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Favorite books | Cozy Mysteries and a few others too!
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items These are my most favorite books, generally series, to read. I tend to enjoy cozy mysteries as they are lighthearted but have elements of mystery, suspense and humor. Some other favorites have elements of action, suspense and history in them.
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Cozy Mysteries | Lighthearted and Comical
Fast Paced Action and Adventure
Other Genres
Cozy Mysteries | Lighthearted and Comical
These cozy mysteries never fail to lighten my mood. They are funny, fresh, easy to read snd have characters that I love in them!
Jenn McKinlay brings us a cozy mystery collection (16 books) set in Scottsdale, Arizona centered around a gourmet bakeshop - yum! It follows childhood friends Melanie "Mel" Cooper and Angela "Angie" DeLaura, along with baker Tate Harper, as they so...
Jenn McKinlay | Cupcake Bakery Mysteries
Amanda Flower writes an 11 book cozy mystery series in Amish country, specifically a tight knit community in small town Harvest, Ohio. She develops characters well and her stories include a blend of gentle and amateur sleuthing.
Bailey King is a ch...
Amanda Flower | Amish Candy Shop Mysteries
Jessica Beck brings us this cozy mystery series that includes 58 books!
The stories feature main character Susanne Hart, a divorcee who cashed in her settlement to start a donut shop in small town April Springs, NC. She partners with a variety of c...
Jessica Beck | Donut Mysteries Series
This cozy mystery series is set in Manhattan’s historic Greenwich Village at The Village Blend, a landmark, century-old coffeehouse. The stories revolve around Clare Cosi, a strong female character and manager/ master roaster of the shop. She co-mana...
Cleo Coyle | Coffeehouse Mysteries Series
This cozy mystery series is set in the fictional, quirky bayou town of Sinful, Louisiana, the series blends laugh-out-loud comedy, eccentric small-town dynamics, and murder mysteries.
The main character, Fortune Redding, is a former CIA operative. ...
Jana Deleon | Miss Fortune Mystery Series
This 9 book cozy mystery series is extremely interesting due to the setting. It follows the high-stakes, culinary adventures of Olivia "Ollie" Paras, a chef working in the executive kitchen of the White House.
Read about intense political pressure,...
Julie Hyzy | White House Chef Mysteries
Ellie Alexander brings us a wonderful and heartwarming culinary cozy mystery series of more than 20 novels. They are centered around Juliet Montague "Jules" Capshaw, an artisan pastry chef who returns to her charming hometown of Ashland, Oregon, to h...
Ellie Alexander | Bakeshop Mysteries
Lynn Cahoon brings us a 19 book cozy mystery series set in small town Crystal Cove, CA. Jill Gardner is a sharp-witted entrepreneur who operates a popular local shop called Coffee, Books, & More. When bizarre murders disrupt the seaside communit...
Lynn Cahoon | Tourist Trap Mysteries
Ellery Adams writes a cozy mystery series which is phenomenal for book lovers.
This cozy mystery series centers on Jane Steward, the resort manager of Storyton Hall. Tucked away in the rolling hills of rural western Virginia, Storyton Hall is a pi...
Ellery Adams | Book Retreat Mystery Series
Ellery Adams also bring us the popular cozy mystery series centered on the themes of healing, literature, and female friendship in the Secret Book and Scone Society series.
It is set in the fictional, therapeutic town of Miracle Springs, North Carol...
Ellery Adams | Secret Book & Scone Society Series
Check out this 40 book cozy mystery series. It blends small-town espionage, quirky romance, and chaotic suburban life, centers around a former spy turned Girl Scout leader.
Merry is a former CIA agent who tries to blend in in a small town in Iowa. T...
Leslie Langry | Merry Wrath Mysteries
These Stephanie Plum novels are hilarious mystery novels.
Stephanie is a down-on-her-luck woman from Trenton, New Jersey, who becomes a bounty hunter for her cousin's bail bond business to make ends meet. She is clumsy and funny and has a great gro...
Janet Evanovich | Srephanie Plum Novels
Donna Andrew's gives us a wonderful comedic cozy mystery series with Meg Langslow.
The books center on Meg, a blacksmith living in Yorktown, Virginia, who repeatedly gets pulled into solving eccentric local murder cases while managing a chaotic, lar...
Donna Andrews | Meg Langslow Books
Fast Paced Action and Adventure
I don't want to put these novels down because something dramatic is always happening. Luckily the good guys manage to solve problems most of the time...but danger is always near.
This series follows Juan Cabrillo and his crew of high-tech mercenaries who work out of a powerful secret organization called The Corporation.
They operate from the Oregon, a state-of-the-art combat vessel packed with top secret weapons and compute...
Clive Cussler | Oregon Files Books
This 20 book series is excellent! It is an international thriller collection blending fast-paced contemporary action with deep-cut historical mysteries. It follows Cotton Malone, a former U.S. Justice Department operative turned rare-book dealer, as...
Steve Berry | Cotton Malone Series
This 18 book series by James Rollins is a techno-thriller collection about a secret branch of the U.S. government. This elite team consists of former special forces soldiers who are also top scientists. They race around the world to stop global thre...
James Rollins | Sigma Force
These action-adventure novels follow Dirk Pitt, a tall, green-eyed marine engineer, adventurer, and director for the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA). Alongside his loyal sidekick Al Giordino, Pitt solves historical maritime mysteries and...
Clive Cussler | Dirk Pitt Series
Other Genres
This story, taking place during the 1900s with a focus.on WWII, includes well developed charaters, a complex plot, and insights into life during this extremely difficult time. It has shares moments of joy, hope, despair, frustration, courage and str...
Natasha Lester | The Paris Secret