Humorous Mysteries have the same characteristics of other mystery stories, except they are laced with humor. They are intended to make the reader laugh. The events can be strange, or the characters may act in ways that make the reader laugh. Is there any reason why you can’t laugh while reading a mystery book? Try these humorous tales.
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Broth
Tamar Myers
An Amish Bed and Breakfast Mystery with Recipes PennDutch Mysteries #1 “Bubbling over with mirth and mystery.” –Dorothy Cannell “A delicious treat!” –Carolyn G. Hart This debut mystery introduces Magdalena Yoder, prim, proper, and persnic
Read More View in CatalogAntiques Roadkill
Barbara Allan
Determined to make a new start in her quaint hometown on the banks of the Mississippi, 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
Read More View in CatalogDeath Warmed Over
Kevin J. Anderson
Zombie P.I. Dan Chambeaux, along with his human partner and ghost girlfriend, tries to juggle his unnatural caseload, including a resurrected mummy who is suing the museum that put him on display, while trying to figure out who killed him. Original.
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Donna Andrews
Three Weddings...And a Murder So far Meg Langslow's summer is not going swimmingly. Down in her small Virginia hometown, she's maid of honor at the nuptials of three loved ones--each of whom has dumped the planning in her capable hands. One
Read More View in CatalogCalamity Jayne
Kathleen Bacus
How does a blonde spell "Farm"? E-I-E-I-O Tressa Jayne Turner has had it up to here with the dumb-blonde jokes and a childhood nickname that's harder to get rid of than her favorite pair of cowboy boots. Thanks to one Rick Townsend, Io
Read More View in CatalogMurder 101
Maggie Barbieri
Safely away from the chaos of Manhattan, St. Thomas, a small college on the banks of the Hudson River in the Bronx, is supposed to be tranquil, bucolic, and serene. Unfortunately, English professor Alison Bergeron has found it to be anything but. Rec
Read More View in CatalogMonsieur Pamplemousse
Michael Bond
Monsieur Pamplemousse, inspector of food and detective extraordinaire, is delighted to have the chance to dine once more at the famed La Langoustine, a restaurant nestling in the hills of Provence. Life as an undercover researcher for a top-class cul
Read More View in CatalogBlotto, Twinks and the Ex-King's Daughter
Simon Brett
It's that glorious period between the two world wars, and the exiled king of Mitteleuropa is visiting the ancestral home of the Duke of Tawcester. When the ex-king's daughter is kidnapped, noblesse obliges the Duke's handsome, brave, a
Read More View in CatalogStuff To Die For
Don Bruns
Best friends James Lessor and Skip Moore are hardly on the fast track. While James works as a line cook at Cap’n Crab, Skip spends his days selling – or rather, attempting to sell – security systems to people who (a) have no money, and (b) have
Read More View in CatalogA Salty Piece of Land
Jimmy Buffett
Jimmy Buffett, bestselling author of "A Pirate Looks at Fifty," and hero to parrotheads everywhere, gives readers a humorous adventure set in the Caribbean, involving a lighthouse, a mystery, a wild cast of characters, and more than a few b
Read More View in CatalogCandy Apple Red
Nancy Bush
Like love, murder is never cut and dry, especially when Jane Kelly's debut case involves hitting the trail with her ex-boyfriend to track down a man accused of murdering his own family.
View in CatalogKiller Hair
Ellen Byerrum
Fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian tackles her first deadly fashion crime in Washington, D.C., "The City Fashion Forgot." A beautiful dead hairstylist, a straight razor, and a horrible haircut? The D.C. cops call it an open-and-shut case of
Read More View in CatalogSize 12 Is Not Fat
Meg Cabot
Heather Wells Rocks! Or, at least, she did. That was before she left the pop-idol life behind after she gained a dress size or two -- and lost a boyfriend, a recording contract, and her life savings (when Mom took the money and ran off to Argentina).
Read More View in CatalogConfessions of a Teen Sleuth
Chelsea Cain
America's favorite girl detective is back to set the record straight. According to our titian-haired heroine, she was not in fact a fictional character, but an intrepid real-life sleuth who investigated some of the twentieth century's bigge
Read More View in CatalogSnobbery with Violence
Marion Chesney
Exposing a suitor's dishonorable intentions toward the daughter of a new client, captain Harry Cartwright is hired by a wealthy marquis to solve a house party murder, a case that is complicated by the host's determination to preserve discre
Read More View in CatalogFast Women
Jennifer Crusie
Following her divorce, Nell Dysart takes a job working for a detective agency and finds herself knee deep in embezzlement, bribery, blackmail, arson, adultery, murder, and passion with her boss, Gabe McKenna.
