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  • Alpaca Lies by Ellen Riggs

    Alpaca Lies by Ellen Riggs

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Can a dancing alpaca waltz her way out of a murder allegation and go toe-to-toe with the real killer? Alvina, the alpaca, is the most popular rescue animal at Runaway Farm. Her passion for dancing with handsome men has created a cult-like following...
  • Concealed Cargo: Children for Sale by Jodi Burnett

    Concealed Cargo: Children for Sale by Jodi Burnett

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When Special Agent Clay Jennings and his K9 partner, Ranger, take to the streets of Denver to fight human trafficking, he is shocked by the inordinate number of stolen innocents who’ve been forced into the sex trade. With each new face, his resolve to help these children escape their personal horror grows stronger...
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    suspense  dogs  animals  crime  female-mc  cozy  mystery  audiobook
  • Till the Cat Lady Sings by Ellen Riggs

    Till the Cat Lady Sings by Ellen Riggs

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Are there some mysteries only a clever cat can solve?There’s a handsome new guy at Runaway Farm and Keats isn’t happy about the competition. The bossy border collie wants to be Ivy’s one-and-only partner in crime-solving. Cats are unwelcome here...
    Categorized as:
    cozy  dogs  animals  female-mc  mystery  fiction  romance  book
  • Riddle Me This by Gina LaManna

    Riddle Me This by Gina LaManna

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Detective Kate Rosetti is not a big fan of February 14th. Even worse than gigantic bouquets of roses and buckets of chocolate, however, are the love notes she’s been receiving from the murderer who very nearly stole her life.Unfortunately, a peaceful Valentine’s Day isn’t in the cards for Kate Rosetti...
  • Corpse in the Carnations by Dale Mayer

    Corpse in the Carnations by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Riches to rags. … Chaos calms. … Crime quiets. … But does it really? After getting involved in two murder cases in the short time she’s lived in picturesque Kelowna, divorcee and gardener Doreen Montgomery has developed a reputation almost as notorious as her Nan’s...
  • Dark Side of the Moo by Ellen Riggs

    Dark Side of the Moo by Ellen Riggs

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sweet life on the farm turns sour when a guest mooves on to greener pastures. Permanently.Ivy was happy to put her old life at Flordale Corporation behind her, but with a recent murder tarnishing her new inn’s reputation she can’t afford to be choosy about paying guests. So when her former teammates from HR ask to hold their retreat at Runaway Farm and Inn, she throws down the welcome mat...
  • Mascara and Murder by Gina LaManna

    Mascara and Murder by Gina LaManna

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jenna McGovern is back… under the Hollywood lights. The newest resident of Blueberry Lake is finding it hard to escape her past as it follows her home. When a movie production begins filming on Main Street, Jenna is more than a little disgruntled to find her ex-boyfriend is the producer behind it. But she’s even more disgruntled to find he’s the primary suspect in an attempted murder case...
  • Espresso and Evil by Agatha Frost

    Espresso and Evil by Agatha Frost

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The 6th book in the BESTSELLING Peridale Cafe Cozy Mystery series!When a coffee shop opens in the village, Julia is surprised when her customers flock to the new business, leaving her café almost empty...
  • Another Man's Treasure by S.W. Hubbard

    Another Man's Treasure by S.W. Hubbard

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    On a snowy Christmas Eve, a beautiful young mother goes out to buy a few last minute gifts and never returns…. ….thirty years later, her daughter picks up her trail. As the owner of an estate sale business, Audrey Nealon knows a lot about art, antiques, and the unlikely places old people hide their treasures...
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    animals  cozy  crime  female-mc  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Justice by Jodi Burnett

    Justice by Jodi Burnett

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A US Marshal K9 ThrillerUS Deputy Marshal Caitlyn Reed, and her K9 partner, Renegade, are tasked with guarding a federal judge in an obscure court in north-western Wyoming. What should be a boring assignment soon explodes into an all-out catastrophe when a killer makes several attempts on the judge’s life...
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    animals  suspense  dogs  crime  female-mc  cozy  mystery  romance
  • Harper by Kathi Daley

