Истории Cozymystery

Imogen Fox, the personal assistant and wife-to-be of John Oakby, the Mayor of Fleckney Woulds, a small and peaceful county town, arrives at her office one rainy morning, only to find a corpse there - and her fiancé standing over it, his hands covered in blood. The victim turns out to be the husband of the woman everyone in Fleckney knows of. In the past she had been a part of several scandals involving the sons of the most wealthy and powerful families in the county, before she left for London in pursuit of a better life - and a richer husband. This isn't Imogen's first murder investigation, but it might yet prove to be the most challenging one. In order to catch the culprit Imogen will have to unearth the secrets of many of her dear friends, including the local police sergeant; the vicar; the husband of her closest friend who owns most of the property in the county; a famous military writer, residing in Fleckney - and unsurprisingly, the Mayor himself. Meanwhile, someone is breaking into people's gardens and ruins their lawn, digging for something. With only three months left until her wedding, Imogen has her hands full.

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. 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 agenda that makes no sense. 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 Gothic mystery with a slow-burn romance 💫 Forbidden love 💫 Stron heroin 💫 Funny and witty CHAPTER BY CHAPTER

A small town. A inherited bookstore. A sealed envelope with a date no one will talk about. Wren Calloway is twenty, stubborn, and new to Fern Hollow, Wisconsin. The town is warm on the surface and guarded underneath. The retired pastor everyone loved didn't die the way they're saying. And the man who owns the café on Main Street knows more than a stranger should. Some things are better left where they are. Wren hasn't learned that rule yet.

In the small coastal Texas town of Harlow, Nora Callette has built exactly the life she intended. At thirty‑eight, she runs Calloway Crest, a luxury pet resort where the town's wealthiest residents trust her with the animals they love more than most people. She is quiet, capable, and precise. She notices everything and says very little. Her life is peaceful by design. Then her younger sister Gemma moves in. Gemma brings two impeccably dressed dogs, an opinionated parakeet, a pet bakery, and enough warmth and chaos to disrupt eleven weeks of carefully maintained routine. She also brings the one person Nora trusts completely into the middle of everything that is about to go wrong. Because something is going wrong in Harlow. Three of Nora's wealthiest clients have quietly rewritten their wills within the same six‑month window. Nora only knows because people talk freely in front of the woman holding their dog's leash. Two of those clients are already dead. Their deaths were ruled accidents. Nora does not believe in coincidences, and she has read enough estate documents in her former life as an attorney to know exactly what a rewritten will means. The third client is still alive. Nobody is looking for a pattern except Nora. Into this walks Callum Hayes, the new town veterinarian-steady, unhurried, and entirely too perceptive for Nora's comfort. And Allen Michaels, a former army sniper turned small‑town detective who tells Nora to stay out of it and cannot seem to stop her. While Nora quietly dismantles a conspiracy built on old money and older jealousy, she is also navigating her first IVF cycle alone, her first real friendship with a man who might become something more, and the chaos of loving a sister who says out loud everything Nora keeps inside. Some secrets get buried. Nora Callette digs them up.

Ogni sera si ritrovano allo stesso tavolo. Un bicchiere davanti, una battuta pronta e la convinzione che in paese non succeda mai nulla. Poi una bottiglia di whisky scompare. Per Marcello, Carlo, Giovanni e Pio è l'inizio di un'indagine improbabile tra ricordi, sospetti, vecchi amici e nuovi incontri. Tra il bancone di un bar lucano e le strade di un piccolo paese del Sud, nasce il Club del Bancone: un gruppo di amici capace di trasformare ogni mistero in una storia da raccontare. Un giallo leggero, ironico e profondamente umano, dove l'amicizia conta più della soluzione del caso.

