June is 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 Emmie Caldwell’s Craft Fair Knitters 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 June? 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 June 2025 that you want the rest of us to know about, and why did you enjoy it?
Tamara Berry: Eleanor Wilde Mystery Series
Verity Bright: Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery Series (first entry A Very English Murder)
Rhys Bowen: Royal Spyness Mystery Series
Leslie Budewitz: Spice Shop Mystery Series
Grace Burrowes: Lady Violet Mystery Series (first entry Lady Violet Investigates)
Emmie Caldwell (Mary Ellen Hughes): Craft Fair Knitters Mystery Series
Colleen Cambridge: American in Paris Mysteries (first entry Mastering the Art of French Murder)
Elizabeth Craig (aka Riley Adams & Elizabeth Spann Craig): Southern Quilting Mystery Series
J.C. Eaton: Sophie Kimball Mystery Series
Peggy Ehrhart: Knit & Nibble Mystery Series
Tara Lush: Coffee Lover’s Mystery Series
PJ Skinner: Seacastle Mystery Series (first entry Deadly Return)
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.
Fortney, Sally says
I read Seances Are for Suckers and Potions are for Pushovers by Tamara Berry. The sleuth is first a fake psychic who hears from her twin sister and then a potion maker. She is American who gets involved with a British family who live in a castle. The family is pretty quirky. I also read Twinkle Twinkle Au Revoir by Heather Weidner and A Tarnished Canvas by Anna Lee Huber.
Rob Jarrad says
I’ve been reading a lot of Peggy Ehrhart’s Knit and Nibble series as after next year, she won’t be writing it anymore. But thankfully, I can still order them from my library and sign up for the new series. She will be unveiling the new series next year and if it is anything like Knit and Nibble, it will be a success! So stay tuned readers.
Also a series I didn’t think I’d like as well and it has turned out to be stellar, Elizabeth Spahn Craig’s Southern Quilting Mysteries and she has a few other series out there as well.
Rob Jarrad says
As always, Leslie Budewicz never fails with her Seattle Spice series to charm her readers and I love to see what she and her Airedale Terrier, Arf are going to be up to. She has another foodie series that is a winner so you’ll be enjoying this series as much as I have and the characters grow on you….quickly. Start with Assault and Pepper and don’t stop. Trust me. You won’t be able to.
All my best and a happy summer of reading to you all.
Rob Jarrad
Hanna says
I enjoyed Rhys Bowen’s Her Royal Spyness. Lady Georgiana, with no funds after the market crash is trying to earn a living in London by cleaning houses. She knows how to enter the palace to have tea with the queen but she cannot afford to hire a maid. But when a shady character is found dead at her family house and her brother is arrested she has to find the real story. Interesting descriptions of the life of the now not rich nor famous. She joins other friends who crash a wedding to have a nice meal. We follow the bewilderment of her brother who does not remember locking a door; the servants always take care of this. I am looking forward to the next books in the series.
I also continued with Verity Bright Lady Eleanor Swift series: Witness to Murder where she is seriously considering running for office while trying to clear a cook from being charged for poisoning.
Ann M says
Just read Lady Violet Investigates, the first of the Lady Violet series by Grace Burrowes. She is an interesting character that I liked very much.
Michelle says
I’ve been reading the Seacastle mysteries by PJ Skinner. Set in the English town of Seacastle, the first book is Deadly Return. Tanya Bowe is a former investigative journalist who builds a new life and community after her divorce from her DI husband. That community is filled with quirky and engaging characters. The series is currently free with Kindle Unlimited.
Mimi Nugent says
Loved the American in Paris Mysteries by Colleen Cambridge – join Tabitha Knight and her neighbor, Julia Child on their escapades in the City of Light!!
And, A Coffee Lover’s Mysteries by Tara Lush – Lana Lewis is on the case brewing up solutions to the crimes in Devils Beach!
Two can’t-miss series!