Cozy mystery

A harvest-fete trestle table with a giant prize marrow, a blue rosette, a tartan Thermos and a mug, painterly.Nettlecombe had buried Walter Crockaway under a record marrow before, in a manner of speaking, every August for nine years; this August it buried him in earnest, and the whole village agreed at once that it must have been Sidney Pyne, because that was the loud answer, and the loud answer is so very restful.

The Prize Marrow

Cozy mystery22 min

A village Art Deco cinema marquee glowing warm red at dusk, one tube dark.Nettlecombe had not had a murder in living memory, which was precisely the trouble, because it meant that when one finally arrived nobody recognised it, and they very nearly let it go out with the milk.

Lights Out at the Regal

Cozy mystery17 min

The voice of Cozy mystery

Agnes PruittWarm, nosy, village-bright. An amateur sleuth, a charming small town, murder treated almost politely. Gossipy charm, gentle humor, comfort food with a corpse.