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The Mystery Down Under

The Mystery Down Under
  • Author(s): Christine McHaines
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

A light-hearted cozy mystery full of colourful characters! Quentin Cadbury and Wanda Merrydrew have only been private detectives for a short time. Yet after locking horns with London’s criminal underworld, they now have a murderous villain on their tail....

The Mystery of Loco Lane

The Mystery of Loco Lane
  • Author(s): Kathy Harter
  • Location(s): California, Santa Barbara
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Henry Travis inherits his uncle’s dilapidated houseboat, and a dog named Captain, after he drowned in a drunken spill. Nestled at the cheap end of Locando Lane near a cove once pillaged by pirates and known locally as Loco...

The Mystery of Mrs Christie

The Mystery of Mrs Christie
  • Author(s): Marie Benedict
  • Location(s): United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room returns with a thrilling reconstruction of one of the most notorious events in literary history: Agatha Christie’s mysterious 11-day disappearance in 1926. In...

The Mystery of Sundays Well

The Mystery of Sundays Well
  • Author(s): Anne Crosse
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Present day

Following a double murder, the residents of a small Irish town refuse to give up their secrets. “This book brims with subtle Irish humour.” DI Robert Carroll hates rural Magnerstown with a passion. So he’s none too pleased when...

The Mystery of the Golden Pyramid

The Mystery of the Golden Pyramid
  • Author(s): Adela Norean, Aaron Cushley (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Egypt
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

A talking dog. A jewelled casket. A quest for stolen treasure . . . Join Sophie on a magical Egyptian adventure. Lift the flaps and peep through the die-cuts to help her save King Nebra and solve the mystery...

The Mystery of the Hidden Fortune

The Mystery of the Hidden Fortune
  • Author(s): Christine McHaines
  • Location(s): Greenwich, London
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

A typically useless twenty-something must grow up quickly when a house-sitting job gets him mixed up with serious crime… Quentin Cadbury is left in charge of his late aunt’s home in Greenwich, London, when his parents up sticks and...

The Mystery of the Lucky Cat

The Mystery of the Lucky Cat
  • Author(s): Christine McHaines
  • Location(s): Greenwich, London
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

An impulsive act sets a cat among the pigeons on a quiet London street… After a slow year, amateur sleuth Quentin Cadbury and his sidekick, the ever-desirable Wanda Merrydrew, happen upon the lifeless form of a neighbour’s cat. Having...

The Mystery of the Perfect Property

The Mystery of the Perfect Property
  • Author(s): Christine McHaines
  • Location(s): Surrey
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

Private investigators build a case on shaky foundations Quentin Cadbury’s early morning run raises his heart rate more than usual when he discovers an injured dog. More so because next to the animal is the dead body of its...

The Mystery on the Cornish Coast

The Mystery on the Cornish Coast
  • Author(s): Christine McHaines
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

A fun private investigator caper set in a sunnier part of the British Isles Young PI Quentin Cadbury has been sleeping soundly until an international criminal whom he helped put behind bars escapes prison. The villain he knows only...

The Nakano Thrift Shop

The Nakano Thrift Shop
  • Author(s): Hiromi Kawakami
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Era(s): Modern

When Hitomi takes a job on the cash register of a neighbourhood thrift store, she finds herself drawn into a very idiosyncratic community. There is Mr Nakano, an enigmatic ladies’ man with several ex-wives; Masayo, Mr Nakano’s sister, an...

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