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Bring on the Funny!

Shed a little light on these dark nights with a light-hearted mystery. Snuggle up with a blanket and get ready to laugh! List created by Toni from the Kearney Branch.

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  • Some stories start with a bang, or in this case, they start with a shiner. When Hayden goes home with hot go-go dancer Camilo, things are looking up; however, the next morning Hayden wakes to find Camilo gone and the cops at the door. Hayden, along…
    Book, 2022New York : Crooked Lane, 2022. — F OSLER
  • When searching for a bathroom for one of her four children, former FBI profiler Andie Stern discovers the murder of a local gas station attendant. It becomes quickly apparent that the local cops aren't investigating the crime so Andie feels…
    Book, 2021New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2021] — F NICIEZA
  • This collection of short stories turns the traditional mystery on its ear. Maud leads a solitary existence and will go to great lengths to keep it that way. The mystery comes in the motives of this darkly humorous anti-hero.
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Soho Crime, 2018. — F TURSTEN
  • Mavis didn't expect fireworks at her first PTA meeting, but sparks definitely fly when Principal Smith and the PTA president, Trisha, butt heads. When the principal disappears after Mavis witnesses Trisha acting suspiciously, she enlists the help of…
    Book, 2024New York : Berkley, 2024. — F BRYANT
  • Outlandish characters abound in this Florida-based mystery. Two unlikely allies work together to bring down a corrupt congressman with far-reaching ambitions.
    Book, 2025New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025. — F HIAASEN
  • Sometimes a political career just isn't enough. Bernie Sanders' cozy mystery addiction may have gotten out of hand when he decides he needs to help solve the murder of an Eagle Creek, Vermont banker. It's up to his intern and Eagle Creek native,…
    Book, 2022New York : Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Random House, [2022] — F SHAFFER
  • The book that started it all. Down-on-her-luck Stephanie Plum blackmails her way into her cousin's bail bonds business as a recovery agent; but, learning on the job is hard when your target is a cop from your past and you attract the attention of a…
    Book, 2019New York : Scribner, 2019. — F EVANOVICH
  • Single mother Finlay Donovan is living in chaos: raising two small children with an unreliable, controlling ex-husband and struggling to write her next novel. Life gets even more fun as she is accidentally mistaken for a contract killer by a person…
    Book, 2021New York : Minotaur Books, 2021. — F COSIMANO
  • They can't even agree on what biscuits to bring let alone solve the murder. All biscuits aside, when the book club's meeting place is the victim of a theft, and a dead body turns up at the home of a missing member, the group must come together to…
    Book, 2025New York : Berkley, 2025. — F SAMPSON
  • Welcome Back, Sunshine! Coming home is more challenging than she thought it would be when Sunshine Vicram, Del Sol, New Mexico's newly elected sheriff, finds herself searching for a missing teenager... and confronting her past.
    Book, 2020New York : St. Martin's Press, 2020. — F JONES