Mystery Comedy

I wanted a surprise party, not a zombie apocalypse. For my 42nd birthday, I think I’m getting a surprise party. But my best friend didn’t invite me to her office for a party. She wants me to find a missing corpse. Dr. Faith Jackson, the Regional Medical Examiner, lost a body on her watch. If I can’t find the missing corpse, Faith could lose her job. And a murder suspect will get off scot-free. The Reluctant Corpse is anything but the start of the zombie apocalypse. And the odds are good - I might end up in a dumpster before it’s all said and done. Must be Thursday. The Reluctant ...

Finlay Donovan is killing it...except, she’s really not. The new book she promised her literary agent isn’t written, her ex-husband fired the nanny without telling her, and this morning she had to send her four-year-old to school with hair duct-taped to her head.

Read all of Cindy Blackburn's Cozy Mysteries for FREE with Kindle Unlimited! Small sleuth, tiny town, unfailing fun. Welcome to Lake Elizabeth, Vermont, where the water’s growing colder, the leaves are turning orange, and Cassie Baxter is going nuts. Who wouldn’t go a little nuts with this latest unexpected development? Meet five-year-old Truman Tripp. Cassie, who is most definitely not a kid person, can’t understand why his mother left the child with her. But some even more perplexing problems soon present themselves, and Cassie’s already Looney Tunes life gets even loonier. Expect...

She’s settling into a new life. But when a fishing trip totally capsizes, can she get a friend off the hook for murder? Elizabeth Trout still feels awkward living back home. Discovering a BFF from her raucous high-school days has become the perfect mom is as weird as staying with her mother while awaiting construction of her new home. But she’s shaken to her core when her newlywed husband and beloved dog are nearly blown out of the water in a dockside explosion which leaves another woman dead … and her bestie is arrested for the crime. To clear her friend, Elizabeth and her spouse set...

Who hasn’t wondered for a split second what the world would be like if a person who is the object of your affliction ceased to exist? But then you’ve probably never heard of The McMasters Conservatory, dedicated to the consummate execution of the homicidal arts. To gain admission, a student must have an ethical reason for erasing someone who deeply deserves a fate no worse (nor better) than death. The campus of this “Poison Ivy League” college—its location unknown to even those who study there—is where you might find yourself the practice target of a classmate.

Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon awakens in an Italian hospital, disoriented and with no recollection of the past thirty-six hours, including the origin of the macabre object hidden in his belongings. With a relentless female assassin trailing them through Florence, he and his resourceful doctor, Sienna Brooks, are forced to flee.

STEAMY SHEIKH ROMANCE LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN. ANNABELLE WINTERS STYLE. THIS BOX SET CONTAINS: RANSOMED FOR THE SHEIKH: The Gangster from Georgia (223 pages) UNCORKED FOR THE SHEIKH: The Vintner from Virginia (242 pages) HAUNTED FOR THE SHEIKH: The Realtor from Raleigh (225 pages) RANSOMED FOR THE SHEIKH When Sheikh Imraan's old enemy asks for a loan to ransom his kidnapped American daughter, the Sheikh agrees but with one caveat: The money isn’t to free the daughter. It’s to buy her. OMG! UNCORKED FOR THE SHEIKH When Sheikh Zameer realizes his investment holdings include a vineyard in ...

"It's okay to love me, Joey. But don't be in love with me." New York, 1941. Joey El Bueno is just a smart-aleck kid, confounding the nuns and bullies at St. Stephen's School on East 28th Street, when he first meets Jane Bent, a freckle-faced girl with red pigtails and yellow smiley-face barrettes, who seems to know him better than he knows himself. A magical afternoon at the movies, watching Carey Grant in Gunga Din, is the beginning of a puzzling friendship that soon leaves Joey baffled and bewildered.

Phillip Drummer is a chief surgical resident at the Philadelphia General Hospital. After five years of intense training he stands atop the surgical pyramid, poised to graduate in six months. His final clinical rotation places him under the direction of Dr. Frederick Riles II, the esteemed chairman of the Department of Surgery. Dr. Riles is in the midst of completing his life’s work, a landmark study investigating Lysovage - an experimental drug designed to combat painful abdominal adhesions. Through a series of random events, Phil is drawn into the project and introduced to the marketing ...

The wise-cracking Wysdom Ward is back and more badass than ever. It’s been five months since The God Among Men disappeared off the planet. Wysdom Ward is trying to find him while simultaneously building her new private detective business. Women are the ultimate multitaskers. AmIRight!? She has zero leads until she discovers a cryptic clue left behind by her brand-new boyfriend. He tells her to run for her life, but she’s never been one to follow the rules. Wysdom jumps into a world of secret military contractors, knife-throwing badasses, missing dry cleaning, and 55+ retirement ...

