September 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.
The UFO Frenzy
It's 1983 and America is obsessed with UFOs. But when several people claim they've been abducted by aliens, one tiny Korean housewife decides she's surrounded by idiots.
Maeng Chun has enough to deal with already. Her family believes every superstition imaginable. The town's oldest farmer is rumored to be a shapeshifter. And now her own nephew has vanished... only to return insisting he was with The Greys. Soon more neighbors disappear and come back with impossible stories, while the entire town falls into a full-blown frenzy. Mrs. Chun isn't buying a word of it. Unfortunately, the more she investigates, the more everyone mistakes her for the town's leading UFO expert.
The UFO Frenzy is a humorous, clean cozy mystery filled with quirky characters, 1980s nostalgia, Korean family antics, delicious recipes, and a delightfully skeptical sleuth who refuses to believe in aliens... no matter how many people insist they've seen them.
Death of the Midway Mermaid
The mermaid was supposed to be an illusion. She wasn’t supposed to be dead.
When a traveling carnival rolls into the charming Texas beach town of Pelican Shores, artist and café owner Finn Dockrey expects funnel cakes, Ferris wheel kisses, and one uninterrupted evening with Detective Pace Stringfellow. Instead, the midway’s shimmering mermaid fails to surface, pulling Finn into another round of sleuthing.
As Finn traces the victim’s final hours, she uncovers uneasy rivalries, guarded secrets, and shifting stories hidden behind the carnival’s cheerful facade.
With sharp-tongued best friend Birdie, scent-savvy Beau, judgmental Queen Bean, and Pace beside her, Finn must unravel the truth before the carnival packs up, the evidence disappears, and another innocent person becomes the killer’s next victim.
The Filbert Steps
A body on the steps. A neighborhood that saw nothing.
Vivian Salvatore came back to Telegraph Hill with a cat, a divorce settlement, and a book she cannot seem to write.
At fifty-two, newly single and trying to rebuild her life, she has settled into the rhythms of San Francisco’s most beautiful staircase: coffee at the corner café, morning walks on the Filbert Steps, old neighbors on three corners, and the comforting illusion that everyone knows everyone.
Then, on a bright October morning, Vivian finds one of the city’s most ambitious developers dead on the third landing. The police are ready to call it a fall, but Vivian isn’t so sure.
As she begins asking questions, she discovers that Telegraph Hill is full of secrets.
Flimflam Fairy
A fun cozy mystery adventure with an enchanted bookstore and a clever talking cat!
Best friends Willa and Lucy buy an enchanted bookstore full of charmed books. One wisp of magic later, they're whisked inside a story, transformed into amateur sleuths, and joined by Banjo, a charming talking cat. There is no way out until the mystery is solved.
This adventure drops them in Whisperglow Village, a world of color, wonder, and fairies, where one of the most beloved residents in town has just been murdered, found clutching a cryptic note from a con man.
Villagers don't lock their doors here. They never imagined this could happen, and they certainly never could have imagined whodunit.
Can Willa, Lucy, and Banjo unmask the killer, solve the case, and make it back to their own cozy bookstore before the story closes its final page?
Fireworks, Fog & Fatality
A missing man. Rival New Year’s parties. And a New Year’s celebration about to turn deadly.
Ellie Prescott hoped her latest house-sitting assignment in the picturesque lakeside town of Misty Pines would offer a peaceful escape. But when the homeowners’ son disappears, Ellie’s quiet getaway quickly becomes anything but relaxing.
With two rival New Year’s Eve parties dividing the town, tensions are running high—and everyone seems to be hiding something. Then a deadly discovery turns a troubling disappearance into something far more sinister.
With her mischievous toy poodle, Toffee, by her side and a growing list of suspects, Ellie follows the clues through fog-shrouded marinas, long-held grudges, and dangerous secrets. But as midnight approaches, she’ll need to uncover the truth before the celebrations turn deadly.
Fireworks, Fog & Fatality is a charming small-town cozy mystery filled with twists, friendship, a hint of romance, and an irresistible canine sidekick.
Tanked
New Year's Day, 1900. A new century. A dead man floating face-down in a water tank. And one farmwife who cannot (will not) let a wrong answer stand.
Minnie Mae Harper is sixty years old, armed with a basket of eggs, too many years of reading people, and she is the most dangerous thing in Collin County. When Leroy McMurtry turns up dead on the first morning of the twentieth century, the whole town settles comfortably on the obvious answer, but Millie has her doubts.
She isn't working alone. She never has been. There's a knitting circle — a boarding house owner, a milliner, a mercantile wife, a doctor's daughter, and her own sister-in-law — who gather in barns and reading rooms with their needles out and their ears open. They don't have badges. They don't need them. They have something better: a town that underestimates them completely.
Angelica Under Glass
Angelica Under Glass is Book One in the Green Witch and Thorn Mysteries by C.L. Roman
When the sponsor of a regional potions competition turns up dead in her hotel suite, the evidence is almost too neat: a rare allergy, a suspicious vial, and Lena Knox's best friend standing over the body.
Faye is innocent. But someone went to a lot of trouble to make her look guilty.
Lena—green witch and reluctant amateur sleuth—isn't about to let her best friend take the fall. Not with the killer still in the hotel, the suspect list including half the potions industry, and the motive tangled up in a family secret Faye didn't even know she had.
With her familiar, Thorn, offering opinions she didn't ask for, and her police detective ex-boyfriend inconveniently working the case, Lena needs more than potions to untangle this one.
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