I didn’t realize I was reading an early cozy mystery when I first picked up a Diane Mott Davidson novel in 1990, but it was a pleasure to read about a crime that didn’t involve hardboiled grit, disgusting descriptions of blood and guts, and moments of spine-chilling fear. Instead, it centered on a divorced caterer worrying about the flakiness of her pie crust as she solved a tricky murder in a small, fictional mountain town in Colorado. What are Cozy Mysteries? Cozy mysteries

The length of each Elizabeth Inspector Lynley novel might be daunting to some, but as someone who used to expressly buy only the thickest...

Canadian author Louise Penny is a little younger than me and has written one of the most beloved mystery series of all time ( I think)....

Attica Locke’s (b 1974) first novel, Black Water Rising was nominated for an Edgar Award, an NAACP Image Award, as well as a Los Angeles...

Barbara Cleverly was born in Yorkshire, England (1940) and is known for the Detective Joe Sandilands Mysteries (13 of them – enjoyed...

Charles Finch is a literary critic and author. Born in 1980 (!!) in New York City, he was educated at Yale University and Merton College,...

Born in England to parents from India and Germany, Sujata Massey was raised primarily in St. Paul, Minnesota, and she’s lived for over...

Lindsey David was born in Birmingham, England, studied at Oxford, and worked as a civil servant for 13 years. After a romantic novel...

C.S. Harris, aka Candice Proctor and C.S. Graham, is the bestselling, award-winning author of more than a dozen novels including the...

Laurie R King is the New York Times bestselling author of 30 novels and other works, including the Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes stories,...

Deanna Raybourne (Veronica Speedwell Mysteries and Lady Gray Mysteries) combines romance and mystery in the Victorian era, with charming...

1930-2015 Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries. She is best known for...

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I was surprised at how much I enjoyed Sherry Thomas’s Lady Sherlock Series. Thomas has published romance, fantasy and YA books, none of...

Catherine Louisa Pirkis (1839-1910) wrote a total of 14 novels in the years spanning between 1877 and 1894, and contributed to many...

Jennifer Ashley is one of those writers with limitless energy and a treasure trove of untold stories in her head. She writes historical,...

Tasha Alexander studied English Literature and Medieval History at the University of Notre Dame. She wrote a novel, Elizabeth: The Golden...

Julia Chapman is the pen name of Julia Stagg. She wrote the Fogas Chronicles, a series set in the French Pyrenees, and the Dales...

Mariah Fredericks is the author of the Edgar-nominated Y/A novel Crunch Time (. She was born and raised in New York City, where she lives...

Barbara Louise Mertz (1927 – 2013), was an Illinois-born author with a University of Chicago PhD (1952) in Egyptology who wrote under the...