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 16, 2023
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A world of curiosities
Penny, Louise
Paper Book
" Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book 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....

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Devil's delight
Beaton, M. C.
Paper Book
Beloved New York Times bestseller M.C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin--the star of her own hit T.V. series--is back on the case again in Devil's Delight. Agatha and her assistant, Toni, are driving to their friend Bill Wong's long-awaited wedding, thinking...

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

Death and the Brewery Queen
Brody, Frances
Paper Book

Also available in Large Print, eBook and eAudiobook.

Hook, line, and murder : a novel
Fletcher, Jessica
Paper Book
Jessica enters a fly-fishing competition with the sheriff's wife, Maureen Metzger. Their guide, it turns out, is ex-con Brian Kinney. Jailed as an accomplice to convicted killer Darryl Jepson, Brian was later exonerated. He seems like a decent enough fellow. Yet when Jepson breaks out of prison...
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, C. 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
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A new mystery is afoot in the third book in the Thursday Murder Club series from million-copy bestselling author Richard Osman.  "The quartet of aging amateur sleuths...remain wonderful company." --The New York...

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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