Florida
Florida! The land of beaches and hurricanes. Escape to the Sunshine State in one of these Cozy Mysteries.
The A1A Beach Mysteries (Sara Keefe) Former food vlogger Sadie Lennox has given up her influencer status and returned to her hometown of St. Augustine Beach, Florida to reconnect with her family. Her Uncle Duncan recruits her to help get the family burger joint profitable again
The All-Day Breakfast Cafe Mysteries (Lena Gregory)
The Bad Hair Day Mysteries (Nancy J. Cohen) Hairstylist Marla Shore is already having a bad hair day when one of her clients dies in the shampoo chair at her salon. Then Detective Dalton Vail accuses her of putting poison in the woman’s coffee creamer.
The Barefoot Sleuth Mysteries (H. Y. Hanna) English girl Ellie is a ’fish-out-of-water’ when she arrives in sunny Florida for a vacation with her aunt at a luxury beach resort. But she’s barely dipped her toe in the ocean before she stumbles on a sinister murder.
The Birds of a Feather Mysteries (Marty Wingate) Artist Sarah McDougall flees from New England to Florida’s west coast thinking she can escape her unwanted psychic abilities.
The Brandy Wyne Mysteries (Anne Avery)
The Bucket List Mysteries (S. C. Merritt)
The By the Sea Mysteries (Kathleen Bridge)
The Calgon Capers (Summer Prescott) When murder happens, and one of cupcake baker Melissa Beckett’s dearest friends is on the list of suspects, the spunky amateur sleuth takes it upon herself to do some serious investigating, which just might result in her becoming the next victim.
The Calgon Chronicles (Summer Prescott)
The Cape Coral Mysteries (Carol Freeman)
The Cara Mia Delgatto Mysteries (Joanna Campbell Slan) With her parents deceased and her son away at college, Cara Mia Delgatto longs to reinvent herself. And a sentimental purchase of a fixer-upper in Stuart, Florida seems ideal for a new business selling repurposed relics.
The Caribbean Kitchen Mysteries (Raquel V. Reyes) Miriam Quiñones-Smith moves to Miami and gets a short-term job as a Caribbean cooking expert on a Spanish-language morning TV show.
The Cats & Crimes Mysteries (Maggie Pill)
The Charmed Cocktail Mysteries (M. L. Bonatch)
The Chloe Jackson Sea Glass Saloon Mysteries (Sherry Harris) With Chicago winters in the rearview mirror, Chloe Jackson is making good on a promise: help her late friend’s grandmother run the Sea Glass Saloon in the Florida Panhandle. To Chloe’s surprise, feisty Vivi Slidell isn’t the frail retiree Chloe expects. Nor is Emerald Cove.
The Cookie Berelli Mysteries (Carolyn Chambers Clark)
The Cookie House Mysteries (Eve Calder)
The Crystal Beach Mysteries (Karen McSpade) A young writer living in Boston, Sidney Grace is far from the small wacky town of Crystal Beach, Florida, where her spell-happy grandmother retired. She is perfectly happy with her career and her four cats.
The Cupcakes in Paradise Mysteries (Summer Prescott)
The Curious Beach Mysteries (Trapper Westing) Curious Beach is a quaint seaside village overflowing with quirky characters and bizarre murders. When Stella arrives, no one is investigating her uncle’s mysterious death. Stella enlists the help of her new neighbor Charlie, an unlicensed and not entirely competent private investigator.
The Daphne Curtis Impossible Mysteries (S. R. Stevenson)
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 Deadly Paradise Mysteries (Kimberly Griggs)
The Detective Whiskers Mysteries (Chris Abernathy) What’s better than a K-9 cop? A feline detective. Detective Whiskers is out to prove himself, and keep his human from being framed for murder, or worse. He’ll need the help of his new animal friends and Sheila’s group of female sleuths.
