Cozy Humor

When she joined the Criminal Investigations Division, Tara knew she'd be investigating some very real crooks. Forget about waitresses hiding tips from the IRS or babysitters not declaring income! Tara and her partner, Eddie, are going after one of country's richest, dirtiest felons. Being on a diet doesn't help Tara's mood much. Hopefully, by the time the investigation is over, she'll be sitting somewhere in a string bikini, far, far away....

Florence, Ex-Partygirl, wählt stets den leichtesten Weg. Nach dem Ende ihrer Girlband-Karriere lebt sie stets pleite und alleinerziehend in London. Der einzige Lichtblick: ihr Sohn Dylan, ein sensibler Zehnjähriger an einer versnobten Eliteschule – und ihr einziger Grund, morgens überhaupt aufzustehen. Doch als Alfie, Dylans Mobber und Erbe eines Tiefkühlimperiums, während eines Schulausflugs spurlos verschwindet, gerät Dylan unter Verdacht.

My work as a computer geek has me traveling around the world, solving mysteries and fighting bad guys. Sometimes with my friends, but always with trouble by my side. So you'd think I would've expected to be plagued by danger when I headed to Egypt with my best friend, Elvis Zimmerman, and boyfriend, Slash, to help track down Elvis' missing and estranged father. Nope. Genius runs in the family, and we quickly discovered Elvis' father is hot on the trail of an ancient and elusive artifact, one that people are willing to kill to find.

"I'm Lexi Carmichael, geek extraordinaire. I spend my days stopping computer hackers at the National Security Agency. My nights? Those I spend avoiding my mother and eating cereal for dinner. Even though I work for a top-secret agency, I've never been in an exciting car chase, sipped a stirred (not shaken) martini, or shot a poison dart from an umbrella. Until today, that is, when two gun-toting thugs popped up in my life and my best friend disappeared."

Autumn is in the air in the Blue Ridge Mountain community of Crozet, Virginia - and all the traditions of the changing seasons are underway. Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen cleans her cupboards; her husband, Fair, prepares the horses for the shorter days ahead; and the clamorous barking of beagles signals the annual rabbit chase through the central Virginia hills. But the last thing the local beaglers and their hounds expect to flush out is a dead body.

Lucy Resnick's nerves are as tight as a tea cozy. Her new goats, Hot Lips and Gidget, keep making a break for the town square, her truck is dying, and her boyfriend's gorgeous ex-wife is in town for the holidays. Worse, someone's digging holes on her land...and uprooting her peach orchard and dewberry patch in the process. Lucy needs additional holiday stress like she needs a blow to the head - which she receives one night, courtesy of the mystery digger.

Bad news comes in . . . fours? For romance author and former pool shark Jessie Hewitt it does. She hasn't written a decent sex scene in months, she hasn't shot a decent game of eight ball all year, and don't even ask about her supposed love life. And just when Jessie thinks things can't get any worse, a body lands on her car. Uber-hunky and altogether infuriating cop Wilson Rye suggests she concentrate on solving her other problems and leave the murder investigation to the experts. But does Jessie agree? Take a guess.

Perséphone Murier a le vent en poupe : elle s'apprête à reprendre l'entreprise d'événementiel de sa tante Janis. Pour sa première mission, elle doit dénicher le lieu idéal pour le mariage de l'une de ses amies. Morne Etang, ce domaine entre vignes et garrigues, dans le sud-ouest de la France est parfait pour ça ! Mais le rêve tourne au cauchemar. Entre les hôtes du manoir qui sont tout sauf accueillants et le terrible orage qui les coupe brutalement du reste du monde, le séjour de Perséphone s'annonce très mal.

Ava Harper's resume keeps getting updated. It started with witch, then necromancer, author, bookstore clerk, vampire wrangler, and medium. Yes, you heard that right, she can talk to ghosts. New powers bring more responsibilities and things to add to the list of magic she needs to learn. Especially when Ava finds out her mother isn't in a happy place.

Necromancer-witch hybrid Ava Harper has accomplished many things in the year since moving back home to Shipton Harbor. She’s checking things off a bucket list she never knew she had.

Après le succès de "Choucroute maudite" et "Bretzel Blues", une 3e enquête délirante du commissaire Franz Eberhofer. Le dîner est servi... Une tête de cochon sanglante dans le lit du juge Moratschek mène Franz Eberhofer sur la piste d'un dangereux psychopathe. Les exploits d'Hannibal Lecter ne sont rien à côté de ceux du Dr Küstner qui sévit à Niederkaltenkirchen. Il s'est échappé de prison et l'heure de la vengeance contre le juge qui l'a mis à l'ombre a sonné. De quoi plonger le commissaire Eberhofer dans une véritable détresse existentielle.

