August Featured Cozy Mysteries
Looking for a new cozy mystery to try? These cozy mysteries will give you the sleuthing fix you need! All of them feature a charming amateur detective and an entertaining murder mystery.
A Taste for Murder
DCI Joe Mottram hopes a summer in Capri will bring him closer to his teenage daughter—until a fatal accident starts to look like it may be murder...
For murder detective Joe Mottram, a summer visit to his in-laws' idyllic beachside restaurant on the beautiful Italian island of Capri is meant to offer refuge. After the death of his wife Sofia in a hit-and-run in London, Joe has taken a sabbatical, hoping to heal and reconnect with his teenage daughter, Angelica.
But then a British businesswoman is found dead at the foot of a notorious cliff, and his in-laws' plans to teach Joe how to cook and get him and Angelica talking again have to be abandoned. A reluctant Joe is forced to swap his recipe books for a detective's notebook once more, as he's drawn deeper into the case. Unfortunately for Joe, the evidence trail appears to lead back uncomfortably close to home…
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Flashes of Fire and Fury
Liv knew it would be impossible to hide her menopausal superpower in a small town, but she never imagined the unwanted attention it would attract.
Liv’s hot flash-induced psychic visions put her in the sights of a religious fanatic, who sends Liv a series of letters quoting biblical punishments for witches.
More unwanted attention arrives in the form of a superstitious local baseball player who’s convinced he’s being cursed and that only Liv can help him break it.
Liv and her friends race to discover if the letter writer and the attacker are the same person, before other women with supernatural abilities are targeted. To protect herself and her daughters, bring the witch hunt to an end, and break the curse, Liv must put faith in her visions and learn a new way to access her insights.
Killer Wedding Cupcakes
The perfect wedding day. The wrong kind of chaos. And a beagle who knew first.
Milliner Paige Andrews has seen Sea Glass Beach get chaotic. But this was supposed to be the good kind: two of her dearest friends marrying on the same sun-drenched day, her own mother marrying the Chief of Police, and Lola the beagle bribed into semi-respectable behavior with carefully calibrated treat diplomacy.
Then the wedding DJ goes face-first into the buttercream.
Now the Chief of Police is the groom, the host, and suspect all at once. Which means the investigation falls, as it so often does, to Paige. But the deeper she digs, the more personal it gets, and someone is making it very clear she should stop asking questions.
Paige has no intention of stopping. Because this time, the people with the most to lose are the ones she loves.
Pour Choices
When a comedy show takes a deadly turn, there’s nothing funny about it…
As a humid August heat wave descends upon the cozy town of Hope Mills, Pennsylvania, mixologist Reece Parker hosts the first-ever Comedy and Cocktails event in Subplot, his bookish speakeasy.
The evening's talent, comedian Meghan Spencer, shakes up controversy when she takes a joke too far during her crowd work segment. But when she's found floating in the nearby Delaware River the next morning, it's no laughing matter.
With his best friend stirred up in the investigation, Reece takes a shot at solving Meghan's murder. But as he sniffs out clues on his quest for justice, will he end up on the rocks himself?
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