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It’s the week before Christmas, and Abby and Lacy are on a mission—find the one toy Lacy’s youngest wants more than anything. But when Toyland’s long-awaited shipment arrives without the elusive gift, the pair jump into a high-stakes holiday scavenger hunt where the coveted toy is part of the prize package. What begins as merry fun quickly turns chaotic as half the parents in town seem to be chasing the same hard-to-find treasure… and some will do anything to win.

She came to the mountains to escape death. It followed her. Former Minneapolis paramedic Gemma Hartley thought she'd left tragedy behind when she fled to the remote mountain town of Elk Creek, Colorado. With her search-and-rescue dog Kira by her side, she's built a quiet life finding lost hikers and learning to breathe again. Then a routine search for a missing woman leads Gemma and Kira to a body and evidence of murder. The deeper she digs, the darker the secrets become. Someone in this picture-perfect town has been hiding the truth about what happened twenty-five years ago, when another ...

Sarah Stall traded her corporate corner office for four-thirty mornings and flour-dusted counters, and she's never looked back. Her cozy café, Bagels & Beans, has become the heart of small-town Clancy—a place where regulars claim their favorite booths, gossip travels faster than the coffee pours, and her loyal mutt Bean greets every customer with a wagging tail. When a famous food critic walks through her door promising to put her everything bagels on the map, Sarah thinks her dreams are finally coming true. Then he collapses at her best table, and suddenly she's not famous for her ...

1923. Lottie Sprigg is a lowly maid. But when she's hired by a wealthy heiress, she embarks on a thrilling journey across Europe and beyond. Lottie's expecting exciting exploits and spectacular sights. But she's not expecting murder . . . In Venice, Lottie befriends a famous opera singer after reuniting him with his lost dog. Early the next morning, the singer's corpse is found floating in the Grand Canal.

Three More Clever Mysteries. One Charming Town. Still No Escape for Killers. Ashford Creek has settled back into its quiet routines—foggy mornings by the harbor, familiar faces on Main Street, and the comforting creak of floors at Bookmark & Brew. But in a town where everyone knows everyone’s business, secrets don’t stay buried for long. Former Portland detective Eliza Prescott may have traded her badge for a bookstore, but her instincts are as sharp as ever. When a new string of suspicious deaths shakes Ashford Creek, Eliza finds herself pulled into investigations no one else seems ...

Best in show. Worst in character. Dead by morning. Maggie Fontaine didn't plan on solving a murder. She planned on baking dog treats, hiding from her past, and pretending everything was fine. But when a champion handler drops dead at Savannah's most prestigious dog show, poisoned by a product that should have been hers, she's suddenly suspect number one. With a by-the-book detective who doesn't trust her, a charming bachelor who might be too good to be true, and a rescue mutt whose nose is sharper than any forensic lab, Maggie must clear her name before the real killer makes her next batch ...

A cryptic puzzle, a web of secrets, and a town full of suspects—can a determined bookstore owner uncover the truth before it’s too late? In the small town of Thistle Ridge, Emma Carter attends the estate sale of Gertrude Holloway, the town’s former recluse, hoping to find unusual books for her beloved new bookstore, Novel Escapes. However, she gets more than she bargained for when a puzzle book reveals chilling clues about Mrs. Holloway’s untimely death. Help arrives in an unexpected way as the town's mischievous golden retriever, Chewie, leads his owner—handsome local ...

Romeow and Juliet is the first in a cozy mystery series set on Madrona Island, a fictional island within the San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington State. As a fourth generation islander Caitlin Hart is struggling to make her way as the economy and culture of the island evolves toward a tourism based industry. Cait lives in a cabin on her aunt's oceanfront estate where she helps her aunt run Harthaven Cat Sanctuary.

Melton Mowbray is world famous for its pork pies, but beneath the façade lies an undercurrent of lies and deceit, and Albert Smith just saw something that made him curious. The operation hiding in plain sight is worth a lot of money. The kind of money people will kill to protect and now they need to make him vanish. Quietly. Permanently. Good luck with that. Albert spent decades taking down criminals and his mind is as sharp as it ever was. Get ready for pandemonium.

Emma Reed and her beloved Corgi move from London to Cornwall with the dream of opening a tea shop - but first, they'll have to collar a criminal in the first book in a charming new series.

