March is over, so it’s time to discuss our favorite Cozies that we read this month! (As a side note, I think I’ll be doing these at the beginning of months now. I have traditionally done them at the end of the month, but since I am no longer doing some of the former features that went at the beginning of months, I think this might work better featuring on the 1st-3rd from now on.)
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 Tamara Berry’s By the Book 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 March? 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 March 2025 that you want the rest of us to know about, and why did you enjoy it?
Tamara Berry: By the Book Mystery Series
Lynn Cahoon: Tourist Trap Mystery Series
Krista Davis: Paws & Claws Mystery Series
Vanessa Kelly: Emma Knightley Mystery Series (first entry Murder in Highbury)
C. L. Miller: Antique Hunters Mystery Series (first entry Guide to Murder)
Korina Moss: Cheese Shop Mystery Series
Erica Ruth Neubauer: Jane Wunderly Mystery Series (first entry Homicide in the Indian Hills)
Rozalind (sometimes Roz) Noonan: Alice Pepper Lonely Hearts and Puzzle Club Mystery Series (first entry Puzzle Me a Murder)
Richard Osman: Thursday Murder Club (first entry The Thursday Murder Club)
Karen Rose Smith: Daisy’s Garden Tea Mystery Series
Rosalie Spielman: Aloha Lagoon Mystery Series (contributor – series is written by multiple authors – specific recommended novel is The Coral Conspiracy)
Heather Weidner: Jules Keene Glamping Mystery Series (first entry Vintage Trailers and Blackmailers)
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 some books by authors that I met at our local cozy cons. The Coral Conspiracy by Rosalie Spielman about a new sleuth in Hawaii but who knows Kiki from the previous books. Deadline and Valentines by Heather Weidner. I like the vintage trailers and little houses. This book had a romance convention. Last was Puzzle Me Murder by Roz Noonan about a group who works jigsaw puzzles that help them focus to solve the crime.
I also read The Wagtail Murder Club by Krista Davis, Homicide in the Indian Hills by Erica Ruth Neubauer, and Murder in the Irish Garden. Great series, and I would love to meet those authors some day.
Marianne says
I enjoyed Murder in Highbury by Vanessa Kelly. It’s the first book of a series featuring Jane Austen’s Emma Woodhouse Knightly who has married Mr. Knightly. All the familiar, favorite characters from “Emma” are in the book, including her father, Harriet, and more. There’s gossip and small town life as well as a villain or two. It was fun to re-visit one of my favorite books in a new way.
EM says
I can thank my husband for putting me on to this author. As much as he likes to tease me about my cozy murder comfort reads, I think he prefers it to other things.
So, this last month I’ve read the first two books in the Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club and The Man Who Died Twice.
I absolutely adore the characters. The leads are septuagenarians Ron (labour union leader), Ibrahim (psychiatrist), Joyce (nurse) and Elizabeth (whose exact profession is not clear in the first book but is a force of nature). Secondary characters are the police Chris and Donna, and Bogdan a handyman with an interesting past and the various family members of all of the above.
Highly recommend if you have not tried these before – very British humour, so you are warned.
Maureen Condon says
I agree, this is a great series. Hope he writes a few more! There is a movie coming out too.
Hanna says
I enjoyed Karen Rose Smith’ Murder with Lemon Tea Cakes. Daisy and her aunt Iris are running a cozy tea store when her aunt stumbles on the dead body of a dear friend and a possible fiance outside the store. The local detective of course suspects Iris and, as with many books, Daisy decided that it is up to her to prove him wrong. Along the way she become friends with another newcomer, a former police officer who helps with solving the murder.
Also Lynn Cahoon’s Guidebook for Murder. As with most recent books, Jill Gadner had it with long hours as a family lawyer, visited a coastal city in California and decided to open a book and coffee shop. She befriends an elderly neighbor Miss Emily and when she found dead her will makes Jill her heiress. Miss Emily was old but was she murdered? There are several suspects and, to tell the truth, the final culprit was a surprise to me.
In Korina Moss’ Cheddar off Dead a loathsome food reviewer is murdered outside Willa’s Bauer’s cheese shop, knifed with a cheese knife. Willa is the obvious suspect – so she thinks – though the new detective in town is trying to calm and protect her. She is determined to find out who among her guests at the cheese testing party done it. Moving from one guest to another, aided by her two loyal employees and a helpful neighbor.
MendoGirl says
I would like to recommend The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder by C.L. Miller.
Freya Lockwood has spent 20 years avoiding her quaint English village hometown, and the mentor, Arthur Crockleford, who taught her everything she knows about antiques, and hunting them down. But, when Freya receives a letter from Arthur sent just days before his mysterious death, Freya is pulled back to the village, where she teams up with her eccentric Aunt Carole to follow scavenger hunt-like clues to an old manor house for an antique’s fair. But not all is as it seems. The antiques are cheap reproductions and the people are not all that real either.
This was a great read through betrayal, heartbreak, redemption and the promise of new romance and putting a life right again. I had a hard time putting it down. I’m looking forward to the next one!