Cozy Mysteries for Adults

Some of our favourite picks for mysteries featuring amateur sleuths in small communities that are light on violence and sex.


Updated June 24, 2023
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A world of curiosities
Penny, Louise
Audiobook
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth entry in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's beloved series. It's spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying...

Also available in Large Print, CD, eBook, and eAudiobook.

Murder in an Irish cottage
O'Connor, Carlene
Ebook

Also available in Large Print, CD, eBook, and eAudiobook.


Smile Beach murder
Bessette, Alicia
Paper Book
Callie Padget thinks she's leaving behind her days of uncovering mysteries and diving head-first into danger when she becomes the Outer Banks Bookshop's newest clerk. But the ex-journalist soon realises you cannot simply run away from mystery. When a mysterious fall at a lighthouse triggers Callie's...

Also available in Large Print, eBook, and eAudiobook.

A song of comfortable chairs
McCall Smith, Alexander
Paper Book
In this latest installment in the beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Grace Makutsi encounters a pair of quandaries that will require all of her and Mma Ramotswe's cleverness and generosity to resolve. "An escape from life's woes as well as a suggestion for how to make the...

Also available in Large Print, eBook, and eAudiobook.

The golden tresses of the dead
Bradley, Alan
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A finger in a wedding cake is only the beginning in this deliciously shocking mystery featuring Flavia de Luce, "the world's greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth" (The Seattle Times). Although it is autumn in the small...

Also available in Large Print, CD, eBook, eAudiobook and DAISY format.

The bullet that missed
Osman, Richard
Paper Book
The third installment in the beloved and New York Times bestselling series from Richard Osman, also author of We Solve Murders "The quartet of aging amateur sleuths...remain wonderful company." --The New York Times Book ReviewIt is an ordinary...

Also available in Large Print, eBook and eAudiobook format.

Arsenic and adobo
Manansala, Mia P.
Paper Book
In the small town of Shady Palms, Illinois, Lila Macapagal and her relatives run Tita Rosie's Kitchen, serve delicious Flipino dishes, and solve crimes on the side.

Also available in eBook and eAudiobook.


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