Looking for a holiday gift for those who love cozy mystery/crime? #holidaygiftguide #cozy #cosycrime
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  • N. N. Light
    • Nov 8, 2021
    • 4 min read

Looking for a holiday gift for those who love cozy mystery/crime? #holidaygiftguide #cozy #cosycrime



Looking for a holiday gift for those who love cozy mystery/cozy crime? Check out these featured books...


When Harry Killed Sally by Beth Henderson


Lyst Whichur knew the Cosmos had delivered a whammy when she heard her godmother had been killed, but did it have to stick her with Connor Wolfe, a werewolf, to help solve the murder?






The Big Uneasy Bundle by Pauline Baird Jones


Get lost in the no-holds-barred mystery series the Big Uneasy! Enjoy the rapid pace and humorous stories filled with lovable characters that will have you taking an armchair trip to the mysterious city of New Orleans! Grab the Big Uneasy series today and discover whodunit!


The Big Easy ain't always easy.


Crime-solving is very much a family affair in The Big Uneasy series, where gruff patriarch, Zack Baker, and his “Baker’s Dozen”, protect and serve, tangling with lawbreakers, love, and each other in post-Katrina New Orleans.


If you like your heroes to be good guys, then dive into your armchair trip to New Orleans with the law-abiding, family-strong Baker family and the women they fall for.


"Jones’ writing style is unique: a strong dose of noir balanced with humor and witty dialogue…The New Orleans ambiance conveyed is so realistically the reader will feel as if they have been plopped down right in the middle of the Big Easy." Midwest Book Review


This boxed set includes Relatively Risky, Dead Spaces, Louisiana Lagniappe, and Worry Beads. It also includes the bonus short story “Family Treed.”






Messandrierre by Angela Wren


Sacrificing his job in investigation following an incident in Paris, Jacques Forêt has only a matter of weeks to solve a series of mysterious disappearances as a Gendarme in the rural French village of Messandrierre.


But, as the number of missing persons rises, his difficult and hectoring boss puts obstacles in his way. Steely and determined, Jacques won't give up and, when a new Investigating Magistrate is appointed, he becomes the go-to local policeman for all the work on the case.


Will he find the perpetrators before his lover, Beth, becomes a victim?






Merle by Angela Wren


Jacques Forêt, a former gendarme turned investigator, delves into the murky world of commercial sabotage – a place where people lie and misrepresent, and where information is traded and used as a threat.


The Vaux organisation is losing contracts and money, and Jacques is asked to undertake an internal investigation. As he works through the complexity of all the evidence, he finds more than he bargained for, and his own life is threatened.


When a body of a woman is found, it appears to be suicide. But as the investigation takes another turn, Jacques suspects there is more to it.


Who is behind it all…and why? Will Jacques find the answer before another person ends up dead?






Montbel by Angela Wren


A clear-cut case?


A re-examination of a closed police case brings investigator, Jacques Forêt, up against an old adversary. After the murder of a key witness, Jacques finds himself, and his team, being pursued.


When a vital piece of evidence throws a completely different light on Jacques' case, his adversary becomes more aggressive, and Investigating Magistrate Pelletier threatens to sequester all of Jacques papers and shut down the investigation.


Can Jacques find all the answers before Pelletier steps in?






Marseille by Angela Wren


A spate of abductions and subsequent deaths in nearby départements have Investigator, Jacques Forêt, perplexed. Returning from extended leave to the news of a local kidnapping, Jacques is on the case immediately. And this time it’s personal.


But the case isn’t Jacques’ only worry. He has become more and more concerned about Beth, but what can he do if she doesn’t let him help her?


The investigation into the murders takes him and his trusted assistant, Didier Duclos, to Marseille. Can Jacques find the kidnappers and release their captive before another body is added to the list of unexplained murders?


It’s a race against time.






Mercœur by Angela Wren


On a quiet forest walk, Investigator Jacques Forêt encounters a sinister scene. Convinced there is evidence of malicious intent, he treats his discovery as a crime scene.


But intent for what? Without a body, how can he be sure that a crime has been - or is about to be - committed? Without a body, how can Jacques be sure that it’s murder, and not suicide? Without a body, how can the perpetrator be found?


A baffling case that tests Jacques to his limits.






Snow Kiss Cookies To Die For by Wendy Kendall


Dez made a beeline for her secret Santa stocking. Her excitement matched her students’ as she took down her stocking and reached inside. She pulled out the cardboard, and her heartbeat sped up. One look and her heartbeat pounded.


The card was a picture of Santa in his sleigh with reindeer. Her smile faded seeing a cut out photo of her face pasted on the drawn figure next to Santa. Where did that picture come from? The caption read: Secret Santa may sleigh you if you’re not a good girl .


No signature. A secret and creepy Santa. Would Leo give her this? There was a bump in the toe of the stocking. She shook it upside down over the counter and a sprig of holly with berries fell out. From Saturday night’s heart wreath?


Dez looked around, including out the windows. Was anyone watching? The idea of someone putting up a stocking with her name was odd enough, but with this inside?...her phone vibrated… It was from the anonymous sender.


Her hand shook as she clicked on it and read. How did you like your card?






Death by Sample Size by Susie Black


The last thing swimwear sales exec Holly Schlivnik expected was to discover ruthless buying office big wig Bunny Frank’s corpse trussed up like a Thanksgiving turkey with a bikini stuffed down her throat. When Holly’s colleague is arrested for Bunny’s murder, the wise-cracking, irreverent amateur sleuth jumps into action to find the real killer. Nothing turns out the way Holly thinks it will as she matches wits with a wily killer hellbent on revenge.




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