Kylie Logan

After a judge orders three squabbling ladies to attend a library book discussion group together, reading "Murder on the Orient Express" inspires them to investigate the murder of the owner of the Orient Express restaurant.

Mayhem at the Orient Express

First in a new series from national bestselling author Kylie Logan, The Scent of Murder is a riveting mystery following Jazz Ramsey as she trains cadaver dogs. The way Jazz Ramsey figures it, life is pretty good. She’s thirty-five years old and owns her own home in one of Cleveland’s most diverse, artsy, and interesting neighborhoods. She has a job she likes as an administrative assistant at an all-girls school, and a volunteer interest she’s passionate about—Jazz is a cadaver dog handler. Jazz is working with Luther, a cadaver dog in training. Luther is still learning cadaver work, so Jazz is putting him through his paces at an abandoned building that will soon be turned into pricey condos. When Luther signals a find, Jazz is stunned to see the body of a young woman who is dressed in black and wearing the kind of make-up and jewelry that Jazz used to see on the Goth kids back in high school. She’s even more shocked when she realizes that beneath the tattoos and the piercings and all that pale make up is a familiar face. The lead detective on the case is an old lover, and the murdered woman is an old student. Jazz finds herself sucked into the case, obsessed with learning the truth.

A Mystery

The Scent of Murder

One of the country's leading experts on buttons, Josie Giancola is delighted when a Hollywood starlet arrives at the Button Box for advice until the actress is murdered and Josie's shop is ransacked, forcing her to team up with homicide detective Nevin Riley to solve the mystery. Original.

Button Holed

Get a taste of justice in the first mystery in national bestselling author Kylie Logan's Chili Cook-Off series! Romance is supposed to be the spice of life. But Maxie Pierce is so done with bad relationships--well, almost. She just has to get rid of the latest loser, Roberto. Besides, she has more important things to worry about. Her daddy, Texas Jack Pierce, king of the chili cook-off circuit, has been missing for nearly six weeks now. In his place, she must team up with her irritating half sister, Sylvia, to promote the family business at the Taos Chili Showdown, to be judged by celebrity chef Carter Donnelly. But when Maxie discovers Roberto's body in the chef's trailer--only hours after publicly breaking up with him while wearing a giant red chili pepper costume--she suddenly finds she's the one in the spotlight as the police pepper her with questions. Now this Chili Chick needs to kick up the search to catch the real killer and get back to finding her father... INCLUDES DELICIOUS RECIPES!

Chili Con Carnage

The League of Literary Ladies must solve a real-life mystery when their reading of the Charles Dickens classic A Tale of Two Cities during the Bastille Day celebration results in murder. Original. 30,000 first printing.

A Tale of Two Biddies

A Trail of Lies is the third in the Jazz Ramsey mystery series from national bestselling author Kylie Logan. Jazz Ramsey is just getting used to the idea that her on-again-off-again beau, Nick, might actually be a permanent fixture, when she gets an alarming call in the middle of the night from his mother, Kim: there’s a dead man in her backyard. Kim has a long history of drinking and a vivid imagination, so when Jazz’s human remains detection dog, Wally, finds no evidence of a body, Jazz thinks she can breathe easy. But when the body of a middle-aged man, Dan Mansfield, is discovered in a nearby park, and a photo of Nick and his mom is found in his pocket, Jazz has to admit that something isn’t adding up. Kim claims not to know who Dan is, but the cops find out soon enough: he’s a recently paroled convict who served thirty years for murder. And when Jazz traces his crime back to a bar fight with an antiques dealer, she ends up with more questions than answers. Meanwhile, no one wants her poking around—not Nick’s mom, nor the Motorcycle-riding ex-con she connects to Dan, nor Nick himself, who seems worried about Jazz’s safety, but also about what she might find. But Jazz has never been one to take no for an answer, and she won’t give up now—even if it means risking her own life.

A Trail of Lies

When the leader of the Elkhart Ghost Getters winds up dead, and Kate Wilder, a member of the League of Literary Ladies, is accused of the crime due to her known hatred of the man, the other League members band together to prove her innocence. By the author of A Tale of Two Biddies. Includes teaser. Original. 30,000 first printing.

The Legend of Sleepy Harlow

Ellie Alexander

Eve Calder

Susanna Calkins

Leonard Goldberg

Donna Andrews

Hannah Dennison

Carolyn Haines

Allison Montclair

Looking for a new cozy series? In the new edition of Cozy Case Files, Minotaur Books compiles the beginnings of eleven charming cozy mysteries publishing in Spring/Summer 2020 for free for easy sampling. The latest edition of Cozy Case Files has something for everyone with the latest cozies by the following authors: Carolyn Haines, Hannah Dennison, Eve Calder, Donna Andrews, Ellie Alexander, Kylie Logan, Susanna Calkins, Leonard Goldberg, and Allison Montclair. The bonds of friendship are put to the test in The Devil’s Bones and Sugar and Vice. Two sisters inherit an old hotel in the remote Scilly Islands in series debut Death at High Tide. A new Meg Langslow mystery, The Falcon Always Wings Twice, finds the family at a Renaissance Faire. Past crimes are unburied in Nothing Bundt Trouble and The Secret of Bones. Go back in time with these next historical cozies. Sherlock Holmes’s daughter is back in The Art of Deception. In A Royal Affair, Princess Elizabeth has developed feelings for a Greek prince, and The Right Sort of Marriage Bureau is engaged to dig into the suitor’s past. Or visit a 1920’s Chicago speakeasy in The Fate of the Flapper.

