Cozymystery Stories

Hidden beyond the ordinary world lies Hollowmere, a magical village of lantern-lit paths, crooked cottages, enchanted markets, and creatures that have long since stopped pretending to be ordinary. At its heart live seven witches bound not by blood, but by friendship, magic, and the home they have built together. Rowan the Herbalist trusts what she can grow and heal. Lyra the Dreamweaver listens to things others cannot hear. Bramble the Seeker has never met a mystery she could leave alone. Sage the Lightkeeper senses the magic around them. Thistle the Wild One has a talent for finding trouble-or perhaps letting trouble find her. Juniper the Moongazer watches the night sky for answers, while Elder Wren, the Keeper, remembers more of Hollowmere's past than she is willing to say. Their peaceful lives begin to change when small, impossible things start happening. Magical plants lose their color. Glow bugs vanish from the forest. An old boundary ward begins to weaken. A black cat returns carrying coal soot on his fur. Then Lyra hears a train whistle. There hasn't been a train through Hollowmere in generations. Hidden beneath the forest, the witches discover an abandoned railway leading toward two names nearly erased from Hollowmere's history: Briar's End and Gloaming. As magic begins disappearing from the northeastern woods and frightened creatures flee toward the safety of the village, the seven friends realize the mystery is much larger than an old railway. Something beyond Hollowmere is waking. Or perhaps something is disappearing. And when a voice from the darkness calls Lyra by name, the witches of Hollowmere must uncover what their village has forgotten before the magic they call home vanishes with it. Where magic lives and sisterhood thrives.

Book three in the Record Shop Mysteries has a shark of an investor, a flooded Texas town and a killer nobody can escape. Rhythm and Clues by Olivia Blacke is on the blog, with the love triangle settled and one flood I could not fully buy. Full review at Views She Writes. #cozymystery

🌸 **Welcome back to Butterwick-where the gardens are beautiful, the gossip grows wild, and somebody is about to end up dead.** Tessa Bellamy prefers flowers to people. As the owner of **Foxglove & Fern**, Butterwick's florist and garden shop, she's perfectly happy spending the annual Gardens in Bloom Tour surrounded by peonies, pruning shears, and townspeople who take the Golden Trowel competition far too seriously. Then someone turns up dead. Suddenly, Butterwick's most anticipated spring tradition has become a murder investigation-and Tessa has noticed a few things that don't quite add up. Unfortunately, so has Noah Freeman. Reporter, photographer, and professional asker of questions, Noah has never met a mystery he could leave alone. He's also been orbiting Tessa for long enough that the rest of Butterwick has apparently decided they're inevitable. Tessa disagrees. Mostly. Between competitive gardeners, old grudges, suspicious secrets, and a killer hiding somewhere among the flowers, Tessa and Noah will have to dig through Butterwick's dirt before someone else ends up six feet under it. 🌿 A cozy small-town mystery 🔎 Amateur sleuthing 💐 Flower shop heroine 📰 Nosy reporter love interest 💕 Slow-burn romance 🏡 Small-town gossip 🌸 Spring garden competition ☕ Cozy vibes & murder **Death in Full Bloom is Book Two of the Butterwick Mysteries.**

Ruby has a ghost for a roommate and a dead delivery guy at work. I have goosebumps thanks to Ian (no spoilers). 👻 My 5-star review of Death at the Door by Olivia Blacke is up on Views She Writes. Audiobook fans, the narration is worth it. #cozymystery #paranormalcozy

Autumn wraps around Ashmoor like a secret... In the quiet town of Ashmoor, where every street glows amber and cafés smell of cinnamon, eighteen-year-old Elsie Carter has spent years hiding away from the world. Until one rainy October evening, an unexpected typewritten letter arrives-along with a tiny silver key she never knew existed. The instruction is simple: Be at Hawthorn House at 7PM. Come alone. Hawthorn House has stood empty for decades-feared, whispered about, forgotten. But when Elsie arrives, she isn't alone. Three other girls, each with their own mysterious letter and matching key, step out of the autumn mist. Four strangers. Four identical keys. One house holding secrets that will bind them together forever. As the clock strikes seven, the iron gates creak open... and their story begins. 🍂 A cozy, atmospheric mystery perfect for fall.

In the tiny town of Butterwick, every "murder" is blamed on the same blueberry scone. Eleanor Pettle just wants to bake in peace. The town wants her to stop making that one recipe - without ever admitting why. A cozy mystery that starts wholesome and gets completely unhinged.

