Cozy Mystery (and Other Favorite) Books, Movies, and TV
Here is the list of new releases for January 30 to February 5! Very short list again this week – just one actually – but something from a series I’ve highlighted recently (Linda Reilly’s Grilled Cheese Mystery Series)!
Linda Reilly: Cheddar Late Than Dead (3rd in Grilled Cheese Mysteries)
January 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 Linda Reilly’s Grilled Cheese 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 January? 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 January 2023 that you want the rest of us to know about, and why did you enjoy it?
Donna Andrews: Meg Langslow Mystery Series
Bree Baker (aka Jacqueline Frost, Julie Chase, & Julie Anne Lindsey): Seaside Cafe Mystery Series
Jessica Beck (aka Elizabeth Bright, Casey Mayes, Melissa Glazer, Chris Cavender, Tim Myers, & D.B. Morgan): Donut Shop Mystery Series
Laurien Berenson: Melanie Travis Mystery Series
Leslie Budewitz: Spice Shop Mystery Series
V.M. Burns: Baker Street Mystery Series
Kate Carlisle: Bibliophile Mystery Series
Blaize Clement: Dixie Hemingway Mystery Series
Kate Collins: Goddess of Green St. Mystery Mystery Series
Vicki Delany (aka Eva Gates): Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery Series
J.C. Eaton: Sophie Kimball Mystery Series
Amanda Flower (aka Isabella Alan): Emily Dickinson Mystery Series
Joanne Fluke: Hannah Swensen Mystery Series
Darci Hannah: Beacon Bakeshop Mystery Series
Sherry Harris: Sea Glass Saloon Mystery Series (first entry From Beer to Eternity)
Christine Husom: Snow Globe Shop Mystery Series
Laurie R. King: Mary Russell Mystery Series
Leslie Langtry: Merry Wrath Mystery Series
Alyssa Maxwell: Gilded Newport Mystery Series
Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): Hat Shop Mystery Series
Linda Reilly: Grilled Cheese Mystery Series
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.
♦To access more Cozy Mystery Books Recommendations, click on this link♦
P.S. I usually don’t comment on your recommendations since they speak for themselves.
I’m adding more authors to the site! This time I have three new authors, as usual taken from some of the most frequently recommended authors by site readers.
First, Christin Brecher was born, raised, and currently lives in New York City, though she says that her life-long attachment to Nantucket, Massachusetts, strongly influences her work. She’s the author of two Cozy series, the Nantucket Candle Maker Mystery Series, starring a candle maker in Nantucket, Massachusetts, and the Snapshot of NYC Mystery Series, starring a photographer in New York City.
Finally, Tara Lush is an experienced romance author (writing under the name Tamara Lush) who has crossed over into Cozies, as well as a journalist. She lives on the Gulf coast with her husband and two dogs. Her mystery series are the Coffee Lover’s Mystery Series, starring a barista in Devil’s Beach, Florida, and the Devil’s Beach Mystery Series, starring the owner of an ice cream truck in the same town of Devil’s Beach, Florida.
Here is the list of new releases for January 23 to January 29!
Kate Collins: Gone but Not for Garden (4th in Goddess of Greene St. Mysteries)
Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell & Tace Baker): Four Leaf Clover (11th in the Country Store Mysteries)
Alyssa Maxwell: A Fashionable Fatality (8th in Lady and Lady’s Maid Mysteries)
Leslie Meier, Lee Hollis and Barbara Ross: Irish Coffee Murder (three short stories, one by each author)
