Cozy Mystery

One inoffensive drunkard. So many reasons to kill him. A bold shooting ends the life of Mr. Hewitt, the buggy manufacturer on a cold night in December, 1872. Physician and winemaker Maddie Wilcox is particularly puzzled, since it was clear that Mr. Hewitt was soon to die of his own...

In California wine country, the town of Cypress Cove may seem peaceful, but someone’s about to pop their cork… After losing her job as a photojournalist, Penny Lively is trying to get her life back in focus. Inheriting the family winery from her late aunt may be the fresh start...

In Cypress Cove, someone is playing ruff… Amateur sleuth Penny Lively is working her tail off trying to keep her family winery afloat. For the first time in her life she's too busy to go looking for trouble. But when drugs are stolen from town veterinarian Annie Moore, Penny is...

In California wine country, the town of Cypress Cove may seem peaceful, but someone’s about to pop their cork… After losing her job as a photojournalist, Penny Lively is trying to get her life back in focus. Inheriting the family winery from her late aunt may be the fresh start...

Penny Lively loves running her family's winery, but needs to keep the business growing. When she's approached to invest in a new train line through wine country, Penny and her intoxicating winery manager, Connor, hightail it to a lavish resort to hear the details. Unfortunately, her neighbor Chantal is also...

Book #1 of the Fudge Shop Mystery Series: New candy store owner Ava Oosterling specializes in making heavenly homemade fudge and fresh starts. But she’s just found out that her newest flavor is to die for. Between getting her store up and running and uneasily settling back into her charming...

Book #2 in the Fudge Shop Mystery Series: Candy shop owner Ava Oosterling mixes it up with a fudge judge with a grudge–who loses his life before he can pick a winner! … Ava is gearing up for the First Annual Fudge Festival–a huge celebration that could draw national attention...

Book #3 in the Fudge Shop Mystery Series: A recipe to kill for? It’s autumn in Fishers’ Harbor, Wisconsin, and fudge shop owner Ava Oosterling is busy preparing for the harvest festival and a visit from some royal relatives who live in Belgium. According to Ava’s grandpa, a famous divinity...

Book #1 in the Fudge Shop Cozy Mystery Series: A taste of trouble is in the air when a group of well-heeled, fudge-loving women descend on Ava Oosterling’s newly acquired and lovingly refurbished bed & breakfast inn for a chocolate lovers’ getaway. When one of the women turns up dead–and...

Book #2 in the Fudge Shop Cozy Mystery Series: Candy shop owner Ava Oosterling has her hands full when her best friend Pauline Mertens takes a summer job as a wedding coordinator–with the nuptials and reception scheduled in mere days in the back yard of Ava’s Blue Heron Inn overlooking...

Book #1 in the Mischief in Moonstone Series: When her pet reindeer, Rudolph, is stolen from the live animal display, first-grade teacher Crystal Hagan has a big problem on her hands. Her students fear that Christmas will be canceled. Ironically, the prime suspect is a man who lives in a...

Book #2 in the Mischief in Moonstone Series: When the men of Moonstone, Wisconsin, suddenly seem to be off fishing a lot in the evenings, thus cutting down on her new restaurant’s business, chef Kirsten Peplinski becomes suspicious. She discovers a topless touring boat has set up business in Lake...

Book #3 in the Mischief in Moonstone Series: On her second day of duty, new county deputy Lily Schuster finds herself smack dab in the middle of Moonstone, Wisconsin, trouble. She arrests archeologist Marcus Linden for trespassing, then finds she needs his help in solving the murder of a pie...

Book #4 in the Mischief in Moonstone Series: Three days before Halloween, Alyssa Swain finds a man dead in his car but, once she gets help, the body is gone. When scruffy, tall, dead man John Christopherson shows up alive on her doorstep, he insists she called him to help...

An early, deep snow has gifted Fishers' Harbor, Wisconsin, with a perfect setting for the holiday celebration. Unfortunately removing snow from Main Street for the parade reveals the dead tax assessor with a knife in him--containing Grandpa Gil's fingerprints. It's clearly a setup and one that keeps Ava and Grandpa...

Alene Baron is 38 years old and over seven years divorced from her philandering husband. She lives in a Chicago lakefront high-rise with her three children and her 72-year-old father. She owns the nearby Whipped and Sipped Café, which serves decadent but healthful pastries and drinks. Alene’s pastry chef and...

When the owner of the business next door is found dead in his office, Alene Baron’s first feeling is relief. She’s been suspicious of the food supplements her neighbor has been selling, not to mention the smoothies he’s been hawking, which are much inferior to the ones Alene sells in...

Book #1 in the Harlow Brothers Mystery Series: Everybody loves Aunt Civility's etiquette books. However, no one but her secretary, Nicholas Harlow, has ever met the author. That's because the genteel, grandmotherly Aunt Civility is in reality his short-tempered older brother, Edward, who gives lectures as the official representative of...

Book #2 in the Harlow Brothers Mystery Series: Be careful what you wish for. It drives Nicholas Harlow nuts that his brother and employer, Edward, refuses to promote his Aunt Civility etiquette books to the public, instead opting to give lectures to like-minded societies. When Nicholas tricks him into a...

