The Sweet Smell of Murder

Ally Sweet is happy to be returning for a short break to the small town where she grew up. She is planning on using the time off to get over her messy divorce and she is looking forward to spending time with her much-loved grandmother and relaxing making chocolates and anything chocolaty.

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Three Sisters

Three Sisters introduces twenty-six-year-old amateur sleuth Emily Castles in this entertaining new mystery series from best selling British author Helen Smith. Emily receives an invitation to a party in a large house at the end of her street, hosted by a mysterious troupe of circus performers. She a ...

A Spirited Debacle

After a rough summer, Quinn Delaney is finally feeling good about her life. Her new cafe is bustling, and she’s gotten rid of her cheating husband.

Then a mysterious box shows up with surprising contents.

Quinn always does the honorable thing, so she and her best friend deliver th ...

Till Dirt Do Us Part

Not everything stays buried. When Betsy, a notorious brown thumb gets roped into a gardening contest sponsored by the Pecan Bayou Gazette, she finds herself digging up more than weeds. She is ridiculed by the garden club ladies, and now her heart breaks for a newly single mom whose world has just co ...

Sharpe Mind

Who knew knitting could be so deadly!

Former teacher turned reporter Deena Sharpe craves more adventure than covering dull city council meetings in the small town of Maycroft, Texas. But when she follows a hunch to investigate a story lead, she finds a dead body and becomes suspect number ...

SOUR GRAPES

When the home security alarm awakens Cait Pepper in the middle of the night, she assumes there are bugs in the new system but has it checked out the following day. The security technician finds a halberd--a Shakespearean weapon--and knife on the ground which are construed as evidence of an attempted ...

Dying for a Diamond

Warm breezes, tropical seas, a handsome new husband? What more could a girl dream of? When newlyweds Laurel McKay and Tom Hunter embark on their honeymoon cruise, they look forward to sunny days exploring the Caribbean islands and intimate evenings together. Their dream quickly goes “poof,&rdq ...

Larry's Familiar Tale

Nothing ever happens at O’Malley’s Supernatural Scrapyard amongst the piles of rusting and broken magical machinery. Jesse, a washed-out witch, and her canine Familiar, Larry, aren’t expected to do more than keep an eye on things ... until the Mob shows up demanding entry. Jesse and Larry race a ...

Unfinished Business An Angela Panther Mystery

In UNFINISHED BUSINESS AN ANGELA PANTHER NOVEL, #1 AMAZON bestselling author Carolyn Ridder Aspenson introduces her now trademark blend of witty dialog and hilarious banter in the first book of her paranormal cozy mystery ...

A Stone's Throw

Widowed librarian Alicia Fairmont needs answers… After her husband is killed in a hit and run accident, Alicia travels upstate to his hometown of Cobble Cove, New York. She hopes to locate his estranged family and shed light on his mysterious past. Anticipating staying only a weekend, her visit is e ...

A Secret Killer

Julia Blake runs a cleaning business. She also has the uncanny knack of discovering murdered people. In this story Julia visits one of her clients, a genealogist called Hugo Barnes. Hugo has uncovered a family secret during the course of his work. He tells Julia that the client won’t be happy ...

Costly Secrets Complete Box Set

Cherry Cake and a Cadaver

Lily Gayle and the gang set out to find a killer after local baker Luxen Natolovich is found dead hours before the grand opening weekend at the new Bed and Breakfast in town, Midnight Dragonfly. As Lily Gayle deciphers the clues around Luxen's death she uncovers a conspiracy of lies and half truths ...

North Shore Nanny

Amateur sleuth McKenna’s latest client is ten-year-old surfing sensation Kai Palakiko. Kai is precocious, fearless, and determined to prove her nanny is not a murderer. Against his better judgement, McKenna agrees to help but soon finds the woman he’s trying to save is in the middle of a government ...

