Funny Humor Mysteries

"A lively, good read ... I couldn't put it down" - Kingdom Books You never know what's beneath the surface. When Seattle native Tish Yearly finds herself fired and evicted all in one afternoon, she knows she's in deep water. Unemployed and desperate, the 26 year old ex-actress heads for the one place she knows she'll be welcome - the house of her cantankerous ex-CIA agent grandfather, Tobias Yearly, in the San Juan Islands. And when she discovers the strangled corpse of Tobias's best friend, she knows she's in over her head. Tish is thrown head-long into a mystery that pits her against a ...

They say sisters have your back forever. Well, what happens when your secrets are on the line? How much can you trust your Kappa Zeta sister? Tinsley came to Campbell to escape the problems and mistakes of her past. She thought she would have a fresh start, but at Kappa Zeta, there’s not such thing as a fresh start or hidden secrets. Remember girls, you better keep your secrets close to your chest and make sure none of your sorority sisters have a knife they’re dying to dig into your back.

*** WINNER: 2019 BEST INDIE BOOK AWARD (MYSTERY) *** With an intellect as sharp as his right cross, Honest John Churchfield is the second-best detective in 1890s London. Unfortunately, Sherlock Holmes casts an enormous shadow. The first Honest John Churchfield novel, Honest John Raises Cain chronicles Churchfield’s investigation into the disappearance of Lowry Cain, a famous musician with a crippling opium addiction. Cain’s wife Lily, an aspiring singer herself, hires Churchfield to find her husband and thrusts him into a deceitful world featuring jealousy, greed, and an ax-wielding ...

Some friendships are made in school. Others? In swamp mud. Meet Al-E-Gator—a charming, grumbly, always-hungry alligator with a powerful tail and a big appetite for snacks and secrets. And then there’s Fluffy the Fish—a quick-witted puffer with the uncanny ability to puff up like a spiky balloon whenever trouble floats too close. Together, they’re not just best friends. They’re snack scouts. Crunch collectors. Swamp adventurers. And accidental heroes. From battling Bog Bandits to gliding through the sky on a homemade gator-glider, this duo will take you on a hilarious, suspense-...

For fans of Terry Pratchett… Bartholomew Whitlock, mild misanthropist and warlock extraordinaire, has been working in the acquisitions department of The Bearded Syndicate for over a century—and he’s exhausted. Ready to retire, he fakes his own death and retreats to the suburbs with his fluffy demonic familiar. They’re convinced nobody would go looking for them there! But there’s one problem—Bartholomew isn’t the only magical fugitive in the area. A vampire lives nearby, and too much magical activity is bound to attract attention. One of them has got to go. Bartholomew is ...

Underneath a 100-year-old copper beech, a mummy is about to die. When Tommy, the Viking PI, gets picked up on Halloween and driven into the thick Norwegian woods, the last thing he imagined was being taken to a murder scene. Well...No. The last thing he imagined was the corpse dressed up as a mummy, sitting at a table with Viking PI written in blood. Tommy has to start his own investigation to stay out of jail, find the real murderer, and save the relationship with his suspicious CSI girlfriend. This is the fourth book in the Viking P.I. series. A Quick-read mystery that is short and snappy...

‘It's a fun whodunit with interesting characters, odd plot twists, and red herrings that knocked my sox off. Looking forward to more!’ An accident that’s not an accident. A perilous pizza. A pug who knows too much… No one believes Celia Spalt when she gets up at the Storytelling Tent and tells everyone she once witnessed a murder. After all, Celia’s an old lady, and her mind’s on the way out. But when she unexpectedly dies, Rosie begins to wonder if there could be something more to her story. Celia lived at Sandcastle Village, a gated community that’s supposed to keep its ...

‘A fun and exciting read from Pitt, with many twists and turns and red herrings.’ A lighthouse murder. A crazy Cupcake Festival. A baffling clue. Reporter Rosie Ryan isn’t looking forward to her latest assignment. She’d rather be doing almost anything else than staying with famous actress, Katy Dark, and her entourage at the old Lighthouse Inn. Even if there is a quirky coincidence among the other guests: all six of them have names that start with the letter C. But coincidence quickly becomes chaos when murder happens and the only clue is the letter C scrawled in the victim’s own ...

‘A fast paced winner with some laugh out loud moments.’ A spooky séance. A missing ornament. A double murder. Can Vivian Shelly really speak to the dead? Rosie’s not a believer, but her doubts are pushed to the limit when she attends one of Vivian’s séances. There’s something weird about the whole event. Something otherworldly. And the event gets even stranger when murder comes calling… This is confusing enough, but then Rosie's editor, Harry, wants her to interview a local sculpture who makes totems of celebrities. Rosie can't make up her mind if they're creepy or simply ...

When Edna Simmons takes a DNA test and finds out that she has a brother, her wife and her decide to go on a trip to find him, but after meeting Fredrick Tillison, Edna finds that her whole world has changed. Will this man become the missing piece to her puzzle, or is there a skeleton in his closet that he isn't telling her about?