The Dixie Hemingway Mysteries (Blaize Clement)
The Eve Appel Mysteries (Lesley A. Diehl)
The Florida Keys Bed & Breakfast Mysteries (Danielle Collins)
The Hatter’s Cove Mysteries (Elisabeth Crabtree) It’s Valentine’s Day in quiet, cozy Hatter’s Cove, Florida and food columnist, Kat Archer, has been assigned the event of the year: the grand opening of Miss Dolly’s Cookie Jar and Sweets Emporium.
The Haunted Haven Mysteries (Carol J. Perry) Maureen Doherty receives a mysterious inheritance: an inn in Haven, Florida. A quaint, scenic town on the Gulf of Mexico hidden away from the theme parks, Maureen believes it’s a good place to make a fresh start with a new business venture.
The Haunted Souvenir Shop Mysteries (Christy Fifield) Glory Martine has inherited her uncle’s Florida souvenir shop, one stuffed with collectibles, mementos of times gone by–and ghosts–who, like her customers, refuse to let go of the past.
The Itty Bitty Kitty Magic Mysteries (Corrine Winters)
The Jamie Quinn Mysteries (Barbara Venkataraman)
The Joy Wagner Mysteries (Cindy Davis) The central Florida town of Uncertain looms as a mere distraction for Joy Wagner when her motorcycle breaks down. In less than an hour, her luck changes: She’s offered pizza-for-life and a job at Moore’s General Store.
The Junkyard Dog Mysteries (Summer Prescott) Inspired by a bit of success when she sells some household items, Macy Garson opens an online store and dives into the reselling business. She finds items at garage sales, cleans them up, and puts them in her store, with surprising success.
The Kate Kennedy Mysteries (Noreen Wald)
The Key West Food Critic Mysteries (Lucy Burdette)
The Ladies Smythe & Westin (Lisa Q. Mathews) Twentysomething party girl Summer Smythe is starting over in the unlikeliest of places; Hibiscus Pointe, a kitschy retirement community inÿupscale Milano, Florida. Her new gig? Working for Dr. A, Milano’s much-loved cardiologist.
The Livin’ at the Taj Mysteries (J. C. LeTourneau)
The Love & Diamonds Mysteries (Raquel V. Reyes)
The Mah Jongg Mysteries (Barbara Barrett) Four retired women in Serendipity Springs, Florida met playing the game of Mah Jongg and developed a strong friendship. The four don’t seek out murders to investigate; somehow the circumstances and those affected drag them in. To their surprise, they’re good at investigating homicides.
The Mariposa Cafe Mysteries (Teresa Michael)
The Millie Holland Cat Mysteries (Nancy C. Davis) Millie Holland spends her days writing advice columns, reading mystery novels, watching crime shows, and tending to her family of cats with diverse and quirky personalities. A sixty-ish divorcee, she keeps a precise schedule and a close watch on her early retirement complex in Ft. Lauderdale.
Milo’s Mysteries (Victoria L. K. Williams) Four sisters with extraordinary abilities and one feisty cat who looks after them. Each sister has the ablility to use the powers of the Earth, Sea, Fire and Air to help them solve the problems they face.
The Moccasin Cove Mysteries (Liz Boeger)
The Mortician Murder Mysteries (A. E. Howe)
The Murfy the Cat Mysteries (Anna Kern) When Ethan Hille discovers his mother Alyx slumped over her kitchen table bleeding from a gash in her head, he suspects foul play. Who would want to hurt Alyx?
The Oceanside Mysteries (Susan Gillard) Heather and the gang have finally made their move to Key West. However, it’s no vacation. Heather has to balance unpacking her new home, filling her new shop with Chocolate Hazelnut Donuts, and discovering who killed her new neighbor.
The Owl Star Witch Mysteries (Leanne Leeds)
The Parker Bell Mysteries (Sharon E. Buck)
The Pineapple Port Mysteries (Amy Vansant)
The Pink Flamingo Hotel Mysteries (Elisabeth Crabtree) Anna Hart, one of the new owners of the Pink Flamingo Hotel, is in trouble. Everyone in Hatter’s Cove is talking about her. They’re convinced she knocked off her sweet and kindly old uncle for her inheritance, especially Sylvia Sutton, her co-owner of the hotel.
