It’s the end of the month, which means it’s the time I ask you about your favorite Cozy reads of the month. I know summer is a hectic time of year, but I’m guessing all of us make time to read our Cozy Mysteries. I wish I could say that I have been reading outside, while enjoying the summer breeze, but since the heat index has been over 100° several days down here in San Antonio, I’ve been reading inside with the air conditioner cranked up.

I just started reading a new-to-me author who self-publishes her Cozies, and I’m enjoying her a lot. I am hoping that I will be able to recommend her next month, but I don’t want to recommend her now since I don’t know if I’m going to continue enjoying her as much as I’m currently enjoying her.

As those of you who follow this site know, earlier this month I posted entries about Lorna Barrett’s Booktown Mystery Series and Lea Wait’s Mainely Needlepoint Mystery Series. If you’re interested in seeing those posts, you can find links to them on the Most Popular & Recommended Cozy Mystery Series page of the site.

How about you? Are there any Cozy Mysteries that you’ve read this month the you thought were way better than the rest of this month’s Cozies? If so, would you please tell us about these really good Cozies and why you liked them so much? Most of us are always looking for new-to-us Cozy Mystery authors to add to our favorite authors list! We’d love to hear about the Cozy Mysteries you especially liked, so that we (too) can read them. (If you have a lot of Cozies you think are terrific, would you post the ones you think are even better than the others at the top of the list?)

As usual, please do not tell us about the Cozy Mysteries you did not like.

What really good Cozy Mystery book did you read during June 2016 that you want the rest of us to know about, and why did you enjoy it?

Here are the current recommended authors who some of you have read and recommended this past month:

Kristi Abbott: Popcorn Shop Mystery Series

Donna Andrews: Meg Langslow Mystery Series

Nancy Atherton: Aunt Dimity Mystery Series

Donald Bain: Capital Crimes Mystery Series

Mignon F. Ballard: Miss Dimple Mystery Series

Lorna Barrett (aka Lorraine Bartlett & L.L. Bartlett): Booktown Mystery Series

Juliet Blackwell (aka Hailey Lind): Haunted Home Renovation Mystery Series

Laura Bradford (aka Elizabeth Lynn Casey): Emergency Dessert Squad Mystery Series

Sandra Bretting: Missy DuBois Mystery Series (book #1 is Murder at Morningside)

Kathleen Bridge: Hamptons Home & Garden Mystery Series

Cindy Brown: Macdeath

Kate Carlisle: Bibliophile Mystery Series

Kate Carlisle: Fixer-Upper Mystery Series

Bailey Cates (aka Bailey Cattrell & Cricket McRae): Magical Bakery Mystery Series

Sheila Connolly (aka Sarah Atwell): Museum Mystery Series

Marla Cooper: Terror in Taffeta

Waverly Curtis: Barking Detective Mystery Series

Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell & Tace Baker): Country Store Mystery Series

Laura DiSilverio (aka Lila Dare & Ella Barrick): Readaholics Book Club Mystery Series

Elizabeth J. Duncan: Penny Brannigan Mystery Series

Dawn Eastman: Family Fortune Mystery Series

Amanda Flower (aka Isabella Alan): Magical Bookshop Mystery Series

Shelley Freydont: Celebration Bay Mystery Series

Susan Furlong (aka Lucy Arlington): Georgia Peach Mystery series

Diane Kelly: Paw Enforcement Mystery Series

Josi S. Kilpack: Culinary Mystery Series

Cynthia Kuhn: Semester of Our Discontent

Gayle Leeson (aka Gayle Trent & Amanda Lee): Down South Café Mystery Series

Edith Maxwell (aka Maddie Day & Tace Baker): Quaker Midwife Mystery Series

Maggie McConnon: Belfast McGrath Mystery Series (book #1 is Wedding Bel Blues)

Liz Mugavero (aka Cate Conte): Pawsitively Organic Mystery Series

Katherine Hall Page: Faith Fairchild Mystery Series

Diane Vallere: Costume Shop Mystery Series

Elaine Viets: Dead-End Job Mystery Series

Lea Wait: Mainely Needlepoint Mystery Series

Patricia Wentworth: Miss Silver Mystery Series

[If you click on the author’s name (blue) link, it will take you to his/her page on the Cozy Mystery site. The pages have all of the authors’ books listed chronologically.]