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Laura DiSilverio
Charlotte "Charlie" Swift prefers working alone. That's why after eight years as an Air Force investigator she became a PI rather than a cop. She lives alone, she works alone, and aside for the occasional flirtation with sexy cop Conno
Read More View in CatalogThe Shroud of the Thwacker
Chris Elliott
Known to millions for his television and film roles, Chris Elliott is one of the most beloved comedians of his generation. With his novel The Shroud of the Thwacker, Elliott delivers a laugh-out-loud parody that will delight mystery lovers as well as
Read More View in CatalogOne For The Money
Janet Evanovich
Discover where it all began—#1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich’s first “snappily written, fast-paced, and witty” (USA TODAY) novel in the beloved Stephanie Plum series featuring a feisty and funny heroine who “comes roarin
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Janet Evanovich
Full House Janet Evanovich Polo instructor Nicholas Kaharchek senses danger the minute he sees Billie Pearce. She represents everything he's always avoided. Happy in her home life, a divorced mother of two, Billie is the epitome of stability. Sh
Read More View in CatalogMetro Girl
Janet Evanovich
Alexandra (Barney) Barnaby roars onto the Miami Beach scene in hot pursuit of her missing baby brother, "Wild" Bill. Leave it to the maverick of the family to get Barney involved with high-speed car chases, a search for sunken treasure, and
Read More View in CatalogLuck of the Draw
Carolina Garcia Aguilera
Mandated by her mother to reclaim the family's glory by restoring a glamorous Havana casino that they lost when Castro took power, Esmerelda sets out to find and rescue her journalist sister, a mission that brings her to the seedy bars and back
Read More View in CatalogThe Man with a Load of Mischief
Martha Grimes
Long Piddleton had always been wary of newcomers. But the quiet town was stunned when the first stranger was found dead, upended in a butt of ale in the cellar of the Men with a Load of Mischief. Then the second body appeared, swinging in place of th
Read More View in CatalogGhost at Work
Carolyn Hart
Bailey Ruth Raeburn has always been great at solving mysteries. Why should a little thing like her death change anything? In fact, being dead gives her more of an opportunity to be on top of events. Bailey Ruth is delighted that her unique position a
Read More View in CatalogStaggerford
Jon Hassler
The classic novel of a small Minnesota town—and of one school teacher who calls it home This utterly charming, deeply poignant debut remains perhaps the signature achievement of beloved novelist Jon Hassler—once hailed by The New York Times as
Read More View in CatalogThem Bones
Carolyn Haines
Meet Sarah Booth Delaney, an unconventional Southern belle whose knack for uncovering the truth is about to make her the hottest detective in Zinnia, Mississippi . . . if it doesn't make her the deadest. No self-respecting lady would allow herse
Read More View in CatalogName Dropping
Jane Heller
This tale of murder and mistaken identity in a Manhattan apartment building is “a rollicking and delectable read” by a New York Times-bestselling author (People). A teacher at a fancy Manhattan preschool, Nancy Stern spends her days cleaning spil
Read More View in CatalogFinn Fancy Necromancy
Randy Henderson
Writers of the Future grand prize winner Randy Henderson presents a dark and quirky debut in Finn Fancy Necromancy, his tale of the magical and dangerous Arcane world that exists alongside our own. Finn Gramaraye was framed for the crime of dark necr
Read More View in CatalogDeath of a Romance Writer and Other Stories
Joan Hess
Presents a collection of mystery stories, including "Too Much to Bare" and "Death in Bloom."
View in CatalogMalice in Maggody
Joan Hess
After a crossbow killing at a cheap roadside motel, Ozarks police chief Arly Hanks finds herself investigating her first murder case. Her marriage over and career gone bust, Arly Hanks flees Manhattan for her hometown: Maggody, Arkansas. In a town th
Read More View in CatalogBad Monkey
Carl Hiaasen
Andrew Yancy—late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County sheriff’s office—has a human arm in his freezer. There’s a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner. Yan
Read More View in CatalogBasket Case
Carl Hiaasen
A rollicking and hilarious novel from the bestselling author of Bad Monkey and Razor Girl. Jack Tagger’s years in exile at the obituaries desk of a South Florida daily haven’t dulled his investigative reporter’s nose for a good story. When Jimm
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Carl Hiaasen
Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen—and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster. Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her “undercover stunt double,” Ann
Read More View in CatalogA Load of Old Bones
Suzette Hill
All the Reverend Francis Oughterard had ever wanted was some peace and quiet, instead he becomes entangled in a nightmare world of accidental murder, predatory female parishioners, officious policemen and a drunken bishop. As the vicar's life sp
Read More View in CatalogWhat Looks Like Crazy
Charlotte Hughes
While dealing with an impending divorce, her eccentric secretary, and her junk-art-collecting mother, psychologist Kate Holly feels like she needs some therapy of her own, especially after she starts to receive mysterious threats.