Willa Cress has spent her whole life growing something clean in the shadow of her family's name. She built Cress & Co. with her own hands - a florist shop on the Magnolia Reach waterfront, the one thing in this Gulf Coast Texas town that belongs entirely to her. She knows every wedding, every funeral, every occasion that passes through it. She knows this town the way you only know a place that has cost you something. When Sunny Broussard dies and Magnolia Reach accepts the ruling without question, Willa can't. Sunny was her closest friend once. They drifted. Willa never stopped carrying the weight of that distance. And now Sunny is gone and the official answer is natural causes and something in Willa knows - the way she has always known things, quietly and completely - that the official answer is wrong. She has four things nobody else has. She has a key that shouldn't exist. And she has a stranger in town who stopped outside her window because of a wildflower he recognized from a property he's only just inherited. What Magnolia Reach keeps, it keeps for a reason. Sweet Magnolias meets Big Little Lies meet pretty little liars on the Gulf Coast of Texas.

Meet Agatha and Conan. She is named after her grandma's favourite author and has a dark past she's trying to make up for. He is the son of troubled novelist and has a dreary present he is trying to escape. Forced to spend their summer at the same rundown lakeside resort, Agatha and Conan end up in the middle of a mystery... and each other's business.

After the discoveries of book one Faustine and her friends embark on a new Journey to save their friends their home and maybe all the 7 lands.

Professor Tom Billings has gone missing, but luckily his longtime friend Warner Lucke can find anyone. And Lucke isn't about to leave his mentor to the Central American jungle. When he finds out his rival and enemy Tandelle is also on the trail of the same lost pirate treasure, he realizes that not only will he be tracking down a lost priceless jewel but trying to keep his friends and family safe as well.

Usually, after-work suggestions from coworkers mean drinks and karaoke, both of which Opal normally declines in favor of a good nap. Finding herself in a creaky house surrounded by candles and spiderwebs? That should have been her first red flag. The ghost of the house realizes someone can finally see her and suddenly promises are being made to help a sister move on. The sister? A cop with her own vendetta. Opal is dragged into a cold case for a ghost she'd rather not be able to see because apparently, normal life was too much to ask for. Between late nights, dark corners, and dusty old documents Opal finds herself talking to the dead whether she likes it or not. Either they'll find the answers, or they'll be adding to the ghostly population.

Four retired uncles. One yoga club. No experience. Too much enthusiasm. When Rishi's watch goes missing, he and his friends decide to "help the police" with a little investigation. They're observant. They're confident. They have no idea what they're doing. But things don't stay as simple as they start. Written in Hinglish (Hindi-English mix in Roman script).

Lucky Strikes 2 - Warner Lucke is surprised that his new assistant is working out so well, as an investigator, a secretary, and even a girlfriend. When she's kidnapped in France as they search for a rare family document, he'll do whatever it takes to get her back safely. Going toe to toe with Russians bent on finding treasure isn't easy, nor dealing with two women from his past with their own agendas. Lucke isn't sure he can trust his client, an old friend who happens to be a young and wealthy widow, nor is he convinced a CIA spy is only on his tail to help.

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)***

An island paradise. An estate worth millions. A murdered man. Beulah Beale is battling a cheating husband entangled with his younger secretary, a village where some want change and development, some want the status quo. Then, she and her sidekick, Nina Kelly find the dead body of an eccentric recluse. A sinister garden of evil where every plant is deadly. A robbery. And an inept peace officer who loves donuts more than doing his job. Can Beulah figure out the mystery and solve the crimes before someone else is killed? A Case of Murder on the Dunes: A Beulah Beale Cozy Mystery is a funny tale of two ladies on the hunt to catch a murderer.

A serial for readers who like cozy bureaucratic fantasy mystery, civic fantasy, serial mystery. New chapters follow capable grown-up characters, community stakes, ethical secrets, and slow-burn reversals.

