Retail Shop
All kinds of shop workers get involved in cozy mysteries. Often they’re the person who owns a small boutique store, and something mysterious happens, or someone dies in their shop. I hope that’s not as common as cozies make it appear to be.
The Antique Pickers in Paradise Mysteries (Maggie West)
The Antique Print Mysteries (Lea Wait) Recently widowed Maggie Summer, owner of Shadows Antiques, arrives at the prestigious Rensselaer County Spring Antiques Fair. Unfortunately, a string of deaths among her fellow antiques dealers has everyone looking at each other with suspicious eyes.
The Avery Ayers Antique Mysteries (Tracy Gardner) After her parents’ deaths, Avery Ayers takes over the family business, Antiquities & Artifacts Appraised, from the home office in Lilac Grove.
The Black Sheep Knitting Mysteries (Anne Canadeo) The Black Sheep Knitters—Maggie, Lucy, Dana, Suzanne, and Phoebe—meet once a week without fail, sharing the varied and colorful skeins of their lives as much as knitting tips, recipes, and small-town gossip, and creating an intricate, durable pattern of friendship.
The Bridal Bouquet Shop Mysteries (Beverly Allen) As the co-owner of The Rose in Bloom, Audrey Bloom creates magnificent flower arrangements for brides to be. Though helping to plan a wedding can be stressful, it’s nothing compared to the groom turning up dead.
The Camelot Flowers Mysteries (Erica Wynters)
The Cats and Curios Mysteries (Rebecca M. Hale)
The Christie’s Flower Shoppe Mysteries (P. J. Peterson) Christie O’Mara is thrilled to finally be living her dream of running her own flower shop. With her grandmother’s legacy guiding her, she sets out to create beautiful floral arrangements and unique gifts for the small town she calls home.
The Christmas Shop Mysteries (Maggie Toussaint) After she is implicated in a murder in her quiet coastal Georgia town, Christmas gift shop owner MaryBeth must find the real killer before she becomes the next victim.
The Cobwebs and Curiosities Mysteries (Ravyn Amara) Holly Goodwin has a special ability. All her life, she’s been able to see ghosts. They tend to be connected to objects that were important to them in life, which makes her job – running the antique shop that her mother left her – a source of near-constant contact.
The Country Gift Shop Mysteries (Vivian Conroy)
The Dead-End Job Mysteries (Elaine Viets) When unlikely sleuth Helen Hawthorne flees her hometown, she ends up in Fort Lauderdale, suddenly surrounded by the beautiful and the Botoxed. They all shop at the same place—Juliana’s, the overpriced boutique where Helen works.
The Den of Antiquity Mysteries (Tamar Myers) As owner of the Den of Antiquity, recently divorced Abigail Timberlake is accustomed to delving into the past, searching for lost treasures, and navigating the cutthroat world of rival dealers at flea markets and auctions.
The Divorced Diva Mysteries (Tonya Kappes) Holly Harper and a group of divorcees have formed a strong bond plotting creative ways to get back at their exes. They created a self-help group known as The Divorced Divas and their meetings are held in Holly’s bead store, The Beaded Dragonfly.
The Enchanted Garden Mysteries (Bailey Cattrell) Elliana Allbright’s life has blossomed in Poppyville, California, since she opened Scents & Nonsense, a custom-made-perfume store. Her skills with aromas and botanical essences—some from her very own garden—seem almost…supernatural.
The Eve Appel Mysteries (Lesley A. Diehl)
The Flower of Scotland Mysteries (Juliet MacLeod)
The Ghost Cat Mysteries (Jessica Beck) When Christy Blake loses one of her two cats, Midnight, and her boss in what looks like a robbery attempt at her secondhand shop, she thinks it’s the end of the world. But Midnight isn’t ready to go anywhere just yet, so he comes back as a ghost cat to help her track down his killer.
The Ghosted Mysteries (Jessica Arden)
The Grace’s Augusta Mysteries (Charmain Zimmerman Brackett)
The Haunted Vintage Mysteries (Rose Pressey Betancourt) Cookie Chanel has opened her own vintage clothing boutique in the charming town of Sugar Creek, Georgia.
