Cozy Comedy

As if finding out her boyfriend Billy had been killed in an automobile accident was not bad enough, Kate soon found out that he had been across town with another girl at four a.m. at the time. Terry had been driving his precious car that he would not even let Kate drink her coffee in. Together with her best friends, Connie, Linda, and Stella, she decides to solve this mystery. The plot thickens when she finds out that Terry had been shot. Kate was then accused of being a stripper, then arrested for attempted murder. It was a good thing that Billy was there to help them—in ghost form.

Accepting an offer from his uncle, Lord Beddington, to learn about estate management, William Duncan gets involved in raising money to support their local hospital. After a series of unfortunate accidents to Lord Beddington and his wife, William is persuaded by his aunt’s rival on the council to enlist the help of his father, General Duncan, whose previous visit resulted in a yachting catastrophe, still remembered with anguish by his uncle. Her daughter, Lavinia, is coordinating the hospital PR campaign and sets out to trap William into marriage.

Détective de renom, Justan Lockholmes est une pointure. Aucun coupable ne lui échappe et sa vérité triomphe toujours ! Pourtant, lorsqu'une certaine Elisabeth Smith met tragiquement fin à ses jours, rien ne va plus. Un cas insoluble, des éléments sans le moindre sens, et un assistant à la vivacité toute relative. Voilà que la vie du jeune Justan bascule et que tout se complique !

The Crown meets Clue in this delightful locked-room mystery, sure to charm Agatha Christie fans and keep readers guessing to the end. The king is dead. The killer is in the family. Solving this murder will be a royal pain. The royal family has gathered at their Scottish retreat, Balmoral Castle...

Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor “[T]his poised and playful debut novel is a sly satire on foodie culture and the modern hype machine. . . . As tart as ‘artisanal citrus,’ as sharp as a chef’s knife, The Lemon is both a gleeful foodie sendup and an incisive takedown of the...

Caterer and amateur sleuth Faith Fairchild revisits her wedding to the Reverend Thomas Fairchild—a wedding that turned murderous. The twentieth book in the beloved series turns back the clock to the time Faith Fairchild was a bride who didn’t try to run away, but was almost run over! It’s...

“Good sarcastic banter, discussions of top comedians and enough food descriptions to make me salivate.”—USA Today Two down-on-their-luck comedians embark on a road tour and find more than a few good laughs on the way. Olivia Vincent dreams of stand-up comedy stardom. Bustling around a busy...

Moonshine shop owner Hattie Hayes is ready to lend a hand when a mystery starts brewing at a train convention in Chattanooga, TN, in this charming cozy mystery series. Now that her moonshine shop is up and running, Hattie Hayes can focus her efforts on expanding her fledgling business to events...

A woman bush pilot in Alaska finds love where she least expects it in this new novel from New York Times bestselling author Barbara Dunlop. Hailey Barosse always knew what her wealthy family expected of her: marry an affluent Georgia man, run a charitable organization, and provide her parents...

Elfriede Greismanns erster Fall um einen verschwundenen Stoffesel mit YouTube-Kanal. Während Frauke Pläne schmiedet, wie sie das Herz ihres Spanischlehrers erobern kann, hat ihre Mutter - Oma Greismann - ganz andere Sorgen: Ihr Stoffesel Klausmüller ist spurlos verschwunden und das führt zur Gründung einer Klausmüller-Senioren-Soko im Altenheim. Zusammen mit Hundespürnase Tessa lässt der Senioren-Soko-Trupp nichts unversucht, um Klausmüller auf die Spur zu kommen.

Keep calm und geh' nicht ins Licht: Mordopfer Börnie ermittelt in eigener Sache! Karma is a bitch – und der Tod schadet dem Teint Was hat man falsch gemacht, wenn auf den Abschied aus der Firma gleich noch der Abschied aus dem Leben folgt? Börnie, gewesene (und jetzt verwesende) Marketingexpertin bei Schön Cosmetics, stellt sich diese Frage aus gegebenem Anlass. Denn als sie auf dem Büroboden aufwacht, merkt Börnie, dass sie ermordet wurde. Wer zum Aasgeier hat ihr das angetan? Etwa ihr Ex-Verlobter Yannick, der sie mit Kollegin Bine betrügt? Oder die hinterlistige Bürohyäne Frau Hagedorn?

