Contemporary
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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…
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Book 7 in the Dangerous Curves series. Librarian and amateur sleuth Sunshine Baker and Chief Vincent are on their first official date as a couple and Sunshine is thrilled to go to a Christmas ball and gets all dressed up for the occasion, but when she receives a desperate call for help from a father…
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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. Murder in a Blizzard Ruby Morris is on her way to her…
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Harry Crystal is a fairly unknown crime writer with a failed marriage and an estranged adult daughter. When he is invited to an all-expenses-paid Christmas stay in the remote village of Midwinter, he is more than happy to sign up as one of six guests invited to play a fun murder mystery game arranged by…
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A DI with a complicated past. A ragtag team of investigators. A vicious killer. An adorable, food-obsessed corgi. Bury the Truth is a contemporary police procedural/crime thriller set in Chesterfield, England. It follows DI Ryan Hale’s first case in Chesterfield in 12 years, as he returns from London and is thrown headfirst into a ritualistic…
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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 Stolen Sauce When her aunt Violet’s famed sauce is stolen from…
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