Humorous Mysteries

Shelby Wolfe doesn’t believe in ghosts, but the one who asks her to solve his murder doesn’t care. River towns—even ones named Goose Lick—have their charm. For recently divorced Shelby, Goose Lick also has extended family, which is just what she needs. It also has an old police station/former hotel for sale cheap, and Shelby knows all about rehabbing old buildings. But when the former and now deceased police chief appears with his claims of murder, she realizes she’s gotten more than she bargained for. The chief died of carbon monoxide poisoning, and the town is evenly divided on ...

Three urban fantasy mystery novellas in one volume: I’m Ivy Weiss, the Stone Whisperer. Though most part-demons in the Demon Underground have incredible powers, like dream walking, fortune-telling, or phasing through matter, I just talk to rocks. But somehow, I end up taking on the most difficult tasks... Sapphires & Souls When a seer makes a vague prophecy that says I am the only one who can save “Selene’s son” and prevent widespread bloodshed in Colorado Springs, I reluctantly head to Colorado to check it out. With the help of my snarky hellhound, a water demon, a vampire, and a ...

It all started when Cadence was asked to listen to the dying old man’s stories at the peaceful desert retirement home. Slowly, Cadence realized each story was about him and a black skull a slave demon named Jarvis had given him centuries ago. The demons came for him one by one with each one appearing larger and more powerful and all of them wanted the black skull. Through the course of a hundred years, Cadence has to figure out why they were after the skull and what dark magic it possessed. In 1940, he asked the witch Meadow to hide the skull for him, so the demons could not take it. Now ...

Double the Magic, Double the Mystery! Enjoy this cozy paranormal mystery book bundle and read the first two books in the Bewitching Books Mystery series. Meet Mercy Brew, a bibliophile witch with a penchant for solving mysteries and a newly inherited magical bookshop in Hemlock Hills, California. Along with an obnoxious black cat and her loyal French bulldog, Mercy’s dream life quickly spirals into danger and disaster... In BOOKED FOR MURDER, Mercy must solve her aunt’s mysterious murder and a sealed book of secrets that casts her as the prime suspect. Joining forces with a charming ...

Charlie McGinley writes about tough guys…then he has to become one. Fed up with writing cheesy detective fiction, Charlie dreams of writing something serious. Unfortunately, his publisher insists that he keep cranking out hard-boiled Johnny Dent PI novels. When Charlie stumbles across an urban legend about Thomas Edison inventing a machine that could speak to the dead, he thinks he’s found the perfect gimmick to spice up his next book. That is, until he builds the "Ghost Machine" and accidentally uses it... And people in his small New Mexico town start dying. Suddenly, Charlie must ...

Welcome to Inspector Flytrap's Detective Agency, home to the world-renowned solver of Big Deal mysteries. Inspector Flytrap, a Venus flytrap, works tirelessly with his assistant Nina the Goat, a goat, on his community's unsolved cases. There's no case too big, but there are definitely cases too small for this endearingly self-important plant detective.

A fun short story mystery for children ages 9-12. RJ Spencer is a lucky 12-year-old. He lives in the big city and his parents are landlords of the high-rise apartment building that is his home. The many tenants in the building, along with the endless possibilities of adventures in the city itself, are the perfect setting for the young detective as he sets out to solve every case he can get his hands on.... Something terrible has happened to Hensely, the doorman. RJ and Joey fear the worst when it seems that a famous magician has done the unthinkable.

Isabella Proctor has a new super power... ...finding dead bodies. What did she ever do to deserve this? She’d like to trade this power in for something, anything else – talk to ants, mix the perfect mojito, anything other than finding her friends dead. After her neighbor is murdered, her not-so-ordinary life takes a sharp turn into the weird – magic amulets, secret societies, deadly feuds, and talking cats. Things go from bad to worse when another friend is murdered and she can’t go to Detective Palmer for help. Can she capture a witch so much older and stronger than she is or will ...

A FRIEND INDEED? It’s Summertime in New Chapel, Indiana, and feisty florist Abby Knight Salvare is up to her neck in work – supervising the construction of her float for the Fourth of July parade, managing her flower shop Bloomers, reigning in her over-eager cousin Jillian, and working with her hunky husband Marco in his private detective business – when her best friend Nikki comes to her with a big problem. Blake Ryder, a handsome, charismatic surgeon at the New Chapel Hospital is a suspect in a murder case, and Nikki is supposed to go away with him for the holiday weekend. Is Blake ...

Dealing with Europe is never easy It's Paris 1919 and the Peace Conference following the end of the Great War is proving anything but peaceful. In fact, it can be murder... A French Diplomat has been murdered. When the chief suspect turns out to be the girlfriend of Aldric 'Spunky' Stephens, Kit Aston is called in to investigate. The investigation becomes a race against time as Europe faces a deadly new enemy, intent on dragging it back into the carnage from which it has just escaped. The Kit Aston mysteries mix real life historical characters and events with crime thrillers full of red ...

