Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Mystery & Detective - Cozy - General

Rare books and antiquities expert Brooklyn Wainwright is thrilled to be invited to the fiftieth birthday party of her neighbor Suzie's aunt Grace. A retired founder of a major video game corporation, Grace is a larger-than-life character who's turned her Lake Tahoe mansion into a fun house, full of everything from pinball machines and giant props to secret passageways and trap doors. Brooklyn is most excited to...

The annual Key West literary conference is drawing the biggest names in food writing from all over the country, and Haley is there to catch a few fresh morsels of insider gossip. Superstar restaurant critic Jonah Barrows has already ruffled a few foodie feathers with his recent tell-all memoir, and as keynote speaker, he promises...

Hoping for some good publicity, Hayley's boss signs her up to help judge the Key West Topped Chef contest. Stakes are high as the winner could be the next cooking-show superstar. Hayley shows up for the filming nervous but excited, until she sees who's on the judging panel with her: Sam Rizzoli, big shot businessman--and owner of the...

MURDER CAN BE SO OLD HAT

Cousins Scarlett Parker and Vivian Tremont's fashionable London hat shop, Mim's Whims, is visited by a new customer bearing an old hat box. Ariana Jackson is getting married and wants to restore her mother's bridal hat and veil for the occasion. The elegant item was made by Scarlett and Vivian's grandmother over thirty years ago, so Viv is delighted to take the job.

When...

When Lee Barrett spots the same style oak bureau she once had as a child on the WICH-TV show, Shopping Salem, she rushes to the antiques shop and buys the piece. Just like the beloved bureau she lost in a fire, this one has secret compartments. It also comes with an intriguing history--it was purchased in an estate sale from a home where a famous local murder took place.

The day after the bureau is delivered, Lee returns to the antiques shop and finds the owner dead. The police suspect the...

Springtime in Seattle s Pike Place Market means tasty foods and wide-eyed tourists, and Pepper s Spice Shop is ready for the crowds. With flavorful combinations and a fresh approach, she s sure to win over the public. Even better, she s working with several local restaurants as their chief herb and spice supplier. Business is cooking, until one of Pepper s potential clients, a young chef named Tamara Langston, is found dead, her life...

For Scarlett Parker, part of the fun of living in London is celebrating the British holidays, and she s excited to share her first Bonfire Night with her cousin Vivian Tremont. Invited to a posh party by their friend Harrison Wentworth, Scarlett and Viv decide to promote their hat shop, Mim s Whims, by donning a few of their more outrageous creations. The hats prove to be quite the conversation starters as the...

The New York Times bestselling author of Buy a Whisker offers another adventure with secondhand shop owner Sarah Grayson and Elvis the rescue cat.

Spring has come to charming North Harbor, Maine, and with the new season comes a new haul for Second Chance, the shop where Sarah Grayson sells lovingly refurbished and repurposed items. Sarah is turning her keen eye to the estate of collector Edison Hall, hoping for fabulous finds for Second Chance--but when her rescue cat Elvis discovers a body in the kitchen, everything goes paws up.

The body...

While caught off-guard by her dad's presence, Krissy never dreamed he'd become the biggest murder suspect in town. But that's exactly what happens when James's boorish agent--a man he allegedly fired just hours earlier--is found cold and lifeless, a still-warm vanilla latte resting by his hand...

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Eddie turns a routine bookmobile stop into anything but when he makes a quick escape and...

Ears O'Fluffin is one of the best Pet Private Investigators in the business, and he has agreed to recount his adventures in this collection of short stories. From a missing favorite toy, to a compulsive electrical cord chewer, this first volume of mysteries includes everything previously published as serials in the Bunnyzine e-magazine. We humans aren't the only ones with mysteries in our lives. The lives of our beloved pets are as full of wonder and enigma as our own. Just as we have Private Investigators to look into our problems, our pets have their own class of detectives.