Small towns, amateur sleuths, a cup of tea, and a murder that somehow never feels too dark — this is the cozy mystery shelf. No gore, no nightmares, just clever whodunits you can read with a blanket and a candle. If you want mysteries that feel like ...
Vera Wong is a sixty-year-old tea shop owner in San Francisco whose only customer is, let's say, not a customer — he's a dead body, and Vera decides the police are doing it wrong and takes over. She's nosy, magnificent, and absolutely convinced she's...
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
Four residents of a retirement village who meet every Thursday to discuss unsolved murders — and then one of them turns up in their own backyard. It's the coziest possible take on a whodunit: the sleuths are in their seventies, the banter is dry and ...
The Thursday Murder Club
A seventy-seven-year-old woman who sets crosswords for a living hears a gunshot while swimming in the Thames, and when the police dismiss her, she decides to solve it herself — recruiting the local dog-walker and the vicar's wife along the way. If yo...
The Marlow Murder Club
A retired schoolteacher is found dead in the woods of a tiny Quebec village, and Chief Inspector Armand Gamache — patient, kind, and quietly brilliant — comes to find out why. This is the first book of a seventeen-book series, and I'm warning you now...
Still Life (Chief Inspector Gamache Series #1)
Ten strangers are invited to an island by a host none of them have met, and then they start dying — one by one, in the order of an old nursery rhyme. It's the most perfectly plotted mystery ever written, I'll say it. Christie does in 300 pages what m...