Cozymystery Stories

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.

Roughly fifteen years ago, Warner Lucke and his then girlfriend and treasure-hunting partner Lissy went with a boat captain to find one of the fabled Neptune's Scrolls on the Mediterranean coast. Much has changed but not much has about their old friend Kostos, and he believes he has found the location of a second scroll thanks to the first one. As they are on their way to meet up with him, however, he disappears. With not just one but two sets of villains on their tail this time, not to mention a missing client, the Lucky Strikes team has their work cut out for them.

Some memories refuse to disappear

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.

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.

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.

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.

Evie Harroway is Gen X, emotionally done, and just trying to run a vintage shop. Then the coat shows up - grief-soaked, murder-scented, and practically vibrating with unfinished business. Now she's accidentally solving a cold case... with a Gen Z true-crime obsessive who drinks oat milk and talks in hashtags..

A storm chaser. A skeptic with a book in the passenger seat. A waterfall that appears where it shouldn't. During one unforgettable storm, Lenore and Silas witness something impossible-something that feels eerily tied to a dream neither of them can explain. Somewhere between lightning strikes and old wounds, they begin to realize that storms don't only destroy. Sometimes, they bring people home.

Fashionista Cheline Morgan's life is turned upside down following the discovery of a corpse outside the building where her best friend lives. After coming to terms with the death, Cheline attempts to solve the mysterious circumstances surrounding it, while her best friend appears more guilty by the minute. Will she find the murderer before her BFF ends up in jail or worse...dead? Cover by the incredibly talented @x_Luminous_x.

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?

The world didn't end with a bang, but with a hum. Decades ago, the "Static" arrived-a relentless white noise that devoured digital data, erased memories, and left humanity stranded in a world of rust and silence. Most people lost everything to the "White Sleep," but Elias woke up with a dangerous gift: the ability to "dive" into dead electronics and retrieve the memories trapped inside. From his copper-shielded shop, The Jasmine & Gear, Elias repairs the relics of the past. But his time is running out. The Midnight Jasmine-the rare, glowing flower that anchors his sanity and keeps the static at bay-is beginning to fade. To save the flowers, and himself, Elias must venture deeper into the digital ruins than ever before. But the static is evolving, and something within the noise is starting to whisper back. In a world being erased, what is worth saving?

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.

An original cozy fantasy mystery about an elf attempting to hide her identity and the unlikely chance of belonging. Nico moves into an inherited estate in a human village, determined to hide her elf blood, searching for peace and quiet - and yet that might all go to waste when someone goes missing by the hands of an elf, and she's the only one who knows where to even start to look.

#1 in MYSTERY and HAUNTED. 1930s-style Dana Girls fanfiction - an eerie twin-towered castle of white stone on an ice-bound island on a frozen winter lake, a nearby English manor house haunted by a flute playing ghost who roams the halls at night accompanied by a wolf, and a mysterious kidnapped girl from the past all come together in one of the most thrilling Dana Girls cases ever! THE DANA GIRLS were a 1900s sister-series to NANCY DREW and THE HARDY BOYS from the same publishers and writers from the 1930s to the 1970s. This is a FANFICTION MYSTERY, written in the same style as the original Danas from the 1930s, and set in that era. There were 30 Dana Girls mystery stories written and published by the creators of the original Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books in the 1930s - 1970s. This book is representative of the early volumes in the series. The Dana Girls have also appeared in some of the recent Nancy Drew graphic novels.

This is the current version of the first chapter of Bright Hills. Here's the description of the book: It starts with a dead body. Actually, two. After a storm tears through a quiet neighborhood, power vanishes, cell service dies, and the HOA president is found crushed beneath a fallen tree. But he's not the only one who won't be attending the next board meeting. Wilbur Bright, eccentric real estate developer, is discovered dead in his study. No storm damage. Just blood. And a wound shaped suspiciously like a timepiece gone rogue. Now Nesta Trillum-retired nurse, HOA vice president, reluctant leader-is coordinating storm relief and body counts, all while sipping tepid water and jotting crisis plans on a hot pink notepad. As neighbors clear debris from their yards and twist their truths, one thing becomes clear: someone in Bright Hills didn't wait for the storm to settle a score.

A ROMANTIC YOGA MYSTERY INFUSED BY NATURE Morgan has become settled in her quiet life in Sutton, Massachusetts. Her peaceful morning yoga routine is assisted by her cat, Juliet. In the evening she guides her kayak across the placid surface of Lake Singletary. Everything is in its place. When Morgan stumbles across a dead body in the shadowy depths of Sutton Woods, her stability is knocked askew. Jason, the ranger who comes to her aid, provides a steady rock of support. The death seems at first an accident, but Morgan knows in her heart that a delicate strut of life has fallen out of balance. As Morgan and Jason delve into the mystery, still waters are stirred. Danger billows from the depths of Purgatory Chasm, from the twisted histories that stretch back decades. Can they unravel the tangled skeins before the past catches up with them? All author's proceeds of this series benefit battered women's shelters. Aspen Allegations is the first novel in the award-winning Sutton Massachusetts Mystery series. It is followed by Birch Blackguards. All novels in the Sutton Massachusetts Mystery series are written in a boots-on-the-ground, chapter-a-day format. On November 1st, author Lisa Shea went to the Sutton woods, hiked through them, and then that evening she wrote up the actual sights and sounds of that visit. That was Chapter One. The same process held true for each subsequent day and location. By November 30th the book was laid out. Each book captures a moment in time; as a whole the series shows the progression of events, news, and nature in Sutton over the years. Lisa has lived in Sutton for nearly two decades and strives to craft stories which transport readers to her beautiful town. She offers a glimpse into Sutton's combination of centuries-old history and a modern, sliced-through-by-a-busy-highway existence.

In the foothills of the Andes Mountains, American Anabel Andrews expects to enjoy a quiet weekend away from work. But within 24 hours of her arrival in the sleepy hamlet, two strangers are dead, and she seems to be the only one who suspects something sinister. Setting out on an adventure that takes her through the restaurants, salsa clubs, and marketplaces of Chile, the heroine unravels the mystery, chasing after a shadowy killer. All in the company of a dark and handsome Chilean she met the day the victims were found dead.

When humanity evolves into a hive mind, it makes murder much more difficult. But not impossible. Tanya was a police cadet when the Blessed Peace came over mankind. She's still a police cadet: even now that crime is almost eradicated, unnecessary. She serves a purpose, in the hive: she has a function. As long as police officers serve a function in the great shared consciousness, they will continue to serve. Even if it's just a matter of rescuing cats up trees, and filing paperwork. When everyone, everywhere, has access to all awareness: how can murder exist? How can anyone possibly get away with it? And why would they want to? But today is a very special day. Today, long disused police skills are required. Today, the North Willims Police Department have a real murder to solve...

Hermione Granger receives a mysterious invitation to a masquerade ball, accompanied only by a train ticket with no specified destination. Despite feeling it is foolish to go, she is intrigued and decides to go. Upon arriving in a remote town, she finds the ball filled with masked attendees. Before entering, guests are informed of unsettling rules that sound like they belong in a horror story. As the clock approaches midnight, Hermione is paired with a dance partner whose eyes beneath the mask she immediately recognizes-Draco Malfoy, her ex-boyfriend she hoped never to think about again. Before she can fully process her shock, something strange occurs: the clock strikes midnight five times, and everyone around them begins to move repetitively, as if trapped in a time loop.