December is almost over, so it’s time to discuss our favorite Cozies that we read this month!
If you read a Cozy mystery this month and want to recommend it to the rest of us, be sure to post it here! For this month, I read the first entry of Laurie Cass’s Bookmobile Cat Mystery Series. For the reasons I want to recommend it, be sure to check out the blog entry!
So, what have you been reading that you can recommend in December? Please be sure to tell us why you liked these Cozies so much. I know we’re all always on the lookout for more particularly good Cozy Mystery authors! (If you have a lot of Cozies you think are great, please post the ones you like the most at the top of the list.)
As always, please do not tell us about the Cozy Mysteries you did not like.
What really good Cozy Mystery did you read December 2022 that you want the rest of us to know about, and why did you enjoy it?
Winnie Archer (aka Melissa Bourbon & Misa Ramirez): Bread Shop Mystery Series
Jennie Bentley (aka Jenna Bennett & Bente Gallagher): Do It Yourself Mystery Series
Laurien Berenson: Senior Sleuths Mystery Series
Lynn Cahoon: Cat Latimer Mystery Series
Laurie Cass (aka Laura Alden): Bookmobile Cat Mystery Series
Ann Claire: Christie Bookshop Mystery Series (first entry Dead and Gondola)
Maya Corrigan: Five-Ingredient Mystery Series
Vicki Delany (aka Eva Gates): Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery Series
Victoria Hamilton (aka Amanda Cooper): Merry Muffin Mystery Series
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.
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P.S. I usually don’t comment on your recommendations since they speak for themselves.
Lee says
I read the first installment of the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery by Vicki Delany. I thoroughly enjoyed the occasional comedic comments. The mystery and the characters all made for a good story. Liked the dialog as well. Ready to read the next one.
J Carpenter says
Jennie Bentley was my best read for December. I understand remodeling…
Joan says
I loved Laurien Berenson’s Peg and Rose Solve a Murder. The 2 sisters-in-law never got along well until this book. Both are quirky seniors. Peg raises champion Standand black Poodles and is a dog show judge.
The two get into all kinds of scrapes but come out of it winners. All of her books are wonderful reads.
Fortney, Sally says
I enjoyed Bake Offed by Maya Corrigan, Caught Dead to Write by Lynn Cahoon, and A Useful Woman by Darcie Wilde all the more because I met the authors at a Kensington Mini-Con. Bake Off was set at a mystery convention but added a baking contest. I love Lynn Cahoon’s series on writing workshops. A Useful Woman was a historical mystery. Also read High Spirits by Carol J. Perry. As last week was super cold, I loved reading about Christmas in Florida with decorated palm trees and Santa hats on plastic flamingoes.
Elise Maloof says
I’m a dog lover but I love Eddie the cat! I’ve enjoyed the whole series and I’m waiting for a new one!
Virginia says
My favorite cozy read this month was Bread Over Troubled Water by Winnie Archer. I love this series about Ivy Culpepper and the folks at Yeast of Eden Bakery.
MendoGirl says
First, I would like to say thank you to all of you who recommend Dead and Gondola by Ann Claire. I’m not quite finished with it, but I’m really enjoying it!
Second, I would like to recommend the Merry Muffin series by Victoria Hamilton.
The first book in the series is Bran New Death, and I would really suggest reading this series in order. I just finished the fifth book Much Ado About Muffin.
Merry Wynter first comes to Autumn Vale, New York after the death of her husband to check out a castle left to her by her uncle that she only met as a young child.
Merry is smart, funny, a fabulous baker, and a woman still mourning her husband.
She is followed to Autumn Vale by her two best friends Pish and Shilo.
The town of Autumn Vale and the people who inhabit it are well written, and fully developed.
I have really enjoyed this series and I hope you will as well.
Finally, Happy New Year to everyone. May 2023 be joyous, healthy and just a little mysterious!
Hanna says
I enjoyed Vicky Delany’s “Elementary she Read.” Gemma Doyle is a co owner of a Sherlock Holmes memorabilia store and Mrs. Hudson tea room. After finding a rare magazine of the the first Sherlock Holmes story hidden in her store, she is attempting to find the one who hid it only to embark on a convoluted story of murders, a high society family in Boston and a new police detective who is intended on arresting her. I enjoyed Gemma’s sense of observation and deduction just like… Sherlock Holmes. I also liked her mentioning the Marry Russel and Sherlock Holmes series by Laurie King since I have read the first three.
Diane Slonski says
HI, thanks for recommendations! I read the Laurie Cass bookmobile series – love them – along with the Vicki Delaney/Eva Gates series.
Victoria Hamilton has another series she writes – Vintage Kitchen Mystery which I read.
I also read Sofie Kelly/Sofie Ryan’s series and so many others!
Enjoy