If you love quirky, lovable sleuths and a mystery that will keep you guessing until the end, cuddle up with these cozy mysteries and join these interesting amateur sleuths as they figure out who-dun-it. (Listed in no particular order…because they’re all fantastic!)
Includes, Dumpster Dicing by Julie B Cosgrove, Up from the Grave by Marilyn Leach, Collapsible by Ruth Buchanan, Meow Mayhem by Lisa J. Lickel, Murder in Hum Harbour by Jayne E. Self, and Cooking up a Mystery by Gail Pallotta.
Dumpster Dicing
by Julie B CosgroveRelease Date 2016-05-13
ISBN: 9781943104482
ASIN: B07VFKYXTX
PelicanID: 1167
Genres: Fiction / Christian / Suspense, Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth
Pages: 282
As Janie and Betsy Ann go for their morning jog, the city sanitation vehicle follows its normal five-mile Tuesday morning route through their retirement community of Sunset Acres. The two Bunco-playing biddies spot a leg dangling out of the dumpster when the truck lifts the trash container high in the air. Someone diced up one of their newest residents—a grouchy loner named Edwin Newman. Did he unpack too much of his dicey past when he moved in last weekend?
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Up from the Grave
by Marilyn LeachRelease Date 2013-02-22
ISBN: 9781611162691
ASIN: B018DWGHKS
PelicanID: 430
Genres: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth
Pages: 282
A Lenten sod turning ceremony for a new water feature in the back garden of St. Aidan of the Wood Parish Church goes utterly pear-shaped when the upturned soil reveals a human skeleton. With Berdie Elliott at the helm, the whole of Aidan Kirkwood digs into the mystery. When the bones held life, just who was this person? Who is the mysterious contessa who arrives on the garden scene? And what does the young and beautiful Robin Derbyshire's wedding have to do with the grave? Unearth the answers in this fun spring romp.
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Murder In Hum Harbour: A Seaglass Mystery
by Jayne E. SelfRelease Date 2011-09-30
ISBN: 9781611161007
ASIN: B0181NISDS
PelicanID: 303
Genres: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth
Pages: 264
There's a sleuth on the loose Part-time medical receptionist, part-time jewelry crafter, Gailynn MacDonald thinks she knows everything about everyone in Hum Harbour, Nova Scotia. That's the way she likes it. But when her former employer Doc Campbell turns up dead aboard his beached yacht, and her sister-in-law becomes the prime suspect, quirky, over-excitable Gailynn vows to unmask the killer. With Geoff Grant, Doc's handsome replacement, by her side Gailynn uncovers secrets and confronts childhood fears. And in the process she discovers that catching a killer is a lot like crafting her seaglass jewelry— it's all in the details.
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Cooking up a Mystery
by Gail PallottaRelease Date 2020-04-24
ISBN: 9781522398806
ASIN: B085LJMH5V
PelicanID: 1468
Genres: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Cozy / Culinary
Pages: 270
Laney Eskridge worked to put her husband through dental school. Then he left with another woman. She's on edge from the emotional scars and her parents' deaths. Then she hears unexplained noises in her new tea house, and her anxiety is tripled. Add a budding romance with Eric—a guy with a fear of commitment—and it's all too much to handle. She cuts ties with Eric and plunges into making her business pay off.
When Eric discovers that Laney's in danger, he vows to protect her. But can he make a lasting promise? Will she trust him? . . .and when they overhear a threat that could cause national turmoil, will anyone believe them? There's more brewing than herbal tea in Cooking up a Mystery.
**Includes over two dozen recipes**
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Meow Mayhem
by Lisa LickelRelease Date 2019-01-25
ISBN: 9781522398394
ASIN: B07MC9CKG4
PelicanID: 995
Genres: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth
Pages: 358
A Dead Exec Found In A Bathroom. Can Ivy Clean Up This Mystery Before Another Body Turns Up
After being left at the altar, Ivy Amanda McTeague Preston uproots herself and her cat, an Egyptian Mau named Memnet, from her boring and lonely life to start over at the urging of Mayor Conklin, a fellow pedigreed Mau owner. Ready to move in a fresh direction, Adam Thompson, accepts the mayor’s invitation and uproots himself and his beloved Mau, Isis, to open a branch of his trendy bookstore and coffee shop in the small town. When Ivy takes a mysterious message while the mayor is away on business, only her criminology professor mom and Adam believe there’s something rotten in Apple Grove.
Then Ivy discovers the community grant money that Adam was allotted to start the store is mysteriously being siphoned off, a dead body surfaces, and the victim’s missing Mau becomes the primary suspect. . .just another day in Ivy’s far-from-boring new life. In love with Apple Grove and with Adam, Ivy hopes to carry on their romance while saving the town from further mayhem.
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Collapsible
by Ruth BuchananRelease Date 2017-09-29
ISBN: 9781611169645
ASIN: B075QPQ7CH
PelicanID: 822
Genres: Fiction / Christian / General, Fiction / Christian / Suspense
Pages: 227
Rachel Cooper has life under control: good job, good friends, and good plans for the future. All of that collapses one early morning when she falls and breaks her ankle. Now she must face the horrors of preparing for an upcoming move and handling her tenth year of teaching while clomping around on crutches. Worse, somewhere in the shadows, the Memento Killer lurks—a serial murderer who stalks women with four anonymous gifts before moving in for the kill. When unexpected presents begin arriving on Rachel's doorstep, she fears that she'll soon be crutching for her life.Collapsible. A novel of friendship, broken bones, coffee, shenanigans, and the occasional murder.
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