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Fresh and Fun and Cozy

Looking for a bit of mystery without all of the gory details? Cozy mysteries are just the ticket! Whether you're just starting to explore the genre or looking for a new series to binge, these first-in-a series titles from the last few years have something for everyone.

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  • When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. But when a notoriously nasty food critic (who happens to be her ex-boyfriend) drops dead moments after a…
    Book, 2021New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2021.
  • "When the disgruntled owner of a rival bakery is murdered after getting a rise out of her, Lyndsay Murray, the owner of Spice Isle Bakery, falls under suspicion and must prove her innocence while dealing with her overprotective and meddlesome…
    Book, 2023New York, NY : St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2023.
  • Two cantankerous septuagenarians, opposites in every way, put aside their differences to stop a killer… if they don’t throttle each other first!
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corp., 2022.
  • When a dead body is discovered at their local prenatal class, new-to-town Alice and her pregnant friends set out to solve the mystery and clear their names, with the help of her troublesome dog, Helen.
    Book, 2024New York : Minotaur Books, 2024.
  • Two cousins open a food stall at a Los Angeles night market. When a customer dies after drinking their bubble tea, they set out to find the killer and clear their names.
    Book, 2022New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2022.
  • In her family's magical bakery, Felicity Jin crafts handmade fortune cookies, making her own personalized predictions, but when one customer's ill-fated fortune results in murder, she must find a way to turn her luck around and clear her name.
    Book, 2024New York, NY : St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2024.
  • Cryptozoologist Morgan Carter owns an eclectic bookshop where she sells old books, crystal balls, and other oddities. When a violent attack at the bookshop occurs, an unspeakable tragedy from Morgan's past comes into play as she becomes involved in…
    Book, 2022New York : Berkley Prime Crime, [2022]
  • After being orphaned and separated as children, Koby Hill and Keaton Rutledge reunite and decide to capitalize on their shared interests by opening up a well-stocked bookstore and cozy soul-food café in the pacific northwest. But this new chapter of…
    Book, 2021New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2021.
  • Two unlikely allies race through the cobbled streets of 1920s London in search of a killer targeting Chinese immigrants.
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Soho Crime, [2024]
  • Cheesemonger Willa Bauer discovers that her new home in a small Sonoma Valley town is ripe for murder... something here stinks to high heaven, and Willa knows it's not the cheese.
    Book, 2022New York, NY : St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2022.
  • After a disastrous accident derails Tempest Raj’s career, she heads back to her childhood home in California. When Tempest visits her dad’s latest renovation project, her former stage double is discovered dead inside a wall that’s supposedly been…
    Book, 2022New York : Minotaur Books, 2022.
  • Jay Allan and Cindy Cooper are '90s soap opera sweethearts turned business partners who run Palm Springs’ chicest movie memorabilia store, Hooray for Hollywood. But when their biggest competitor shows up dead, they'll have to solve the case before…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Crooked Lane Books, 2022.
  • In a trendy Salt Lake City neighborhood, Ben Rosencrantz's board game shop has become a community hotspot for players of all ages--and for killer collectors.
    Book, 2023New York : Kensington Publishing Corp, 2023.
  • Maddy Montgomery is a social media expert who’s #StartingOver in small town Michigan after inheriting her great-aunt’s bakery. But just as she'd getting settled, the mayor is fatally stabbed, and Maddy’s fingerprints are found on the knife. Maddy's…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corp., [2022]
  • After a scathing food review and a messy breakup, a formally trained pastry chef returns home to California to launch a cannabis bakery with her quirky Aunt Dawn.
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corp., [2023]
  • "Holly Miller arrives at her cousin Josh's campsite to return his wayward pooch only to discover he is nowhere to be found and a guest of the Sugar Maple Inn is dead in his tent, prompting her and her Jack Russell Terrier, Trixie, to sniff out a…
    Book, 2024New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2024.
  • Hired as a housemaid by the Dickinson family, Willa Noble soon develops a warm relationship with the reclusive poet, and the two women together investigate the death of Willa's brother in what appears to be a stable accident but proves to be…
    Book, 2022New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2022.
  • Right before opening her dream gourmet deep-dish pizzeria in Geneva Bay, Wisconsin , Delilah O'Leary finds herself and her cat Butterball in a bit of a pickle. Freshly dumped by her fiancé, and with an aunt accused of murder, Delilah must must…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2022.
  • Two things got Rarity Jones through her breast cancer treatments: friends and books. Now cancer-free, Rarity has devoting her life to helping others by opening a bookstore focusing on the power of healing and starting the Tuesday Night Survivors…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Lyrical Underground, Kensington Publishing Corp., 2022.
  • A glimpse of a quickly melting corpse at the foot of a volcano has amateur sleuth and food enthusiast Valerie Corbin shocked. But how can she investigate a murder, when there's no evidence the victim ever existed?
    Book, 2024Edinburgh : Severn House, 2024.