This Jersey girl hits hard - 24/7. The blockbuster Stephanie Plum series continues with Hardcore Twenty-Four from number one New York Times best-selling Janet Evanovich.

When Chaz Perron's wife discovers that he is running a scam (posing as a marine biologist to doctor water samples so that an agribusiness tycoon can continue illegally dumping fertilizer into the Everglades), he pushes her overboard from a cruise liner. Unlucky for Chaz, Joey survives clutching a bale of Jamaican pot. Rescued from the Atlantic by a former police officer, Mick Stranahan, she decides not to report him but instead haunt and taunt him, with Mick's help, by playing dead.

When Barb, my bestie, gets duped by an online Casanova, it's not just her heart that's on the line but also her horde of hairless cats. I mean, come on, Barb—haven't we learned anything from those true-crime podcasts? Now, here I am, stepping in to clean up the mess, armed with my knowledge that 'true love' is the biggest scam since that prince emailed me asking for my bank details. But then, in walks this FBI agent with a dad-bod that could make a nun blush, and my own heart starts doing the Macarena. Great. Just what I needed. As we team up to untangle this web of deceit, I'm trying ...

Lady Cop Makes Trouble sets Constance loose on the streets of New York City and New Jersey - tracking down victims, trailing leads, and making friends with girl reporters and lawyers at a hotel for women. Cheering her on, and goading her, are her sisters, Norma and Fleurette - that is, when they aren't training pigeons for the war effort or fanning dreams of a life on the stage.

FBI special agent Kate O’Hare has made it her mission to nail international con artist Nicolas Fox. When she discovers his plot to plunder a venture capitalist’s 20th-story Chicago penthouse of all its cash and treasures while the self-proclaimed "King of Hostile Takeovers" is getting married, Kate is 85 percent - okay maybe 92 percent - sure that she’s finally going to bag Nick Fox. Problem is, first Kate has to convince her boss, building security, and maybe even herself, that wedding planner Merrill Stubing is actually Nicolas Fox. Second, she has to figure out how to corner and capture him without disrupting the event of the year.

One mystery, one romance, and a possibly undead rat. In the heart of Singsong City, Cassandra Clarence, recently departed, finds refuge in the Necromancer, Oswald Mercury's, enchanted mansion. But when it comes out that she was murdered, along with her friends, she is drawn back into the world of the living. With the help of an unlikely ally, she must unravel the mysteries of her own death before they consume her chance at having a new life. Will she find her killer and maybe love, or will the shadows of her parent's past drag her back into the grave? Necromancers Don't Raise is the fifth ...

Trying to get a rise out of Marley, Ida's been making crank calls and even vandalizing the pancake house. The police can't do much about the pranks, so Marley sets out to bury the hatchet once and for all. But someone's beat her to it - in the most shocking way possible. After stumbling across Ida's dead body, Marley's suddenly the number one suspect in her murder. Clearing her good name is going to be a tall order, but Marley's not about to let Ida keep ruining her life - especially from beyond the grave.

Elderflower Tea Shop is next door to Cardinal Woolsey's, the yarn shop Lucy runs and home to the late-night Vampire Knitting Club. The tea shop owners are a pair of octogenarian spinsters and old family friends, so Lucy wants to help clear up the mystery that's keeping their shop closed. But murder isn't the only issue troubling the Miss Watts. A man has come between them. Miss Florence Watt is being romanced by an old flame, one Mary Watt distrusts.

Having left her career as an investigative journalist, Emily thinks she is done with the world of crimes and dead bodies. But is she? Two weeks ago, Emily Bennett came face to face with a man who was supposed to be dead. Together with Alexander Lewis, she uncovered the murder of his parents and put the culprit behind bars. That should be the end of their problems, right? Besides, Emily isn't interested in uncovering anymore crimes. She’s done with that. In fact, she’s all dressed up, ready to leave Donna and the murders behind and go on a date with Alexander. She is ready to see where ...

In the neon-soaked streets of Los Angeles, Detective Robyn Chum isn't your average cop. As a member of the 'Death Squad'—L.A.'s preternatural homicide division—he's seen it all. Or so he thought. Robyn's got a secret that would make even the city's vampires pale: he's not just part-fey, he's ancient and one-of-a-kind. If the supernatural underworld ever found out, it'd be curtains for Robyn and everyone he cares about. But keeping secrets is the least of his worries when a routine missing zombie case explodes into a string of gruesome murders. With a green human partner to babysit, an ...