Murder on the Market: 8 Cozy Mysteries with Real Estate Twists

Kirstin uses every opportunity to stay ahead in the competitive real estate market, including checking obituaries and getting tip offs from a local mortician. When a well-known child psychologist dies, their exquisite island estate of Milford could be Kirstin’s big payday.

As she manipulates her way through the bereaved, Kirstin becomes wrapped up in sinister events at the Milford estate. A car accident, blackmail, and closed roads put her in danger, trapped on the island.

With the rising body count, Kirstin becomes a potential victim and a suspect as she digs deep to uncover the truth.

Newlywed Josie dials in her mystery shopper skills to find the perfect starter home for her and her new husband, Dr. Ted Scottsmeyer, in the suburbs of St. Louis. Fortunately, her husband’s partner at the veterinary clinic, Dr. Christine Cormac, tips them off to a perfect house that Christine’s own sister, Rain, had abandoned months earlier.

Their elation at finding the perfect home quickly evaporates when Rain’s body is discovered in the backyard and the house becomes a crime scene—with Christine as the prime suspect.

Now Josie must use all of her investigative skills to clear Christine and catch the real killer.

The Death Contingency is the first in a series of seven Regan McHenry Real Estate Mysteries.

Regan is a realtor in Santa Cruz, an amateur crime solver, and a keen observer of life. She gets help from her husband, Tom, a computer programmer and real estate broker, and her friend, Dave, a police ombudsman. 

Regan must work to unravel neighborhood secrets when a prospective seller disappears. When the seller is later found dead, his nephew, a fellow realtor and friend of Regan’s, becomes the prime suspect.

Regan finds herself at odds with authorities and sets out to prove them wrong. After a second death in the neighborhood, Regan begins to fear the truth.

Escaping two failed marriages and an overbearing mother, realtor Vivianne Murphy upends her life in New York to move to a cozy house in the woods of the Pacific Northwest and start her real estate career.

She quickly makes friends with neighbor Venice Martino, a fellow former New Yorker. When Venice obtains her real estate license, the two become co-workers and best friends.

The two friends are quickly enmeshed in an unexpected adventure of real estate transactions, humor, suspense, and murder. 

This volume is book one in a series of three.

The upcoming race for mayor has caused Cabot Cove to become more divided than ever. Add to the mix the arrival of leading developer Lionel Watts and his plans to acquire land from multiple residents to construct a luxury hotel, and tensions are high amongst the residents in town.

While some favor the influx of tourist dollars, others want to maintain the small-town charm. When Watts is found dead from what seems like a heart attack, Jessica Fletcher isn’t so sure, and decides to take a closer look at the real estate killing.

Frank Merchant, retired detective of the Knoxville County Sheriff’s office, decides to try his hand at real estate as his next career move.

As a widower, Frank is looking for a fresh start after an existential crisis. What he doesn’t expect is his first client to end up dead.

Who would want to kill a scientist at the Oak Ridge National Lab? To find the answers, Frank must balance the demands of his new real estate career with his sense of duty and years of expertise.

As he encounters government secrets, enemies of the state, and gun brandishing ex-convicts, Frank pushes against the dangerous forces trying to stop him.

Private detective Charlotte Morgan wants to know the meaning of the note pinned to the dead woman in the master closet of the house for sale: Where are you going to keep YOUR clothes? 

Meanwhile, Declan and his uncle Seamus are hoping the body means they’ll get a discounted price on the home.

When a note is found on a second body at a listing by the same real estate agency, Charlotte is hired to find out what is going on.

Is someone trying to ruin the real estate agency? Is the handsome owner of the agency being targeted by a jealous ex?

Charlotte investigates the bizarre small town murders for motives of revenge.

This volume is book 12 in the Pineapple Port Mysteries series.

Flora Steele is a bookshop owner and amateur detective living in 1955 Sussex. Opening her shop one morning, Flora is confronted with the dead body of a young man with white-blond hair.

Baffled by the victim’s appearance in her shop, she is determined to find out who he is and how he got there.

Flora enlists the help of her most reliable customer, crime writer Jack Carrington. Their investigation leads them to The Priory Hotel, where a second victim, the hotel gardener, dies suddenly.

The pair investigate the case through the picturesque village of Abbeymead, where it’s clear there are residents hiding secrets.