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Cozy Mysteries

An amateur or professional sleuth investigates to uncover the truth behind puzzling circumstances (frequently involving murder, or some sort of unusual crime). Traditionally set in a small, close-knit community full of colorful characters. Violence occurs “off-stage”; murder scenes are briefly described, without undue lingering on graphic details.

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  • Murder in G Major

    a Gethsemane Brown Mystery

    Gordon, Alexia
    A musician stranded in the Irish countryside becomes a reluctant P.I. with a ghost for her client!
    Book, 2016[Frisco, TX] : Henery Press ; 2016.
  • June, 1925. Elizabeth Fairchild lives a quiet life at the home of her wealthy parents in genteel Oak Park village, Illinois, but tragedy strikes when her friend Mr. Anthony is found stabbed to death in the alley behind his antiques shop.
    Book, 2022Edinburgh : Severn House, 2022.
  • Running her family’s Chinese restaurant is challenging on the best of days. But just when Lana thinks she might be able to catch her breath before the weekend, Lana witnesses a car accident in the parking lot. And now she has no choice but to get…
    Book, 2020New York, New York : St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2020.
  • Elizabeth Miles Bates has returned from her honeymoon and is taking great pride in having completely forsaken her disreputable past. Then her friend, Anna Vanderslice, begs her to use her talents to save her widowed mother from a unscrupulous medium.
    Book, 2021New York : Berkley Prime Crime, [2021]
  • The owner of an ice cream shop in Chagrin Falls, Ohio investigates after a developer from the big city, looking to build a mall, is found murdered.
    Book, 2021New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2021.
  • Returning home to help save her Tita Rosie’s failing restaurant, Lila Macapagal is shocked when her ex-boyfriend, a notoriously nasty food critic, dies suddenly, moments after they had a confrontation, leaving her the only suspect.
    Book, 2021New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2021.
  • A Plus One for Murder

    a Friend for Hire Mystery

    Bradford, Laura
    Reinventing herself as a paid companion, entrepreneur Emma Westlake finds her new business marred by murder when a client drops dead and she becomes the prime suspect in the case.
    Book, 2021New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2021.
  • When her client offers her and her boyfriend a weekend getaway on Catalina Island, pet groomer Mimi Lee finds their trip marred by murder and must clear her client’s name while trying to find out what – or who – is behind the strange happenings on…
    Book, 2021New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2021.
  • Lily didn't expect to find a corpse while visiting a friend. Now it's up to her to solve the case.
    Book, 2021New York : Crooked Lane, 2021.
  • Maya and Sandra are friends, fellow moms, and private-detective partners in the picturesque waterfront city of Portland—where sometimes their cases can get as rocky as the Maine coast...
    Book, 2020New York, NY : Kensington Books, Kensington Publishing Corp., [2020]
  • The grand opening of a new bookstore in Kilbane becomes the closing chapter of an author’s life...
    Book, 2021New York : Kensington Publishing Corp., 2021.
  • When a poisoned dart ends in demise, Gemma Doyle finds herself back on a case.
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Crooked Lane Books, 2022.
  • Arriving in Cambridge, England to help run the family bookshop, librarian Molly Kimball must sift through secrets past and present to untangle a web of blackmail, deceit and murder as she tries to keep the struggling shop afloat after a literary…
    Book, 2021New York : St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2021.
  • When her boss at the Flower House goes AWOL, leaving the store to her for the cost of one dollar, 28-year-old Sierra Ravenswood must solve the murder of a customer before anyone else in town meets an untimely reason for needing funeral flowers.
    Book, 2021New York, NY : St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2021.