Cozy Mystery Recommendations
Thoroughly recommended reads from some of our favourite cozy mystery authors.
Plymouth Undercover by Pamela Kelley (Court Street Investigations #1)
What’s Plymouth Undercover about? Emma McCarthy has returned to Plymouth, MA following the death of her father. A private investigator, he left his PI business to Emma and her mother. Now the agency consists of Emma, her mom, Cindy, and an older retired police...
Murder to the Max by Tegan Maher (A Fiona Mason Mystery Book #2)
While packing up from a week at a cabin with Hunter, the ghost of Max Wheeler, the construction owner who is building Noelle's pool, appears to them telling Hunter he needs to go to his office to find his, Max’s, body. Noelle just wants to have her new swimming pool...
Apocalypse Meow by Zara Keane (A Movie Club Mystery Book #7)
While hoping to get a nice contract from a law firm in Galway for her detective agency, Maggie sets up a videoconference with the firm. Everything is going okay, and then, Lenny happens. If it can go wrong, it does. The cheap chairs Lenny brought to the interview...
Blood Follows Jane Austen by Judith Cranswick (A Fiona Mason Mystery Book #7)
Fiona Mason is a tour guide with Super Sun Executive Travel. She accepts a job covering the life and places lived by Jane Austen as an emergency replacement for the normal tour guide. It was a convenient excuse to put off having to think of her personal relationship...
Witchnapped in Westerham by Dionne Lister (Paranormal Investigation Bureau Cozy Mystery Book 1)
Photographer Lily Bianchi's life is about to be turned upside down. She has just turned 24, and she's about to learn that she is very different from the person she thought she was. While photographing a wedding, Lily looks through the camera lens to take a photo. She...
Mardi Gras Madness by Alison Golden (Roxy Reinhardt Mysteries #1)
What’s Mardi Gras Madness about? Hardworking Roxy Reinhardt, the main character of Mardi Gras Madness by Alison Golden, experiences a moment when nothing is going right in her life in the Midwest. Roxy’s been dumped by her boyfriend, her coworkers are mean, and she’s...
It Cannoli Be Murder by Catherine Bruns (Italian Chef Mysteries #2)
What’s It Cannoli Be Murder about? Tessa Esposito is working very hard to get her new restaurant Anything's Pastable ready for the grand opening in less than a week. Meanwhile, her cousin, Gabby, runs a bookstore that is hosting a famous author for a book signing....
Death Down Under by Samantha Silver (Ruby Bay Mystery #1)
What’s Death Down Under about? Champion skeleton Olympian Mikaela (Miki) King has left her home in the U.S.A. to run her aunt's cafe while she goes on an RV trip around Australia to get away from the press after being disgraced for taking a banned substance that was...
The Ghost Who Loved Diamonds by Bobbi Holmes (Haunting Danielle Book 2)
What’s The Ghost Who Loved Diamonds about? In The Ghost Who Loved Diamonds... Danielle’s cousin Cheryl shows up to claim half of the family inheritance. To help draw interest to her new B&B venture, Danielle wears the now-famous diamond and emerald necklace to the...
The Inn at Holiday Bay: Boxes in the Basement by Kathi Daley
What’s The Inn at Holiday Bay about? In The Inn at Holiday Bay... Abby Sullivan is a best-selling mystery author recovering from the loss of her husband and infant son in an auto accident. Looking for a new beginning, she moves from the West Coast to the East Coast...
Guidebook to Murder by Lynn Cahoon (A Tourist Trap Mystery)
What’s Guidebook to Murder about? In Guidebook to Murder... Jill Gardner is an ex-lawyer. She gave up her family law practice to open her own store Coffee Books and More, in small town California. Jill is happy with her life until her dear elderly friend, Emily, dies...
Louisiana Longshot by Jana Deleon (Miss Fortune Mystery)
What’s Louisiana Longshot about? In Louisiana Longshot, Fortune Redding has been entirely focused on her career as an agent in the CIA. She has a limited social life and few relationships. When she changes the script for one of her assignments, a very bad man takes...
Fame and Fortune and Murder by Patti Larsen (Fiona Fleming Cozy Mysteries Book 3)
What’s Fame and Fortune and Murder about? In Fame and Fortune and Murder, power couple, Skip Anderson and Willow Pink, come to Reading, Vermont to help promote the small town. She's a famous, popular movie star and he's pro footballer on the downside of his career....
Mayson Dickson: The Line is Drawn by Jocie McKade
What’s Mayson Dickson: The Line is Drawn about? In Mayson Dickson: The Line is Drawn... After having their worlds turned upside down with the deaths of their parents, Emme Mayson and Jackie Dickson discover that they are twins. They were separated as infants, and had...
The Poker Game Mystery by Peter Bartram (Book 4 of the Deadline Murder series)
What’s The Poker Game Mystery about? In The Poker Game Mystery... Crime reporter Colin Crampton discovers nightclub bouncer Steve Telford murdered. Colin can’t understand why five cards of a poker hand are laid out next to the body. Tell us more... As Colin...
The Comedy Club Mystery by Peter Bartram (Book 3 of the Deadline Murder series)
What’s The Comedy Club Mystery about? In The Comedy Club Mystery... When theatrical agent Daniel Bernstein sues the Evening Chronicle for libel, crime reporter Colin Crampton is called in to sort out the problem. But trouble escalates when Bernstein turns up murdered....
The Tango School Mystery by Peter Bartram (Book 1 of the Deadline Murder series)
What’s The Tango School Mystery about? In The Tango School Mystery... Ace reporter Colin Crampton and his feisty girlfriend Shirley Goldsmith are tucking into their meal when Shirley discovers more blood on her rare steak than she’d expected. And once again Colin is...