September 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 Laura Gail Black’s Antique Bookstore 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 September? 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 September 2023 that you want the rest of us to know about, and why did you enjoy it?
Laura Gail Black: Antique Bookstore Mystery Series
Lynn Cahoon: Survivors’ Book Club Mystery Series
Emmie Caldwell: Craft Corner Mystery Series
Vivien Chien: Noodle Shop Mystery Series
Vicki Delany (aka Eva Gates): Tea by the Sea Mystery Series AND Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery Series
Sally Goldenbaum: Seaside Knitters Mystery Series AND Queen Bees Quilt Shop Mystery Series
David M. Hamlin: Murder in Tolland
Steve Higgs: Albert Smith’s Culinary Capers Mystery Series (first entry Pork Pie Pandemonium)
Katherine Hall Page: Faith Fairchild Mystery Series
Andrea Penrose: Wrexford & Sloane Mystery Series
David Rosenfelt: Andy Carpenter Mystery Series
Dorothy L. Sayers: Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery Series
Lee Thayer: Peter Clancy Mystery Series (first entry The Mystery of the Thirteenth Floor)
Diana Xarissa: Aunt Bessie Cold Case Mystery Series (first entry The Adams File)
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.
Jeanette Carpenter says
Laura Gail Black is wonderful…thank you for sharing..interesting vocabulary..great stories.
Roxane M. says
I too read “For Whom the Book Tolls” by Gail Black. I loved it and would recommend it to anyone!
Ellen Havlik says
I just discovered Lee Thayer and am reading Q.E.D. What a thoroughly engaging story, beautifully written.
LaVerne B says
Found this author for the first time this month. Really liked the book and will be reading more of her books.. Also have recommended to friends.
sydney weisman says
I found this terrific new cozy on Amazon, it’s just out and getting terrific reviews: MURDER in TOLLAND by David M. Hamlin. It’s about a disillusioned LA based mystery writer who needs a respit from LA and Hollywood turmoil. He goes back to Tolland, CT., where he spent many joyous boyhood summers. Looking for a rest, he finds murder instead. The book is filled with wonderful, memorable characters, humor and gentleness.
Love this site, so glad to find it.
Sydney
Cecile says
Among the other cozies that I read this month were Hot & Sour Suspects & Misfortune Cookie, both by Vivien Chien. Both were great but Misfortune Cookie is fantastic! It is a quick roller coaster of plots & counter plots, family relationships & complicated friendships! This is one of the series that I have read from the beginning, in order! I am so glad! I find I crave noodles & food from the Ho-Lee Noodles Shop so much!💜
Fortney, Sally says
I read Death in the Romance Aisle by Lynn Cahoon. The book group is being there for each other more and more. Also read Mugshots of Manhattan by Christin Brecher. I met both these authors at the Kensington Mini-Cozy Con last year and found Christin as a new author for me there.
I discovered Andrea Penrose because she is on the Word Wench blog. Murder in Black Swan Lane is the first of a historical series that also emphasizes using science to solve the crimes.
Steeped in Malice by Vicki Delany was a fun tea shop mystery set in Cape Cod. I was thrilled to meet her at the PA Tea Festival.
And I read The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman and never met him. This book was even deeper than the others, but still had humor.
Rob (Robin) Jarrad says
Dear Danna et all: I’ve been reading a lot of Emmie Caldwell Craft show knitting mysteries, Sally Goldenbaum’s two series Knitters by the Sea and Queen Bee Quilter’s series, some Anne Perry. (Rutland Place and Murder at Marble Arch) and Emily Brightwell’s newest, I just started Mrs. Jeffries Aims to Win.
Other than knitting and working, I’m keeping busy.
Rob Jarrad
Zhahn says
I loved David Rosenfelt’s Flopp Dead Gorgeous with mini Poodle Masie. Also loved Katherine Hall Page’s Murder in the Web–great Covid book.
Ludean says
I love cozy mysteries! One of my favorite authors is Dianna Xarissa, especially her Aunt Bessie cozy mysteries, and also enjoyed her Isle of Man Ghost.y Cozy Mysteries. Fun to read. Fun to outquess. Both Re set on the Isle of Man, lots of beaches.
Lori G. says
So many favorite cozy mysteries but I really liked The Glass Library and the Witch Way Librarian Mysteries series.
Thank you for your recommendations.
Carol Horton says
I’ve been enjoying “Albert Smith’s Culinary Capers,” by Steve Higgs. A retired DS in his 80s travels with an assistance dog, who happens to be a huge German Shepherd named Rex Harrison, who flunked out of K-9 school due to a “bad attitude.” In truth, he’s a noble and clever detective himself! Their growing relationship and the fixes they get into as Albert, a widower, tried to improve his cooking skills in the absence of his beloved wife, are so good I wish the BBC would get hold of them! It would be a delightful series.
MendoGirl says
Finally got around to my Dorothy L. Sayers book Clouds of Witness.
I really enjoyed Lord Peter Wimsey. Kind of an unusual character. I believe this is the second in the series.
The fiancée of Lord Peter’s sister is found dead outside the conservatory of the family’s Yorkshire shooting lodge,the evidence all points to one person – Gerald, the older brother, the Duke of Denver.
It is up to Peter and his friend Inspector Charles Parker, to scour the grounds for clues;but, will they point elsewhere or right back to Gerald?
A couple of things to keep in mind – Clouds of Witness was written around 1926, you will come across situations and sayings that, in modern times, haven’t aged well or might set you on edge. Read with an eye to the time in which it was written. The other thing you might want to do is brush up on your Latin and French or keep your phone open to Google translate.
Peter Wimsey is an intelligent and brilliant man with many human faults – it was a great read.
Claudia says
I’m pretty new to cozies – I was strictly a non fiction reader. But now I love cozies! I’m especially fond of Vicki Delany’s Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mysteries. I feel like Gemma, Jayne and all the others are actual acquaintances (crazy I know!) and so wish I could actually visit the bookshop and Mrs Hudson’s. I just started the newest in Delany’s Tea by the Sea series. Although I’m not as taken with this series, it is a good read. And I just picked up the first two books of Laura Black’s Antique Bookshop series so those are up next. The Thursday Murder Club books are also terrific.