The Ivy Morris Mysteries (Misty Simon) At 24, Ivy Morris gets a letter with the words “your inheritance” offering her a home and a costume shop of her own 3000 miles away.
The Jams, Jellies and Murder Mysteries (Donna Walo Clancy) Tabitha Moon, the owner of a local shop, Jellies, Jams, and Weddings, is a bit bewildered to find herself smack dab in the middle of a real life mystery when Richard Wells disappears, and she vows to do her best to help solve it.
The Kate Hamilton Mysteries (Connie Berry) On Scotland’s Isle of Glenroth, the islanders gather for the Tartan Ball, the annual end-of-tourist-season gala. Spirits are high until a body is found, murdered in a reenactment of an infamous unsolved murder described in a new novel.
The Keepsake Cove Mysteries (Mary Ellen Hughes) When Callie Reed comes to Keepsake Cove to reconnect with her aunt, Melodie, she is charmed by both the town of quaint collectible shops and by her aunt’s fairy tale cottage. But Melodie’s sudden death turns that charm into an unacceptable shock.
The Knitty Kitties Mysteries (Tracey Drew) Tessa Wakefield is a busy woman. Between running her cozy craft store and refereeing family drama, the last thing on Tessa’s mind is murder. But when her brother gets stitched up as a murder suspect, Tessa embraces her inner sleuth, joins forces with her crafty friends, and starts snooping.
The Knitty Kitty Mysteries (Katherine Hayton) A sudden death has Tash Mallory all stitched up! Tash Mallory’s future is in the balance when her employer fires her from the knitting shop job she’s held for twenty years. Even worse, when Tash returns to confront her, she finds her boss’ dead body in the back room.
The Little Tombstone Mysteries (Celia Kinsey)
The Lucy St. Elmo Antiques Mysteries (Mary Moody)
The Magic Garden Mysteries (Amanda Flower) Reeling from the loss of her fiancé and flower shop, Fiona Knox is surprised to find that her newfound inheritance—her late grandfather’s magical estate in Scotland—comes with a murder mystery too.
The Magic Potion Mysteries (Heather Blake) When Carly finds a dead man in her magic potion shop, clutching one of her potion bottles, she goes from most popular potion person to public enemy number one.
The Magpie Cove Mysteries (C. Farren) Bea Goldfrapp runs her own magical greetings card business in the small town of Magpie Cove, Maine. She lives with her familiar, Widdershins, and a talking magpie that’s lived for a thousand years. Then someone poisons her tea and she dies.
The Mikki Bridgewater Mysteries (Amy Curry) Mikki Bridgewater is a small town girl who has struggled with what to do in life. She has wonderful friends, a secret crush, and she has finally found her happy place in her candle shop Mountain Lights Candle & Gifts.
The Out of the Box Mysteries (Martha Kemm Landes) Maria Olson can see beauty in everything, even useless junk. She has a successful online business selling repurposed items. Leaping to a brick-and-mortar store, she leases a turquoise boxcar in “16 Boxes”, the new trendy shopping area in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The Ozarks Mysteries (Dianne Harman)
The Parlor Tricks Mysteries (A. L. Kessler)
The Pickled and Preserved Mysteries (Mary Ellen Hughes) Piper Lamb decides to pursue her dream of opening her own shop of pickles and preserves, called Piper’s Picklings, in the idyllic small town of Cloverdale. But she isn’t in town long before she encounters a barrelful of trouble.
The Rose City Mysteries (Kate Dyer-Seeley) Britta Johnston might be a late bloomer, but she’s finally pursuing her artistic passion at her Aunt Elin’s floral boutique, Blooma, in Portland, Oregon. It’s on the banks of the Willamette, in a quaint district of cobblestone paths and cherry trees.
The Rosemary Harbor Mysteries (Wendy Meadows) Hillary Sheridan is a widow who has just opened her gift basket shop with her daughter, Annabelle, to lead a normal life out of the spotlight after so many years caring for her late husband.
