Most Read This Week In Cozy Mystery

Cozy mysteries very rarely focus on sex, profanity or violence. The murders take place off stage, and are often relatively bloodless (e.g. poisoning), while sexual activity (if any) between characters is only ever gently implied and never directly addressed.

The cozy mystery usually takes place in a small town or village. The small size of the setting makes it believable that all the suspects know each other. The amateur sleuth is usually a very likeable person who is able to get the community members to talk freely about each other. There is usually at least one very knowledgeable, nosy, yet r
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Most Read This Week Tagged "Cozy Mystery"

The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
The Mistletoe Mystery (Molly the Maid, #2.5)
Now or Never (Stephanie Plum, #31)
The Marlow Murder Club (Marlow Murder Club, #1)
The Ex-Girlfriend Murder Club (A Hu Done It Mystery, #1)
The Busybody Book Club
The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club, #3)
The Cinnamon Spice Inn (Maple Falls, #1)
Beach Reads and Deadly Deeds
Shadow Witch (Witches of Hollow Cove, #1)
No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding (The Vacation Mysteries, #2)
The House Witch 2 (The House Witch, #2)
The Honeycrisp Orchard Inn (Honeycrisp Orchard, #1)
Freaky Festivals (Mystic Caravan, #20)
Murder on Sex Island
The Late-Night Witches
Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #1)
The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant (Merritt & Blunt Mysteries, #1)
The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective
For Duck's Sake (Meg Langslow, #37)
The Wrong Witch to Hex With (Moonshadow Cove, #1)
The Retired Assassin's Guide to Country Gardening: A New Zealand Paranormal Cozy Mystery
The Charity Shop Detective Agency (The Charity Shop Detective Agency #1)
Asylum Hotel
Above the Bay of Angels
I Bet You’d Look Good in a Coffin (Kitty Collins, #2)
The House Witch 3 (The House Witch, #3)
Murder at Cape Costumers (Cozy Capers Book Group Mystery, #7)
Sprinkles and Sea Serpents (Sugar Shack Witch Mysteries, #1)
A Terribly Nasty Business (Beatrice Steele, #2)
Laying Down the Latte (A Bakeshop Mystery, #21)
Fortune and Glory: Tantalizing Twenty-Seven (Stephanie Plum, #27)
A Case of Mice and Murder (The Trials of Gabriel Ward, #1)
History Lessons
This Is Not a Game
The Killer Question
The Crescent Moon Tearoom
Midnight Spells (Witches of Hollow Cove, #2)
Charmed Nights (Witches of Hollow Cove, #3)
Yeonnam-dong's Smiley Laundromat
Pomona Afton Can So Solve a Murder (Pomona Afton #1)
No Way Out
Murder on Lake Garda
It Had to Be You (Under Suspicion, #8)
Impractical Magic
Crazy Spooky Love (Melody Bittersweet, #1)
Magical Mojo (Witches of Hollow Cove, #4)
Vice and Virtue (A Layla Virtue Mystery, #1)
Staged (Busybodies Collection, #1)
Can You Solve the Murder?
Over My Dead Body
A Killer Getaway
The Treasure Hunters Club
The Canal Murders (Yorkshire Murder Mysteries, #10)
The Body in the Bookstore (A Secret Bookcase Mystery, #1)
Booked for Murder (An Old Juniper Bookstore Mystery, #1)
Death and Croissants (A Follet Valley Mystery, #1)
Murder at Arleigh (Gilded Newport Mysteries #13)
At Charm's Length (A Moonstone Bay Cozy Mystery Book 16)
The Author's Guide to Murder
The Windsor Knot (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates #1)
Mirror Lake (Shady Hollow, #3)
The Judas Monk Murders
Ghost Mortem (Ghost Detective #1)
The Book of Candlelight (Secret, Book, & Scone Society, #3)
Black Forest Mystery (Bakeshop at Holiday Bay, #1)
Midlife in Gretna Green (Midlife Recorder, #1)
Witchy Whiskers (Nine Lives Magic, #1)
Thus With a Kiss I Die (Daughter of Montague, #2)
Drop Dead Sisters (The Finch Sisters, #1)
Eat, Pray, Hex (Crescent Moon Mysteries, #1)
Murder on the Brighton Express (Cleopatra Fox, #9)
The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)
An Unexpected Peril (Veronica Speedwell, #6)
One Final Turn (Electra McDonnell, #5)
Something Whiskered (Cat in the Stacks #17)
The Last Word
Ink and Shadows (Secret, Book, & Scone Society, #4)
The Healing Season of Pottery
Murder at the Piccadilly Playhouse (Cleopatra Fox, #2)
A Murder for Miss Hortense
A Murder of Crows (Nell Ward, #1)
The Cornish Wedding Murder (The Nosey Parker Mysteries #1)
Secrets of the Forgotten Heir (Witchlight Magical Mysteries #1)
A Killer Cupcake (Beachfront Bakery #1)
The Antique Hunter's Death on the Red Sea (Antique Hunter's, #2)
An Irish Bookshop Murder (Mercy McCarthy Mystery, #1)
The Vampire and the Case of the Secretive Siren (The Portlock Paranormal Detective  #2)
Practical Hexes (Witches of Hollow Cove, #5)
Murder at the Dressmaker's Salon (Cleopatra Fox, #4)
The Other Half (DI Caius Beauchamp, #1)
The Best Way to Bury Your Husband
Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes
Mrs. Plansky Goes Rogue (Mrs. Plansky, #2)
It Takes a Psychic (Ghost Hunters #17)
The Perfect Cornish Murder (The Nosey Parker Mysteries #3)
A Sinister Revenge (Veronica Speedwell, #8)
Once Bitten, Twice Dead (A Two Broomsticks Gas & Grill Witch Cozy Mystery Book 11)
The Book Keeper (Unholy Island, #2)
The Vampire and the Case of the Cursed Canine (The Portlock Paranormal Detective #4)

Ed Lynskey
Quote taken from Chapter 1: "The police should be in it, not us. We’re out of here.” Bill did an about-face to retrace their route to the door. Piper whipped out a hand and snagged him by the shirttail. Her tone returned to crisp and decisive. “Slow down, Roadrunner. I’m not ready to leave. We’ve got work to do.” Incredulous, he stared gape-mouthed at her. “You'd better explain,” he said. She wiggled her nose. “I’m growing nosier by the second about the circumstances surrounding Anna’s murde ...more
Ed Lynskey, The Corpse Wore Gingham

Kirsten Fullmer
Monique bit at the side of lip. “He’s pretty active, I don’t want to impose…” Tony stood and scooped up the puppy. “No, seriously, I’d love a little company.
Kirsten Fullmer, Problems at the Pub

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