, and up until the last hour, exposed as he’d never been before. Getting himself to the little known and forgotten small town in the middle of nowhere had been a risky choice, and taken the last of his quickly dwindling strength. It was the last place anyone would ever think to look. He never expected to survive. Yet after a brazen rescue, Rendon is determined to be part ...

A grand cruise and the promise of adventure beckon when Tess hits the bingo jackpot. But mischief meets murder, brewing intrigue beneath the glittering surface. My title of investigative journalist and Toby’s crime-finding prowess face a true test as obscured motives and forgotten legends weave through luxurious decks. Eccentric Grannies bring their wit and wisdom, while Eli lends tech genius. With danger thick as sea fog, each chapter unveils hidden truths aboard this vessel veering towards peril. As pieces of a treacherous puzzle fit together, will we expose the villain lurking behind ...

Three retirees. Three dogs. One body at the bottom of the town wishing well. Somebody's wish definitely did NOT come true. When a storm cracks open the hillside beneath Carraway, Colorado's old wishing well, a generation of tossed coins come tumbling out—along with the remains of someone who went missing nearly fifty years ago. The bones belong to Karen Briggs, a girl who vanished on prom night in 1974. The town buried her memory. The mountain buried the rest. Lorraine Mercer sat two rows over from Karen in freshman English. She remembers the red braid, the big laugh, the doodles she left...

A sudden disappearance, an escape to a hidden island with the boy from her past, a raging blizzard of secrets and fear, the mystery of another woman’s betrayal & the quiet suffering of a broken heart. She’d known the boy he was and it had never been a secret that she loved him with all her heart...then walked away...her dreams and hopes lost. Years later her life depends on the man he’s become. Dark secrets and twisted truths...hidden clues and unexpected danger...a lost island of dreams and an unsolved mystery from years past... There was only time to grab her purse and the small ...

Family, friends, an unexpected sisterhood, the magic of new beginnings...mothers, daughters, brothers and sisters, sons and cousins...all finding their inner strength, facing life’s unexpected challenges, and sometimes starting over after tragedy and heartbreak, and every once in a while...finding the one true love of a lifetime. Everyone has a story... Amanda’s legacy was simple and unbelievably complicated...her sons were determined to make it happen exactly as she wanted. Hannah was distraught and in a downward spiral after her father’s death...her cousin Patricia understood but ...

The rice is ripe in Provence… and so is a wicked murder plot. During a rice-themed culinary competition, head judge and top food critic Seraphin Rampal is found face down in the Rhône River. The gendarmes believe it was a drunken accident. But pastry chef Julie Cavallo disagrees. With the help of her misfit crew, she discovers that much more than rankings were at stake. Ruined careers, shortchanged colleagues, and scorned girlfriends all point to one thing: many in the region’s finest kitchens wanted Seraphin Rampal to pay. As their unsavory secrets come to light, danger closes in, ...

Every ending is also a beginning. But first, one more murder. Three weeks until the wedding. The bakery is thriving. Eli is wonderful. Everything Maggie fought for across four books is finally hers. Then a legendary socialite returns to Savannah with $40 million, a terminal diagnosis, and secrets that could destroy the city's most powerful families, including the Fontaines. When she's poisoned at her own party, Maggie must solve a murder that's twenty years in the making, investigate her own mother, and confront the darkest chapter of her family's legacy. All before the wedding. THE SERIES ...