Mistletoe Misdeed

Murder Deja Vued

From the depths of past ghost hunting adventures, an old case emerges to haunt Marna Langley and the relentless Midnight Calls crew.

In a treacherous twist of fate, an ill-fated investigation leads Marna to once again confront the malevolent poltergeist that once sought to claim her ve ...

Temporarily Insane

Bad job. Wrong love. And Murder. Hattie Cooks is still searching for her dream job and one might be available...in the Big Apple, far from friends, family, and Allan Wellborn, the man who still makes her heart race. In the meantime, she finds temporary employment at an accounting firm where mishaps ...

A Medium's Birthday Surprise: A Cozy Ghost Mystery (Becky Tibbs: A North Carolina Medium's Mystery Series Book 1)

She sees ghosts! Join Becky as she solves many mysteries in this light, clean, airy, and informative series. Becky Tibbs didn’t ask for the job or the gift of being a medium, but after her parents died, the unusual ability became a bequest – a gift handed down from her mother’s side of the family ...

Masterpiece of Murder

Heartbroken American art student, Charlotte Ross, follows her errant fiancé to Bariloche, Argentina. But his reasons for being there complicate her life, and could threaten her very existence as she stumbles onto deceit, art forgery, and murder. When she accidently comes across the murder victim, ci ...

The Fog Ladies:  Family Matters

Till death do us part, with kitchen shears. What drives a family man to kill his wife? This question haunts Sarah James, a medical resident who meets the unhappy family at a resort near Big Sur. She witnesses how ugly a marriage can be. But murder? Sarah and the spunky Fog Ladies--elderly neighbo ...

Fudge and Frenemies

Murderous Friend or Foe?

When Maddie accompanies her Gran on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to London, she never imagined what awaited them.

The run-down castle her mom and stepfather own is targeted by someone who makes it clear that newcomers aren’t welcome.

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Cordial Killing

A freak spring storm. A person out for revenge. How's Anne going to get out of this one? When the Brandywine Inn guests are trapped with a killer in their midst, Anne Freemont tries to uncover the killer before anyone else dies. But as the blizzard approaches, strange occurrences make Anne wonder if ...

Marked Masters

Laurel Beacham made working solo a personal success story and is known for her nerve, instincts, and ability to do whatever necessary to return each priceless masterpiece safely intact. As the world’s leading art recovery expert, she’s thwarted more heists than the average law enforcement profession ...

As the Grimoire Pages Turn

In the mystical realm of the Three Witches Bookstore, a chilling revelation emerges—a lifeless body nestled in the reading nook.

In the quaint world an enchanting bookstore, Octavia Grimstone, a seasoned cozy mystery novelist and witch, finds herself entangled in a web of intrigue. A c ...

Forever Mine (Amber Reed Mystery)

Amber gets sleuthing in a luxury mountain lodge as she tries to track down the stalker of a famous actress. Has the trail gone cold or will she manage to catch the bad guy before he strikes again?

Witches Gone Wicked: Book 3 in Womby's School for Wayward Witches

You think you know the world of magical boarding schools? Not from a teacher's perspective at a school for at risk youth. Like any twenty-two-year-old who grew up obsessed with fantasy novels, Clarissa Lawrence expects all her Harry Potter fantasies to come true when she is invited to teach at a sch ...

Death by Leprechaun: A Saint Patrick's Day Murder in Dublin

When an old friend is arrested in Dublin, tour guide Lana Hansen will need the luck of the Irish to clear him of the crime. Lana is thrilled her friend Jeremy and his wife are on her tour to Ireland. The couple are having the time of their lives exploring the country’s rich literary and cultural ...

Curses and Consequences

Life is pretty sweet for Addie Keane now that she’s moved to Whalesback Cove to live on her sailboat and develop her line of body care products. She’s even getting used to her new “retro” psychic visions, giving her remarkable glimpses into people’s pasts. When a stranger tosses her a crumpled no ...

