Police Procedural Cozy

Name: Brown (just Brown, ma’am). Physical Appearance/Demeanor: Bear (That’s grizzly - consider yourself warned.). Occupation: Private Dick. Clients: San Antonio’s Finest, area’s most notorious gang boss, hitmen, world renowned artists, Olmos Elementary School entire third grade class. Cases: Find some body and return them to their forever home. Find wife-beating boyfriend before contracted hitman does. Perform background checks on the bad guys. Find lost animals.

Bike cop Ellie Rush dreams of becoming a homicide detective, but it's still a shock when the first dead body she encounters on the job is that of a former college classmate. At the behest of her Aunt Cheryl, the highest-ranking Asian-American officer in the LAPD (a source of pride for Ellie's grandmother, but annoyance to her mom), Ellie becomes tangled in the investigation of the coed's murder—with equal parts help and hindrance from her nosy best friend, her over-involved ex-boyfriend, a smoldering detective, and seemingly everyone else in her extended family.

Belinda Penshurst loves her home village Little Challham, and its charming, peaceful ways. So when wine critic Sadie Oppenshaw dies at a tasting Belinda organised, she immediately turns detective to uncover the poisoner.... Accompanied by retired detective Harry Powell and her boisterous Labrador Horatio, Belinda sets out to investigate the world of wine. There are scandals brewing everywhere...but do the local DIY enthusiasts have a deadly vendetta, or did Sadie’s reviews cause a resentful restaurant owner to crack?

Gordon Hepler, Mapleton, Colorado’s Police Chief, is called away from a quiet Sunday with his wife to an emergency situation at the home he’s planning to sell. A man has chained himself to the front porch, threatening to set off an explosive.

After a serious accident leaves Calliope Rose Collins unable to continue with the career that has owned her soul for most of her life, she returns to Foxtail Lake, Hollister House, Great Aunt Gracie, and her childhood friend, Officer Cass Wylander, as she begins to rebuild her life from the ashes of what she once had. In book four of The Cat in the Attic series, Cass investigates a grisly murder, while Callie is busy working on an anniversary story relating to the cold case disappearance of a 12-year-old boy who went missing from a camping trip to Logan Pond 25 years ago.

Commissario Marco Pellegrini hatte sich auf die ersten warmen Frühlingstage gefreut. Zu gern hätte er in Ruhe den einen oder anderen caffè in der Bar des Familienbetriebs genossen, ehe die Touristenmassen an den Comer See strömen. Denn dann ist es auch bei der Polizia di Stato mit der Ruhe vorbei. Doch die Realität holt ihn früher ein als erwartet: Ein Student wird in seiner völlig verwüsteten Wohnung aufgefunden – erwürgt.

Franzosen und Engländer reichen sich die Hand - so ist es zumindest beim Friedensfest von Auciel Bas geplant. In diesem Stadtteil von Auciel Haute haben viele Briten eine Heimat gefunden. Doch zwischen dem englischen Initiator des Fests und seinem französischen Intimfeind kommt es zum Streit. Und kurze Zeit später werden beide tot aufgefunden. Haben sich die Streithähne gegenseitig getötet? Oder ist doch eine dritte Person verantwortlich? Cluzet und Sandrine Saidi ermitteln in der englischen Gemeinde von Auciel Haute und kommen einem Skandal auf die Spur.

Former police chief Katherine Sullivan has been called brilliant, brave, compassionate, and quirky, but after decades of crime fighting, this resilient grandmother with an artist's soul is discovering that retirement can be just as deadly as being on the job. When Katherine returned to her hometown, her only thought was to comfort her recently divorced daughter. That was before a young woman was found murdered on the estate of the town's richest family.

All Mapleton Police Chief Gordon Hepler wants is to enjoy a rare quiet moment and have a peaceful lunch. Before he can finish his sandwich, Angie, his wife, calls to say her business partner is going to be arrested at a wedding reception they’re catering. Seems her partner stumbled upon the body of one of the guests - the mother of the groom. Was it a natural death? Suicide? Homicide?

Of all the weird characters Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond has met in Bath, this one is the most extreme: a 21st-century private eye called Johnny Getz, whose office is over Shear Amazing, a hairdressing salon. Johnny has been hired by Ruby Hubbard, whose father, an antiques shop owner, has gone missing, and Johnny insists on involving 'Pete' in his investigation. When Diamond, Johnny and Ruby enter the shop, they find a body and a murder investigation is launched.

