Amateur Sleuths

They’re used to solving murders. But until now the killer has always been human…

Saffy is waiting to go into an important meeting when she receives a missed call and then a text message from her best friend, Leona: Please help...come now. Of course, she races to her friend’s house. But when she arrives, she notices something strange....

Let bestselling author T.A. Williams whisk you away to gorgeous Tuscany in this cozy murder mystery featuring a retired DCI and his loyal canine companion who gets up to all kinds of doggie mischief! It really is murder in paradise!

Lane Holland's crime-solving career ended the day he went to prison. Yet one unsolved case continues to haunt him: the disappearance of Matilda Carver two decades ago...

Murder is a dish best served ice cold... In the idyllic, small town of Dewstow, Margery and Clementine are eagerly awaiting retirement from their work...

Imogene's client has a special request. The only hitch is, the client is dead.

The first three books in the Irish Village Mystery series are included in this edition: Murder in an Irish Village, Murder at an Irish Wedding, and Murder in an Irish Churchyard....

Welcome back to Zig Zag Lane in the heart of Sydney's rag-trade district, where our intrepid tea ladies, Hazel, Betty and Irene, have their work cut out....

Fiona, Sue, and Daisy, three retired ladies who volunteer at the local charity shop, Dogs Need Nice Homes, can’t believe their favorite customer is dead....

Starting a new life in Florida means year-round sunshine, beautiful beaches, and balmy breezes. For most people, anyway. But not for thirtysomething Piper and her grandmother, former members of a motorcycle gang in Oregon.

Lady Emily Hardcastle is an eccentric widow with a secret past. Florence Armstrong, her maid and confidante, is an expert in martial arts. The year is 1908 and they've just moved....

It's the end of a long day at the Dogs Need Nice Homes charity shop. Fiona, Daisy, and Partial Sue, the three retired ladies who volunteer there, are ready to lock up for the night. The chippie is beckoning. But supper will have to wait.

Arbuthnot ‘Arbie’ Swift arrives at Dashwood House, a glamorously modern hotel in the up-and-coming resort of Galton-next-the-Sea, but all plans for a relaxing stay are scuppered when one of the guests is found dead.

In the small town of Dewstow, 'tis the season for gold, frankincense, and murder... It’s Margery’s first year as kitchen manager for Summerview school...

Helen Appleby just wants a quiet life. Recently released from prison for the manslaughter of her partner, she's trying to forget her past mistakes—all of them—to rebuild her life and move on.

It's the day of the Christchurch Dog Show. The whole town is aquiver with excitement. The ladies of the Charity Shop Detective Agency are hoping to make lots of new furry friends.

At the end of Berrywick’s amateur theatre’s latest production, a shot rings out amongst the rapturous applause. But when Julia Bird peeks through the curtain, she sees lead actor Graham is lying still on the stage, his co-actor Oscar looking down at his prop gun in shock.

When Italy’s greatest opera singer, Rodolfo Argento, is killed in a terrible car accident, the police initially rule his death a tragic accident or suicide. But his elderly mother, Violetta, believes this to be poppycock! Her son was a brilliant driver and had too much to live for.

Julia Bird loves a walk in the countryside. There’s nothing quite like the fresh air and green rolling hills of the Cotswolds to clear your head. Unless you come across a dead body, that is.

When aspiring actress Charlie Carver learns that her cousin Annabelle has died, she immediately leaves Melbourne to fly home to the remote family roadhouse east of Alice Springs....

Just when everything was going so good, Les slips a disc in his back. He can't run, he can't train. He can't do anything much. But he can still drive his car....

A magnificent seaside hotel, striped deckchairs, strawberry ice cream...and a rather familiar dead body? Lady Swift is on the case....

Jack Harris, the disgraced son of Australia's most powerful business tycoon, has just been exiled to Byron Bay as a junior journalist at his father's smallest regional newspaper, The Beacon.

It’s vampire politics as usual around the town of Bon Temps, but never before have they hit so close to Sookie’s heart….

When Iris Woodmore visits Winchester for their annual pantomime, murder is the last thing she expects to find.

Quando i quattro partner di un importante studio legale rimangono uccisi in un misterioso incidente aereo, le loro vedove devono unirsi per scoprire la verità in questo romanzo esplosivo che vi terrà con il fiato sospeso.

Hugo Ross is perfect for the job as irascible inventor Ambrose Minstrel’s new secretary: young, completely inexperienced, and with an occasional stutter that makes him seem somewhat dim—a mug, in fact. But from his first day, odd things begin to happen. A stranger offers him an absurd amount for an ordinary pair of field glasses; soon, the written offer is stolen from his room. A lovely girl he runs into in the dark one night outside his new employer’s house warns him not to take the job.