The Running Store Mysteries (T. C. Wescott)
The Sage Wisdom Mysteries (Juliet MacLeod)
The Sassy Supplies Mysteries (Katherine H. Brown) Charity Basham, owner of Sassy Supplies Crafts & More, is a sweet and southern and perfectly content with her predictable life. Life, however, never remains predictable for long. From a corpse disguised as a skeleton to seemingly random graves being dug up every night, life in her small town became a lot more interesting over the holidays.
The ScrapBooking Mysteries (Laura Childs) Business is booming and life is cozy for Carmela at her scrapbooking shop, Memory Mine. The series is written by Laura Childs, with contributions to later books from Diana Orgain and Terrie Farley Moran.
The Seacastle Mysteries (P. J. Skinner)
The Storage Ghost Mysteries (Gillian Larkin)
The Sugar Mill Marketplace Mysteries (Becky Clark) The Sugar Mill Marketplace Mysteries are set in Sugar Springs, Colorado, a valley nestled between a roaring river and majestic peaks. As beautiful as it is there, the economy began to shrink little by little every year since the sugar mill closed.
The Tabby Kitten Mysteries (Constance Barker) Thea Beal isn’t like other witches. She just wants to run a craft store with Sybil, her fluffy orange kitten familiar, and to learn more magic from her quirky and eccentric, but highly skilled magic user, Granny. Written by Constance Barker and Corrine Winters.
The Tabby Kitten Mysteries (Corrine Winters) Thea Beal isn’t like other witches. She just wants to run a craft store with Sybil, her fluffy orange kitten familiar, and to learn more magic from her quirky and eccentric, but highly skilled magic user, Granny. Written by Corrine Winters and Constance Barker.
The Tangled Web Mysteries (Sadie Hartwell) Josie Blair finds herself heading back to her hometown, and taking care of her great-uncle who was injured in a car accident. Josie is also tasked with selling the contents of his yarn shop, but the needling ladies of the Charity Knitters Association pose a far bigger challenge.
The Teddy Bear Mysteries (Meg Macy) As manager of the family teddy bear shop and factory in small-town Silver Hollow, Sasha Silverman leads a charmed life. But Will Taylor, the sales rep, wants to make drastic changes to the business her parents built from scratch, with or without Sasha’s approval.
The Tink Tank Knitting Mysteries (Jessa Archer) Charlotte “Charlie” Shaw is a divorcée and empty nester running a knitting store/coffee shop in a rural Iowa college town.
The Trash ‘n’ Treasures Mysteries (Barbara Allan) Determined to make a new start in her quaint hometown, Brandy Borne never dreams she’ll become the prime suspect in a murder case. Moving back in with her eccentric, larger-than-life mother, Brandy Borne finds small-town Serenity, Iowa anything but serene.
The Trash to Treasure Mysteries (Donna Walo Clancy)
The Very Vintage Bride Mysteries (Julie Davenham)
The Village Flower Shop Mysteries (Nancy Warren) Peony Bellefleur runs Bewitching Blooms, the charming flower shop in a picture-perfect Cotswold village in England. Her flowers seem to make the sick improve, wedding days happier, and birthdays more special because she infuses her bouquets with a little magic.
The Wedding Bells and Magic Spells Mysteries (A. R. Winters) Aria Whitmore, weddings specialist and secret witch, is a little concerned about her parrot familiar Kiwi’s addiction to unhealthy snack food. But this fades away when Aria’s client is found dead, possibly killed by magic!
The Witch of Wickrock Bay Mysteries (Wendy Meadows) In the sleepy tourist town of Wickrock Bay, Maine, Mimi’s artifact and antique shop is a hit with customers far and wide. But when her crotchety next-door cafe owner turns up mysteriously dead, and an artifact from her shop is the murder weapon, Mimi is determined to find the real killer.
The Wizards of Little Hope Mysteries (Tyler Rhodes) After losing his wife five years ago, Bran sank into a mire of depression and over-eating. Two years of grieving later, he got his act together, moved back to his hometown of Lost Hope, and embraced his wizardly credentials.
The Year-Round Christmas Mysteries (Vicki Delany) In Rudolph, New York, it’s Christmastime all year long. But this December, while the snow-lined streets seem merry and bright, a murder is about to ruin everyone’s holiday cheer in the first Year-Round Christmas mystery.