Arthur Crimes is a small-town publisher who discovers the dead body of an elderly millionaire near an isolated swimming hole. Having once worked with his uncle, a private investigator, Arthur decides to try and find the murderer with the help of his good friend, Eve, a true crime author who is, frankly, hoping to get another book deal. But as they weed through a surprising number of suspects, is someone else observing everything they do, waiting for the right moment to strike ... WILLIAM SCHOELL is the prolific author of many novels, biographies, books on the performing arts and pop culture...

Mitten im Wald, zwischen Tannen, Totholz und Touristenströmen, finden Spaziergänger den leblosen Körper des Industriellen Jakob Drittenbass. Ein Herzinfarkt beim Wandern oder Mord? Reifenabdrücke im moosigen Erdboden und verdächtige Finanzflüsse im Netz führen Kommissar Jennerwein und sein Team rasch auf die Spur des Täters. Doch dann gerät Jennerwein in Schwierigkeiten, die er sich in seinen wildesten Albträumen nicht hatte vorstellen können - unversehens steht er selbst unter Mordverdacht.

Ein Alptraum für Polizeikommissarin Viktoria Engel: Sie erschießt im Dienst einen Unschuldigen, den 16-jährigen Rouven Kramer. In ihrer Not inszeniert sie die Tat, als hätte sie aus Notwehr gehandelt, doch die Dorfbewohner hegen Zweifel. Als kurze Zeit später eine weitere Leiche auftaucht, bizarr inszeniert wie Rouvens Tod, bricht eine Welle von Misstrauen über das Dorf herein, bis sich niemand mehr vor dem anderen sicher fühlt.

An original story from the creator and writer of the hit BBC One TV series Death in Paradise, featuring on-screen favourite detective DI Richard Poole. Supermodel Polly Carter was famed for her looks and party-girl lifestyle. Now she's dead, apparently having thrown herself from the clifftop near her home on the island of Saint-Marie. Those who knew her say Polly would never have killed herself...and when he is called in to investigate, DI Richard Poole is inclined to agree there is more to Polly's death than meets the eye.

World War Two has ended, but the peace is threatened when a shocking murder takes place in the Sussex countryside. Before long, police discover a link to another killing hundreds of miles away.... Scotland Yard detective Billy Styles is on the case, but a strange twist of fate brings former DI John Madden into the investigations. As the victim count rises, it becomes clear that to catch this serial killer they must act quickly.

Meet Silver Delaney, con artist extraordinare. Most foster homes are places of love and compassion. Silver had the bad luck to be raised in the other kind. Rather than what could be, she lives by the truth of what is. Her goals are simple: find her (rich, of course) birth parents, con them out of as much money as she can, and start over in a new life. Her dream job will be a famous chef in Paris, or a doctor collecting grateful accolades and high salary, or even an award-winning actress. But then she gets accused of murder and scrambles to prove herself innocent.

Vollmond der Streitigkeiten. Alle zehn Jahre geschieht in den Hügeln der Toskana ein Naturschauspiel: Der Vollmond steht dann so hell am Himmel, dass er zum Greifen nah erscheint. Dieses Mal hat das katastrophale Folgen: Erst rast ein Markthändler ungebremst einen Hügel hinab und kommt dabei fast ums Leben, dann wird ein Bürger der Stadt tot aus dem Fluss gezogen. Er wurde brutal erschlagen. Was haben die beiden Fälle miteinander zu tun? Commissario Luca ermittelt unter Hochdruck, in seiner idyllischen Stadt, in der sich auf einmal alle spinnefeind sind.

Ein Bilderbuchsommer an der Nordsee und halb Fredenbüll macht Urlaub auf Amrum. Nicoles kleiner Sohn Finn baut begeistert eine Sandburg, als er mit seiner Schaufel einen abgetrennten Frauenfuß zutage fördert. Gleichzeitig wird nahe der Küste ein weißer Heilbutt, der König der Raubfische, gesichtet. Die Presse überbietet sich mit dramatischen Schlagzeilen über den "Mörder-Heilbutt vor Amrum".

It's 1955. Two young couples move to the uninhabited, isolated fjord of Hedinsfjordur. Their stay ends abruptly when one of the women meets her death in mysterious circumstances. The case is never solved. Fifty years later an old photograph comes to light, and it becomes clear that the couple may not have been alone on the fjord after all....

In Death at La Fenice, Donna Leon’s first novel in the Commissario Brunetti series, readers were introduced to the glamorous and cut-throat world of opera and to one of Italy’s finest living sopranos, Flavia Petrelli - then a suspect in the poisoning of a renowned German conductor. Now, many years after Brunetti cleared her name, Flavia has returned to the illustrious La Fenice to sing the lead in Tosca. As an opera superstar, Flavia is well acquainted with attention from adoring fans and aspiring singers.