Funny Money: The Comedian Cozy Mystery Series

by Dianne Harman

Genres: Mystery; Craft & Hobby Cozy Mysteries

Synopsis

Gwen Harper is fifty-three, recently widowed, and began doing stand up comedy. It wasn't the plan. Neither was any of what came after.

Life has found a rhythm — a few afternoons a week with the kids at the after-school program, open mic nights at whatever club will have her, and her daughter Emily just a short walk across the backyard when she needs company. It's quiet. It's manageable. And then there's Ethan, who is warm and steady and makes her laugh, and who also turns out to be an undercover federal agent running an investigation into a money laundering ring operating through the regional comedy club circuit.

When a brick is thrown through a club window with a note attached — Fall in line or else — and spray paint shows up on another venue reading Last Warning, it's clear that someone is leaning hard on club owners across the area. What isn't clear is why, or how far it goes. When one of those owners decides to trust Gwen with what he knows, she stops being a bystander.

She was never great at standing by anyway.

Funny Money is a warm, funny, and quietly suspenseful cozy mystery about second chances, slow-burn romance, and a woman who keeps finding herself in the middle of things — and keeps being surprisingly good at it.

Release date: June 15, 2026

Print pages: 188