Cosy

Newlyweds Lady Swift and Detective Hugh Seldon are honeymooning in the most romantic city on earth. Clifford, her butler, has come along for the trip to make sure everything goes to plan for the happy couple. And Gladstone, the mischievous bulldog, to make sure it doesn’t!

He’ll make you his angel, but first you have to die....

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.

After a long year of crime-fighting, DCI Ryan and his team are looking forward to a peaceful Christmas filled with festive treats. But, when their dinner is interrupted by the untimely arrival of a dead body, they’re reminded that crime never sleeps.

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....

London, 1941: Miss Jane Treen is at her desk, strong black coffee in hand and fluffy ginger cat by her side, when her top-secret government work is interrupted by an urgent call to Devon

Hell has unleashed a demon - and he's coming for you.... Detective Chief Inspector Ryan's worst nightmare has just become a reality.

Move over Miss Marple, there’s a new sleuth in town! Meet Eleanor Swift: distinguished adventurer, dog lover, dignified lady...daring detective? Listen to find out more....

Brilliant botanist Saffron Everleigh faces her hardest challenge yet when she returns to her childhood home in the fourth book in the charming Saffron Everleigh mystery series.

Hadley Hunter’s world is about to get bigger… and maybe not in a good way. When bodies wash up on the Moonstone Bay beach, it’s obvious there’s trouble afoot. Where, though?

Fresh from a high-profile case in the Paris fashion world, elite forensic psychologist and criminal profiler Dr Alexander Gregory receives a call from the New York State Homicide Squad....

Still spinning from the hustle and bustle of city life, Jodie ‘Nosey’ Parker is glad to be back in the Cornish village she calls home....

Wild swimming in February? No, thank you. It sounds like torture to Fiona, Daisy, and Partial Sue, the retired ladies behind the counter at Dogs Need Nice Homes charity shop. Still, no one ever died of plunging into the icy waters around the sleepy little English town of Southbourne. Until now.

It's almost summer in Southbourne, and the ladies of the Charity Shop Detective Agency are ready for another season of sun, sea, and... murder....

A film company is coming to the Cornish village of Penstowan, and the whole community turn up to be cast as extras, even Jodie ‘Nosey’ Parker....

It’s three days before Christmas, and detective-turned-chef Jodie ‘Nosey’ Parker is drafted in to cater a charity event run by a notorious millionaire at a 13th-century abbey on Bodmin Moor.

When Jane Treen is summoned to her boss’s office at the end of a long day, she smooths down her tweed skirt and makes them both another strong pot of coffee. Brigadier Remmington-Blythe slides a folded copy of the evening newspaper towards her, with one small article circled in red ink.

After the dramatic theft of a priceless artefact from Durham Cathedral, the rest of the world believes that DCI Ryan and his team were able to recover and return St Cuthbert's cross to its rightful home. But Ryan knows the cross he recovered was a fake....

Life’s a struggle for Rosemary Thorn and her teen daughter, Athena. But their regular troubles are turned upside down after Granny Thorn’s mysterious death. Despite her cousin's sinister maneuverings, Rosemary returns to Myrtlewood....

Julia Bird can’t wait to attend the annual village party at the local stately home, with its tea tents, cake stalls, and...dead body in the maze....

Murder and mystery are peppered with romance and humour in this fast-paced crime whodunnit set amidst the spectacular North Eastern landscape....

Miss Marple meets Oscar Wilde in this series of cosy mysteries set in the picturesque Cotswolds village of Bunburry. Wedding bells are ringing in the picturesque village of Bunburry with the community coming together in joyful celebration. But the festive atmosphere takes a dark turn when the...

One would hardly call them birds of a feather, but thrill-seeking American adventuress Beryl Helliwell and quietly reserved Brit Edwina Davenport do one thing very well together - solve murders.

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....

Winter 1924. When Lady Eleanor Swift unexpectedly finds herself a guest of the reclusive Duke of Auldwyke, she’s determined to enjoy Christmas with all the trimmings at his sprawling manor house.

Eccentric heiress Maida Westabrook treasures her peaceful, "ordinary" life in California—morning strolls along the beach, warm evenings by the fire, and losing herself in her beloved library of myths and legends. Yet Maida can’t shake the nagging feeling that there’s more to her story than she’s been led to believe. Strange and inexplicable occurrences have always surrounded her, dismissed as nothing more than her overactive imagination.

Thirty-year-old Charlotte James, better known to her mystery fans as C. J. Barrett, decides to take a break from writing her popular Steve Sheppard mystery series. Leaving New York City, she moves back to her hometown of Austin to wind down, recuperate, and maybe come up with some new ideas for her books.

