Cozymystery Stories

After solving a double murder and saving her home town from a financial catastrophe, Imogen Fox, the personal assistant of John Oakby, the Mayor of a tiny town of Fleckney Woulds, was hoping to enjoy peace and her new romantic status, but two bodies are discovered in the debris of the town dam. To make matters worse, Imogen's sudden artistic success is threatening her fresh and fragile happiness. ~ Fox & Oakby Murder Mysteries ~ Book II ~ Cosy Mystery, Romance & Humour ~ COMPLETE {Sequel to "Fox & Oakby Book I: Official Town Business." COMPLETE. The story continues in "Fox & Oakby Book III: The Toast of the Town"}

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.

Brieanna Sanford owns the popcorn shop that has been given to her by her dad, who passed away 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 dumpster. Brieanna must get to the bottom of this murder case to find out who killed President Sharron Miller.

A princess with no memories of her past marries a king very intimidating. However, life is not so cruel, and perhaps she came to the right person. **** Sita was a princess of the kingdom of Videha. Thought to be dead years ago, she returns amidst secrecy with no memories of her past. She feels she has returned home, but not quite so. Unable to understand why her own family feels so aloof, she reluctantly agrees to marry the King of Aryavarta, Rama. Their marriage is a hush-hush event, not the pompous, celebratory kind one would expect a king to have. As days go by, Sita understands that the King is not as bad as the world paints him to be. She doesn't know if she can love him; perhaps she is beginning to, but doesn't hope for reciprocation. Until, one night, when she finds him sleeping with a tear-drenched face, clutching a letter written in her handwriting. Turns out she had forgotten him, but he never did.

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.

Disgraced physicist Shawn Ronin needs to keep solving problems. After his ivory tower life came crashing down around him, Shawn's compulsion to find hidden answers drove him to become a private investigator. Unfortunately, the career change doesn't end up straightening out his messy life or even net him much money. Instead, it just shines a light on how much more complicated human problems can be than anything found in a textbook. Presented with the opportunity to help another professor avoid a similar fate to his own, Shawn finds himself unable walk away. Returning to the university that forsook him, he uncovers more than just misconduct lurking in the ego-driven, high-achiever world where he used to thrive. None of Shawn's once Nobel Prize worthy papers can help him now. Can a man used to solving some of humanity's most complex problems learn to ask for help with his own?

ON HIATUS || PLAGIUM'S SEQUEL Afternoon tea, walks about the garden...and a ride on a mechanically powered steam-carriage? Enter the regency steampunk world of Plagium! We rejoin Tracey Higgenbottom as she explores the steampunk countryside of Dnalgne. When Tracey takes a steam-carriage to visit her childhood friend, she expects to spend the week relaxing by the ocean cliffside. Instead, she once again finds herself swept into a mystery: a crime is brewing in the village...and she's been tasked to stop it! With the help of familiar-and new-faces, Tracey embarks on a quest to stop the culprit and reveal their identity. But things are more than meets the eye-she must be careful of whom she trusts, and the threat of failure looms large... A steampunk mystery for all to enjoy! UPDATES EVERY FRIDAY (Annulet || An-new-let: small ring around a classical column; a charge in the form of a small ring) Alt. Title: A Curious Case of the Annulet ***ANNULET is the sequel to PLAGIUM and Book 2 in The Keepers Series.*** KEEPERS SERIES ORDER: 1-Plagium 2-Annulet ~This is an unrevised draft. The official revisions will be released sometime after the story's completion~

The Saturday market in Mellow Reach smells like warm bread and fresh basil-the kind of place where neighbors argue about tomato prices and mean nothing by it. Sticky cobblestones. Chipped enamel mugs. Nothing much goes wrong here. Then Thomas Reed's display collapses, and suddenly everyone's an expert. Most people saw the argument. Most people made up their minds before the pole stopped swinging. Officer Harper poked at the wreckage, called it an accident, and snapped his notebook shut. Done. Margaret Ellison wasn't there. Didn't matter. Thirty years as Mellow Reach's librarian teaches you things-how to go unnoticed while noticing everything. The angle of a fallen pole. A timeline with a loose thread nobody pulled. The particular way someone's hands flutter when they're hiding something embarrassing rather than something dangerous. She knows the difference. Always has. She knows Thomas, too. Helped him find his footing here fifteen years ago, back when this town was still deciding whether to let him in. Watched him build something worth keeping. So when the whispers calcify into verdicts-when old friendships crack along old fault lines and the harvest festival her late husband spent a decade building is suddenly up for debate-her stomach drops like a stone in cold water. Staying out of it is a choice. She's made enough of those. Semi-Retired. Not blind. Not yet done. This is an early draft shared for feedback. I'd love to know: - Would you continue reading? - Does it feel cozy? - Where did your interest drop?

Rowena Flores has problems...and we're not just talking about her anger management issues. After cursing her cheating ex-boyfriend, this home goods cashier's life is turned upside down when a pack of werewolf shifters accuse her of being a murdering witch. Will Rowena ever prove she's not a witch? Will the hunky pack alpha ask her out? More importantly, will she clear her name before she's burned at the stake? A Not So Cozy Mystery Series: Book I: Good Witch, Bad Alpha Book II: Never Cheat a Witch Book III: Oh, Shift! *cover made with Canva

Leah's opening a tea shop in the heart of downtown chicago, in the dead of winter. Everything goes as planned until dead bodies start turning up. Can Leah and Sherrie catch the killer before they are steeped? This story is not exclusive to Wattpad only This is the rough draft version that has not been updated. Keeping my on here for now because people are still checking it out.

