Humorous Detective

The Snodgrass and Harper Detective Agency is now open for business! The team of inexperienced investigators will bring a smile to your face, assuming you are within walking distance. In Book 1, The Doctor is Out, the boys stumble into something they didn’t quite bargain on for their first case. Dr. Celia Delworth has put Snodgrass and Harper to the test. Is she a world-renowned doctor, a mover and shaker with the Whisby community, or maybe something more nefarious? Whatever she is up to, find out as the pair of bungling detectives truly go out of this world to find out. Have fun trying to...

I’m Tracy Belden and, unless murder interferes, I’m marrying my best friend! The sun is shining. Birds are singing. And I have five days off for a Tahoe honeymoon without a body in sight. Life is good…. Until my son finds the best man’s army buddy floating in a nearby pond. With our best friend suspected of murder, the honeymoon is off. Now, I have to find the killer and solve the case to clear my friend and finish my wedding-themed crossword puzzle. If you like fast-paced, humorous cozies, dive into the Crossword Puzzle Cozy Mysteries! Available in e-book, paperback, and on Kindle ...

Murder in the dunes: A new mystery series where dark secrets lurk beneath the surface, with a dash of humor to keep things afloat. Off the coast, a fisherman pulls a dead body out of the sea. She is covered in nothing but a series of strange symbols. The coroner discovers that the woman, suffering from terminal cancer, appears to have drowned without any outside influence—but no one can find the boat she must have fallen from. Enna and Pavel are faced with a baffling mystery: Was it suicide or something far more sinister? The case takes a darker turn when the dead woman’s cell phone ...

Suzie survived the police academy. Will the residence of small-town, USA survive her? From amateur bookstore sleuth to police cadet, Officer Suzie Ivy beat the odds and made it through the toughest eighteen weeks of her life. Join Suzie during her midlife wacky adventures, a Glock .35 on her hip, and a whole new attitude. With a shiny new badge pinned to her chest; hilarity and tears ensue. Add a Beefalo named Old Betty, crazy old men with rocks, and unlicensed drivers who think they own the road and you’ll stumble along with Suzie while she takes law enforcement by storm. Hold on tight, ...

These are the first four novels featuring Charles Bentley, a retired professor of English Literature who worked at Opal College in Opalsville, Massachusetts in the upper northwestern corner of the state. Upon his retirement, Charles finds himself becoming involved in solving a number of murders that occur in his part of the world. A widower, now without a full-time job, he is also at a decision point in his life where he must deal with new romantic interests and the possibility of pursuing a career path allowing him to develop new talents. Charles rapidly finds that the remaining decades of...

A mystery novel about a detective who discovers a very unusual clue at a yard sale that helps him solve a 15-year-old murder case.

When a killer strikes, single mom and PI, Tracy Belden puts game nights on hold to solve a puzzling case of murder. I’m Tracy Belden and I’m getting out of town. A quick meeting with a client in Las Vegas will pay for a weekend getaway for me and my guy. But our perfect plan derails when my client is found dead. Now the police and the perps both accuse me of having a priceless artifact. The only way to prove my innocence–and finish my crossword puzzle– is to find the missing object and track down the killer. If you like fast-paced, humorous cozies, dive into the Crossword Puzzle ...

The final story of the Gemini & Flowers mysteries. Ego quoque in tempore vitae meae. It is three years since we last visited Rilton Castle and “times they are a changing”. Lady Greta Hollander has died and Mike Ash has become the seventeenth Duke of Bloxworth. He and Tom are moving to Hollander Hall, leaving the village in the safe hands of Finn and Fade, now a happy couple. Patrick is going to join the police and is starting work as a trainee Special Constable with Regina Muga’s team before going to Hendon Police College.However, this is Rilton Castle after all, so things are never ...

Isabel Spellman's life consists of 24-hour surveillance, routine investigations into her acquaintances, and listening devices planted in her deadbolt-locked room. For a 28-year-old in a family composed almost entirely of private investigators or former cops, the tools of the trade turn typical family dysfunction into commonplace espionage.

A professor's murder at a small New England college and a forgotten manuscript lead recently retired school teacher, Richard MacKenzie, and his wife, Morgana, through a labyrinth of secrets, deceptions, and murder. Will revelations about Morgana's past hinder the ongoing investigation about the professor's death, and damage her marriage? Will Richard be able to save his brother's job? Will the killer be found before he strikes again? Everything depends on Richard. Who said retirement is like a walk in the park?