Als ein bekannter Fernsehproduzent seine neue Kochshow »Dining Delights« ausgerechnet im »Smugglers' Inn« drehen will, ist ganz Port Haven in Aufregung – besonders Annabelle Scott, die als Co-Moderatorin des TV-Urgesteins Simon Mandel bei der Show mitwirken will. Das Problem dabei: Annabelle kann nicht kochen. Ganz im Gegensatz zu dem Alpakazüchter Flynn, der als gefeierter Koch einige Jahre in Paris verbracht hat – und für den Annabelle seit ihrer Rückkehr ein rotes Tuch ist. Flynn willigt ein, ihr das Kochen beizubringen, wobei es gewaltig zwischen ihnen funkt.

Seitdem Dietmar seine Brötchen als Trauerredner verdienen muss, holt er sich auf regelmäßigen Spaziergängen über den Friedhof seine Inspiration. Eines Abends beobachtet er zwei Männer, die einen dubiosen Sack in ein noch frisches Grab einbuddeln. Zu seinem Erstaunen erkennt Dietmar in den Männern zwei ehemalige Künstlerkollegen, die während der Coronazeit aus Existenzangst ins Bestattergewerbe gewechselt haben. Allerdings eher in den illegalen Zweig, der Bestattungen zu wahren Discounterpreisen verspricht.

Just when it seems like Meg Walton can get back to business as usual running the family's donut shop, another murder occurs in the once-sleepy town of Enchanted Bay. This time, a double-crossing carpet salesman turned theater owner is the victim...the police suspect one of Meg's friends as the possible killer. Meg knows she can't stand idly by. In order to prove her friend's innocence, she decides to find the real killer herself.

Maddi DeLuca is coming home for the holidays with her nine-year-old son, only it’s not the triumphant return she might have hoped for. She recently broke down on a reality TV baking show, letting the entire country know she feels like a colossal failure, and she can be certain her mother will remind her of all the ways she hasn’t lived up to expectations over the years.

In Volume 45, it seems that Walt is fighting one battle after another with the mob. First, Walt is dragged into the political arena to oppose a candidate for city council with ties to the Russian mob. The moment that problem is resolved, Walt receives a frantic plea from Carmine Marchetti, the godfather of the Kansas City mafia, asking him to help fend off mobsters from Chicago who have come to take control of his operation.

Zwei Fremde, eine Wohnung – ist es Liebe auf den ersten ... Biss? Die Künstlerin Cassie Greenberg hat Geldsorgen und braucht dringend eine neue Bleibe ...

Cataclysmic events have occurred in the decorous upper middle class enclave within Southsea, Portsmouth, on the south coast of England. But what were the circumstances that contributed to this violent clash involving a Sherman tank and a bazooka? The strange occurrence is Investigated by Lord Everard Pimple, a naive upper-class twit who not only inadvertently opens a can of worms, but has an introduction into the world of womanly wiles.

Grace Morgan has been on the music scene long enough to know the life of sex, drugs, and rock & roll is just a dream. But after a messy divorce, Grace wants to give her dream of being a music journalist one last shot. She moves to LA with her 21-year-old foster son, Zeus. They live in a motel on cup noodles and hope, until Grace finally gets a break: a story about Inez Carter, hot-mess frontwoman of the popular band Karma Korn.

Langeweile ist aller Laster Anfang, weiß Ino Tjarks, der seit Jahren nicht mehr so viel Spaß hatte wie zuletzt als Mordverdächtiger, als er seine Unschuld beweisen musste - was er natürlich niemals zugeben würde. Deshalb nehmen Ino und seine Haushälterin Gerda einen Spionage-Auftrag des arroganten Camping-Urlaubers Falko von Walde an: Der verdächtigt nämlich seine Frau, ein Verhältnis mit ihrem neuen Nachbarn zu haben, Kommissar a. D. Traugott Fürchtenicht.