cozy mystery stories

When Christmas nears in Lake Eden, Minnesota, Hannah Swenson begins baking her holiday cupcakes at The Cookie Jar. She's busy with orders and family drama, but she gets involved when a John Doe with amnesia appears on her doorstep. He only remembers he can restore antique furniture. Hannah sets out to solve the mystery of the man's identity and soon finds herself in danger. Includes over a dozen cookie and dessert recipes.

Cousins Yale and Celine Yee, the owners of a successful food stall business, are invited to an exclusive dinner with the local restaurant owners association. However, the hot pot dinner ends in the murder of Jeffery Vue, president of the group. The police focus on a family friend and on Yale's dad. Yale and Celine investigate the others at the dinner to find the culprit.

Shay Myers, the descendant of an Irish witch and the owner of Crystals & CuriosiTeas in California, practices the art of blending herbs at her shop. She meets the grandmother of pub owner and ex-detective Liam Madigan, and the woman encourages Shay to have a tea reading. Everything is going fine until a customer dies from sipping a poisoned substance. When Shay's assistant is accused of intentionally serving the tea, Shay and Liam must clear her name and save the shop.

Book and candle shop owner Tabby Winslow is determined to clear her fraternal twin's name when she's accused of murdering her boss. Each twin must draw on their uncanny clairvoyant abilities to uncover the truth, all while solving various other paranormal activities in the community, including an energy vampire searching for a lost cousin.

When bookseller Summer Merriwether of Brigid's Island, NC, joins her local library's mystery panel discussion, she learns her late mother's deadly secret: she was somehow linked with an actual murder that rocked Brigid's Island thirty-five years ago, which became the inspiration for a popular novel. When the life of the book's author is threatened, Brigid finds the knowledge of it threatening her own life, as well.

February in the Hudson Valley brings a new murder mystery for veterinarian Dr. Kate to solve--two bodies, one a man atop the ice of Lover's Lake, the other apparently his woman, frozen face up under the water. Tragically, the young couple had just been married, and when they learn their animal hospital's tranquilizers had been used in the murders, it is up to Dr. Kate and her vet tech Mari to stop the murderer before he strikes again.