Humourous Mysteries

R. J. and Joey are very excited about the summer, especially their favorite daily treat of ice cream. Then the worst thing possible occurs and one day Mr. Pip's ice cream truck is nowhere to be seen. Will R. J. and Joey be able to track down the strange guy who seems to be responsible for the disappearance of Mr. Pip and their daily treat?

A cat hunt at Christmas on Maui… I'm Kat Smith, Secret Service agent turned postmaster sleuth in the small town of Ohia on Maui, and I'm dealing with my first private investigation at the holidays: Lady Sapphire, a pedigreed feline expecting her first litter on Christmas, has been stolen from her elderly owner. My hot pilot boyfriend Mr. K and I are up to our eyeballs in cozy mystery motives when we discover that Tiki, my beloved stray, has also disappeared. Now the hunt is personal, and I'll leave no furball unturned to bring these cats home. "This story has ALL the feels. The perfect ...

For the past year and a half, Willem has been an outcast in his hometown. Everyone believes he’s a killer. On top of the murder accusations, his “biofuel/fertilizer” business is failing. He’s well over knee-deep in inventory with no chance of a sale in sight. When Murven, his out-of-work best buddy, volunteers to help him with his daily collection, they discover Willem is stockpiling more than he bargained for as an "entre-manure."

Finlay Donovan is killing it...except, she’s really not. The new book she promised her literary agent isn’t written, her ex-husband fired the nanny without telling her, and this morning she had to send her four-year-old to school with hair duct-taped to her head.

In an abandoned mineshaft, they discovered a lost journal that once belonged to William, a legendary explorer who has gone missing. The first journal took them on a daring adventure to a secret temple deep in the desert. Now they have the second journal, and they're more determined than ever to find the missing explorer.

“There’s a dead elf in the doorway!” With those words, the adventures of the gals of Callie’s Cakes are back on! The ladies have their work cut out for them. There’s a dead Christmas Elf trying to spoil Christmas, a murderer determined to destroy Anna’s wedding, a thief doing his best to discredit Kristie’s Youth Facility, and a vandal out to stop Callie’s wedding. But there’s nothing a cupcake or two won’t solve. Welcome to the cupcake bakery Callie's Cakes where murder investigations are on the menu. Recipes included. Cupcakes, unfortunately, are not. Get all four ...

What's a contest without a prize? Aunt Molly has entered a joke-telling contest at a local comedy club, and Cam; her best friend, Eric; and Mr. Jansen are in the audience to watch her perform. The prizes are exciting, but the competition is stiff - there's a prop comic, a knock-knock joker, and more! As the show starts, Cam notices that one of the prizes, an engraved silver plate, has disappeared. Suddenly, everyone in the club becomes a suspect.

In this quirky debut novel from author Matthew Dicks, career criminal Martin uses his OCD to pilfer items from his victims' houses without being discovered. It helps that he only takes things the homeowner would never notice are missing - like a roll of toilet paper or a bottle of maple syrup. Martin has spent so much time snooping through homes he feels like he knows the owners, but when he starts meddling in their personal lives, his precise world turns to haos.

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 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 and Danika ...

Rebekah Daniels is just your ordinary spunky nine-year-old girl living in the small town of Curtis Bay...EXCEPT she is determined NOT to be ordinary at all! Her small town is filled with mysteries and Rebekah is sure that she, along with her best friend Mouse, will be able to solve every last one of them. Mouse's behavior and his reluctance to hang out with Rebekah has become a mystery she must solve. Has his body been taken over by aliens?

Lyla Cowan is a force to be reckoned with. She’s tough, ruthless when she needs to be, and intolerant of bullies. While at the same time she’s making sure colonists and refugees have what they need. ‘You broke it, you bought it’ has a whole new meaning when two thirds of the galactic core is affected. She started this path as a lowly paid mercenary. Now she’s running the third largest militia in the League of Worlds. The Unbound became bound. To each other, and to the work. But the work is changing, and change begun cannot be stopped. Sometimes to continue on, you must first ...

