Dog Detective Mysteries

A new companion, nosy neighbors, and a revitalized purpose for life… Recovering from the passing of her long-time husband, Chloe ponders what’s next for her life in retirement. With a regular visit from her neighbor’s dog, she contemplates a canine companion. In the process, she discovers suspicious activity that leads her on a quest for answers. Will her attempt to sleuth out the mystery change the course of her life? Daffodils and Deadbeats is a short story in the Treehouse Hotel Mysteries series. A light, cozy mystery in a small town with a puzzle loving, amateur female sleuth, ...

Annie Jordan’s new lease on life has taken a turn. With a new brother on the scene—one that everyone she knows is practically accusing of being a criminal element—she’s also found herself with a new roommate. It goes without saying that Bogart’s not happy about the roommate sitch. Of course, neither is Sam, and especially not Melanie. But hey, she’s got Mildred, and it seems she’s the only one who doesn’t hate Annie’s newly found brother. Prompted by curiosity—it killed the cat, right? Not humans?—Annie and Tyler submit their saliva for some DNA testing. They have ...

Dmitri Gurov is a nearly forty-year-old man, who is married and has three children. He is unhappy with his marriage and regrets this big mistake every single day. While on a vacation, Dmitri meets Anna Sergeyevna - a young lady, who just like him is unhappily married. Very soon a love affair enfolds between the two and they start secretly meeting at different places. Unfortunately, Anna must go back to Moscow because her husband is having some health issues.

Hello. I am Rory Branagan. I am actually a detective. This week, my school put on the biggest, best school fete the world has ever known. We are raising money to make St Bart's boomtastic, with adventure playgrounds and even a dragon. But now the cash has gone, and my Accomplice Cassidy 'the Cat' Callaghan has been blamed for stealing it. I'm thinking...I must use my detectiving to find the real thief and rescue the Cat!

Nova Bell is settling into her new life as a bakery owner in a small town. Her attempts at baking lead a lot to be desired. She thought hiring a new baker would be easy until one of the bakers turns up dead! Now, Nova has to solve the murder and find a replacement. With sinister men on the loose, and a secret baking community of organized crime, will Nova ever get her hands on any sweet honey buns? Find out in the second Witchy Bakery Book! Now with new edits!

Newly edited! Once the bakery settled down, Nova thought her life would be too. With a new baker on staff and Chief Rowan finally starting to trust her, things were looking up. But, nothing was ever easy in Temperance, RI. When his nephew is killed, local bar owner, Nico, turns to her for help. Nova can't turn him away. Her trusty dog Angelo, wouldn't let her even if she wanted to. Can they find the killer, investigate the curse on the local cops, and get the chief his ganache? Found out in the third installment of the Witch Bakery series!

Eva has always wanted to be a journalist, so when she and her friends go whippet racing and find some underhand competitive cheating, she might just have found her next story. Can she get to the bottom of it, with a little help from a furry friend?

When a terrible storm damages the Happy Tails Rescue Centre, Eva and her friends know they need to help. They decide to put on a show to raise money for a new roof – and not just any show. A dog show, of course, with the help of Eva’s adorable whippet, Wafer! Everyone at school is keen to pitch in too, but with so many eager pairs of hands (and paws), soon there’s squabbling. Can the Dog Squad help everyone learn to work as a team, turn storm clouds to sunshine – and save the Rescue Centre in time?

Amanda's glamping getaway in Canada turns into a fur-nomenal fiasco when her psychic cat stumbles upon a body! Can Amanda and her forgetful feline sidekick solve the campground caper before it becomes a cat-astrophe? Dog groomer Amanda Warren is taking a paws from her clippers for a much-needed vacation. Her friend Ben has booked them into a Canadian gourmet glamping resort. But Amanda’s dreams of rest and relaxation quickly go out the doggy door when her quirky cat — a psychic with a case of amnesia — secretly tags along. Now, with a lost Yorkshire terrier, a discovered body, and a ...

Ben invites his friends over for a sleepover, but it soon turns scary when the lights go out, and they realize that there's a ghost dog in the house! But can it really be a ghost, or have their imaginations run away with them? It's another mystery for the Cluefinders Club, four young amateur detectives who will do what it takes to save the day! Together, Beatrix, Ben, Clara and Chris must use their reasoning and bravery to solve the mystery of the ghost job!

