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15 Cozy Mystery Books You Won't Want to Put Down 🔎📚
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items Give me a clever mystery, a charming setting and a cast of characters I actually want to spend time with, and I'm happy. 🔎📚 These are some of my favorite cozy mysteries for when you want an intriguing whodunit without all the graphic violence and d...
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Blacksmith Meg Langslow is juggling three weddings and her delightfully eccentric family when murder crashes the festivities. This is the first book in Donna Andrews' long-running Meg Langslow series, and I love the mix of clever mysteries, laugh-out...
A Murder Hatched: Murder with Peacocks and Murder with Puffins by Donna Andrews
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A struggling novelist and overwhelmed mom is accidentally mistaken for a contract killer after someone overhears her discussing the plot of her latest book. This is a faster, crazier take on the cozy mystery, and Finlay's increasingly ridiculous pred...
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
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Bakery owner Hannah Swensen finds a local man dead behind her shop and decides to do a little investigating of her own. Come for the murder mystery, stay for the small-town drama, baked goods and recipes sprinkled throughout the book.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke
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Four friends at a peaceful English retirement community spend their spare time investigating cold cases until a real murder lands practically on their doorstep. It's funny, clever and full of characters you'll quickly become attached to, plus it's th...
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
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When Vera Wong discovers a dead man in her San Francisco tea shop, she naturally decides she can investigate the murder better than the police. Vera is nosy, opinionated and absolutely irresistible, and I love the combination of mystery, humor and un...
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
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Precious Ramotswe opens Botswana's first female-owned detective agency and sets about solving the problems people bring through her door. This is one of the gentlest mysteries on the list, with plenty of warmth, humor and wonderful characters, and th...
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
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Molly Gray loves order, routine and her job as a hotel maid, so finding a wealthy guest dead in his room throws her carefully organized world into chaos. It's a quirky, warmhearted mystery with a wonderfully memorable heroine.
The Maid by Nita Prose
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Seventy-seven-year-old Judith Potts is happily living alone in an English village when she witnesses a murder and decides to investigate it herself. She soon recruits two other women to help, and their unlikely friendship is every bit as enjoyable as...
The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood
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Lila Macapagal returns home to help with her family's restaurant, only for a notoriously unpleasant food critic to die after eating there. Food, family, humor and murder make this a deliciously fun start to the Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery series.
Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala
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Agatha Raisin retires to a picturesque English village expecting a quiet new life, then winds up embroiled in a murder involving a poisoned quiche. Agatha is prickly, funny and refreshingly imperfect, and this kicks off a huge series if you get hooke...
The Quiche of Death by M.C. Beaton
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Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce is obsessed with chemistry and poisons, which comes in rather handy when she discovers a dead man in her family's cucumber patch. The 1950s English setting and Flavia's delightfully precocious personality make this myst...
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
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Chief Inspector Armand Gamache investigates the suspicious death of a beloved woman in the seemingly idyllic Quebec village of Three Pines. This one is a little more serious and atmospheric than some of the others, but the setting and characters make...
Still Life by Louise Penny
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Coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi finds one of her employees unconscious at the bottom of a staircase and isn't convinced it was an accident. Coffee lovers should especially enjoy this one, which kicks off a long-running mystery series set around a Gree...
Oh What Grounds Cleo Coyle
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Lana Lee finds herself back working at her family's Chinese restaurant after a breakup, only for a customer to die after eating the restaurant's food. Suddenly Lana has a murder to solve, and the combination of family dynamics, food and amateur detec...
Death by Dumpling by Vivien Chien
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As a teenager, Frances Adams is told by a fortune-teller that one day she'll be murdered, so she spends decades trying to prevent it. When her prediction finally comes true, her great-niece Annie has to unravel the clues Frances left behind and figur...
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