Book #3 in the Harlow Brothers Mystery Series: Mistaken identities, romantic rivals, and a host of misunderstandings. When Edward Harlow, ghost writer of the Aunt Civility etiquette books, is guest of honor at a costume ball for charity, the fun ends when his Zorro sword is discovered buried in the...

Frankie Chandler’s upcoming nuptials suffer a devastating setback when her fiancé, Detective Martin Bowers, is injured on the job. How badly injured? The doctors are mum on his condition, and his colleagues are just as evasive, telling her they don’t know what he was doing on the lonely hillside where...

Book #1 in the Frankie Chandler Pet Psychic Mystery Series: A murdered woman, a frightened dog, and a fake pet psychic who is in for the surprise of her life. When fake pet psychic Frankie Chandler is surprised by a message about murder from a frightened dog, she discovers her...

Book #2 in the Frankie Chandler Pet Psychic Mystery Series: What’s a pet psychic’s worst nightmare? A tarot card-reading aunt, a cranky cockatoo, and a very dead Blue-Ribbon Queen. Pet Psychic Frankie Chandler’s flaky Aunt Gertrude becomes the prime suspect after the newly appointed (and newly dead) Blue-Ribbon Queen turns...

Book #3 in the Frankie Chandler Pet Psychic Mystery Series: A wedding, an obnoxious shipboard entertainer, and a troupe of performing cats. What could go wrong? When Frankie Chandler boards an Alaskan cruise ship, she’s hardly a cheerful advertisement for sailing the ocean blue. Her best (and only) friend is...

Book #4 in the Frankie Chandler Pet Psychic Mystery Series: A broody hen. A dead body. The ultimate test of a relationship. Pet psychic Frankie Chandler finally (and reluctantly) agrees to meet Detective Martin Bower’s sisters. The weekend at his eldest sibling’s farm surpasses her worst nightmares. Then her first...

Book #5 in the Frankie Chandler Pet Psychic Mystery Series: A new fiancé, an old boyfriend, and a murder that will change everything. Frankie Chandler is finally at peace with her life. She’s engaged to Detective Martin Bowers, her pet psychic business is booming, and she’s overcome the emotional residue...

Book #1 in the Deep Lakes Cozy Mystery Series: Cozy up to a winter mystery set in snowy Wisconsin. Who killed the local pastor with an ice auger on Lake Loki? Join Frankie Champagne, baker, wine-maker and amateur investigative reporter, as she tracks suspects armed with delicious baked goods and...

Book #2 in the Deep Lakes Cozy Mystery Series: The promise of Spring in Deep Lakes, Wisconsin brings the community out of hibernation to plan the annual Roots Festival. Bubble and Bake owner Frankie Champagne just wants to help the Granite Mansion quarry heiress plan the keynote presentation. So, why...

Deep Lakes Cozy Mystery Series: Before Frankie Champagne encountered Deep Dark Secrets, her main concerns were baking tasty pastries and producing flavorful wines—along with charming her mother, of course. But with the town Christmas season in jeopardy, Frankie steps up to save the day, as only someone who doesn’t believe...

Book #3 in the Deep Lakes Cozy Mystery Series: Summer in Deep Lakes sprouts a homegrown murder on the O’Connor farm. Frankie’s hunt for clues lands her deep in sheep doo-doo, especially after rare stones surface in unexpected places. Crime-solving is no picnic for the baker/vintner as she hops from...

Grapes wait for nobody. The tourist season is running full swing when Frankie’s vineyard is ripe for picking, leaving her frazzled, as she divides her time between the Bubble & Bake shop and Bountiful Fruits winery. When a dead body surfaces in nearby Blackbird Pond, it quickly becomes an albatross...

The bride, the groom, the toast, the explosion… What should be a joyous occasion turns lethal. In the village of Fairhaven—nestled between Washington state’s Bellingham Bay and the Cascade Mountains, home to writers’ retreat Pines & Quill—friends and family have gathered for the union of Sean McPherson and Emma Benton....

When Maddie McGuire finds herself tumbling over a cliff while hiking The Cotswold Way, she uncovers much more than ancient woods. Terrified by her shocking discovery, she returns to the safety of her international internship at the Roman Baths only to find competition in the form of the tittering, aristocratic...

When Maddie McGuire lands an archeology internship at the Roman Baths in England, she assumes everything will go her way. But when this college sophomore discovers a severed human ear on her doorstep, she must solve its meaning before she becomes the next victim, or worse, gets deported. Her tentative...

When Bay Bishop’s husband was found in the alley behind their Northern Michigan restaurant, she lost not only the partner in her dreams of establishing the best fine-dining establishment in the area but the man she thought was the love of her life. Then she finds out how he had...

Lenore Valentine Kirby’s cryptic gravestone in a derelict cemetery beckons across centuries. The four Botanic Hill Detectives—Lanny, Lexi, Moki, and Rani—stumble upon a mystery revealed by the deceased woman’s descendant, Mr. Nigel Kirby. Can the teens decipher Lenore Kirby's gravestone image and messages? Their unusual, present-day case, incorporating the life...

A Tahitian black pearl necklace, missing for over eighty years, takes the thirteen-year-old Botanic Hill detectives—Lanny, Lexi, Moki, and Rani—from California to Oʿahu in one of the squad’s most baffling cases yet! The teens’ famous elderly neighbor Mr. Itsuki Yamada hires them to find his family’s valuable heirloom necklace. Soon,...