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 Betty Hechtman’s Crochet 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 2024 that you want the rest of us to know about, and why did you enjoy it?
Ellie Alexander (aka Kate Dyer-Seeley): Secret Bookcase Mystery Series
Allison Brook (aka Marilyn Levinson): Haunted Library Mystery Series
Laurie Cass (aka Laura Alden): Bookmobile Cat Mystery Series
Peg Cochran (aka Meg London and Margaret Loudon): Cranberry Cove Mystery Series
Cleo Coyle (aka Alice Kimberly): Coffeehouse Mystery Series AND Haunted Bookshop Mystery Series
Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell & Tace Baker): Cozy Capers Mystery Series
Maria DiRico (aka Ellen Byron): Catering Hall Mystery Series
Margaret Grace (aka Camille Minichino, Ada Madison, Jean Flowers, & Elizabeth Logan): Miniature Mystery Series
Carolyn Haines: Sarah Booth Delany Mystery Series
Betty Hechtman: Crochet Mystery Series
Alyssa Maxwell: Gilded Newport Mystery Series
Julie Mulhern: Country Club Murder Mystery Series (first entry The Deep End)
Andrea Penrose: Wrexford & Sloane Mystery Series
Robert Thorogood: Marlow Murder Club (first entry The Marlow Murder Club)
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 A Berry Suspicious Death by Peg Cochran, No Paw to Stand on by Laurie Cass, and Murder at Vinland by Alyssa Maxwell. I liked how the authors had the characters get married and even have babies. Laurie Cass’s Eddie the cat is always a joy.
Maria DiRico ended her series with The Witless Protection Program. I will miss the wonderful characters. Lucky she has more series as Ellen Byron.
MJ says
What? Are you sure there won’t be anymore stories in the
Catering Hall Mystery Series. I’m shocked! Mia just accepted a new position which opened a wide variety of story possibilities. I was sooooooo looking forward to these future books (as I said in my recommendation of the Witless Protection Program).
I expect Ellen Byron to end a series with a conclusion, as she did with the Cajun Mystery series. Not so, in this case. There is a lot left hanging. As a dedicated reader of this author, I am
saddened. 🙁
Regina Williams says
I read the first two books in Ellie Alexander’s Secret Bookcase mystery series:
1. The Body in the Bookstore (Book 1)
2. A Murder at the Movies (Book 2)
I love the Agatha Christie inspired bookshop, the co-worker who is an expert on all things Sherlock Holmes, Redwood Grove CA, and the mysteries were absolutely gripping. I read both books in a matter of hours.
MJ says
Sadly the rest of the books in this series aren’t available in book form. As I’ve said before, I hate it when an author does this.
This author publishes two enjoyable books in book form, then abandons the book readers by publishing the rest of the books only in Kindle. I prefer an author publish ONLY on kindle if they can’t finish the series in book form. That way the reader won’t get hooked into a series and then feel later betrayed by the author.
I happen to enjoy this author. However, she did the same thing with the Sloan Kraus series (a favorite of mine). I’m sooooo disappointed the I can’t follow the characters and enjoyable storylines anymore.
Perhaps this author could explain why she does this to her fans.
Sally Fortney says
MJ, I read the 1st three Ellie Alexander bookstore books as large paperbacks. I didn’t see what the next ones came out as, but I read the Sloan ones on my Nook. I’m grateful for my Nook to read older books, novellas, or short stories that often don’t come out as paper books. I got for cheaper, too, even though I prefer reading paper books.
Kindle is a different story. Judy Linn’s latest only come out on Kindle so I can’t read them. I mentioned that to the author on her website, and she said there were paperbacks, but I couldn’t find any on Amazon. I’m not a fan of Amazon, but I would have bought the rest of the series in the large paperback size. The publishing business can be very frustrating.
RJ says
They are available as paperbacks:
Bk 3: 978-1805082385
Bk 4: 978-1805087748
A lot of self-published authors seem to be putting their ebooks up on Amazon to begin with, then adding the paperbacks a little later on (sometimes just a couple days before the release date, other times even up to a few weeks after the ebook release date). So if you don’t see a paperback available to preorder, just keep checking back.
Terri says
Carolyn Haines has a cozy series, A Sarah Booth Delaney Mysteries, Lights, Camera, Bones is latest book. It’s set in Mississippi Delta area.
Lynda Harrison says
Maddie Day – love all her books. Keeps you interested from beginning to end! Slowly discovering more Cozy Mystery authors.
Vic S. says
I LOVE the Coffeehouse cozies by Cleo Coyle – very entertaining as she navigates her business with her ex-husband, his mother and a wonderful teen daughter.
Also I love the Country Club Murders by Julie Mulhern. Set in the 60’s, the family dynamics are ones I have laughed out loud reading… which doesn’t happen often..
Leslie Z says
I love the Haunted Bookshop mysteries by Cleo Coyle. The town is fun of fun characters and it involves a ghost of a 1940s Private Investigator.
Hanna says
I read the last of Thorogood’s Marlow Murder Club – The Queen of Poisons. Judy, Becks and Suzie are faced with a murder of a beloved mayor and they are set to find out who and why. For the readers there are no clues; not obvious one. Judy just remembers and realizes and correctly concludes. Still a fascinating story where how the friends solved the murder is as interesting as the final solutions.
Additional issues were resolved and I think that this may be the last of the series. I cannot wait to watch the dramatization of the first book on Public Television in a few weeks.
Cheryl M. Palmour says
I read Maddie Day’s Murder at the Rusty Anchor. I have enjoyed all the books in this series.
I also read Andrea Penrose’s Murder at the Royal Botanical Gardens. I have learned more about the Regency period in England and enjoy all the characters in the series. I am starting on the next in the series soon.
Allison Brook completed her haunted library series with Booked on Murder. I really enjoyed the whole series and was disappointed that the series won’t continue.
Georgia says
ML Condike’s debut novel, The Desk from Hoboken: a Genealogy Mystery, was a fascinating read about the work of forensic genealogist RaeJean Hunter. She investigates the death of Mary Rogers, a famous “cigarette girl” from the 19th century (and inspiration for an Edgar Allen Poe story). Over 400 pages long and complex storylines, but I didn’t want it to end! Great NYC settings. Well-drawn characters and relationships form the core of the novel.
Also read Margaret Grace’s Miniature Series of 9 books. Introduced me to the hobby of creating miniature scenes. The series is anchored by retired teacher Gerry Porter and her precocious granddaughter Maddie. I enjoyed the interaction between Gerry and her close family throughout the series. Grace is AKA Camille Minichino (who wrote the wonderful Periodic Table Mysteries). Her death in May this year inspired me to read all of her books.