    Harper by Kathi Daley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Harper Hathaway, a former member of the armed services on her way home after suffering a personal tragedy is pulled into a race against time when a puppy runs onto the road alerting her to a vehicle which had been in an accident but is not visible from the road. Her attempt to avoid hitting the puppy lands her in the ditch herself...
    Categorized as:
    amateur-sleuth  animals  cozy  dogs  suspense  adult  book  family
  • A Body on Fitzgerald’s Bluff by Anna Celeste Burke

    A Body on Fitzgerald’s Bluff by Anna Celeste Burke

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Miriam Webster’s a woman with a few secrets—can she keep them after she and her spirited Dalmatian, Domino, find a body on Fitzgerald’s Bluff? When Miriam Webster moves into the Seaview Cottages active adult community, the last thing she expects is to find a body on the bluffs nearby...
  • A Doggone Waterfront Shame by Rimmy London

    A Doggone Waterfront Shame by Rimmy London

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A new life. A clumsy stray. But when Megan decided to open a shop on the boardwalk of Seacrest... she never planned on murder.Start yourself off with USA Today bestselling author Rimmy London's all-new series. Tour the rugged northwest Pacific coastline from the very beginning, when Megan meets a gangly stray Great Dane, Fred...
    Categorized as:
    cozy  dogs  animals  crime  suspense  amateur-sleuth  culinary  mystery
  • Annabelle Archer's Holiday Collection by Laura Durham

    Annabelle Archer's Holiday Collection by Laura Durham

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    'Tis the season for mistletoe and matrimony--with a touch of murder.3 books. 450+ pages of holiday cozy mysteries that are both merry and madcap.The holidays are not so holly and jolly for DC's premier wedding planner...
  • The Inconvenient Corpse by Barbara Cool Lee

    The Inconvenient Corpse by Barbara Cool Lee

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A handsome movie star in her kitchen, and a corpse in the swimming pool. Just your typical Monday morning… Maggie McJasper is starting over in a little California beach town. She has a bead shop, a nice circle of friends, and a handsome movie star who keeps flirting with her. Life would be pretty great if she could just stop stumbling over dead bodies…...
  • Marshal by Jodi Burnett

    Marshal by Jodi Burnett

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The U.S. Marshals service seeks a K9 Unit for their elite strike team tasked with hunting down America's most wanted criminals. Caitlyn Reed and her K9 partner, Renegade, are called up to the varsity to face this harrowing challenge. Has she bitten off more than she can handle?Moose Creek Sheriff Colt Branson finds himself in the foray as a part of the U.S...
    Categorized as:
    animals  suspense  dogs  crime  female-mc  cozy  romance  mystery
  • Absence of Mallets by Kate Carlisle

    Absence of Mallets by Kate Carlisle

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Contractor Shannon Hammer steels her nerve to pin down a killer in the latest Fixer-Upper Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Premeditated Mortar…Shannon could not be happier that her hunky thriller-writing boyfriend, Mac, has moved in, and it is a good thing they are living together because they are both busier than ever...
  • Too Many Crooks Spoil the Plot by Sarah Osborne

    Too Many Crooks Spoil the Plot by Sarah Osborne

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Pediatrician Mabel Aphrodite Brown adores kids. So when a childhood friend asks Ditie to babysit her kids for a few days, she jumps at the chance. She never imagined she’d be solving a murder too . . .   Despite growing up together, Ditie hasn’t seen Ellie Winston in two years, and she didn’t even know Ellie was living in Atlanta...
  • High Stakes by Nicolette Pierce

    High Stakes by Nicolette Pierce

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Continue Nadia Wolf’s adventure in this second book. Nadia Wolf has had enough and she’s fighting back! It comes down to this: Kill or be killed. Nadia doesn’t like those options but she is far from safe from Dagor’s clutches. Not only does she have to worry about saving her neck, but now she has a new roommate taking over her apartment; Muffin . .
  • Cashing Out by Nicolette Pierce

    Cashing Out by Nicolette Pierce

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Married. To Ian. No matter how many times Nadia’s predicament crosses through her mind, it always ends with the same question; what in the world have I done? If it wasn’t bad enough that Nadia fled the scene the morning after, it seems her husband jumped ship too. It’s only when cryptic postcards from Africa start piling up that she realizes how far Ian jumped...
  • Tides of Deception by Hope Callaghan

