Contemporary
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Far too many people grow boring with age, but in Great Diddling the opposite seems true. Author Berit Gardner moves to Great Diddling in search of inspiration and gets even more than she bargained for when an explosion at a village tea party kills Reginald Trent, a man who is hated by most of the
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Outsiders flock to Miracle Springs in hopes of being made whole, but how many of its residents are hiding wounds that have never healed? Book 1 in the Secret, Book, & Scone Society series. Nora Pennington, owner of Miracle Books, has moved to Miracle Springs to escape a past that has left her scarred, both
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Edie O’Sullivan is the Pensioner Puzzler, known for her skills as a crossword setter. She is a jigsaw puzzle fan, devoted to her nephew Sean and holds a deep hatred of Christmas in her heart. But when she receives a box with pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and a message from a murderer calling themself
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A Christmas at Highbury by Michelle Cox A very light-hearted and cosy 1930s Christmas mystery about stolen presents, generational divides and all the love and despair of naturaland found families coming together for Christmas. Cozy mystery. 193 pages. Published 2024 Deck the Halls… Dead by Tessa Aura When the organiser of the Bath Festival of
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Book 3 in The Homeswappers Mysteries series. Retired teachers Etta and Dora and their basset hound Leon have swapped homes with a Danish family from the tiny island of Ærø for a pre-Christmas holiday. But when they find the remains of a woman who went missing two years earlier, the brash Etta and the gentle
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Book 1 in the Candy Cane Caper series. Former librarian turned café owner, Noelle, is celebrating December in her café, The Hearth & Hearth, with a cocoa advent calendar, but when the hated developer Warren Frost dies from eating a poisoned candy cane, Noelle’s beloved café becomes a crime scene. Warren’s ruthless business practices have left
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December can be a busy and expensive month, but these free cozy mystery novellas won’t break your bank or schedule. Perfect for checking out new authors, or when you only have a little time and want a read you know you can finish. The Case of the Missing Reindeer Five days before Christmas, Mrs. Claus
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Book 1 in The Lady Harry Mysteries series. Lady Harriet “Harry” Halesworth has returned to her home at Bollingham Hall. Her dysfunctional family is going on vacation to Greece, but Harry has decided to stay at home and oversee the Bollingham Christmas Fair. A chronic overthinker and introvert who is more comfortable with lists than
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Book 4 in the A Sri Lankan Mystery series. Kiyama Fernando and Vinodhini Dias are invited to a high society Christmas party in Colombo. For Kiyama, it is a chance to forget about her ex-husband, for Vino it is a chance to reconnect with her estranged brother and his family. But when the Christmas party ends
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In honour of Jane Austen’s birthday, today December 16th, here’s a couple of Jane Austen-inspired cozy mysteries. In Death Comes to Jane Austen Town by Rosemary Stevens, a whole town comes together to create a big Jane Austen festival, but a murder threatens the celebrations, and amateur sleuth Kay Starling has to untangle the mess