Ah, a cozy mystery. The nicest settings with the worst happenings. The kindest people hiding the most hideous secrets. The most unlikely of detectives running afoul of police and getting themselves locked in closets without cell service. Or getting lost in the woods without cell service. Or getting swept out to sea in a charming dinghy, again, without cell service.
Everyone at Ho-Lee Noodle House knew about Mr. Feng’s deadly shellfish allergy, but no one believes their innocence when Feng turns up dead after a dumpling delivery. Lana certainly doesn’t need to add an active murder investigation to her list of…
The quality at the family ice cream shop has been slipping for years, and Bronwyn Crewse is finally here to bring things back to how they used to be. Armed with an MBA and her grandmother’s recipes, she’s sure she can turn things around…
When Tempest Raj, lauded stage magician, has a trick go terribly wrong, her world comes crashing down. The magician community blames Tempest, thinking that she prioritized a dangerous trick over the safety of her crew. Tempest returns home to help…
Locksmithing is an honorable job, but there’s no denying that it’s just a few ticks away from, well, lockpicking. Electra McDonnell wants to stick to smithing, but when the family breadwinners are off fighting for the Allies in WWII, it’s hard to…
With a name like “Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie,” you’d think Georgie would have it all. But money is tight in 1930s England, and all Georgie wants is to escape her domineering sister-in-law. When Her Majesty the Queen (a cousin —…
Shiloh headed home to cherry country — Michigan, that is — to save the family farm. What she didn’t expect was to have to save the family farm from murder accusations! Her new investor has been found dead at the farmer’s market, just after signing…
Professor Annalee Spain enjoys her quiet life at a small Chicago Bible college. But when she receives a telegram calling her home after her father’s murder, she has no choice but to go. It’s dangerous for a Black woman to travel alone in a KKK-ruled…
Confection, Oregon is the sweetest little town on the West Coast. Visit Sweet Fiction for the perfect book, and then stop by Eats n’ Treats for dessert. Or, at least, that’s Lexi’s ideal day. Instead, when her dog Cookie lets herself out and does…
Miriam Quiñones-Smith is willing to make sacrifices. She’s put her career as a food anthropologist on hold to stay home with her son, she’s put up with her opinionated mother-in-law for years, and now her husband seems to be tying to rekindle a…
Nora Blake is getting tired of the audition-rejection-disappointment cycle, so when a mysterious invitation to a castle outside of Chicago turns up, Nora can’t turn it down. She’ll be a regular performer in Castle Dark’s murder mystery dinners. It’s…
After reading all these cozy mysteries, you might start to feel, well, less cozy. In case you’re worried about poisonous thorns in your roses or being pushed into a vat at just the wrong time, Maureen Johnson and illustrator Jay Cooper have the…