    Tides of Deception by Hope Callaghan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tides of Deception is the third book in the Samantha Rite Adventure Series. The mystery continues. Samantha Rite is about to embark on a life-changing journey when she and her daughter decide to move 1200 miles away from all that she's ever known to be with Lee, the love of her life...
  • Unfinished Business by Jenna Bennett

    Unfinished Business by Jenna Bennett

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When realtor and recovering Southern Belle Savannah Martin wakes up alone on what is supposed to be her wedding day, she isn’t sure what to think. Did her fiancé—bad-boy TBI agent Rafe Collier—decide he couldn’t face being shackled to one woman for the rest of his life..
    Categorized as:
    amateur-sleuth  cozy  crime  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  fiction
  • The House of Lies by Debra Burroughs

    The House of Lies by Debra Burroughs

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Debra Burroughs... P.I. Emily Parker and sexy police detective Colin Andrews are back, along with their close circle of friends. The House of Lies is Book 7 and you are in for another exciting and dangerous murder mystery with a thrilling dose of romance. Emily is fighting to clear the prime murder suspect while Colin is working to put him in jail...
    Categorized as:
    cozy  crime  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Mostaccioli Murder by Nicolette Pierce

    Mostaccioli Murder by Nicolette Pierce

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Murder with a side of mostaccioli.Jade returns home to Chicago after being wrongfully fired from her dream job. When she had left a decade ago, she had made two promises to herself. One, never ever work for the family restaurant again. And, two, never ever see Kade, her cheating ex-boyfriend, again.Unfortunately, when the restaurant delivery driver is found murdered, Jade assumes his position...
  • 11 Bodies Moving On by Stephanie Bond

    11 Bodies Moving On by Stephanie Bond

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The latest installment in the BODY MOVERS series! Carlotta Wren's life is entering new territory--a new career path, a new direction in her love life, and possibly new family members to uncover. A big part of moving on, though, means leaving people and other pieces of her past behind... which might be harder than she realized...
    Categorized as:
    cozy  crime  female-mc  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • Scones, Skulls & Scams by Leighann Dobbs

    Scones, Skulls & Scams by Leighann Dobbs

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Brook Ridge Falls favorite bakery owner, Lexy Baker, has everything she ever wanted. A new husband she adores. A thriving bakery business. Everything is going great.... Until a new bakery springs up across the street and tries every trick in the book to put her out of business!Lexy smells something rotten about the bakery and it isn't just their stale brownies...
  • Brownies, Bodies & Bad Guys by Leighann Dobbs

    Brownies, Bodies & Bad Guys by Leighann Dobbs

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When a retired mobster ends up murdered and one of her grandmother's best friends is the last one to see him alive, Lexy Baker can kiss her plans to spend an uneventful summer dreaming about her upcoming wedding to detective Jack Perillo good-bye.Lexy agrees to help her grandmother's octogenarian Ladies' Detective Club solve the murder...
  • Brewed Awakening by Cleo Coyle

    Brewed Awakening by Cleo Coyle

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From Cleo Coyle, the New York Times bestselling author of Shot in the Dark and Dead Cold Brew, comes a delicious new entry in the "fun and gripping" (Huffington Post) Coffeehouse Mysteries.When coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi awakens on a bench in Washington Square Park, she has no idea she's been missing for days, or that her friends and family have been frantic with worry...
  • The Things We Said Today by Lise McClendon, Rory Tate

    The Things We Said Today by Lise McClendon, Rory Tate

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Bennett sisters travel to Scotland for oldest sister Annie's wedding to a handsome Scot, taking over his family hunting lodge in the Highlands for a week...
  • Deal Gone Dead by Carolyn Ridder Aspenson

    Deal Gone Dead by Carolyn Ridder Aspenson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Meet Lily Sprayberry.Selling homes is her career.Solving crimes, her calling.There's money buried somewhere on Myrtle Redbecker's property, and people are dying to find it.Literally...
  • Banana Chiffon and Bad Deeds by London Lovett