Walking into her newly inherited freezer and finding a dead man, isn’t how she envisioned her new start. Pastry Chef Maggie Wilkerson hates everything about New York. The opportunity to start over comes with a surprise letter from a lawyer. She is given the Cuppa Cafe. Back in her hometown, she’s excited to get the cafe up and running again… …only to find she’s being framed for murder. And Sheriff Wakefield wasted no time making her the prime suspect. Maggie and Mindy, her high school rival, are desperate to prove her innocence before she gets run out of town by the very people ...

Autopsies and Bubble Baths should be Sacred... That’s one fact Verity is sure of! After the body of a young woman washes ashore in Spell’s Bay, and the victim’s ghost arrives just in time for her own dissection, Verity will be forced to reassess her opinion. When the same mischievous ghost interrupts her favorite Honeysuckle-Rose Bubble bath and dips a ghostly toe, Verity is forced to take desperate measures. Add in the imposter at Martina's Culinary School that has everybody astir, and Verity, accompanied by her not-so-loyal feline familiar, Lois, set out on a hair-raising adventure ...

A LOVELINESS OF LADYBUGS – A JOY FOREST COZY MYSTERY Welcome to LOVELINESS OF LADYBUGS in the JOY FOREST COZY MYSTERY SERIES – a world of eccentric small-town people and small town strange events. People go missing, a community gets involved – mysteries must be solved! It's a near-future world with a bit of science fiction, a bit of romance, and a whole lot of mystery. In the Cascade foothills of Washington state the eccentric owner of a local health food store has disappeared. Or is it a publicity stunt? And what do the ladybugs know that Joy needs to discover? Darling Yorkie ...

This time, Maya and Lotti have to help Grandma Gertie’s friend Hilda. Her grandson died a few years ago under mysterious circumstances and now messages from him keep showing up. Are there ghosts at the senior residence? And what’s the story behind the treasure map? And because that’s not enough, Maya has her hands full in her job with a case of a bank robbery, an insurance scam and a rather belligerent burglar. There’s never a dull moment...

Maya and Lotti have another case to solve, but this time they are not only looking for a murderer, they also need to prevent an art heist. This proves to be more difficult than expected, though, because nothing is as it seems in this case. Lola and the grannies from the senior residence are of course helping again, and there is a lot of tension building up between Maya and Erik Zenner.

DON'T MESS WITH BINGO NIGHT!!!! When two losers working for a floral supply outfit get it into their heads that they can rob the creepy old home for the elderly which is located directly across the street from their place of employment on Bingo Night, it sounds like an easy score. Too easy. Because what they don't realize is that just because people are old, doesn't mean they still don't have some fight left in them. In fact, in the case of Bingo Night, these elderly people have more than fight in them. They are barbarians. Originally published in Pulp Metal Magazine in two parts, Bingo ...

Was it just an untimely Accident? Or was it Murder? When Honor Mason’s sister, Martina, arrives; a despairing widow, with five rambunctious kids in tow, and haunted shadows in her eyes… Verity and Honor wonder. Are they coming home to stay…or running for their lives? And then they find the first body… Just a taste of what’s to come. A brand-new Paranormal Cozy to keep you up at night. Burgandy Blunder will hit the shelves this November.

'Primal Cuts' aren't all that's Hooked and Hanging at Bussard's Meats in Veil Falls. Fledgling Vine Witch Verity Blume has agreed to provide the guests at the upcoming Matching the Wine Festival with a 'foodie experience' they won't soon forget. Everybody loves a Pig Roast, right? If only she can just bring herself to sentence 'The Right Pig' to be Saturday's dinner. And get the neighboring farmers to stop fighting long enough to fill the order. But Wining and Dining the guests isn't all that's in store for its citizens. And Verity is serving up more than just an attention grabber. It's ...

Detective Sergeant Rick Zadow is angry, unmotivated, unwashed, unkempt and almost entirely reliant on his guide dog, Scout, and voice-controlled personal assistant Siri to make it through each day: one a voice without a body, the other a body without a voice. Left blind after a bullet wound to the head two years before, he is caught up in a workers' compensation battle between two psychiatrists - one acting for him and one appointed by WorkCover - over how much compo he should be awarded.

P.J. Benson is at it again. She has clients’ taxes to finish and her baby is due in two weeks. This definitely is not the right time to get involved in solving a murder. But it seems she has no choice, and now her own life and the life of her unborn child are in danger. Prior to her scheduled Mothers-to-Be meeting, P.J. Benson enters a church bathroom and overhears Brenda Cox, a friend and former co-worker, tell someone on the phone that she was caught getting the information they wanted and barely got away. P.J. tells Brenda to call 9-1-1, but Brenda says she’ll be fine and will see ...