Dog Cozy Mysteries

"A delightful cozy read with a sweet, cupcake loving sleuth, a quirky cast of characters, and plenty of charm to spare." Daisy McDare is back with a new case to crack! Murder once again strikes the quaint little tourist town of Cozy Creek. This time the victim is an arrogant independent film director who has a bad habit of making of enemies. As the set decorator for the movie, Daisy is in a unique position to do some serious sleuthing. But she can't solve the murder alone. She enlists her cupcake baking best friend, Samantha, wise cracking, Granny Annie, private investigator crush, Gavin, ...

When a romantic Christmas movie starts filming in Crystal Falls, no one thought murder was part of the script. A motion picture company chooses Crystal Falls as the setting for their romantic Christmas movie but when a crew member is murdered and the star of the film is poisoned, Luke and Bandit rush in to solve another mystery in their small hometown. Deadly “accidents” start to plague the production and sightings of an off-balance celebrity stalker sets everyone on edge. Luke searches for clues with help from the telepathic link he shares with his dog Bandit, his cop crush Brooke, and...

Meet Kelsie Butler. Coffee addict. Dog lover. Mystery buff. It’s days before Christmas and all of Fairwood is celebrating in the Christmas spirit, except for members of the Mapleton Crime Club, a group of senior-citizen mystery lovers who reside at the Mapleton, an independent living home. When Kelsie and her friend Angela are invited to join the club’s Christmas party, they readily accept, but at the party, they’re immediately struck by the friction between club members. So when one of those members dies in a bizarre fashion and the police determine there’s been no foul play, ...

"Rarely have I read descriptions that have left me gasping, in both their hilarity and their painful truth. A wonderful read." ―Louise Penny recommending G.M. Malliet's novel WICKED AUTUMN "Nobody notices a bartender." So thinks the protagonist of this original short story by award-winning author G.M. Malliet. On overhearing a conversation one evening, the bartender of the title is inspired to try his hand at a copycat crime. He realizes his ordinary appearance and ability to blend in might help him evade detection, and in the days before security cameras were installed on nearly every ...

Ivy Bloom wants to believe you can go home again and so she does, leaving her work as a writer in NYC and returning to Hydrangea Bay on Cape Cod to start the next chapter of her book-loving life. She and her sister Gigi work to turn the rambling old mansion they have inherited into a bookstore. Baby books in the nursery, entertaining books in the dining room and romance reads in the ladies boudoir. It looked like it would work out great right up until the moment that the leader of a local religious cult turned up dead in the driveway. Soon his wife is dead as well. Through no fault of her ...

Tired of college, Kate Kennedy’s granddaughter, Katharine, drops out and heads for Florida, landing in the apartment of Kate’s best friend. In her quest for a new life, she takes up with a gang of surfers that go by the name “The Four Boardsmen of the Apocalypse.” But catching waves can be a dangerous pastime. When Katharine’s surfer crush is killed in a shark attack, foul play is suspected, especially by the police. Fingers are pointing at Katharine—including, to Kate’s disappointment, those of her friend Detective Nick Carbone. It’s up to Kate to prove her beloved ...

Sugarbury Falls in the fall—cinnamon spice, craft fairs, and pumpkin carving competitions. But when a reporter is murdered at a local haunted house event, the festive spirit takes a sinister turn, scaring the whole community. With one of the town’s detectives away on his honeymoon, true crime writer and former journalist Emily Fox steps in to help unravel the eerie web of suspects and motives. The victim made dangerous enemies in his pursuit of juicy stories—a wealthy businesswoman accused of killing a squatter in her warehouse, a jealous girlfriend, and even Emily’s daughter’s ...

Katy McKenna stumbles upon an antique wooden chest in the attic of her creaky old house. Though it's legally hers, the mind-blowing contents make her think she should find the rightful owner. But who has time when you're busy playing assistant to your smoking-hot private investigator neighbor, Josh Draper? Their mission: Catch a sleazy, cheating spouse in the act. Due to her cheating ex, Katy, a seasoned expert, is ready for the job. During a cozy stakeout in Josh's tiny two-seater, the air is thick with tension, and things get steamy. Will one of them finally make the first move? While ...

After Trinity Ashford’s dog, Sheba, digs up a dead body, danger lurks at every turn. Trinity hadn’t gone snooping for trouble this time. Trouble came for her. Somebody is very interested in the crime she helped solve a few months ago. Attacks and threats on her life have made Trinity determined to take down a killer before somebody is digging up her bones.

Julia Ross's nomadic adventures take a sinister turn when what seems like an innocent birdwatching trip to Charleston, South Carolina, becomes entangled with a mysterious film project and a centuries-old treasure hunt. Along with Toby, her rescue dog, and her quirky friends, Dottie and Penelope, Julia finds herself drawn into a web of deception surrounding a man calling himself Dr. Poe, who is looking for Captain Kidd’s buried treasure as described in the classic tale, The Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe. As Julia and her companions dig deeper, they uncover dark secrets. When a body is ...