    Banana Chiffon and Bad Deeds by London Lovett

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Meet London's newest amateur sleuth, Scottie Ramone, in Banana Chiffon and Bad Deeds—A prequel novella to the Scottie Ramone Cozy Mystery series.A missing grandmother, a murdered neighbor and a crush from the past are just a few of the surprises waiting for Scottie in the heart of the Rocky Mountains...
  • Mug Shot: A Java Jive Mystery by Caroline Fardig

    Mug Shot: A Java Jive Mystery by Caroline Fardig

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Full of humor and suspense, the bestselling Java Jive series heats up as the irrepressible heroine of Death Before Decaf faces off against Nashville’s upper crust to solve a shocking murder. Former musician Juliet Langley has barely had a day off since taking over management of the coffeehouse owned by her best friend, Pete Bennett...
  • Flip-Flops and Murder by H.Y. Hanna

    Flip-Flops and Murder by H.Y. Hanna

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Welcome to the deadliest beach resort in Florida - in USA Today bestselling author H.Y. Hanna's new cozy mystery series!English girl Ellie is a 'fish-out-of-water' when she arrives in sunny Florida for a vacation with her aunt at a beach resort. But she's barely dipped her toe in the ocean before she stumbles on a sinister murder...
  • Wed, Read & Dead by V.M. Burns

    Wed, Read & Dead by V.M. Burns

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Bookstore owner Samantha Washington sells and solves mysteries in North Harbor, Michigan--including the murder of her mother's wedding planner... Sam's mother can't wait to wed her wealthy beau, Harold Robertson. The big mystery is how they're going to pull off a lavish wedding in three weeks. Harold's snobby sister-in-law proposes a solution: engage flamboyant wedding planner Lydia Lighthouse...
  • A Field Guide to Homicide by Lynn Cahoon

    A Field Guide to Homicide by Lynn Cahoon

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cat Latimer and her writer’s retreat group go on a hiking trip—but a murderer has been lurking off the beaten path . . . Cat’s sweetheart, Seth, is going all out on an outing into the local mountains—for the benefit of the writing group Cat’s hosting at her Colorado B&B. But when they try to identify some plant and animal life, they find death instead...
  • Demise in Denim by Duffy Brown

    Demise in Denim by Duffy Brown

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It’s springtime in Savannah, Georgia, in the newest Consignment Shop Mystery from the national bestselling author of Pearls and Poison . The azaleas and magnolias are in bloom—and Walker Boone is on the run. . .When Reagan Summerside turned the first floor of her old Victorian home into a consignment shop, she never imagined she’d be harboring a fugitive in her attic...
  • Killer Words by V.M. Burns

    Killer Words by V.M. Burns

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the seventh Mystery Bookshop novel from Agatha Award-finalist V.M. Burns, bookstore owner, mystery writer, and amateur sleuth Samantha Washington and her Nana Jo confront their own relationship with law enforcement when a local cop who’s unjustly persecuted their family is accused of killing a person in his custody.
  • Heads Will Cinnamon Roll by London Lovett

    Heads Will Cinnamon Roll by London Lovett

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For amateur sleuth Scottie Ramone, the only thing better than a hot, fresh cinnamon roll is an intriguing new mystery to solve!Scottie recently made some life-changing decisions. (One might even call them rash.) She’s turned her whole world upside down and desperately wants to set it upright...
  • Cream Caramel and Murder by K.E. O'Connor

    Cream Caramel and Murder by K.E. O'Connor

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sweet treats, revenge, and murder. ‘I truly loved the characters in this book, they were so vivid and fun!’ Amazon review. Holly Holmes loves her new job working in the kitchen at Audley Castle, home to the eccentric and wealthy Audley family...
  • Yews with Caution by Kate Collins

    Yews with Caution by Kate Collins

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Flower shop owner Abby Knight is out to help a friend in need but soon finds herself in the weeds... The Spring of Abby's Discontent It's April in New Chapel, and Abby and her husband, Marco, are off to buy shrubs for their new house. But the owner of the local landscaping company is nowhere to be found...
  • The Stone House Secret by Debra Burroughs