Great characters and story setting. Interesting Mystery to solve with lots of clues and twists that kept me guessing and turning the pages until the end. I can't wait for the next book. I highly recommend this book. 5 STAR BookSprout review. Welcome to Bramble Dale—where book club drama is just the warm-up, and murder is the main event. Picking the book of the month used to be my toughest challenge, but that was before a shady paralegal was booked into jail…and then found dead. Now, with an old friend knocked out during the crime and the clues pointing to corruption and conspiracy, ...

Matchmaking can be murder... Danika Dreary’s life is a certified dumpster fire. After her latest soul-crushing crisis, Danika moves in with her delightfully quirky grandma, Elsie, who believes crystals are a girl's best friend. But there’s a catch: Danika must work at Karma Moon in the quaint, coastal town of Mystique, California. Except this is no ordinary new-age shop—it’s also where Elsie plays matchmaker to the town’s hopeless romantics. When Ryker Van Allan demands a refund after his best friend gets stood up—apparently, true love comes with a money-back guarantee—Elsie ...

“Find out what evil really lurks inside all of us...just when you think a character is likable…” -Skinny Leopard Media “A complex, interesting web. You could never be sure who to trust.” -Reedsy Discovery *** Forensic Scientist Penelope Washburn has the bad habit of finding herself in the middle of other people’s messes. Unfortunately, she’s too nice to say anything about it. She also has an Achilles heel, ex-boss Detective Jose Ortega, who also happens to be an ex-love interest. When Ortega gets tangled in a multinational crime involving COIL, a powerful cult, along with the ...

An ancient ring stolen from a Holocaust victim. A stuffed raven that once belonged to Charles Dickens. An extra body in the New York City Morgue. Only one man could follow these clues to a solution: the legendary Jorge Luis Borges. "... highly recommended for classic detective story enthusiasts who look for complexity and intellectual challenges in their characters and stories." - Midwest Book Review Two years after their collaboration chronicled in The Philosophical Detective, Nick Martin again falls under the spell of the blind poet and fabulist who calls himself Jorge Luis Borges. ...

Max Moran, who looks like Superman but has the personality of Clark Kent, is a failed Broadway actor who manages his uncle's inn on the New Jersey shore. Although Max would like nothing better than to be an innkeeper and an actor in community theater, life requires him to solve murders. These are the first three cases Max must solve, often at great danger to himself as he is forced to rely on his acting skills to pretend to be a detective. This is a newly revised and edited edition.

This is a new edition of Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic mystery, The Hound of the Baskervilles. It’s the same story. Mostly. That is, it contains the same characters, the same action, and much of the same dialogue. What’s different? Well, it’s a little shorter, a little leaner, a little less verbose in some sections. But the chief difference is that it’s now narrated by a dog. A greyhound, in fact, named Septimus. In this new edition, he tells his story of how he became “The Greyhound of the Baskervilles.”

Two American travelers have been killed—one with poison, the other with a knife through the heart—and the only clues at the scene are a woman’s wedding ring and the German word for “vengeance” written in blood. The military surgeon Dr. John Watson is brought in to investigate, along with his clever, arrogant new roommate, Sherlock Holmes.

Catching a killer is a piece of cake... Or is it? A jazz-themed restuarant, a dangerous poisoning... When Mindy and Beth are asked to look into a suspicious poisoning, they end up in the crosshairs of someone with a vendetta. As their investigation reveals one secret after the other, the duo start to wonder what they've gotten into. Meanwhile, Mindy's nemesis Neve insists on trying to "help out" with the investigation... Praise for A.R. Winters: "The perfect balance of being lighthearted, but still a serious page-turning mystery." - Jaycie D, Amazon.com "A fun cozy mystery with engaging and...

They wanted a peaceful vacation in a wintry location. But when Santa meets an untimely end, can these intrepid investigators save the season? Chloe Carson is excited for her long-awaited family reunion. But as they gather in a snow-clad village to plan their aging mother’s dream of opening a restaurant, the old lady’s habit of spreading garden gnomes around town leads to a panicked pilgrimage. And the mayhem continues when their visit to the nutcracker museum reveals Kris Kringle has come to an unmerry demise. With a ton of questions and no answers, Chloe and her cunning cocker spaniel ...

Monsters and Murder Liz Porelli has lived with the monster called Multiple Sclerosis for years, but when she finds her life threatened during a hospital procedure, she discovers that the monsters lurking within the human mind can be far deadlier. A death caused by a hospital mishap, a missing hospital attendant, neighborhood break-ins and the murder of a good friend, pull Liz into a baffling mystery that may be linked to a long time unsolved armored car robbery and a brutal attack on Liz’s husband: the former Chief of Police. With the support of her zany caregiver, Deb Raymond, and the ...