Im beschaulichen Rosenheim will der Polizeipsychologe Stefan Schwab Abstand zum Job finden. Stattdessen zweifelt er bald an seinem sonst so analytischen Verstand: Kinder verschwinden, sagenumwobene Gegenstände tauchen auf und uralte Ammenmärchen bekommen plötzlich eine blutige Brisanz. Bald zieht sich eine Spur an Gräueltaten durchs Voralpenland.

When Gabriel Lee escapes an unhappy marriage and moves to Porlington to start over, he finds himself part of the Porlington Philharmonia - an orchestra made up of the usual characters you would find in such a thing. Until one of them is found dead following a concert. Suddenly, everybody is a suspect, but nobody seems likely. A thriller full of intrigue and humour, this tale gives an insight into just what a barmy world musicians live in, especially when things go fatally wrong.

When Essie finds an over-the-top, flowery valentine from an unknown individual in her mailbox, she goes into detective mode. Who could this person be? Why would they send her such a card? Essie is determined to find out, even if she has to ask for help from her three friends - Opal, Marjorie, and Fay. When Essie’s snooping takes a dangerous turn, she finds herself thrust into the middle of a police investigation. Will Essie help the police solve this Valentine’s Day mystery, or will she strike out on her own against an unknown foe who has anything but romance in mind?

Narrowly missing a splat of ectoplasm - or Bernard, as he was more commonly known - Ronnie entered the shop to the clanging of the little silver bell. His brow furrowed as he absently scratched his cheek. Grendle the shopkeeper always came out after the tolling of the first bell. Always. Later on, the local press interviews the Skullenian residents after an incident at the fountain: A happy young couple has discovered a cadaver while taking a moonlit stroll through the cemetery. What links the strange events? Is anything else going to happen?

It's not easy sharing a flat. Especially when you're 95 years old. Change is afoot at Sunset Grove retirement home, and its residents aren't impressed. Under threat from falling masonry, best friends Irma and Siiri are forced out of their home to negotiate 21st-century living in the centre of Helsinki. Their new surroundings throw up an endless number of daily challenges, from caring for the ailing Anna-Lisa to the mystery of which of the many remotes controls the TV.

Die frischgebackene Cafébesitzerin Lena findet lästigerweise eine Leiche in ihrem Hinterhof. Als ob sie mit der anstehenden Mieterhöhung und dem Verdacht der Fahrerflucht nicht schon Ärger genug hätte. Darüber hinaus ist da auch noch die Sache mit dem charmanten Hugo. Vor solchen Blendern hat ihre Mutter sie schon immer gewarnt. Mithilfe von Kater Misti, ungerechterweise auch Mistvieh genannt, und dem "dementen Trio", das alles andere als dement, sondern ziemlich plietsch ist, klärt die Pfälzerin Lena im hohen Norden Morde auf.

Harry Borchard wird nach achtunddreißig Jahren Haft direkt in ein Altersheim abgeschoben. Er glaubt, dass der liebe Gott ihn hassen muss, als er seinen neuen Zimmernachbarn Rolf kennen lernt, der vor seinen Augen versucht, sich das Leben zu nehmen, aber anscheinend zu dämlich dafür ist. Als er dachte, es könnte nicht noch schlimmer kommen, stößt er auf Lothar, oder besser gesagt Lothar auf ihn. Dieser äußert einen Verdacht, dass ein Todesengel in den Gemäuern sein Unwesen treibt. Gemeinsam, mit Hilfe von Paul Joseph Braun versuchen sie dem Mörder auf die Spur zu kommen.

When Verity Hudson goes missing, Peddyr Quirk—with assistance from his wife Connie—investigates a strange new case which unfolds in an unsavory part of town. It soon becomes apparent that they are not the only ones looking for Verity. A freelance researcher is searching for her birth mother. An influential man of power and money is desperate to find his estranged sister. A local politician is determined to expose a hidden tragedy. A TV journalist will stop at nothing to expose the true story…if it can be uncovered. Where is Verity, who is Verity, and who will find her first?

Scott Fletcher is dead—his lifeless body in a pool of blood. Sarah Holden’s life is turned upside down the day she is discovered with her fiancé’s body next to the motorbike he’d been working on. She has blood on her hands, but the screams do not come. If she didn’t kill him, then who did? The answer seems too easy, the culprit too obvious. Peddyr and Connie Quirk, husband-and-wife private investigators, are brought in to unravel the tangle, prove Sarah’s innocence, and find the true culprit. As they are about to discover, the truth is sometimes more than skin-deep.