Fresh-out-of-college aspiring novelist Timothy Trousdale can hardly believe his good luck when he lands a job in New York City as a live-in assistant to his all-time favorite showbiz diva, Mercedes Ford. He’s seen all her movies. Spent oodles on tickets to her Broadway shows. And now, he gets to live and work in her swanky Tribeca penthouse. Surely, he’ll be leading the glamorous life rubbing elbows with A-Listers, who may even be able to help him fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming a famous writer. But rats …

Auch nach einigen Monaten in den Cotswolds hat sich Ex-PR-Agentin Agatha Raisin noch immer nicht recht an das beschauliche Landleben gewöhnt. Doch es geht voran, Agatha konnte sogar eine Essenseinladung vom neuen Dorftierarzt ergattern, einem äußerst attraktiven Mann. Pech nur, dass dieser wenig später bei der Behandlung eines Rennpferdes stirbt. Ein Unfall, sagt die Polizei, doch Agatha zweifelt, dafür sind die Todesumstände zu verdächtig. Schließlich ermittelt sie auf eigene Faust - und gerät damit ins Visier eines hundsgemeinen Gegners ...

Phoebe's life was a hot mess, but inheriting an island and the ability to chat with the dead? That's a whole new level of chaos. Not to mention the body in the attic. Phoebe Ellis thought her life was already circling the drain, but attending the funeral of a wealthy author she's never met with the hopes she was named in the will? That's a new low. Little did she know that this would be the start of a wild and wacky adventure complete with a houseful of familiars, discoveries, and danger. Inheriting an island was just the breath of ocean breeze Phoebe needed.

In this debut volume, cooking aficionado turned amateur detective Sadie Hoffmiller tries to solve the murder of her beautiful young neighbor—a single mother who was mysteriously lured from her home while a lemon tart was baking in her oven.

Meg Gates could use a guidebook for life. Indeed, she's faced some challenges. She dropped out of college to work for a tech startup that failed—and her fiancé just took her bridesmaid to Italy on what was supposed to be Meg's honeymoon. Now, at twenty-six, Meg has taken the ferry ride of shame from Seattle back to Bainbridge Island to live with her family. At least she has her rescue cocker spaniel, Watson, by her side. But it's Meg who could use a rescue—and she's hoping it will come in the form of a part-time gig doing research for a bestselling mystery writer.

Both by calling and conviction Father Brown knew better than most of us, that every man is dignified when he is dead. But even he felt a pang of incongruity when he was knocked up at daybreak and told that Sir Aaron Armstrong had been murdered. There was something absurd and unseemly about secret violence in connection with so entirely entertaining and popular a figure. For Sir Aaron Armstrong was entertaining to the point of being comic; and popular in such a manner as to be almost legendary.

The story takes place at an English manor home on Boxing Day. A young lady and the young man who lives next door are present, as is the girl's father, Colonel Adams, a newly arrived uncle and a quite rich godfather. Also present, in addition to the servants, simply because the Colonel likes his company is the local priest, Father Brown. The godfather has brought a gift for the young lady, a set of three gorgeous, large diamonds, which he has tucked away in his coat pocket.

The Queer Feet" deals with Flambeau wanting to steal the silverware of the members of the Twelve True Fishermen having their annual club dinner at Vernon Hotel. The Vernon Hotel is an exclusive hotel and a "topsy-turvy product" (Chesterton 1994, p. 51).

Lies, infidelity, and murder... what is a little mayhem among friends?

That’s the mantra for the members of the Monthly Murder Movie Club at The Northwoods Movie Theater. Every month, this eclectic group of northern Michigan residents gather to watch a murder mystery movie on the big screen. After stopping the projector in the middle of the movie, the members gather to discuss the crime and suspects, each making a whodunit pick before resuming the movie. The hair dresser with the scissors? The jilted lover with poison?

When the ties of friendship bind too tightly, what do you do?

In a quiet library where silence reigns and stories sleep, death leaves a calling card. Julia Wren, head librarian in the historic town of Oak Hollow, never expected murder to disrupt her orderly world of manuscripts and microfiche. But when a rare book returns with a cryptic note—and a respected scholar is found dead between the stacks—Julia is drawn into a chilling mystery rooted in the library's forgotten past.

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Im malerischen Romantikhotel "Zum Räuberherz" laufen die Vorbereitungen für die Traumhochzeit von Frederik von Thalheim und Constanze Engelhard auf Hochtouren. Doch die Idylle trügt. Nur wenige Tage vor der Trauung wird eine Leiche im hoteleigenen Rosengarten entdeckt. Während die Hochzeitsgesellschaft in Aufregung und Schock versetzt wird, wittert die Rentnerin Anneliese einen nächsten Fall. Loni, ihre engste Vertraute ist sich da noch nicht so sicher. Handelt es sich überhaupt um einen Mord? Oder war es vielleicht doch ein Unfall?