They're baaaack! Those Divas of Doom, Destiny, Chance, and Lady Luck, really have it in for poor Marty Sheffield. Not only has she just lost her job as a part-time dj, but after a knock-down, drag-out fight with one of her sister's neighbors, Marty becomes the chief suspect when the man ends up dead. The only way to save herself seems to be finding the real culprit. As things go from bad to worse in her life, the race to find the murderer takes on new urgency when Marty and her sister, Charli, are held captive by a couple of crazies.

(This book was originally published with the title The Whistle Blower.) Bad guys, beware: There's a soccer mom hot on your trail. With three kids, Sandra's life is a whirlwind of activity. Yet, sometimes she's a little bored. When a referee drops dead during her son's soccer game, and a short man claiming to be an angel asks her to help investigate—suddenly, life's not such a routine. The angel (is he really an angel?) tells her to go undercover as a soccer referee, which, of course, is ridiculous. She hasn't run anywhere since high school. But Sandra will find out she is still capable of...

When Nora Alexander drives into Piney Woods, Texas, to fulfill her dying mother's last wish, she has no idea what awaits her. First she is run off the road, then the sealed letter she delivers turns out to be a scathing rebuke to the town's most beloved citizen and favored candidate for Piney Woods Pioneer: Adam Brockwell. Next thing you know, Adam has been murdered in a nasty knife attack. Suspicion instantly falls on Nora, one of the last people to see him alive. After all, everyone in Piney Woods loved him. Or did they? Turns out Nora's mother had a complicated past she never shared with...

Matilda Dare has a ring on her finger, a thriving business, a beautiful, historical home, two dogs, and an amazing group of friends. She should be happy. But her fiancé might be a serial killer, the sheriff’s dead wife is visiting her, and her husband has escaped from prison. All of that is throwing a wrench into Matilda’s celebrations. The FBI has left town, and the local sheriff is hiding away because he’s still in mourning over his wife, and now it’s up to Matilda to find the real serial killer, save the abducted girls, and find her own happy ending. Wuthering Frights is the ...

Megan Davis, a small-town hairdresser, loves jogging in the nearby park in the morning and solving murder mysteries in her “Mystery Book Club” in the evening. On her morning run, she bumps into one of her customers at the park. Megan is surprised to see the elderly blue-haired lady out this early. But when she greets the woman, surprise turns into shock. Not only is the woman dead. Her face is covered in blue dye. Hair dye. Scroll up to read And Hope to Dye today.

A fun new installment in the iWitch Mystery Series from USA Today Bestselling Author, Diana Orgain Maeve O’Dare’s fresh start in the small town of Wisteria Pines has gone to the dogs—one dog in particular that is. Wanda, the stray who adopted Maeve the first day she hit town, acts more human than canine and keeps distracting the former songwriter from her newly opened cafe, Listen: It’s Old Fashioned. After the mayor drops dead while eating at the cafe, and scandalous Hollywood tabloids suggest Maeve had something to do with her ex-boyfriend’s mysterious disappearance, Maeve finds...

‘This was a fun book to read. It had me laughing a lot throughout it. It also was fun trying to guess who murdered the victim. It was quite a surprise.’ A UFO conference. A cold case. A missing man. Rosie Ryan faces her toughest challenge ever when she's asked to investigate the death of Hailey Lawrence. The writer was on the verge of international fame with her first novel. Did her death really an accident? Or was she murdered by a jealous rival? At the same time, Rosie has to deal with the annual Australian Flying Saucer Association conference. It's being held in Cape Carson for the ...

"One look, that one tiny little look, and I knew right then and there that Harry Evans was a heartache waiting to happen. If I’d had a lick of sense, the tiniest shred of sanity, I’d have jumped up from that blue plastic seat and high-tailed it home. " If Marty Sheffield had high-tailed it home instead of getting mixed up with minor league baseball player, Harry Evans, she might not have had another go-round with those Floozies of Fate -- Destiny, Chance, and Lady Luck. But, of course, she did, and the Doom Divas are swarming around her like a pack of bloodthirsty mosquitoes. When Marty...

I was living the life of a normal ten-year-old until it all changed. The very moment it changed you ask? I would say it was the moment I escaped my bully Bull, but it could be the moment I ran through Binx. One moment I was just Rocky and the next I was the savior of humanity. Join us as we travel through time to collect all the pieces to lock up Mr. Moon the diabolical genus. If we fail life as we know it will be gone… Oh, and mystical creatures, Zombies, and the Angel of Death is all a part of the journey.

“I even got to knock one thing off my bucket list when I traveled to Svalbard and drove a snowmobile over glaciers to an abandoned mining town, all in the name of love.” Business is booming for Tommy, the Norwegian “Viking PI”. Yes, it may be hard to believe, but people are actually choosing to hire this failed crime writer-turned private investigator. And his cases are getting even bigger… and darker. From mysterious buried bodies in unmarked graves, to bare-knuckle brawls and knife fights… Tommy really is finally seeing all that the ‘dark’ underworld of private ...