November Featured Cozy Mysteries
Looking for a new cozy mystery to try? These cozy mysteries will give you the sleuthing fix you need! All of these new releases have an amateur detective and an entertaining murder mystery.
One Little Flame
It begins with one little flame...
With his golden retriever, Friday, Sheriff Hutch Joyner and investigator Ruth Harnett track a serial arsonist. Clues point to members of the local Apache community, reviving a cold arson case Hutch never solved. The fires draw the attention of the state fire chief who issues an ultimatum: find the arsonist in thirty days or lose control of the investigation.
As Hutch and his team race against the clock, a complicated picture of clashing cultures, love and revenge emerges, threatening Hutch’s life.
Set in the Texas Hill Country, this mid-century cozy by bestselling author Dorothy Love delivers her trademark blend of deeply -researched history, entertaining mystery and sweet romance. “Fans of small-town mysteries will be delighted.” Kay Bratt, bestselling author of the Harts Ridge series.
The Retired Assassin's Guide to Amateur Theatrics
Dante is an assassin who's retired to Te Kohe, a small coastal town in New Zealand.
Dante just wants a quiet life and the chance to try out normalcy.
Unfortunately, people keep getting murdered around him, and for various reasons, he gets entangled in the ensuing investigations.
It's theatre season in Te Kohe, and the director has decided to liven things up with a small-time production of Macbeth.
Except…something sinister happened when this play was performed twenty years ago, and the ghosts of past murders are set to make a reappearance.
As Dante and his friends are about to find out, there's no business like show business...
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Cook Off Killer
Someone is about to get eliminated.
For years, producer Shannon Soss has kept the cameras rolling, the contestants cooking, and the egos from boiling over on Chef Pierre’s Cook Off. Then, on the first day of the show’s final season, a shocking murder turns the set into a crime scene. And in a business built on rivalries and manufactured drama, everyone is a suspect.
With the soundstage sealed off, the press circling, and the production company panicking, Shannon finds herself at the center of a real-life murder investigation. As things heat up, she teams up with her true-crime-obsessed sister Casey and loyal assistant Luke to find answers.
As the show races toward its final episode, hidden motives, old grudges, and surprising secrets begin to surface. Another shocking incident rocks the set, and danger closes in.
Pumpkin Spice Scandal
Roxy Bloom agreed to provide the coffee for an exclusive corporate retreat. A live microphone and a dead developer were never part of the order.
Autumn has brought leaf-peeping tourists, pumpkin pastries, and a rush of customers to The Bean Hive Coffeehouse. When powerful developer Caspian Blackwood holds a company retreat at the Honey Springs Country Club, Roxy expects to spend the weekend serving coffee and keeping Aunt Maxi out of trouble. Then Caspian picks up a microphone and is killed by a deadly electrical shock.
With Pepper at her side and Aunt Maxi refusing to stop snooping, Roxy begins digging into canceled business deals, secret property negotiations, and promises Caspian never intended to keep. But when another person connected to his company is murdered, Roxy realizes the scandal reaches far beyond one disastrous retreat, and the killer may already know she is getting too close.
The Foreign Correspondent’s Wife
Set in post-WWII Paris, the wife of an American foreign correspondent stumbles on the body of her murdered classmate at culinary school and becomes tangled in a web that stretches from the halls of diplomacy to the city’s underworld.
Americans are arriving in Paris in droves, including the fiercely independent former reporter Kat Kelly and her husband—a hotshot foreign correspondent. Forced out of journalism by the old boys’ club, the tenacious Kat has moved on to pursue her love for French cuisine. But this new chapter turns deadly when she finds the bloody body of an American classmate, Toby.
After giving her statement to the police and breaking the news to Toby’s girlfriend, Kat quickly suspects that Toby’s life—and death—were more complicated than she imagined. The more Kat learns, the more certain she is that the police are only scratching the surface of the case.
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