The Piper Harris Mysteries (Deany Ray)
Poppy Pepper’s Paradise Cove & Mini Golf Mysteries (Molly Dox)
The Port Sunset Mysteries (Louise Stevens)
The Psychic Consignment Mysteries (J. B. Lynn) When the Concordia sisters inherit their godmother’s consignment shop, One Woman’s Junk, they get the chance to bond as sisters, fall in love and solve mysteries in the beach town of Sarasota, Florida. All while figuring out how to use their newly acquired psychic powers!
The Read ’Em and Eat Mysteries (Terrie Farley Moran)
Rita’s Pitas Mysteries (Summer Prescott) Rita Masnik had just eased into a new start in life. Her job as a server and manager at a boardwalk cafe in Calgon, Florida, paid the bills and gave her the chance to be creative with food. But everything changed when her beloved boss was murdered
The Rosa The Cuban Psychic Mysteries (Ileana Muñoz Renfroe) Rosa de los Reyes along with Raul her spirit guide, her abuela Nana, her familiar Moro, and Las Cubanitas keep themselves busy solving murders in the Rosa The Cuban Psychic Mysteries. Never a dull moment these characters get together.
The Samantha Holt Mysteries (Karen Ann Wilson)
The Sanibel Island Mysteries (Jennifer Lonoff Schiff)
The Sapphire Beach Mysteries (Angela K. Ryan) Connie Petretta struggles to find her way as she deals with the bequest of her beloved aunt’s Florida beachside condo. But selling it goes sideways when somebody plummets from an adjacent balcony seven stories to his death.
The Scoops & Snoops Mysteries (Mary Maxwell) When Liz Hutton returns to her Florida hometown after living in Atlanta for many years, she’s ready for a change. She plans to spend time with family and friends, help manage her aunt’s ice cream shop and savor the beaches and sunsets along the southern Gulf coast.
The Sea Mysteries (Crystal Winters)
The SeaBreeze Island Murder Mystery Club (L. C. Richards)
The Secret Senior Sleuth Society (Suzanne Rudd Hamilton) The Secret Senior Sleuths Society of Peacock Perch are a group of seniors in a Florida retirement community who use their cunning, life experience and the knowledge from their former occupations to follow the trail of gossip and social media posts to gather clues and find suspects.
The Southern Beach Mysteries (Kay Dew Shostak) Jewel Mantelle has never lived in the South, much less on the coast, so moving to the historic North Florida coastal town of Sophia Island seems like an adventure. However, when she arrives she finds that it’s awfully hot and humid there.
The Southernmost Mysteries (David F. Berens)
The Street Food Mysteries (Gretchen Allen) Billie Halifax is not only new to Sea Glass Island, Florida, but also to the food truck business. Her first task is to find a manager for the truck.
The Sunny Shores Mysteries (Cassie Rivers)
The Sunny Side Up Mysteries (Rosie A. Point)
The Sunny Springfield Mysteries (Jeff Shelby)
The Talk Radio Mysteries (Mary Kennedy)
The Tiger’s Eye Mysteries (Alyssa Day)
The Tiki Trouble Mysteries (Quinn Avery)
The Trailer Park Tales (Maggie Pill)
The Trailer Park Travails Mysteries (Mary Lu Scholl)
The Truman Kicklighter Mysteries (Kathy Hogan Trocheck) In his prime, spry senior Truman Kicklighter had been a first-rate reporter for the Associated Press. But not even the hottest story from his newshound days can rival the recent goings-on at the sleepy Fountain of Youth Residential Hotel in St. Petersburg, Florida.
The Webb’s Glass Shop Mysteries (Cheryl Hollon) After Savannah Webb’s father dies unexpectedly of a heart attack, she drops everything to return home to St. Petersburg, Florida, to settle his affairs–including the fate of the beloved, family-owned glass shop.
The Witch on the Rocks Mysteries (Lily Harper Hart) Hali Waverly ends up as owner of a tiki bar on the property of a busy resort and lodging in one of the villas on St. Pete Beach.
The Witch’s Cove Mysteries (Vella Day)