Genres : Cozy

A Deadly Secret Is About to Bloom in Willowberry. Willowberry's dahlia show and competition should be all ribbons, flowers, and friendly contestants. Instead, unpopular judge Dez Colby turns up dead, and Stella and her curious American Bulldog, Rex, are soon sniffing around another murder. Chief Detective Ben Morgan wants Stella to leave the investigating to him. But anonymous messages keep pointing her toward old betrayals and secrets someone desperately wants uncovered. Dez Colby had plenty of enemies. Growers he'd humiliated....

"This cozy mystery will reel readers in for a rollicking ride..." -BookLife ReviewsHeart, humor, and just a hint of homicide. Welcome to Lily Rock.After a bad breakup and a string of dead-end temp jobs, Olivia Greer needs a change. So when a friend invites her to visit Lily Rock, a charming mountain town where everyone knows everyone—and the most influential public servant is a labradoodle—she packs up her car and heads for higher ground.Olivia’s getaway turns chaotic fast after she’s...

She thought she'd buried her old life. Then she turned the photograph over.Six months after her divorce, former investigative journalist Julia Mercer comes to Sand Dollar Cove to disappear—to drink her coffee on the sand at dawn, to stop being the woman who couldn't let anything go.The little Cape Cod beach town is exactly what she needs: lighthouse and dune grass, a café that knows your order, and seven women past fifty who pull an eighth chair into their morning...

In Willowberry, some secrets don’t stay buried…no matter how carefully they’re planted. Café owner Stella Ray is ready to help with the town’s annual Garden Tour. Pastries prepped, tables set, and her bulldog Rex already forming opinions about the guests. But when one of the tour’s most demanding hosts collapses in the middle of a garden demonstration, the perfect weekend takes a very dark turn. It doesn’t take long for Stella to realize just how many people had a reason...

Her sourdough is to die for... but someone took that literally.Caroline Baker thought she'd left the cutthroat world of professional baking behind when she transformed her grandmother's café into Milburn's most beloved gathering spot. But when her former boss—celebrity chef and notorious food critic Sophia Montgomery—arrives to judge the town's bicentennial baking competition, old wounds are reopened faster than a warm oven.After a very public argument where Sophia threatens to reveal a secret that could destroy everything Caroline has built,...

Book 2 of the USA TODAY BESTSELLING Death by Chocolate Series.Rodney Bradford comes into Lindsay's restaurant, offers to buy her small house for double its value, eats her brownies, and drops dead on the sidewalk in front.Next her almost-ex-husband offers to sign the divorce papers, but only if she'll give him her small, old house and take his big, new house instead.Suddenly everybody wants Lindsay's house. Is there oil under the basement, plans to bring the railroad through, pirate treasure...

Lemmi and her friends are relaxing as much as anyone can in the falling down farmhouse they call home when something shatters their world. A ghost? A troll? Paws actually being quiet? No, it's their friend Liam and he has big news. There's a town ribbon-cutting competition, and fame and glory are on the line. To make matters worse, Lemmi almost gets in an accident when a murdered ghost cuts across her path. To top it all off, Jasper's grandfather...

A cozy Irish mystery where ancient magic meets modern murder. American journalist Cassie Evans arrives in the Irish village of Kilshannon expecting rain, stone walls, and answers about the father she never knew. What she gets is a lightning strike at an ancient stone circle, a telepathic Irish wolfhound with a two-hundred-year-old curse, and a murder she never saw coming. When Cassie's great-aunt Moira, the one person in Ireland who welcomed her without question, becomes the prime suspect in the...

A small-town scandal. A buried secret. And one woman determined to uncover both. Miss Tony Cooper has spent years keeping the school district running smoothly-until everything begins to unravel.When missing funds trigger a quiet fraud investigation, Tony expects long hours and paperwork-not whispers, suspicion, and a growing sense that something isn't quite right. But when a principal is found dead and the superintendent is taken into custody, the situation turns far more serious than anyone in Apple Creek wants to...

Some mornings start with coffee. Sage Holloway's started with a corpse.When Crescent Harbor's most hated developer drops dead, police zero in on the obvious suspect — Sage's employee, a single mom whose public threat against him now looks an awful lot like motive. But Sage knows her. And Sage knows better.Armed with a baker's instincts, a suspicious coffee cup with very strange sediment, and Shadow — her unnervingly perceptive cat — Sage starts asking questions that powerful people would rather...