Darkness comes to Sidmouth, when, unable to cope after a devastating tragedy, late-night radio talk show host Edward Temmis is let go from his beloved job. Cast adrift, his outlook is bleak – until he meets Stevie, whose grandmother, a devoted listener, died in a suspicious fire last year. Well, nobody hurts his listeners and helping Stevie might just give him the purpose he needs. When their investigation stalls, they enlist local estate agent Kim, with whom Edward had a doomed fling last year. Working together, they discover Stevie’s grandmother wasn’t the only one of his listeners targeted.

At Sunny Pines Retirement Community, where the “Sixty-Two and Better!” share their golden years, secrets abound. Some scandalous, some haunting, and some dangerous. For Birdie Allen, a retired business owner and grandmother, her secret is the only thing she’s got left. Getting old isn’t the hardest part about life. It’s the memories from more than fifty years ago of the death of her unrequited love. And Birdie’s abandoned quest to root out the killer.

When cougar-shifter Lily Mason moves to Moonrise, Missouri, she wishes for only three things . . . to find a job, to find a place to live, and to live as a human. Lily gets more than she bargains for when a rescue pit bull named Smooshie rescues her from an oncoming car. Lily's new life as an integrator is threatened when Smooshie finds Katherine Kapersky, the local church choir leader and head of the town council, dead in the field behind the rescue center.

Not much happens in Deerfield, Connecticut. The sleepy little town nestled at the foot of Taconic Range near two pristine lakes is the stuff of Hallmark movies. Picturesque town square, friendly neighbors, the changing seasons… but Deerfield’s small-town charm will lose its allure after a girl goes missing. Family secrets will be exposed, old wounds will be reopened, and lives will be turned upside down as past and present collide.

I'm Ellie Hart, and when a dog walking job falls in my lap, it looks like my luck has changed. Changed for the worst, that is, when the first thing I do is stumble upon a body. And the new detective in town happens to be the most eligible bachelor around. And my new boss's grandson. I've signed on for way more than I'd ever wanted. With my job on the line, my black Lab at my side, and donuts in hand, my only choice is to follow the clues.

Meet Sage Poe—witch, amateur detective, and woman who's definitely rethinking her life choices. She thought the biggest challenge this Halloween would be keeping her sisters from hexing the town council. She thought wrong. When murder strikes the annual Halloween festival, turning the corn maze into a crime scene, Sage finds herself trapped in a real-life nightmare. Her childhood friend is dead, the town is whispering, and something wicked comes this way . . . again.

When a food critic chokes on a traditional baby trinket in Juliet Vance's King Cake, she loses her dream job as a pastry chef in the French Quarter and finds herself thrust into a supernatural adventure to find a long lost treasure. Forced to team up with the infamous buccaneer Jean Lafitte, the Terror of the Gulf Coast, the two must search the haunted streets of New Orleans and enlist help from local ghostly legends in order to break the centuries-old curse on the treasure.

Former PI-in-training Amber Winslow has decided to flee her life in the dead of night, carrying nothing but the clothes on her back. Down on her luck and with no other choice, she heads to the sunny state of Arizona to the luxury accommodations of her grandmother’s retirement community. Never mind that Amber’s never actually met her estranged and eccentric Grandma Jade.

As mid-winter temperatures grip the cathedral city of Ely, a man is found frozen to death in his high-rise flat. The police may think that Declan McIlroy killed himself, but journalist Philip Dryden is not convinced, and he begins digging for the truth. All too soon, there's another frozen corpse to consider–that of Declan's best friend. And suddenly a routine suicide gives way to a chilling trail of cruelty and betrayal stretching back thirty years, towards a mystery from Dryden's own childhood.

Nothing exciting EVER happens in the tiny town of Alamo, Texas. But that doesn't stop feisty fifteen-year-old Crystal O'Mally from dreaming of becoming a top notch detective, just like her hero. She gets her chance when her dad, the local jeweler, is accused of stealing the town's treasure, a giant pink diamond. However, things quickly get out of control as clues don't add up, the suspect list grows rapidly, and a mysterious shadow always seems to be one step ahead of her.

In 1992, shortly before a tragic fire on their college campus, Laura Cunningham saw her best friend, Kate McDonald, for the last time. The fire's 20th anniversary elicits Laura's guilt and ignites her passion to learn what actually happened to Kate. Now a journalist, Laura teams up with her hot detective ex-husband to pursue cold leads in hopes of sparking interest in the decades-old mystery of what happened that day.

As Evelyn unravels her family’s dark legacy, she must face the sinister entity that has haunted Silver Hollow for generations. When Evelyn inherits Silver Hollow Manor, she expects to confront the past—not the supernatural. Plagued by terrifying dreams and a malevolent force within the house, Evelyn seeks help from Ryan, a travel writer with a fascination for haunted places. Together, they uncover a dark legacy linked to her ancestor, Margaret Sterling, whose failed ritual opened a gateway to a malevolent dimension.