Star Tangled Murder

Salon owner Marla Vail and her detective husband Dalton are having a blast visiting a Florida living history village over Fourth of July weekend. But when a Seminole battle reenactment turns up a real dead body, it sets off fireworks among the villagers. One of the cast members has gone off script t ...

Too Cute to Kill

Emma Rand can't understand people who consider the countryside a dumping ground for whatever they no longer want. Living on ten acres outside of Casper, Wyoming, she's seen everything from pets to appliances dumped along her fence line but when she spies something propped against her fence after a b ...

Dying for a Decoration

When a six-foot-tall elf arrives at Laurel McKay Hunter's detective agency, it can only mean trouble. Then her eccentric grandmother refers her to an old flame who wants Laurel to track down the rustlers who have stolen his herd. Of reindeer! On top of everything, her best friend ropes her into fill ...

The Postman is Late

Based on near-real events! Known to the neighborhood as Grandma Jan, Janice Kustodia has a routine and keeps to it. Up at 6 a.m., a pot of Jewel Extra Bold coffee and then out the door to bring the garbage cans up from the curb, sweep the sidewalks and walk South Linden Avenue to make sure all is a ...

Bad Medicine

Lizzie Hart is overjoyed that six whole months have passed without a single murder in the sleepy town of Liberty. It's also been six months since Blake Morgan heartlessly dumped her, but she's determined to get over him. She's slimmed down, ready to party, and injury-free, except for a little naggin ...

The Devil Wears Stretch Pants

Summer's End

The quiet town of Glen Lake, Maine is shaken when high school senior Summer Williams is struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver. She was the classmate and friend of the Ryder siblings — whose mother, Jennifer, is uniquely qualified to discover the identity of Summer’s killer. As a member of ...

Mayhem in the Mountains

1918 Italy. DOWNTON ABBEY MEETS AGATHA CHRISTIE IN THIS CHARMING LOCKED ROOM MYSTERY. When a deadly blizzard traps Fiona Figg and Kitty Lane in the Dolomite Mountains, it’s all downhill from here. Their hotel is snowed-in, and no one can get in or out. A man is found dead in his locked hotel room an ...

Mastiffs, Mystery, and Murder

It’s murder at the dog show! When amateur sleuth Clarissa Hayes and her trusty Saint Bernard, Paw, enter a dog show, they expect to find dogs, blue ribbons, and trophies. Not dead bodies. Clarissa’s boyfriend is tracking a suspect in the death of a dog fancier. It’s up to Clarissa and Paw to prov ...

Silently in the Night

A collection of tantalizing tales with more twists than braided hair:


Mystery, murder and mayhem – plus a moment of romance.

Sympathize with a doomed husband and connect with an altruistic robot. Explore an isolated Scottish isle and touch down on a far-flung a ...

Visions and Villainy

Freedom at fifty is working out perfectly for Addie Keane who’s returned to the seaside town of Whalesback Cove. Having developed a new line of body care products, she’s now living out her long-cherished dream.

Except her dream doesn’t include sudden psychic visions.

Looking for a ...

The Sweetest Getaway

They’ll need the sweetest getaway ever to escape this mess…

Jennifer used to be a wholesome daydreamer who’d never broken a law in her life.

In a moment of weakness, she lets her roommate, Nari, rope her into a money-making scheme that isn’t exactly…l ...

Grave in the Garage

A lifeless hand rises ghost-like from a car mechanic's pit. Who does it belong to? And what happened? Annabelle and DI Nicholls set out to solve the murder, but find themselves wrapped up in not one, but three different mysteries. A puppy helps, too.

Killer Finds

Antique hunter Anne Hillstrom’s whirlwind shopping tour to Paris comes to a dead stop, as dead as the man sitting next to her on the plane. And to make matters worse, her identity has been stolen, leaving her to face her worst nightmare. She must sell all her precious antiques with the help of her b ...

