Death by Iced Coffee
It’s a brutally hot day in Pine Hills, and Krissy Hancock would love to sit in a shady spot and sip her favorite iced coffee. Instead, she’s lacing up her …
Category: Library/Book Store/Club
Cozy/Mysteries based in a Library, Book Store or part of a Book Club.
Paper Cuts
Nora escaped her past a decade ago. So it feels like a visit from another world when Kelly Walsh, the woman her ex-husband left her for, walks through the door …
A Midsummer Night’s Scheme
Just when everything is returning to the calm that Quinn Caine and her sidekicks, Ruff Barker Ginsburg and Sister Daria, are used to in their beloved town of Vienna, a …
Wined and Died in New Orleans
It’s hurricane season in New Orleans, and vintage cookbook fan Ricki James-Diaz is trying to shelve her weather-related fears and focus on her business, Miss Vee’s Vintage Cookbook and Kitchenware …
The Game is a Footnote
Scarlet House, now a historical re-enactment museum, is the oldest building in West London, Massachusetts. When things start moving around on their own, board members wonder if the museum is …
Bookclubbed to Death
After the local library in North Harbor, Michigan, is flooded in a storm, Sam offers her bookstore as a new venue for the Mystery Mavens Book Club. Unfortunately, she immediately …
Death In The Margins
It’s early summer, and while Richard Muir, a famous dancer, and his partner, Karla, are preparing their new choreographic piece, Richard’s wife, Amy, is gathering the dance’s source materials. Based …
Secrets in the Stacks
Following her recovery from breast cancer, Rarity has embraced a life of healing and service in her Sedona, Arizona, community. She welcomes the opportunity to participate in the annual summer …
The Plot and the Pendulum
Library director Lindsey Norris is happy to learn the Briar Creek Public Library is the beneficiary of the Dorchester family’s vast book collection. However, when Lindsey and the library and …
Crime for the Books
Lyla Moody and the Jane Doe book club are hosting a Halloween party at Magnolia Manor, tailored after Agatha Christie’s A Murder is Announced, but when the lights come on …
A Christmas Candy Killing
Identical twin sisters Alex and Hannah are the owners of Murder and Mayhem, a mystery bookshop that sells their famous poison-themed Killer Chocolates. But now, there’s a real killer in …
Death by Spiced Chai
In a small town like Pine Hills, reputation counts for a lot. And for reasons that Krissy Hancock can’t figure out, someone is trashing hers. Cockroaches in the bookstore’s coffee, …
Murder in the Library
Julia Bird had imagined the quiet village life in the Cotswold would be soothing after years in the city, but she finds she can’t just sit still. Determined to throw …
Dewey Decimated
Carrie Singleton is just off a hot string of murder cases centered around the spooky local library in Clover Ridge, Connecticut. She could really use a break from murder and …
Witch and Famous
Josie and all of Wilfred is buzzing with excitement. A-list movie star Daphne Morris has chosen to interview Roz, assistant librarian and novelist, for her book club. But when the …
Death By Beach Read
It’s spring in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and Lucy and Connor have moved into their new family home, a historic cottage on Nags Head Beach. The house needs …
A Poisonous Page
It’s summer festival time in Confection, Oregon, and that means a barrage of tourists making cash registers ring at Sweet Fiction Bookshop. But what should be bookseller Lexi’s most lucrative …
Tuesday Night Survivor’s Club
Two things got Rarity Cole through her breast cancer treatments: friends and books. Now cancer-free, Rarity is devoting her life to helping others find their way through the maze to …
The Burning Pages
One winter’s night, bookseller Delaney Nichols and her coworker Hamlet are invited to a Burns Night dinner, a traditional Scottish celebration of the poet Robert Burns. She’s perplexed by the …
Mining For Murder
Zo Jones is enjoying the sunny season at her Happy Camper gift shop in Spirit Canyon, South Dakota, when a murder reminds her all that glitters isn’t gold. The South …
A Margin For Murder
Addie leaves her Greyborne Harbor bookstore, Beyond the Page Books and Curios, in the capable hands of her assistant while she travels to the neighboring town of Pen Hollow to …
The Vanishing Type
While January snow falls outside in Miracle Springs, North Carolina, Nora Pennington encourages customers to cozy up indoors with a good book, perhaps a classic novel. Even though the shop …
