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
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Agatha Award Winner for Best Contemporary Novel 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...

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Aunt Dimity and the enchanted cottage
Atherton, Nancy
In the twenty-fifth installment of the bestselling Aunt Dimity series, when an inscrutable newcomer arrives in Finch, Lori is determined to befriend him--and in the process discovers Finch's own heart-wrenching past It's early May in the small English village of Finch and the air...

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Devil's delight : an Agatha Raisin mystery
Beaton, M. C.
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...

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Arsenic and adobo
Manansala, Mia P.
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.

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Murder is in the air
Brody, Frances

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Murder through the English Post
Ellicott, Jessica

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Hook, line, and murder
Fletcher, Jessica
In this newest in the USA Today bestselling mystery series, Jessica Fletcher takes a relaxing getaway that turns into a reel deadly situation. Jessica enters a fly fishing competition at a nearby lake. Joining her is the sheriff's wife, Maureen Metzger. Their guide, however, is a surprise to both......
Clause of death
Barrett, Lorna
" Bookstore owner Tricia Miles tries to open a new chapter in life, but murder mars the pages in the latest entry to Lorna Barrett's New York Times bestselling Booktown series. Tricia Miles and her sister, Angelica, are the co-presidents of the...

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Mumbo gumbo murder
Childs, Laura
A shocking murder strikes a sour note during Jazz Fest in the latest New Orleans Scrapbooking Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs.

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Auntie Poldi and the lost Madonna
Giordano, Mario 1963-
There's only one Auntie Poldi: bewigged, cursing in Bavarian, and knocking back a wee shot of grappa as a pre-breakfast aperitif . . . or is there? No one is as they seem (and sound) in this hilarious new mystery featuring Sicily's sultriest sleuth. Strange...

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The painted queen
Peters, Elizabeth 1927-2013
Egypt, 1912--Amelia Peabody and her dashing archeologist husband, Radcliffe Emerson, are once again in danger as they search for a priceless, stolen bust of legendary Queen Nefertiti and Amelia finds herself the target of assassins in this long-awaited, eagerly anticipated final installment of...

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Murder in an Irish cottage
O'Connor, Carlene
In a remote--and superstitious--village in County Cork, Ireland, Garda Siobh n O'Sullivan must solve a murder where the prime suspects are fairies . . . Family is everything to Siobh n: her five siblings; her dear departed mother for whom the family business, Naomi's Bistro, is named;...

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Smile Beach murder
Bessette, Alicia
From author Alicia Bessette comes an all-new mystery series featuring Callie Padget, a former reporter turned bookshop clerk in the Outer Banks who is pulled into a deadly web of secrets when a mysterious fall at a lighthouse echoes a tragedy from her past. When Callie is laid off...

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A song of comfortable chairs
McCall Smith, Alexander 1948-
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...

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The golden tresses of the dead : a Flavia de Luce novel
Bradley, Alan 1938-
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...

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The bullet that missed : a Thursday Murder Club mystery
Osman, Richard 1970-
INSTANT 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...

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