A wedding day turned deadly. The groom is dead, and the vineyard whispers of secrets. This wasn’t just a tragedy—it’s the start of something bigger. I thought I was here to plan the perfect wedding, not investigate a murder. But the more I dig, the more I realize the vineyard is hiding something sinister. Old rivalries, hidden agendas... And now my best friend is in the crosshairs. If I don’t figure this out, there won’t just be one body in the vineyard. And the next victim might be me.

Freelance journalist Sig Conrad is shot in the head while elk hunting in the Oregon mountains. He survives but now his memory only lasts one day. A second man, Sig's old high school friend, is killed while swimming in Minnesota, the incident made to look like an accident. When Sig travels from Oregon to Minnesota for his class reunion, he finally starts to remember fleeting moments from his painful past. After another friend dies mysteriously, Sig's memory drifts back more vividly.

When Mandy Dyer inherits her uncle’s dry cleaners, she knows she’ll be dealing in some pretty grimy business. But when a homeless woman brings in a bloody suit, suddenly Mandy has a foul mess on her hands. Did the suit belong to a murderer—or his victim? Now Mandy is sharing clues with a hunky homicide detective—and trying to discover a little dirt on the killer herself. With one man dead and a potential witness missing, returning this suit to its rightful owner isn’t going to be easy—until Mandy figures out how to make the killer come clean.

A struggling songwriter and Lyft driver, Adam Zantz’s life changes when he accepts a ride request in Malibu and 1970s music icon Annie Linden enters his dented VW Jetta. Bonding during that initial ride, the two quickly go off app—over the next three years, Adam becomes her exclusive driver and Annie listens to his music, encouraging Adam even as he finds himself driving more often than songwriting. Then, Annie disappears, and her body washes up under a pier.

Diane Maximoff Schaffer presents Book 1 in the Mortal Zin Mystery series.

This is a 1913 collection of ten short detective stories by a not well known writer. Jack Lanagan is a police reporter for a daily newspaper in San Francisco, who has the confidence of the chief of police and access to all sorts of levels of city life.

A whimsical paranormal cozy mystery filled with small-town charm, a hint of the unexplained, and a touch of literary flair. Nan Nettles has always seen the world through a dreamy, poetic lens, and her husband, Mossy, is more than happy to play the romantic bard to her wandering muse. But when their road trip to a charming Florida town takes an unexpected detour, they find themselves caught up in a legend whispered on the coastal breeze.

Библиотекарей на пенсии не бывает! Шестидесятилетняя Джейн Хантер вынуждена досрочно уйти на пенсию с работы университетского библиотекаря. Но она уже не представляет свою жизнь без книг, поэтому быстро находит вакансию в доме эксцентричного 33-летнего коллекционера Кэмерона Клю, человека со странностями, который не умеет общаться с людьми, боится выходить из дома и совершенно безразличен к внешнему миру. Он нанимает Джейн для инвентаризации его постоянно расширяющегося собрания редких книг и артефактов.

Der Wüstensand fühlt sich an wie glühende Kohlen, die Sonne brennt erbarmungslos herab. Der alte Kardinal hat keine Chance, dieser Hölle zu entkommen ... Geschichtsprofessor Don Cavelli ist vielen im Vatikan ein Dorn im Auge: Obwohl er kein Mann der Kirche ist, hat er dort genau wie seine Vorfahren lebenslanges Wohnrecht und genießt zahlreiche Privilegien. Cavelli hat nur wenige Vertraute, daher erschüttert die Nachricht vom Tod seines Freundes Eduardo Fontana ihn umso mehr: Was trieb den Kardinal in das Inferno der israelischen Wüste?

Fonterone: una pittoresca cittadina del Nordest, dove le colline ondulate e i vigneti rigogliosi celano segreti inaspettati. È qui che torna Agata Cornero, appassionata di libri gialli e di tè in foglia, desiderosa di portare con sé un tocco di eleganza britannica dopo tanti anni trascorsi a Londra. La sua nuova caffetteria, l’Agatha’s Corner, specializzata in tè e dolci inglesi, diventa rapidamente il ritrovo preferito dei residenti. Ma proprio quando tutto sembra perfetto, la serenità viene spezzata da un oscuro mistero.

Ciaran Reilly is a young novelist who discovers that someone appears to be mimicking the crimes he is writing about in his mysteries. His murder victims turn out to be actual crimes that are currently unsolved. So who is reading his novels and then committing the murders? Or could it be the other way around? The young novelist begins to investigate the cases he has written about chronologically and discovers that none of them seem as they seem. The Paperback Writer takes the listener on a journey into the mind of the wicked and heinous crimes of a killer who has yet to be found.