Arc City Prison is a bad place to be if you’re a criminal, and an even worse place to be when you’re not. With his back against the wall, and no good choices left to make, Trigger joins Rick on one more crazy case. To spring one of their old adversaries and themselves from the slammer and mount the ultimate counterattack against Saint. Will fighting fire with fire create the big break they desperately need, or just twice the fire?

Autumn Clarke is getting her life back to normal with the help of her extraordinary shih tzu, Chrissy, when the death of a local philanthropist reveals the man’s dark family secrets, as well as unexpected ties to Autumn. When Chrissy discovers a dog-eared diary in the dead man’s family home, Autumn discovers that things in the Clarke family are not quite as they seem.

Max Moran, who looks like a hot Superman but has the personality of Clark Kent, is in a musical at The Lighthouse Point Community Theater called Song of the Sagebrush, about a Jersey boy who goes to work on a dude ranch and discovers what it means to be a man. One night when Max and his co-star, Grant, are walking home from rehearsal, they are attacked by two guys and Grant is injured. Since Max was too drunk to fight and help his friend, the only way to salvage his reputation is to discover who the assailants were. As he digs into the event, Max faces increasing danger and is also forced ...

Private investigator Guy Vanduex and his partner Sylvia Parker are enlisted to find a missing cat, presumed kidnapped. A former chef turned private investigator, Guy Vanduex’s knack for finding ingredients (I mean clues) leaves him always one step away from cracking the recipe (I mean case) wide open. But this case is not all that it seems. When a ravenous clowder of felines threatens Vanduex and Parker, the claws come out. As the cat scratches stack up, can our chef turned private investigator solve the mystery in time?

Question: What does a dead Kornville councilman, a nationally televised baking competition, and thousands of missing dollars have in common? Answer: Tabitha Clive! Amateur sleuth and baker extraordinaire Tabitha Clive must save Kornville’s new Mayor’s reputation before it is too late. The year is 1966 and Abigail Clive is doing an excellent job as the newly appointed mayor of Kornville, Nebraska. Well, it was going well until her harshest critic turns up dead. To make matters worse, money is missing from the town’s road improvement account, and no one knows where it has gone. Among ...

As the manager of Angels on Earth Animal Rescue Shelter, Missy works to train and rehome dogs, and if that business is threatened, she doesn’t hold back. When a nearby dogfighting ring is busted and a wannabe local politician tries to get a pit bull ban approved, Missy comes out swinging. She wants to help those poor abused dogs, and she’s not going to let some town newbie get in her way.

Thrift shop til someone drops... Going on the television show Trinket Traders was never plan “A” for thrift store owner Jessica Braun. But when business slows down, Jess agrees to one episode in hopes of picking sales back up. When a blizzard strikes and everyone is snowed in, trouble arises with the crew. By the time one of them is dead, no one can get in or out of Pine Grove. And Jess can’t get out of the mystery without getting her friends into more danger. What will she discover—about a murder and herself—as she takes on this investigation alone?

Welcome to the Magnolia Blossom Inn, where sweet tea, southern charm, and deep-rooted secrets collide. Maddie Brooke thought inheriting her grandmother's historic southern bed and breakfast inn would be a peaceful endeavor. But when a 75 year old skeleton is uncovered under a cherry tree, old family secrets are dug up too. Could the skeleton’s identity be her grandmother's former beau? The shocking culprits will lead to an upheaval within the town of Clarkstown. As if a skeleton isn't enough to disrupt the gay Easter egg hunt, a man is found stabbed in the cherry orchard at the conclusion...

Rhett is strong. He’s heroic. He’s what every woman wants… …if only his wife would notice. Even without superpowers, Rhett fights side-by-side with Rayne, his superhero wife. Together, they’ve kept Summercoast safe for over eight years by defeating all sorts of dark forces. That was until now… There’s a new supervillain in town: a mad scientist with abilities this couple has never seen before. Dark Lightning is the first supervillain with powers stronger than Rayne’s, and the first villain that she can’t defeat. It’s like he knows everything about her—and it’s not ...

A billionaire in hiding. A lost Spanish galleon. A body in the surf. Julia Ross and her friends, Dottie and Penelope, are invited to an exclusive island retreat in The Bahamas known as Abrams Cay, a world-class wildlife education center catering to the ultra-wealthy. Their all-expenses-paid vacation takes a deadly turn when Julia discovers the hotel manager’s body floating in the surf. The Bahamian authorities suspect drug smuggling—but once again, they arrest the wrong suspect. As Julia, Dottie, and Penelope search for the real killer, they uncover a web of secrets involving a ...