cozy mysteries

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.

Abbey Chandler is worried about the small shops in Hideaway Grove that are struggling financially, especially her aunt Sarah's bakery. When the wife of a rich businessman opens a competing bakery--and is murdered--Aunt Sarah is the prime suspect. Now a big women's conference might be cancelled because of the crime and the businesspeople are worried. Abbey sets out to prove her aunt's innocence and find the killer before the whole town goes under.

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.

When she was in middle school, Charlotte Illes' uncanny detective abilities actually made her a minor celebrity in her town, but that was before she graduated high school and no longer accepted calls on her little blue phone in her garage-office. Now twenty-five, she feels stuck, having no romantic or professional prospects to speak of--and her old blue phone has started ringing again. Solving a case as an adult, though, is far different than her cases as a kid: for one, there were no dead bodies or missing persons back then. Also, the villains now see her as a threat, and could set their sights on her next.

Jaime and Henry run one of the most successful construction and interior design companies in all of Charlotte, North Carolina, but their marriage falls apart when Jamie discovers Henry is having an affair. Thanks to an ironclad prenuptial agreement, Jaime receives only one thing: a historical house in disrepair, and things go from bad to worse when Jamie begins the costly repairs on the house and finds a dead body behind one of the recently renovated walls. Her house suddenly becomes a crime scene, and when the body turns out to be someone Jaime knew in her past, the investigation becomes personal. Soon, Jamie is determined to solve the murder herself with the help of Mike, her new neighbor and local hardware store owner, and a cat she found on-site she names Demo.

Twin sisters Hanna and Alex, who together run the Murder and Mayhem book and chocolate shop, find their volunteer work at their local Christmastime high school reunion event turn serious when they discover an old classmate's dead body. That classmate, it turns out, had been hitting on Hanna only hours before, and, worse, was killed by a nutcracker figure the sisters had been admiring at the party. Now, Hanna is a prime suspect in a murder case, and only Alex and their sleuthing canine companion, Watson, can clear her name and find the real killer.

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.