I will list the authors and series that have been recommended, but I urge you to read the comments below so you can see the reasons other Cozy Mystery readers thought these were their best reads of the month.

♦To access more Cozy Mystery Books Recommendations, click on this link♦

P.S. I usually don’t comment on your recommendations since they speak for themselves.

This month my recommendation is Kylie Logan‘s Mayhem at the Orient Express – the first book in her League of Literary Ladies Mystery Series. This is a fun page-turner. I really enjoy the relationships between the members of the “League” who solve the murder. I also like the small town setting >>> on a small island in Lake Erie. Added to the small-town ambiance is that this is a mystery that takes place in an isolated “nobody in/nobody out” setting. Kylie Logan writes well-differentiated, life-like characters. This Cozy harkens back to classic Agatha Christie’s mysteries with the isolated setting and the many characters with motives, means, and opportunities to commit the crime.

Have you read any Cozies this month that you thought were a lot better than the rest of the Cozies you read this month? If so, would you please tell us about these really good Cozies and why you liked them so much? We’d love to know about the Cozy Mysteries you especially liked, so that we (too) can read them. (If you have a lot of Cozies you think are terrific, would you post the ones you think are even better than the others at the top of the list?)

As usual, please do not tell us about the Cozy Mysteries you did not like.

What really good Cozy Mystery book did you read during May 2016 that you want the rest of us to know about, and why did you enjoy it?

Here are the current recommended authors who some of you have read and recommended this past month:

Tessa Arlen: Lady Montfort Mystery Series

Ali Brandon (aka Diane A.S. Stuckart): Black Cat Bookshop Mystery Series

Rita Mae Brown: Mrs. Murphy Mystery Series

Maia Chance: Fairy Tale Fatal Mystery Series

Peg Cochran (aka Meg London): Cranberry Cove Mystery Series

Hannah Dennison: Honeychurch Hall Mystery Series

Elizabeth J. Duncan: Penny Brannigan Mystery Series

Kate Dyer-Seeley (aka Ellie Alexander): Pacific Northwest Mystery Series

Susan Furlong (aka Lucy Arlington): Georgia Peach Mystery Series

Sally Goldenbaum: Seaside Knitters Mystery Series

Carolyn Haines: Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery Series

B.B. Haywood: Candy Holliday Mystery Series

David Handler: Berger & Mitry Mystery Series

Laurie R. King: Mary Russell Mystery Series

Stephen King: Joyland (not Cozy)

Kylie Logan (aka Miranda Bliss & Casey Daniels): League of Literary Ladies Mystery Series (Four Cozy readers recommended this series this month.)

Kylie Logan (aka Miranda Bliss & Casey Daniels): Ethnic Eats Mystery Series

Susan Elia MacNeal: Maggie Hope Mystery Series

Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): Cupcake Bakery Mystery Series (Two Cozy readers recommended this series this month.)

Laura Morrigan: Call of the Wilde Mystery Series

Katherine Hall Page: Faith Fairchild Mystery Series

Sharon Pape: Portrait of a Crime Mystery Series

Nancy J. Parra (aka Nancy Coco): Perfect Proposals Mystery Series

Barbara Ross: Maine Clambake Mysteries Series

Paige Shelton: Scottish Bookshop Mystery Series

Colleen J. Shogan: Washington Whodunit Mystery Series (Stabbing in the Senate is book #1)

Joanna Campbell Slan – Cara Mia Delgatto Mystery Series

Denise Swanson: Devereaux’s Dime Store Mystery Series

Jane Tesh: Madeline Maclin Mystery Series (A Case of Imagination is book #1)

Jacqueline Winspear: Maisie Dobbs Mystery Series

[If you click on the author’s name (blue) link, it will take you to his/her page on the Cozy Mystery site. The pages have all of the authors’ books listed chronologically.]

