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The next BRAND NEW instalment in the page-turning Armstrong & Oscar cozy mystery series from bestselling author T.A. Williams Bologna, Italy's happiest city - or is it? A grieving father asks Dan to uncover the truth behind the death of his gifted son, a student at Bologna's prestigious Art...

After agreeing to dog sit her daughter’s two cockapoos for a couple of weeks, Nesta decides to make full use of staying in a Flintshire market town by running her own stall. What she hadn’t banked on was another murder to solve. With the added help of her teenage assistant Darren, Nesta is...

Meet Diana Bakewell. She runs tours of London aboard a vintage Routemaster bus, and is the city's best connected tour guide. But she has an uncanny habit of finding herself in the middle of murder cases. Along with her colleague Zaf (from the Detective Zoe Finch books) and stowaway cat Gus, follow her adventures as she and the team solve a series of twisty mysteries. Will Diana and Zaf solve the case before the police do?

A woman’s body lies in the heather, her neck broken. Her horse watches nervously from a few paces away. Despite looking like an accident, it doesn’t take long for DI Callum MacLean, newly arrived in Hampshire from Glasgow, to establish she was murdered. Nor does it take DS Daisy Donaldson, appearing soon after on horseback, long to identify the victim. Mary-Ellen Mitchell was a well-known and seemingly well-liked businesswoman, married to a respected local artist, and part of the close-knit community.

August 1942. Crofter's Green's favorite sleuths are headed for the Kent coast—where one of Britain's strangest wartime secrets lies hidden behind shuttered boarding houses and blacked-out promenades. Off the cliffs of Folkestone, just twenty-one miles from enemy territory, a mysterious "ghost fleet" rides at anchor: a flotilla of ships built from wood and canvas, designed to convince Hitler that invasion may come at any moment.

The Harvey Ross Coastal Mystery series: Books 1-3 Retirement was supposed to be the end of Harvey Ross's detective career. It turned out to be just the beginning. Former Detective Inspector Harvey Ross has traded London's Metropolitan Police for the windswept shores of North Norfolk. Divorced...

A séance in the belltower, a ghost in the gallery, and a corpse in the cloister. Famed sleuth Lord Edgington travels to a former abbey in the south-west of France, but as the chimes of midnight strike for Halloween night, a man is killed. Has the victim's past caught up with him or is something...

A festive gathering... Private investigator Dan Armstrong, accompanied by his wife and his canine sidekick, Oscar, are spending the days before Christmas in a luxurious Alpine chalet tucked away in a hidden valley. It should be the perfect escape, except the owner is in fear for his life. A...

A dead developer. A missing fortune. And every clue points to the new witch in town. All Ivy Rowan wanted was to run her cozy cat café on the coast, good espresso, autumn vibes, and Hex, her snarky black familiar hogging the best sunbeam.

Baby dragons, a paranormal animal shelter, and a magical academy where the professors are know-it-all cats? Throw a dead body in the mix, and Elsie's thinking this magical town might be too hot to handle…

As the Oxford Detective Society tackle their first case, someone is determined that a long-buried mystery should stay hidden… Oxford biographer Lyssa Moore is delighted to be commissioned to write about Amelia ‘Monty’ Montrose, the 1960s music icon who died mysteriously at her birthday...

London, 1941. Polly Hope is bravely working as an air raid warden during the Blitz when she saves the life of the charming Freddie Fairbank. Over a thank-you breakfast at the Ritz, he asks Polly to help requisition a sprawling English country house for the war effort. Petherbridge Hall has grand rooms, lovely views and will be a perfect nursing home for injured troops, if they can only persuade the family to give up their house. But then they find the lord of the manor dead behind the gardener’s shed.

Don't miss the next instalment in the Fish and Chip Shop Detectives Agency series, available to pre-order now! Praise for the Fish and Chip Shop Detective Agency series: 'Well this was simply fantastic. It was everything I was looking for in a small town cozy murder mystery' Reader review...

A suspicious death, a missing girl, and very few leads... New Forest police are grasping at straws. Whilst Detective Inspector Callum MacLean is settling into his new role in rural Hampshire, a young woman is found dead in the neighbourhood, her identity unknown. For a close-knit community where everyone knows everyone else, this seems very odd, but when a local child goes missing shortly afterwards, panic sets in. It’s not the first such case for the Scottish inspector, yet the last one in Glasgow ended in tragedy.

It's the day of the Christchurch Dog Show. The whole town is aquiver with excitement. The ladies of the Charity Shop Detective Agency are hoping to make lots of new furry friends. After a very dramatic Best Biscuit Catcher competition, Fiona, Sue, and Daisy from the Dogs Need Nice Homes charity shop come across a shocking scene. The dog show's vet is performing CPR on a woman. The ladies rush over, but it's too late. Back at the shop, the ladies learn that the poor woman was murdered. Someone injected Sylvia Steadman with something very nasty indeed.

Albert Smith might be retired, but a long career as a police detective has left him with skills that just won’t switch off. So on a walking tour of the British Isles, it doesn’t take long for his eyes to spot something he wasn’t supposed to see.

After losing her parents, Carly Ravenspell is sent to live at Thornwood Estate with a grandmother she’s never met. What she finds isn’t just a new home. It’s a doorway into something…other. As Carly settles into her strange new life, her grandmother begins sharing stories—of haunted mansions, restless spirits, and a mysterious witch named Emma whose past is tangled with Carly’s own. At first, they feel like nothing more than eerie tales meant to pass the time.

Doreen Montgomery—an amateur sleuth who can’t help but stumble into trouble while solving crimes—falls right into another case. When a local break-in leads to the suspicious death of beloved jewelry collector Roger Bennington, Doreen finds herself drawn into a tangled web of secrets, old...

Step into the enigmatic world of the Athos—a vessel that blends the luxury of a cruise ship, the intrigue of a scientific research station, and the might of a military starship. Here, amidst the stars, you'll find Ellis McFadden, the ship’s head librarian, enjoying the quiet of the fallow...

When Paige Turner inherits her mother Reed’s knack for attracting magical disasters, she also inherits her mother’s unfinished business—protecting a library of dangerous magical artifacts and keeping the world safe from things better left shelved.