After a scandalous arrest in San Francisco, Carissa Carmichael has moved back to her small Southern California hometown to start over as she opens her Aromatherapy Apothecary shop and reflexology services. A tourist destination, Oak Creek Valley, seems the perfect place to put the past behind her, but it seems no one will let her forget. When she finds the man who threatened to drive her out of business murdered in her shop, Carissa becomes the primary suspect, especially when her fingerprints are found on the murder weapon.

Stell dir vor, du bist tot. Und dann ... oh?! In der beschaulichen Küstenstadt Fowey wird die beliebte Fudge-Königin Granny Smith ermordet. Die ambitionierte Lokalreporterin Jona Gold wittert die Story ihres Lebens und stürzt sich in die Ermittlungen. Doch was als einfacher Einbruch erscheint, entpuppt sich schnell als ein Netz aus düsteren Familiengeheimnissen, uralten Flüchen und tödlicher Gier. Unterstützt von Grannys Geist, einem vorlauten Kater und ihrem treuen Airedale Terrier, taucht Jona tiefer in die verborgene Welt der Magie ein.

Auch wenn es die Form einer Kuckucksuhr hat, verspricht das Hotel, in das Heff und seine Mannen sich zurückgezogen haben, besseren Schutz zu bieten als die Hütte im Wald - oder etwa nicht? Denn mit dem Hausverwalter Jacob Torrans scheint etwas nicht zu stimmen ...

When a beloved town gossip drops dead mid-sip at the Crow & Cup teahouse, all eyes turn to the least likely suspect: Tipsy, the teahouse cat with a flair for drama and an uncanny knack for uncovering secrets. As Matilda Crow, reluctant sleuth and tea enthusiast, finds herself tangled in a murder mystery brimming with poison, paw prints, and perilous floral arrangements, she must team up with her feline companion to unravel a twisted web of small-town intrigue.

1920. Hortense Lechat, tout juste retraitée, décide de s'installer à Londres pour y monter une agence de détective. Aussi extravagante qu'insupportable, elle trouve à redire sur tout : la météo, la cuisine, le thé... et n'arrive pas à prononcer le nom de son assistant, Joshua Bannockburn. Elle n'apprécie guère non plus l'appartement que ce dernier lui a dégoté au rez-de-chaussée de la maison Usher. Jusqu'à ce que le cadavre d'une femme atterrisse devant sa fenêtre. Hortense décide de mener l'enquête, bien décidée à prendre de vitesse l'inspecteur Addams.

A town of unpredictable magic. A Pixie with wonky wings. A murder that shakes a SoCal town to its core! Welcome to St. Maurice, a whimsical seaside town built atop a confluence of magical ley lines, where the extraordinary and the bizarre collide. Meet Twizzle Twist, the town's top real estate pixie with a knack for turning dreams into homes—until one home comes with a newly deceased owner in the study–stabbed with her own sword. The vibrant fencer’s demise sends shockwaves through the covens, and sends Twizzle spiraling into a whirlwind of intrigue.

TÖDLICHE SCHÖNHEIT: Die junge Oberösterreicherin Luisa nimmt einen Termin in einem tschechischen Beautystudio wahr, und kehrt nie mehr nach Hause zurück. 14 Monate später wird sie perfekt gestylt im Eisstockteich der tief verschneiten Mühlviertler Gemeinde Au gefunden. Mit einem einzigen Schönheitsfehler: Sie ist tot. Es mag etwas pietätlos klingen, aber hätte es Luisa nicht gegeben, wäre im beschaulichen Au noch alles beim Alten: Eine Schriftstellerin würde Historienromane schreiben, während sich ihr Kater Dru hauptberuflich durch das Vogelprogramm des Lokalsenders zappt.

Auf der Baustelle der Nebelhornbahn im Allgäu wird die Leiche eines bekannten Seilbahnunternehmers gefunden. Der Kemptner Kommissar Leopold Geiger und seine schicke Kollegin Anna Zähler werden gerufen, um den Mord aufzuklären. Schnell führt eine erste Spur ins Zillertal zum Hintertuxer Gletscher, wo ihnen die Lokalpolizisten Paul und Vitus an die Seite gestellt werden. Bloß interessieren sich die hilfsbereiten Kollegen aus dem Zillertal mehr für Leberkässemmeln und die neuen FKK-Camper als für den Toten aus dem Allgäu.

Hele hendes liv havde hun troet på det bedste i andre mennesker og regnede med, at hun var i sikre omgivelser. Hun var altid forsigtig og udsatte ikke sig selv for farer. Derfor havde hun ingen forestilling om, hvor galt det kunne gå - og fik et chok, da hele hendes liv i et nu blev frarøvet hende - hvad havde hun gjort? Og hvorfor kunne hun finde på at være så letsindig? Hvordan kunne hun ende i en så vanvittig og umulig situation? Det eneste hun vidste var, at ingen ville tro på hende - og det anbragte hende i en uløselig situation.