Cozy Case Files, A Cozy Mystery Sampler, Volume 9

During the Chili Showdown in Las Vegas, one semi-celebrity judge drops dead after taste-testing the self-combustible Devil's Breath Chili due to a last-minute ingredient addition—poison. Original.

Death by Devil's Breath

"Includes delicious recipes!"--Page 4 of cover.

Revenge of the Chili Queens

When the guest of honor, Thad Wyant, is found dead in the hotel's linen room, Josie Giancola, the chairwoman of an international conference for button collectors, teams up with Detective Nevin Riley to solve the case and recover Mr. Wyant's historic Geronimo button, which has gone missing. Original. 30,000 first printing.

Hot Button

When she is asked to appraise a very rare item - a complete Victorian charm string made out of 1,000 buttons, Josie Giancola, owner of the Button Box shop, discovers that this unique find is cursed when a woman is found strangled with it. Original. 15,000 first printing.

Panic Button

Button expert Josie Giancola searches for a crafty killer when an eccentric artist is found dead in the arms of a button-encrusted statue. By the author of the League of Literary Ladies series. Original.

Buttoned Up

Second in a new series from national bestselling author Kylie Logan, The Secrets of Bones is a riveting mystery following Jazz Ramsey as she trains a cadaver dog. Assembly Day at St. Catherine's dawns bright and cloudless as professional woman gather from all around Ohio to talk to the schoolgirls about their careers in medicine, at NASA, and as yoga instructors. Administrative assistant Jazz Ramsey is involved herself, giving the girls a taste of her lifelong passion: cadaver dog training. Her adorable new puppy Wally hasn't been certified yet, so she borrows the fully-trained Gus from a friend and hides a few bones in the unused fourth floor of the school for him to find. The girls are impressed when Gus easily finds the first bone, but for the second Gus seems to have lost the scent, and heads confidently to a part of the floor where Jazz is sure no bones are hidden—at least not any that she's put there. But Gus is a professional, and sure enough, behind a door that shouldn't have been opened in decades, is a human skeleton. Jazz recognizes the skeleton as Bernadette Quinn, an ex-teacher at the school who'd never returned after one Christmas break, though letters and postcards from her had seemed to indicate there was no cause for worry. But now it seems Bernadette never left the school at all, and her hiding place makes it clear: this was murder. Bernadette's strident personality means there are a plethora of suspects inside the school and out of it, and as Jazz gets closer to the truth she can't help but wonder if someone might be dogging her footsteps . . .

The Secrets of Bones

"The Literary Ladies have to find out who's in the habit of killing nuns..."--Page 4 of cover.

And Then There Were Nuns

A National Bestselling AuthorA League of Literary Ladies MysteryB and B owner Bea Cartwright is taking meals to ten visiting nuns who are on retreat at the Water's Edge Center for Spirit and Renewal on picturesque South Bass Island. But their peace is shattered when one of the nuns is found murdered at the water's edge. And when a second nun is killed, Bea and the Literary Ladies wonder about eerie parallels with an Agatha Christie mystery.

Second in a new series from national bestselling author Kylie Logan, The Secrets of Bones is a riveting mystery following Jazz Ramsey as she trains a cadaver dog. Assembly Day at St. Catherine’s dawns bright and cloudless as professional woman gather from all around Ohio to talk to the schoolgirls about their careers ranging from medicine, to NASA, to yoga. Jazz Ramsey has also signed up to give the girls a taste of her lifelong passion: cadaver dog training. Her adorable new puppy Wally hasn’t been certified yet, so she borrows the fully-trained Gus from a friend and hides a few bones in the unused fourth floor of the school for him to find. The girls are impressed when Gus easily finds the first bone, but then Gus heads confidently to a part of the floor where Jazz is sure no bones are hidden—at least not any that she’s put there. But Gus is a professional, and sure enough, behind a door that no one has opened in ages, is a human skeleton. Jazz recognizes the necklace the skeleton is wearing, and that it belonged to Bernadette Quinn, an ex-teacher at the school who’d quit her job abruptly one Christmas break. But now it seems Bernadette never left the school at all, and her hiding place makes it clear: this was murder. Bernadette in life had been a difficult personality, and so there are a plethora of suspects inside the school and out of it. As Jazz gets closer to the truth she can’t help but wonder if someone might be dogging her footsteps...

A League of Literary Ladies Mystery

Whoever dies in Vegas, stays in Vegas in the second Chili Cook-Off Mystery... In Las Vegas, the stakes are high—and so is the Scoville scale. Maxie Pierce and the Chili Showdown are in town for a very heated contest devoted to judging the legendary and notorious-for-being-self-combustible Devil’s Breath chili. The guest judges are casino performers with a taste for chili and an eye for publicity. Maxie is already going mad organizing the event, dealing with her snide half sister, Sylvia, and trying to figure out her hothead of security, Nick. But when a local hack comedian drops dead in the middle of the Showdown, it isn’t the spicy dish—it’s poison. And Maxie is going to have to shuffle through a full deck of suspects to pick out the culprit. INCLUDES DELICIOUS RECIPES!

B and B proprietor and ex-Manhattanite Bea Cartwright, hippy cat lover Chandra Morrisey, and winery owner Kate Wilder are ordered to attend a library book discussion group by the local magistrate for disturbing the peace. The first book is Murder on the Orient Express, which sends the trio to the island's newest Chinese restaurant -- Orient Express -- for orange chicken. And when the restaurant's owner is murdered, the ladies are inspired by Christie to catch a killer.

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