In the shadowy swamp town of Three Roads, grumpy detective Albert and his gentleman toad friend Gerald uncover the truth behind a string of disappearances-and face off against a criminal mastermind.

In the style of a cozy mystery and classic whodunnit plot: Seventeen-year-old Liliana Defleur's summer had been pretty lazy, filled with endless days of lying around all day in pajamas, snacking, reading, texting - you name it. However, this all changes when her friend's girlfriend and own personal acquaintance is brutally murdered in cold blood, with seemingly no motive or reason behind her far-too-early demise. Soon, Liliana is thrust into the midst of a mind-boggling, tense race to find the killer to prove her friend's innocence and bring justice for the deceased before the culprit is able to end her investigations - and her life - once and for all.

In My Attic, my success story on Wattpad, will be published on 1 July 2020, YAY!! My publisher, Literary Wanderlust, has kindly allowed me to keep the first draft on Wattpad. So, you can still read the original story for free. But the reworked version is AMAZING. Okay, I'm biased, but it really is. Literary Wanderlust was nominated one of 10 top indie presses in the US. They care about "well-written stories" and, as a result, I have not only edited the story, but run a complete re-load. As of 1 July, the novel will be available on Amazon but, but, but - you can get a sneak preview - in exchange for an honest Goodreads reviews. And Bloggers are MOST welcome. If you could even buy the novel once it is available, and leave me an Amazon review you would make me even more happy... Would you like to know more what's going on? Well, just check out this story.

The truth is out there... Way out there. Susan Witsend, owner of the best little UFO-themed B&B in the Sierras, is absolutely, positively, not going to get involved in another murder case. Not with her small-town sheriff threatening jail time if she interferes in one more investigation. So when her neighbor is murdered, Susan exerts all her willpower to stay out of the sheriff's business. But her neighbor's daughter, Clare, needs Susan's help. Clare's been experiencing lost time, a sure sign of alien abduction. Helping Clare is only neighborly... and totally not interfering. Right? Worse, Clare's not the only one with UFO issues. Weird lights in the sky, vanishing cows, and little green men are bringing the mountain town of Doyle to the edge of a panic. Can Susan unearth the truth before her town spirals into chaos? If you like laugh-out-loud mysteries with complicated heroines (and breakfast recipes), you'll love Close Encounters of the Curd Kind, book 3 in the Wits' End series of cozy mystery novels. Read this twisty cozy caper today!

When Lily Tucker-Pritchett receives a mysterious love letter, she and her BFF (and step aunt) Hyacinth Pritchett decide to go searching for her secret admirer- or is he? Lily's dads Mitch and Cam disapprove of the girls' hunt, but they are busy themselves with helping Gloria bring back an old family recipe. However, the instructions of it are too unclear and it causes fights and chaos. Luckily, before dinner, Gloria, Mitch, and Cam realize what's going on, and so do their daughters, Lily and Hyacinth. Perfect for anyone wanting a short, chill Modern Family fanfic by tarrwrites.

Jordan Nimsby returns to her hometown of Eagle River in the Northwoods of Wisconsin after a failed career in Big City investigation and losing her cop fiancée to murder in the line of duty. She ends up camped out in her parents' tiny, "storage" cabin off Loon Lake and while working as a barista at a small coffee shop unexpectedly finds herself witnessing a crime. Her instincts took over, and she's now solved a couple of mysteries for the Eagle River PD with the massive assistance of her best friend from high school, Samantha Orwitz, who now happens to be a detective for the department. This time around, Sam calls Jordy with a cold case that has suddenly warmed up quite a bit. Is there really a ghost haunting a recently renovated resort north of town? The two women are determined to find answers.

🏆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.

Bookworm and recently widowed, Lucy Hobbs has lived a sheltered life. The only danger she has ever faced was turning the pages of a murder mystery novel. All of that is about to change. It's Halloween, Lucy's favourite time of year, but it's more than just a holiday-it's her grandfather Alfred's 87th birthday. After months of grieving, this is the one thing she has been looking forward to. But, little does Lucy know she is walking into a family feud, a lost sheep, and murder. On the day of Alfred's Will reading, Lucy learns of some unexpected changes that cause her to look at the events of the birthday party in a new light. Can Lucy figure out who the murderer is before they strike again?

This is the first story in the Pine Valley Cozy Mysteries Series. Jodie has just moved back to her hometown of Pine Valley, where she bought the Pine Valley Inn & Dinner. She's enjoying her new life - until one of her customers gets murdered. Justus Callan had a lot of enemies, due to his love 'em and leave 'em ways. Who killed Justus? Could it be his best friend, Cal-Lee? Or Faron Crookshanks, the owner of the drag race club? Or maybe Hank, the owner of Louie's Bar? Or was it Branson Styles, the man who is dating Jodie's mother? Jodie's determined to find out who it was and with a little help from her sister, Fawn, and Constable Chet McGuyver (who she happens to have a little crush on) she just might figure it out! Start reading and find out! Don't forget to give the Pine Valley Cozy Mysteries Facebook Page a like and find out little tidbits about the characters that might not be revealed in the story.

Not only will you find many plot holes and nothing but lies in this book. You'll also find something a little bit more strange, so if you must, I beg you to put this book down and go outside and find something else to do. (In edits)