    The Stone House Secret by Debra Burroughs

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Praise for The Lake House Secret . . .    "It was hard to put down, wanted to keep reading til I finished the book." ~ Sheri Henderson     "A great book filled with super characters, good story line, plenty of twists, turns, and surprises." ~ Dexter Don     "A great treat! Debra gets you on the first page and keeps you till the last...
  • Shadow's Lady by Barbara Cool Lee

    Shadow's Lady by Barbara Cool Lee

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Winner of the Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart® Award for Romantic Suspense. Lori York is running away from a modern-day arranged marriage her parents believe will protect her from the world’s judgment and pity. Her great-aunt, Zelda Potter, finagles her a job as caretaker of the isolated island lighthouse at Pajaro Bay...
  • The Sweet Smell of Murder by Cindy Bell

    The Sweet Smell of Murder by Cindy Bell

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ally Sweet is happy to be returning for a short break to the small town where she grew up. She is planning on using the time off to get over her messy divorce and she is looking forward to spending time with her much-loved grandmother and relaxing making chocolates and anything chocolaty.But then… the delivery driver for her grandmother’s chocolate shop is found murdered...
  • Affairs of Steak by Julie Hyzy

    Affairs of Steak by Julie Hyzy

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    White House chef Olivia Paras and her arch nemesis, White House Sensitivity Director Peter Everett Sargeant, must work together to solve the double murder of one of the First Lady's assistants and the Chief of Staff-before they become the next victims of a merciless assassin with a secret agenda...
  • The Diva Digs Up the Dirt by Krista Davis

    The Diva Digs Up the Dirt by Krista Davis

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Trouble in spades... Determined not to be a garden-variety diva, Sophie Winston's neighbor, Natasha, cultivates a plan to shine on television--using Sophie's backyard. As the cast and crew of the makeover show "Tear It Up With Troy" bulldoze through her backyard--and vacation--Sophie retreats to her perennial boyfriend Wolf's to replace a dead rose bush...
  • The Last Word by Ellery Adams

    The Last Word by Ellery Adams

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Olivia Limoges and the Bayside Book Writers are excited about Oyster Bay's newest resident: bestselling novelist Nick Plumley, who's come to work on his next book. But when Olivia stops by Plumley's rental she finds that he's been strangled to death...
  • The Honeymoon Cottage by Barbara Cool Lee

    The Honeymoon Cottage by Barbara Cool Lee

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Looking for a light and breezy, feel-good beach read? You've found it in Pajaro Bay. Camilla Stewart desperately needs to make a fresh start: her despicable ex-fiancé stole her life savings, embezzled from her job, and then disappeared without a trace—leaving behind nothing but his eight-year-old son, Oliver...
  • The Color of Lies by Debra Burroughs

    The Color of Lies by Debra Burroughs

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    If you've become hooked on the Paradise Valley Mystery series, no doubt the sizzling romantic chemistry between Emily and Colin has kept you coming back for more.  The Color of Lies, a Bridge Short Story, is the story of Colin Andrews before he came to Paradise Valley to become the Police Detective and what really happened to his previous fiancee, Miranda...
    Categorized as:
    cozy  crime  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  fiction  mystery
  • Fudgement Day by Wendy Meadows

    Fudgement Day by Wendy Meadows

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Chocolate Cozy Mystery series can be read in one to two hours. It is perfect for those moments when you are waiting at an appointment or want to enjoy a quick read.Olivia Cloud just can’t help herself. Where there is a mystery, she is there to try and solve it. This time the mystery involves the death of Jason Horn, her son Sebastian’s friend...
    Categorized as:
    cozy  culinary  amateur-sleuth  mystery  romance  fiction  book  adult
  • If the Coffin Fits by Lillian Bell

    If the Coffin Fits by Lillian Bell

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Perfect for fans of Carolyn Haines and Donna Andrews, Lillian Bell makes the return with her second Funeral Parlor mystery featuring funeral director Desiree Turner.When an unnatural cause of death finds one of her clients, Desiree must get to the bottom of the murder before she’s fitted for a coffin, herself.Funeral director Desiree Turner deals with death by natural causes all the time...
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