We’re reaching the end of June, so it’s time to discuss our favorite Cozy Mysteries that we haveread 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! While I haven’t had time to read any Cozies this month for the site, I do heartily recommend the not-quite-Cozy spy series, the Mrs. Pollifax Series, by Dorothy Gilman. In this one case, I decided to break my own rules a bit – I can recommend it so strongly, I decided to add it to this list.
If you’re interested in reading why I’m recommending these series, you can go to the Most Popular & Recommended Cozy Mystery Series page on my Cozy-Mystery site for my full write-ups on each of these great Cozy series.
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 during June 2017 that you want the rest of us to know about, and why did you enjoy it?
Here are the current recommended authors who some of you have read and recommended this past month:
Barbara Allan (aka Barbara & Max Allan Collins): Trash ‘n’ Treasures Mystery Series
Winnie Archer (aka Melissa Bourbon & Misa Ramirez): Bread Shop Mystery Series
Nancy Atherton: Aunt Dimity Mystery Series
Clara Benson: Angela Marchmont Mystery Series (first entry the Murder at Sissingham Hall)
Laura Bradford (aka Elizabeth Lynn Casey): Emergency Dessert Squad Mystery Series
Ali Brandon (aka Diane A.S. Stuckart): Black Cat Bookshop Mystery Series
Simon Brett: Mrs. Pargeter Mystery Series
Kathleen Bridge: Hamptons Home & Garden Mystery Series
Julia Buckley: Undercover Dish Mystery Series AND Writer’s Apprentice Mystery Series
Leslie Budewitz: Food Lovers’ Village Mystery Series
Lynn Cahoon: Tourist Trap Mystery Series
Kate Carlisle: Bibliophile Mystery Series
Bailey Cattrell (aka Bailey Cates & Cricket McRae): Enchanted Garden Mystery Series
Julia Chapman: Dales Detective Mystery Series (first entry Date with Death)
Laura Childs (aka Gerry Schmitt): Tea Shop Mystery Series
Kate Collins: Flower Shop Mystery Series
Marla Cooper: Destination Wedding Mystery Series
E. J. Copperman (aka Jeffrey Cohen): Mysterious Detective Mystery Series
Vicki Delany (aka Eva Gates): Year-Round Christmas Mystery Series
Hannah Dennison: Honeychurch Hall Mystery Series
Leighann Dobbs: Mooseamuck Island Cozy Mystery Series
Barbara Early (aka Beverly Allen): Vintage Toy Shop Mystery Series
Elizabeth Edmonson: A Very English Mystery Series (first entry A Man of Some Repute)
Alex Erickson: Bookstore Cafe Mystery Series (first entry Death by Coffee)
Vickie Fee: Liv and Di in Dixie Mystery Series
Dorothy Gilman: Mrs. Pollifax Series (not quite mysteries, but very Cozy in my mind)
Nathan Dylan Goodwin: Forensic Genealogist Mystery Series (first entry Hiding the Past)
Victoria Hamilton (aka Amanda Cooper & Donna Lea Simpson): Vintage Kitchen Mystery Series
Carolyn Hart: Death on Demand Mystery Series
Sadie Hartwell (aka Susannah Hardy): Tangled Web Mystery Series
Anne Hillerman: Joe Leaphorn & Jim Chee Mystery Series
Lee Hollis: Hailey Powell Food & Cocktail Mystery Series
Delia James: Witch’s Cat Mystery Series
Miranda James (aka Honor Hartman, Jimmie Ruth Evans, & Dean James): Cat in the Stacks Mystery Series
Laura Levine: Jaine Austen Mystery Series
Kylie Logan (aka Miranda Bliss & Casey Daniels): Ethnic Eats Mystery Series
Meg Macy (aka 1/2 of D.E. Ireland): Teddy Bear Mystery Series
Edith Maxwell (aka Maddie Day & Tace Baker): Quaker Midwife Mystery Series
G. A. McKevett: Savannah Reed Mystery Series
Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): Cupcake Bakery Mystery Series
Robin Paige (aka Susan Wittig Albert and husband Bill Albert): Victorian Mystery Series
Peggy O’Neal Peden: Nashville Mystery Series (first entry Your Killin’ Heart)
Louise Penny: Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Series
Anne Perry: Charlotte & Thomas Pitt Mystery Series
Ann Purser: Lois Meade Mystery Series
Spencer Quinn (aka Peter Abrahams): Chet and Bernie Mystery Series
Jordaina Sydney Robinson: Paranormal Ghost Cozy Mystery Series (first entry Beyond Dead)
Ann B. Ross: Miss Julia Mystery Series
Maggie Sefton: Knitting Mystery Series
Paige Shelton: Scottish Bookshop Mystery Series
Gayle Trent (aka Amanda Lee & Gayle Leeson): Daphne Martin Cake Mystery Series
[If you click on the author’s name (blue) link, it will take you to his/her page on the Cozy Mystery site. The pages have all of the authors’ books listed chronologically.]
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.