Gameknight999, a real-life Minecraft user trapped inside the game he loves to play, and his friend Crafter have transported to a new server. Malacoda is the King of the Nether, a terrible ghast that wants to destroy all of Minecraft with his massive army of blazes, magma cubes, zombie pigmen, and wither skeletons. Knowing the lives of all those within Minecraft - as well as those in the physical world - are depending on them, Gameknight and Crafter will need to search the land to recruit an NPC army.

I get paid to erase problems. Did your extramarital affair produce an unwanted complication? Family problems? Just want to enjoy your midlife crisis by yourself? That's where I come in. For a fee, I'll take care of it. A big fee. Only, I'm not going to do what you think. I'm not going to save you from them, I'm going to save them from you.

My love for baking has turned me into a small town murder suspect. All I did was deliver the best muffins the mayor’s ever had, or will ever have again. Life at Granny B’s Bakery couldn’t get any sweeter till I discover Bar Harbor’s Mayor face down in my basket of blueberry muffins, dead. Well, at least he died happy. Now the sheriff is pointing his finger at me calling my baked goods muffins of death. Me and my tell-it-all bestie, alongside my golden retriever, Cinnamon, will have to butter up the neighbors so they’ll spill the beans about who wanted the Mayor dead. But, between ...

Bernadette didn't smoke. The fire couldn't have been an accident! Oh boy, the gray-haired knitters are at it again. Of course, they are. It's been way too long since they 'solved' a mystery. But the investigator determined the fire at the craft store was caused by an unattended lit cigarette. Arson isn't even a remote possibility. Except the owner Bernadette didn't smoke and now she's dead. When Bernadette's granddaughter asks me to look into the matter, the knitters practically cheer. They are on the case! But is there even a case? Or are we seeing murder and arson where there's merely ...

It seems just about everyone in Hollywood had a reason to want Steve Peterman dead. But how someone managed to put a knife in his back on a live broadcast without being seen is anyone's guess. Unfortunately for Fletch, his girlfriend, Moxie Mooney, a huge star at the box office, is also the number-one suspect. With the police asking way too many questions, Fletch whisks Moxie and her drunken father off to Key West for a little privacy. But before he can even check out the beach, the rest of the suspects decide to check in.

The phone rang, sharp and insistent, cutting through the silence of the night. I glanced at the clock—11:43 PM. Too late for a casual call. “Hello?” I answered groggily. “Samantha Jamison?” a woman’s voice came through, shaky and panicked. “...I’m so sorry to call so late. I grabbed your card on his desk; didn’t know who else to reach out to—” “Who is this? Whose desk?” I asked, blinking away sleep. “I’m Felicity Shaw, Alistair Davenport’s assistant. I just left his residence located off the main road to Highlands. I... I’m afraid something terrible has ...

A Seamstress Disappears A Stitch & Sleuth Society Mystery – Book Two When beloved seamstress Ivy Pennington vanishes just days before her wedding, her half-finished quilt becomes the only clue left behind. As whispers of family secrets and jealous rivals swirl through the town of Thimblewick, the Stitch & Sleuth Society springs into action—needles in hand and magnifying glasses at the ready. Led by the sharp-witted Bea Thornton and her charmingly eccentric quilting circle, this cozy cast of amateur detectives unravels more than just thread. From dusty attic trunks and hidden church ...

W. H. Beck's highly anticipated debut promises to delight young listeners with an imaginative tale about a rat who refuses to be judged by his appearance. Malcolm the rat loves the attention he gets as a pet at McKenna School. That' s where he meets the Midnight Academy, a secret society of classroom pets who've pledged to keep the students safe. The trouble is, rats have a bad reputation, so when their iguana leader is kidnapped, the Academy suspects Malcolm.

The Chicken Squad is back for their fourth (mis)adventure, and this time they're facing their darkest mystery yet: shadows!