A Compilation of Cozies

In The Cost of Living by Rachel Ward, supermarket checkout girl Bea teams up with the clumsy new trainee, Ant; but can she trust him? When a young woman is brutally attacked on her way home from the supermarket, Bea thinks it's her responsibility to figure out who did it. After all, the police don't seem to be doing anything about it really. As customers and coworkers alike become suspects, dirty secrets surface and fear grips the town. Will Bea risk losing the people she loves most to solve this mystery?

Murder of a Good Man is a Piney Woods Mystery by Teresa Trent. Nora Alexander has come to Piney Woods, Texas to fulfill her mother's dying wish, but things get a bit dangerous. First, she is run off the road, then the sealed letter she is to deliver to Piney Woods' most prominent citizen--Adam Brockwell--turns out to be a scathing rebuke. Before you know it, the beloved Mr. Brockwell is found stabbed to death and suspicion immediately falls on Nora--because she's an outsider and one of the last people to see him alive. Ordered by the flirty sheriff, Tuck, not to leave town, Nora finds herself working with Tuck's Aunt Marty trying to revive business at the rundown Tunie Hotel. Will the secrets the old hotel harbors help clear Nora's name?

Scot Free by Catriona McPherson features Scottish-born marriage counselor Lexy Campbell moving to California to chase the American Dream. When she fell in love and married her hunky husband, Lexy moved to California and began building her marriage counseling practice. Life was indeed bright. Six months later, however, she's divorced, broke, and on her way back to Scotland. When her only client--sweet Mrs. Bombarro--is arrested for killing her husband with a fireworks rocket, Lexy knows the cops have it all wrong. In order to help out her client, she has to find a cheap place to sleep. When she checks into the Last Ditch Motel, Lexy finds an unexpected slice of life and a whole new world of trouble.

Deja Moo is a Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum Mystery by Kirsten Weiss. Maddie Kosloski, owner of San Benedetto, California's Paranormal Museum is no fan of the Christmas Cow--a thirty-foot straw bovine that graces the town square each December. For one thing, it replaces her museum as the top attraction every Christmas. Not to mention, every year, despite round-the-clock guards, the darn thing goes up in flames. This year, however, the cow is not the only thing to bite it. One of the night guards is found with an arrow sticking out of his chest. On top of all this, it seems that her new haunted cowbell exhibit is causing a panic. Can she quell the hysteria and find a killer without getting distracted by the hunky Detective Slate?

Survival of the Fritters by Ginger Bolton is the first of her Deputy Donut Mystery. Emily Westhill--along with her retired police chief father-in-law and her tabby, Deputy Donut--runs the best donut shop in Fallingbrook, Wisconsin. When one of her regulars doesn't show up for her knitting group, Emily and some of the woman's friends go searching at Georgia Teeter's home only to find her murdered among a pile of stale donuts. Georgia's murder coincides with her son's murder five years earlier. It was a case Emily's late husband never solved and she will have to revisit some painful memories to help free an innocent man and trace a killer.