Murder on Mokulua Drive

Semi-retired journalist Natalie Seachrist, her tortoiseshell feline companion Miss Una, and her new boyfriend Keoni Hewitt (police detective turned private investigator) have moved to a Lanikai cottage with expectations of a relaxing life. But their seaside bliss evaporates when Natalie experiences ...

A Spirited Delusion

When a bad dream and reality merge, Quinn and Toni go undercover as contestants in a matchmaking competition to find a killer (and maybe even true love) and put a stop to Quinn’s murder-dreams, hopefully forever. Quinn Delaney thought she’d seen it all, but then her crazy life takes an unexpected ...

An Icy Death

In the heart of a raging blizzard Sheriff Jeff McQuede discovers a woman frozen to death in her car. At first he believes her death to be an unfortunate accident--until he finds clues that point to cold-blooded murder. Margaret’s husband, Arthur, left her in the stalled vehicle to brave the storm ...

Key to a Murder

A mysterious woman appears on the doorstep of Great Aunt Sybil’s Attic in the middle of the night. Owner Anne Hillstrom lets her in, only to have the woman die in her arms. With no final words, and only an old lantern clutched to her chest, the dead woman provides Anne and her partner CC precious fe ...

Valentine's First Venture

Veronica Valentine, a sharp and inquisitive journalism student at USC, is tired of the routine of college life. Between dull lectures and endless assignments, her restless curiosity craves a bigger challenge—a mystery worth solving.

When petty thefts sweep through her dorm, Veronica’s ...

Murder in the Arboretum

Another murder in small town Cold Creek has tensions rising. Clive Johnson, the groundskeeper at Cold Creek College, is a convenient scapegoat for a police chief. Convinced Chief Pfeiffe has it all wrong, Sheridan Hendley sets out to help prove Clive's innocence. Not everyone is pleased by her enthu ...

Justice for Katie

When Jeb Cannon was a boy, he and his father found the body of a young woman on their ranch in eastern Wyoming. She was never identified, but would always be "Katie" in his mind. Twenty years later and a successful suspense author, he recruits Jake and Emma Rand to help him finally bring her killer ...

Death by Windmill: A Mother’s Day Murder in Amsterdam

A Mother’s Day trip to the Netherlands turns deadly when a guest plummets from a windmill. Was it an accident or a murder? For Lana Hansen, the answer will mean freedom or imprisonment for someone close to her… Wanderlust Tours guide Lana Hansen and her mother, Gillian, haven’t seen eye to eye in ov ...

Moonlight and Monk's Bane

Some secrets are deadlier than love.

Mystiobiologist Alexandra Dalton knows two things for certain: rare luminal fungi are fascinating, and her life is anything but ordinary.

When a bizarre mouse-scorpion hybrid turns up in an ...

What Four

Most Definitely Contains Nuts

All Val Fremden wanted was a quiet holiday away from her oddball family. But that just ain’t gonna happen. When Val and her boyfriend arrive at her mother’s “country estate” in Hicksville, Florida, the annual family fruitcake competition is well underway. And ...

The Murder Before Christmas

If you've got a problem, Charlie Kingsley probably has a tea that’ll help make it right. EXCEPT when it comes to love. She does NOT do love potions. Not even for Courtney, her pregnant new client who showed up three weeks before Christmas seeking a love potion because her husband was cheating on ...

The Fool on the Hill in a Convertible

It’s 1967. Beatles’ songs are playing everywhere. Torrey is trying to put her broken-hearted life back together. She helps her dad and brother in the family’s surf shop in the friendly little beach community of Mission Cove. But when someone falls off Sunset Cliffs to their death, Torrey gets emeshe ...

The Tarkington Treasure

"In the world of logic, it's always our assumptions that lead us astray."Charlotte Ross is up to her neck in mysteries when she accepts an invitation to stay with her friend, Jane Marshall, while her apartment is under renovation. Jane and her fiancé have given up everything to move to her recently ...