🏆Wattys 2019 Winner for Mystery & Thriller🏆 Sister Mary has lost her way, or so people think. Kicked out of her convent and sent away to be reformed, this jolly nun discovers her gift of glee is perfect for solving murders and the occasional naughty peek. ________________________________________ Merry Sister Mary is the world's most happy-go-lucky nun, and where the nuns are concerned, possibly the worst. She has none of the qualities reserved for a traditional lady of the cloth: a fear of water, an odd relationship with an umbrella, and no talent in teaching or nursing, yet Sister Mary believes she has a special God given power, laughter. Such a belief has led her to be kicked out of her convent in Chicago for accidentally flashing a group of churchgoers and deemed in desperate need of reform. She is sent on a bus to a stricter convent in New Orleans, Louisiana, but in a drama fueled twist, God has different plans for the joyous nun. She is to solve a murder. After missing the bus Sister Mary is forced to seek refuge with a Catholic family in the small town of St. Francisville. A horrific murder occurs sending the town into a frenzy of bittersweet joy. The person killed has long been despised and so named the Stanton Witch for the mystery surrounding her husband's death and the decades of misfortune since her arrival. In an effort to expose the truth, Sister Mary finds herself in the middle of one family's terrible and insidious secret. As the bodies pile up she uses her gift of glee to uncover the clues missed by the police and hopefully stop the killer from claiming another innocent victim. Her goal-- prove to the world once and for all that one does not need to be traditional to make a difference. Comedy ■ Mystery ■ Thriller [COMPLETED] Copyright © Jules Haigler No parts of this book may be distributed, copied, or sold on any media without permission of the author. All names, places, and themes are a work of fiction.

You can contact the AUTHOR at hzhutchins2@gmail.com. Paulette Goddard lives in a world of contradictions. For example, Paulette is a feisty, size 24, smart mouth, while her best friend and gal pal is a blond bombshell who goes home at the end of the day with what P calls the "dude du jour." Her mother's second husband, Olaf Lampsen, whom Paulette refers to as "The Swede", is a lackluster specimen she calls "cream of wheat without strawberries for flavor." The couple coos over their Basenji hound, Otto, as if he's a genius stepchild instead of their four-legged beastie. And, most annoyingly, her fledgling relationship with gorgeous co-worker, Jimmy Dolan, is in jeopardy because Lt. Karl Karlson-whom Paulette bested in their first murder investigation-thinks Jimmy killed their haughty co-worker, Deborah Alston, AKA "The Princess." While Paulette and The Princess recently argued, Paulette didn't do the deed. "I'm judgmental, not homicidal," she says. And although Paulette is sure Jimmy didn't do it either, she jumps in to solve the case and prove Karlson wrong...again. In the process, Paulette has to fend off the advances of her one-night-stand addicted boss and brush off the help of her best friend, Claudie, who keeps pushing to be her crime-fighting sidekick. Paulette is also doing her best to ignore the advice of her former college professor, HAT, who fancies himself the Mycroft Holmes of the cornfields. As she tracks down clues from her basement office next to the bathrooms at the brokerage firm where she works, Paulette encounters harsh words from her Miss Marple-ish office manager, threatening notes from someone who knows where she lives, and the business end of a butcher knife. In the end, Paulette's girth saves her from death but not humiliation as she tries to kindle romance with her already-married boyfriend, salvage her full-time job when her boss is arrested based on Paulette's ace research, and smoke out the killer.

Warner Lucke's returning a museum piece, a priceless map, when he and his wife Alyssa are abducted by his old nemesis. Tandelle wants the map and the treasure it leads to, a lost dagger that possibly belonged to King Tut. While trying to stay on the trail of a possibly yet undiscovered tomb, Lucke is forced to question who he can trust and to keep Lissy safe from a man who would do anything to hurt him.

At a charity golf tournament hosted by the prestigious St. Catherine's School for Girls, former staff member turned sleuth Vi Foley, and ambitious Constable Anjali Bajwah must navigate the murky waters of competition and scandal to solve the murder of golf prodigy Missy Malone.

Between adjusting to life as a newlywed and trying to survive the first month of medical school, Sara Alderson has a lot on her plate. She definitely doesn't need to start visiting other people's dreams again. Unfortunately for her, it's happening anyway. Every night, she sees a different person and a different dream. But every dreamer has one thing in common: they all hate Dr. Morris, the least popular professor in the medical school, and they're all dreaming about seeing him - or making him - dead. Once again, Sara finds herself in the role of unwilling witness to a murder before it happens. But this time, there are too many suspects to count, and it doesn't help matters that she hates Dr. Morris every bit as much as any of his would-be murderers do.