When Emmy Cooper's life in Chicago is turned upside down, the young interior designer retreats to her family's lake cottage resort in the beautiful Wisconsin Northwoods for a much-needed break. Hoping to clear her mind and gain a fresh perspective, she looks forward to enjoying the slower pace and the crisp, clean pine air at her beloved Cooper's Cove Resort with her family, dogs, and her best friend, Whitney. Unfortunately, her homecoming isn't as calm as she'd hoped.

A quaint riverside town holds many secrets ... and the only ones who’ve seen it all are the critters. This book club dives (literally!) into the pages of a cozy mystery. The quirky group must solve the mystery to get out of the book. It’s so much fun - you’ll wish you had a book club like this! In this journey, they choose a book set in a lovely riverside town. They land in a charming neighborhood and find they are part of a local book club. They are having a great time – and then a dead body shows up. (Of course it does!) The clues to what happened come to them in a unique way – ...

After months of travel, former maid Lottie Sprigg returns to Fortescue Manor in the rolling hills of Shropshire. Her arrival coincides with a celebratory dinner to mend a family feud. But the flow of champagne dwindles to a trickle when a body is found in the library. Who committed the atrocity? Suspicion falls on several characters: some above stairs and some below....

Corrected manuscript version In the cozy coastal town of Willowbrook, Maine, wishes are vanishing into thin air—and the people making them are left empty. When multiple clients arrive at fairy godmother Grace Thornfield's office with the same mysterious symptoms—drained emotions and gaps in their memory—she knows something dark has come to her seaside town. With her sharp-tongued familiar Artemis and her kitchen witch best friend Maya, Grace follows a trail of magical signatures that leads to an impossible dilemma: the stolen wishes are being used for a purpose that challenges ...

Echinacea, Extortion, and a Deadly Bake-Off Cedar Grove’s Spring Bake-Off is famous for sweet pastries, herbal creations, and friendly rivalries. But when one of the judges suddenly collapses before the competition begins, the festival turns from celebration to crime scene. Florist Iris Bennett never meant to solve a murder between arranging bouquets at Perfect Petals. But when her curious one-eyed Persian cat Winston uncovers a suspicious clue and her spirited assistant Sadie starts connecting unsettling details, Iris begins to suspect the bake-off is hiding far more than secret recipes....

With Emily Westhill’s popular Deputy Donut Café rolling out seasonal summer treats, everyone in Fallingbrook, Wisconsin wants a taste. But when a limited batch box turns up near a dead body, Emily and her curious tabby are pitted against the worst kind of customer—a cold-blooded murderer!

A cozy mystery series set on Madrona Island, a fictional island within the San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington State. As a fourth generation islander Caitlin Hart is struggling to make her way as the economy and culture of the island evolves toward a tourism based industry. Cait lives in a cabin on her aunt's oceanfront estate where she helps her aunt run Harthaven Cat Sanctuary. When she isn't working with the cats, she helps best friend Tara, operate the coffee bar/bookstore/cat lounge they own, named Coffee Cat Books.

A thirteen-year-old secret is buried in the Colorado mountains. A K-9 handler and her aging German Shepherd are about to dig it up. When skeletal remains surface on a remote trail outside Elk Creek, newlywed SAR handler Gemma Hartley-Reyes and her veteran air-scent dog Kira are pulled into a cold case that no one in town wanted reopened. As Gemma trains a new recruit and navigates married life, the investigation uncovers a web of silence stretching back over a decade. Someone in Elk Creek knows exactly what happened. And they're watching Gemma get closer. Perfect for fans of Margaret ...

Grace Thornfield’s life falls apart on a Tuesday. Unemployed, burned out, and unsure what comes next, she’s summoned to the tiny coastal town of Willowbrook to settle her estranged grandmother’s estate. But instead of dusty heirlooms and paperwork, Grace inherits something far stranger: a magical sanctuary, a house full of secrets, and a talking cat with strong opinions. Turns out her grandmother wasn’t just the town eccentric—she was its fairy godmother. And now Grace is expected to take her place. As Grace stumbles into wish-crafting, fae politics, and the delicate art of ...

Friends don't let friends go to jail. Everly Dupree's to-do list just got longer: clear her best friend's name, solve two murders, and send two ghosts into the light. All before happy hour. When Patrea Evergreen is arrested for murder, Everly leaps into action—as if being haunted by psychic Davina Benet's uncooperative ghost wasn't irritating enough. With zero suspects and even fewer clues, Everly hits a wall until town gossip Jober Peavey starts spreading the most ridiculous rumors Mooselick River has ever heard.