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Jane Isenberg
With a sensibility shaped in the sixties and kids born in the seventies, Jersey City community college professor Bel Barrett hit the big five-O in the nineties. The patronage politics of urban academia and the dreams and demands of city students thre
Read More View in CatalogToo Big to Miss
Sue Ann Jaffarian
Too big to miss--that's Odelia Grey. A never-married, middle-aged, plus-sized woman who makes no excuses for her weight, she's not super woman just a mere mortal standing on the precipice of menopause, trying to cruise in an ill-fitting bra
Read More View in CatalogLooks to Die For
Janice Kaplan
When her prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon husband is falsely accused of murdering an aspiring young actress, celebrity home decorator and mother of three Lacy Fields discovers a latent talent for solving crimes. By the author of The Botox Diar
Read More View in CatalogGuy Noir and the Straight Skinny
Garrison Keillor
Famous radio private eye Guy Noir leaps from A Prairie Home Companion to the page On the 12th floor of the Acme Building, on a cold February day in St. Paul, Guy Noir looks down the barrel of a loaded revolver in the hands of geezer gangster Joey Roa
Read More View in CatalogDeath, Taxes, and a French Manicure
Diane Kelly
Tara Holloway has got your number. A special agent on the IRS's payroll, she's dead-set on making sure that money crimes don't pay... Tax cheats, beware: The Treasury Department's Criminal Investigations Division has a new special
Read More View in CatalogMoon Over Manhattan
Larry King
When Allison, the glamorous but none-too-bright daughter of wealthy political commentator Arthur Vandameer, runs off to elope with her boyfriend, all kinds of colorful characters get into the act of tracking down the young lovers. Reprint.
View in CatalogLiar, Liar
K J Larsen
Burned by her run-around ex-husband Johnnie Ricco, Caterina DeLuca took the skills she mastered during marriage and opened her own private eye agency. Now she’s a second-story woman, armed with a camera, ready to print 8x10 glossies for use in divo
Read More View in CatalogWhat's A Ghoul to Do?
Victoria Laurie
M.J., her partner Gilley, and their client, the wealthy, de-lish Dr. Steven Sable, are at his family's lodge, where his grandfather allegedly jumped to his death from the roof-although Sable says it was foul play. But the patriarch's isn�
Read More View in CatalogThis Pen For Hire
Laura Levine
"I'm crazy about Laura Levine's mystery series. Her books are so outrageously funny." --Joanne Fluke Smarmy personals ads. Daring declarations of love. Freelance writer Jaine Austen has penned them all. But no one needs her help m
Read More View in CatalogDying to Be Thin
Kathryn Lilley
Welcome to Durham, North Carolina, the diet capital of the world. Plus-sized TV producer Kate Gallagher has been told she has the “face” for TV—it’s the body she needs to work on. So, when she gets dumped by her boyfriend and laid off from he
Read More View in CatalogThe Spellman Files
Lisa Lutz
Izzy Spellman launches her career as a private investigator while working for the firm of her outlandishly dysfunctional family.
View in CatalogThe Blight Way
Patrick F. McManus
A new series by the author of The Bear in the Attic finds Idaho sheriff Bo Tully's hopes about a rekindled romance with his high-school sweetheart challenged by his father's upcoming seventy-fifth birthday celebration and a ranch murder inv
Read More View in CatalogWoman Strangled -- News at Ten
Laurie Moore
Recent journalism graduate Aspen Wicklow lands a job as an investigative reporter for a Fort Worth TV show, "Public Defender," where she copes with a hotshot anchor and the station manager while investigating a missing person case that turn
Read More View in CatalogToo Many Crooks Spoil the Broth
Tamar Myers
An Amish Bed and Breakfast Mystery with Recipes PennDutch Mysteries #1 “Bubbling over with mirth and mystery.” –Dorothy Cannell “A delicious treat!” –Carolyn G. Hart This debut mystery introduces Magdalena Yoder, prim, proper, and persnic
Read More View in CatalogThe Pigeon Pie Mystery
Julia Stuart
When Indian Princess Alexandrina is left penniless by the sudden death of her father, the Maharaja of Brindor, Queen Victoria grants her a grace-and-favor home in Hampton Court Palace. Though it is rumored to be haunted, Alexandrina and her lady'
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