Six months late to The Pie and Mash Detective Agency, and honestly... I wish I'd stayed late. Cozy start, messy middle, and an ending that took a hard left turn. 2 stars on this one. Full review on Views She Writes. #CozyMystery #BookReview #Audiobook

Six Feet Deep Dish had me making my own pizza mid-audiobook. Great found family energy, a detective descended from Al Capone (yes, really), but the love triangle timing threw me off. 3 stars, and I'm still working my way to book 6 for an ARC review. 🍕🔪

Twelve hours. One steam train through New Zealand's lower North Island. One murder. Killer on the Kelvin Explorer is Milverton Mysteries book 5 and honestly the best one yet. Addison and Mabel back at it again, and this time there's nowhere to run. Full review on the blog. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Après plusieurs années loin de Maplewood, Aaliyah revient dans la petite ville où elle a grandi lorsqu'elle apprend qu'elle vient d'hériter de l'ancienne maison de sa grand-mère. Elle pensait y rester quelques semaines, rénover la maison et repartir. Mais dès son arrivée, quelque chose semble étrange. Une vieille boîte cachée dans le grenier contient des photographies, des lettres et un message datant de vingt ans. Le problème ? Personne en ville ne semble vouloir lui expliquer ce qui s'est réellement passé à cette époque. Alors qu'elle tente de reconstruire l'histoire de sa famille, elle se rapproche de [Prénom du garçon], un habitant de Maplewood qui semble en savoir beaucoup plus qu'il ne le laisse entendre. Entre les cafés aux parfums de cannelle, les marchés d'automne, les soirées autour du feu et les rues couvertes de feuilles dorées, Aaliyah découvre peu à peu que Maplewood cache bien plus que des souvenirs chaleureux. Car certaines maisons gardent des secrets. Et celui de The Autumn House aurait peut-être dû rester enterré. 🍂🏡

After encountering a brief power outage at work, college student Sara Donovan might be allowing her imagination to run wild. The main vault in the Carlton Museum holds the Fire and Ice Exhibit, a collection of rare gems, including the Star of Midnight, a 175-carat diamond. Although all the stones are accounted for, Sara suspects the Star of Midnight was stolen and replaced with a fake. While conducting her own investigation, what Sara uncovers is beyond even her wildest imagination: a coded message, papers with strange characters, and a mysterious set of numbers carved into an office wall. Despite dismissive historians and other experts, she is certain these clues point to a mysterious centuries-old legend. Unfortunately, her colorful history of usually being right, but always being wrong, means she must solve the mystery to prove her theory.

In 1930s Montreal, newbie reporter Rita Larose is on the hunt for a juicy story to draw her in. When she stumbles upon an unsolved mystery, she will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of it. What she doesn't know is that she'll be getting unexpected help from beyond the grave throughout her journey. ***This is a sneak peek into Book 1 of the Deadly Exclusives Trilogy coming to Amazon KDP in 2022 (links to follow)***

New review up: The Mystic and the Missing Girl by Vikki VanSickle. A reluctant psychic, a tarot deck, and a 20-year-old cold case in a small lakeside town. Loved the tarot chapter openers and the aunt/niece bond. Mark your calendar, it's out September 8! #cozymystery #NetGalley

Book two of the Deep Dish Mystery series just won me over. 🍕🔪 Ashes to Ashes, Crust to Crust has a better mystery, better characters, and a twist that actually got me. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ review now live on Views She Writes. #CozyMystery #BookReview #DeepDishMystery #MindyQuigley

Brianna Sanford owns the popcorn shop that has been given to her by her dad, who passed away several years ago. She also has a love interest who is a billionaire that is willing to help Brie to sell her popcorn with a different flavor. While business is booming, the president of Applewood was found dead at the carnival tent. Brianna must get to the bottom of this murder case to find out who killed President Sharron Miller.

One thing one could say about Arthur Ashford is that no place had ever kept him long enough to become his home. So when he returns to London for his brother's funeral, he expects grief, awkward relatives, and a quick departure. Instead, he finds Kathe, the widow. She is composed, elegant, and entirely too in control for a woman who has just buried her husband. Naturally, Arthur decides this is none of his concern. Unfortunately, he keeps noticing things. A leather pocket-book that makes no sense at all. A household that runs too smoothly. A widow who always seems to be exactly where she should be, no more, no less. And the more he looks, the worse it gets. Because suspicion is inconvenient. Attraction is worse. And Kathe is both. Arthur tells himself he is imagining things. The difficulty is that he has never been good at leaving things alone. 💫 Victorian mystery with a slow-burn romance 💫 Forbidden love 💫 Strong heroin 💫 Funny and witty CHAPTER BY CHAPTER

It is the night of the prestigious Montague Hall Annual Ball. Anyone who is anyone is going to be there. Red carpets, flashing cameras, banquet tables, a live orchestra and a never ending flow of champagne that will be sure to loosen some mouths and cloud some judgment. That's what Tammie is counting on anyway. She's just after some civilised conversation. Clearing of the air. So why does she have matches in her purse?

Lucien Boulanger dreamed of opening the finest artisan bakery in Lyon. Instead, he becomes famous for exploding flour, runaway baguettes, bread-stealing pigeons, a mischievous bakery cat, and disasters that somehow make customers love him even more. As rival bakers plot against him and every day brings a new culinary catastrophe, Lucien discovers that success isn't about perfection-it's about laughter, friendship, and serving the warmest bread in France. In Lyon, every loaf tells a story... and every story ends in absolute chaos.

She's dead. Her roommate can (barely) see her. Together they're solving a murder. Olivia Blacke's A New Lease on Death is the paranormal cozy mystery debut I didn't know I needed, and now I'm obsessed with Ruby and Cordelia. Full review on Views She Writes. #CozyMystery #BookTok