Spangled to Death

SPANGLED TO DEATH— Dolley Madison—A descendant of Dolley Madison, Liv Anderson soon to be Reynolds, owns the White House Dollhouse store set in downtown Minneapolis, MN. An unexpected discovery of letters and jewelry from Dolley Madison should excite Liv, but instead it leads her into a tangle of t ...

A Top Shelf Triple

Belly up to the bar and help Ricki solve a few murders!

A Top Shelf Triple contains:
The Body on the Barstool
Whiskey Kills
Name Your Poison

When New Yorker Ricki Fontaine inherited her uncle's dive bar in an Ohio River town, she expected to have to work har ...

First Case

The fact that Katrina Pomeroy had been murdered was in and of itself a newsworthy event. The fact that she had been murdered on Friday October 13th exactly eleven years after she’d been one of five teenagers to survive the Friday The 13th Massacre, made her passing worthy of notice by the nati ...

Murder Above the Fold (Mag & Clara Balefire Mysteries - Book #1)

New town…new start…same old problems. When sister witches Mag and Clara Balefire moved to the sleepy town of Harmony, Maine, to take over leadership of the coven there, they thought they’d have achance at a new life. Fate had other plans. The Balefires hardly have time to get unpacked when they s ...

A Winter's Tail

Secrets collide after a single horrific moment leaves one person dead and one fighting for their life. This fast paced cozy mystery will have you glued to the page as Cait and Cody join forces with a cat named Moirai in a race against time to track down a killer

SMART, BUT DEAD #3, Award-winning Aggie Mundeen Mysteries

Response for this book has been overwhelming! GIVEAWAYS STOPPED at this time, but PLEASE NOTE: Amazon has three books in the AGGIE MUNDEEN series on sale for $8.97 at http://tinyurl.com/AggieMundeen In SMART, BUT DEAD, Aggie, single and in love with a reluctant San Antonio detective, returns ...

Dollars or Death

A popular TV game show is filming in The Sisters, and everyone wants their chance to win instant cash on Dollars or Death. The final rounds are called Sudden Death but for one unlucky player, it’s not just sudden. It’s final. That’s not the only chaos taking place in Madison deCordova’s life. In a ...

The Curious Corpse in the Cavern: A Small Town Cozy Animal Mystery

Who thought Doofus and Floofus would be the best cat detectives in Quinn? Starting over in a sleepy small town would never be easy, but Misty Milton’s gourmet cat food delivery business soon made her a hit with the locals. Well, most of them… Until her cats help a teenage couple uncover a curiously ...

A Clerical Error - The Yellow Cottage Vintage Mysteries Book 3

When the crime scene is pure coincidence and there’s no evidence, how do you prove it was murder? Ella Bridges faces her most challenging investigation so far when the vicar dies suddenly at the May Day Fete. But with evidence scarce and her personal life unravelling in ways she could never have ima ...

The Body Electrocution

The summer of 1988 is possibly one of love, and that’s the problem. Aspiring journalist Bobbi Sue Baxter has feelings for a man who’s engaged. But then again, he seems to return the vibe. Adding more mud to the already unclear waters, his fiancée might be involved in a murder that happened in the bu ...

The First Ladies Club

The pastor's wife is missing! Is the escaped felon to blame? Whether living in a rectory, manse or parsonage, life married to a small town minister calls for faith, hope, and charity; plus heaping helpings of tact and the skin of a rhinoceros. New to this life in the small coastal town of Bann ...

Death, Lies, and Sisters

Betsy Travis returns to her hometown to help her sister, Jess take care of their father. Helping out at the family's funeral home, Crossings, tosses Bets right into the middle of a murder investigation of a local college student. Bets gets involved partly out of curiosity and partly to help out chil ...

Family Secrets

Bonnie’s world turns upside down when her father is murdered and she learns all of the secrets her parents have been keeping from her. Why ...