I will list the authors and series that have been recommended, but I urge you to read the comments below so you can see the reasons other Cozy Mystery readers thought these were their best reads of the month.

♦To access more Cozy Mystery Books Recommendations, click on this link♦

P.S. I usually don’t comment on your recommendations since they speak for themselves.

I am enjoying both of the books I’m reading right now so much! I’m listening to one of Ruth Rendell‘s Inspector Wexford mysteries, and as usual, it is a terrific read! Any time I open one of her mysteries, I know I’m in for a real treat! I simply love her books! Inspector Wexford and the rest of the characters are truly written in 3-D form. Rendell is a superb story teller and can be found on both of these very prestigious lists: Crime Writers’ Association Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time AND Mystery Writers of America Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time.

As for my “real” reading >>> I’ve veered off the Cozy Mystery road and am reading one of Ann Rule‘s true crime novels. Yow! I also love her books, so I’m in a type of euphoric reading mode!

Getting back to Cozy Mysteries >>> Have you read any during April that have made you think they are way better than the rest of the Cozies you read this month? If so, would you please tell us about these super-good Cozies and why you liked them so much? We’d love to know about the Cozies you think are “better than the rest” so that we (too) can read them. (If you have a lot of Cozies you think are terrific, would you post the ones you think are even better than the others at the top of the list?)

As usual, please do not tell us about the Cozy Mysteries you did not like.

What really good Cozy Mystery book did you read during April 2016 that you want the rest of us to know about, and why did you enjoy it?

Here are the current recommended authors who some of you have read and recommended this past month:

Kristi Abbott: Popcorn Shop Mystery Series (Kernel of Truth is book #1)

Susan Wittig Albert: China Bayles Mystery Series

Barbara Allan: Trash ‘n’ Treasures Mystery Series

Gretchen Archer: Davis Way Crime Caper Mystery Series (Double Whammy is book #1)

Karoline Barrett: Bread and Batter Mystery Series (Bun for Your Life is book #1)

M. C. Beaton (aka Marion Chesney): Hamish Macbeth Mysterty Series

Patti Benning: Darling Deli Mystery Series

Jennie Bentley (aka Jenna Bennett & Bente Gallagher): Do It Yourself Mystery Series

Rhys Bowen: Evan Evans Mystery Series

Frances Brody: Kate Shackleton Mystery Series

Duffy Brown: Cycle Path Mystery Series

J.J. Cook (aka Joyce and Jim Lavene & Ellie Grant): Biscuit Bowl Food Truck Mystery Series

J.J. Cook (aka Joyce and Jim Lavene & Ellie Grant): Sweet Pepper Fire Brigade Mystery Series

E.J. Copperman (aka Jeffrey Cohen): Haunted Guesthouse Mystery Series

Mary Daheim: Hillside Manor Bed & Breakfast Mystery Series

Krista Davis: Paws & Claws Mystery Series

Steve Demaree: Dekker Mystery Series (52 Steps to Murder is book #1)

Laura DiSilverio (aka Lila Dare & Ella Barrick): Readaholics Book Club Mystery Series

Elizabeth J. Duncan: Penny Brannigan Mystery Series

Amanda Flower (aka Isabella Allan): Magical Bookshop Mystery Series

Eva Gates (aka Vicki Delany): Lighthouse Library Mystery Series

Ann Granger: Markby & Mitchell Village Whodunit Mystery Series

Lee Harris: Christine Bennett (Holiday) Mystery Series

Ellen Elizabeth Hunter: Magnolia Mystery Series

Karen MacInerney: Margie Petersen Mystery Series

G.A. McKevett: Savannah Reid Mystery Series

Meg Muldoon: Christmas River Mystery Series

Renee Patrick: Lillian Frost and Edith Head Mystery Series (A Design for Dying is book #1)

Louise Penny: Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Series

Anne Perry: Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Mystery Series

Carol J. Perry: Witch City Mystery Series

Rose Pressey: Haunted Village Mystery Series

Ruth Rendell: Inspector Wexford Mystery Series

J.D. Robb (aka Nora Roberts): Eve Dallas (In Death) Mystery Series (not Cozy)

Paige Shelton: Scottish Bookshop Mystery Series

Karen Rose Smith: Caprice De Luca Mystery Series

Denise Swanson: Devereaux’s Dime Store Mystery Series

Margaret Yorke: Stand Alone mysteries

[If you click on the author’s name (blue) link, it will take you to his/her page on the Cozy Mystery site. The pages have all of the authors’ books listed chronologically.]