When your close friend is murdered nothing makes sense. Badly shaken by the news of her friend Ed’s murder, Donna Leigh does not sit idly by in the wake of the tragedy. Aware that he’d been conducting investigations of suspicious behavior within several notable vineyards, the menopausal ad exec enlists the aid of her friends and colleagues to navigate the dangerous underside of the wine industry looking for answers. Donna’s sleuthing leads her through a labyrinth of corruption and deceit that threatens danger at every turn.

Coke and Pepsi McDonald didn’t want to jump off a cliff. They didn't want to get hit by poisoned darts from blowguns either. And they certainly don't want to get locked in their burning school, thrown into a pit at the top of a sand dune, or drowned in a vat of liquefied Spam. But what are you supposed to do when you’re being chased across the country by your insane health teacher and two guys in bowler hats who are trying to kill you? One thing's for sure, it'll be a snap for Coke and Pep to write their essays on "How I Spent My Summer Vacation."

Cupcake-loving croupier Tiffany Black has a new case on her hands: this time it's working for "uber successful life coach" Sue Giant, who claims to have been killed. Or at least, been able to survive an attempt on her life. It's up to Tiffany, Rosie and Nanna to sort through the craziness of Sue Giant's life, and figure out what's really going on. Meanwhile, Nanna decides to stop meddling in Tiffany's love life - and meddle with Stone's love life instead.

Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the country, to Washington, DC. But there are rules: He cannot look inside the box. He cannot ask questions. He cannot tell anyone. They must leave immediately. He must leave all trackable devices behind. As these eccentric misfits hit the road, rumors spread on social media that the box is part of a carefully orchestrated terror attack intended to plunge the USA into civil war.

Meet Sky Sampson. She’s eleven years old, wildly curious, just a little mischievous, and definitely not the type to ignore a talking gnome or a mumbling garden. When strange noises start echoing from her neighbor’s overgrown backyard, Sky does what any aspiring mystery-solver would do: she grabs a notebook, a granola bar, and her unreasonably grumpy cat, Mr. Tiddles, and dives in—headfirst. But this isn’t just any mystery. Beneath the tomato vines and ceramic lawn ornaments lies something ancient, powerful, and slightly passive-aggressive. With the help of her best friend Jazz (and ...

The seal on the spell that’s been keeping my Fae side in check is due to break tonight at midnight… And I’m set to marry a man I don’t really know, and what I do know of him, I don’t particularly like. All because some stupid prophecy (from before I was even born) proclaimed as much. Talk about a crappy deal… With my Fae powers set to take over and the threat of becoming the Queen of the Winter Court becoming all too real, I find myself stuck at the bar of the Half-Moon Grill in a full-blown pity party. In walks Maverick, a bounty hunter who occasionally works for me and who’s...

London, 2044. Britain is a republic. President Jan Polak has vanished overnight from Buckingham Palace, just weeks before an election. Has he been kidnapped? Or even killed? One man is determined to find out - as soon as he's had his breakfast. His name is Pond. Howie Pond - the president's official spokesperson and wannabe secret agent. With just a love of James Bond films to guide him, Howie sets out on a mission to solve the missing-president mystery.

Think Electraweave. Think of fabrics of tomorrow! Textile scientist Eliza Bennett attends a textile conference where she plans to present her work, accompanied by her talking cat, Merlin. Their plans are disrupted by a blackout during which Eliza's presentation banner is stolen, leading them to uncover a complex plot involving corporate espionage, a mysterious surveillance network, and a dangerous rival named Croft who seeks to weaponize Eliza's technology for his own gain. Eliza's revolutionary material called Electraweave nullifies static discharge and has potential applications in space....

There’s something nasty at the Institute… When Constance Wright took a job as secretary, she expected typing and filing. But with unconventional researchers working on everything from photographing ghosts to building the Giant Walking War Machine, the Institute isn't your usual workplace. Then she discovers a trail of clues – clues that may lead her to a fortune, if she can find it. And a killer is already on the hunt...

Gabe is an accountant and a curious guy, but he rejects the notion that he's nosy--prying, meddling, intrusive. He will admit that his curiosity and a selfless desire to come to the aid of friends, relatives, coworkers, clients (some of whom he doesn't even like), and various officers of the law (most of whom don't like him and reject his help out of hand) get him into situations. Situations in which he has to figure out who exactly is trying to incinerate, bludgeon, shoot, stab, garrote, or otherwise end him. You might think that the various officers of the law would help out but you'd be ...