I will list the authors and series that have been recommended, but I urge you to read the comments below so you can see the reasons other Cozy Mystery readers thought these were their best reads of the month.

♦To access more Cozy Mystery Books Recommendations, click on this link♦

P.S. I usually don’t comment on your recommendations since they speak for themselves.

I’m going to get right to the point for this month’s Cozy Mystery book recommendations. If you read a Cozy Mystery that you thought was really, really good >>> would you please tell us about it and why you liked it so much? You know, the Cozy you thought was even better than the other Cozies you have read. We’d love to know about it so that we (too) can read it. Also, if you have more than just one extra-good Cozy, could you post the ones you think are even better than the others at the top of the list?

As usual, please do not tell us about the Cozy Mysteries you did not like.

What really good Cozy Mystery book did you read during March 2016 that you want the rest of us to know about, and why did you enjoy it?

Here are the current recommended authors who some of you have read and recommended this past month:

Avery Aames (aka Daryl Wood Gerber): Cheese Shop Mystery Series

M.C. Beaton (aka Marion Chesney): Hamish Macbeth Mystery Series

Rhys Bowen: Molly Murphy Mystery Series

Simon Brett: Fethering Mystery Series

Lynne Cahoon: Tourist Trap Mystery Series

Kate Carlisle: Bibliophile Mystery Series

Amanda Carmack: Elizabethan Mystery Series

Bailey Cattrell (aka Bailey Cates & Cricket McRae): Enchanted Garden Mystery Series (Two Cozy readers recommended this series this month.)

Laura Childs: Tea Shop Mystery Series (Two Cozy readers recommended this series this month.)

J.J. Cook (aka Joyce and Jim Lavene & Ellie Grant): Biscuit Bowl Food Truck Mystery Series

J.J. Cook (aka Joyce and Jim Lavene & Ellie Grant): Sweet Pepper Fire Brigade Mystery Series

Jeanne M. Dams: Dorothy Martin Mysteries

Krista Davis: Domestic Diva Mystery Series

Carola Dunn: Daisy Dalrymple Mystery Series

Kaitlyn Dunnett (Kathy Lynn Emerson): Liss MacCrimmon Mystery Series

Kerry Greenwood: Corinna Chapman Mystery Series

Joan Hess (aka Joan Hadley): Claire Malloy Mystery Series

Hazel Holt: Mrs. Malory Mystery Series

Sofie Kelly (aka Sofie Ryan): Magical Cats Mystery Series

Kylie Logan (aka Miranda Bliss & Casey Daniels): League of Literary Ladies Mystery Series

Leslie Meier: Lucy Stone Mystery Series

Carlene O’Connor: Murder in an Irish Village

Joanne Pence: Rebecca Mayfield Mystery Series

Carol J. Perry: Witch City Mystery Series

Leigh Perry (aka Toni L.P. Kelner): Family Skeleton Mystery Series

Linda Reilly: Deep Fried Mystery Series

Barbara Ross: Maine Clambake Mystery Series

Sofie Ryan (aka Sofie Kelly): Second Chance Cat Mystery Series

Karen Rose Smith: Caprice De Luca Mystery Series

Elaine Viets: Dead End Job Mystery Series

[If you click on the author’s name (blue) link, it will take you to his/her page on the Cozy Mystery site. The pages have all of the authors’ books listed chronologically.]

I will list the authors and series that have been recommended, but I urge you to read the comments below so you can see the reasons other Cozy Mystery readers thought these were their best reads of the month.

♦To access more Cozy Mystery Books Recommendations, click on this link♦

P.S. I usually don’t comment on your recommendations since they speak for themselves.