{"id":41376,"date":"2023-04-28T09:43:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T14:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=41376"},"modified":"2023-05-01T05:17:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T10:17:55","slug":"cozy-mystery-book-recommendations-april-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/cozy-mystery-book-recommendations-april-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Cozy Mystery Book Recommendations \u2013 April 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April is almost over, so it\u2019s time to discuss our favorite Cozies that we read this month!<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/susan-wittig-albert-china-bayles-mystery-series\/\"><strong>Susan Wittig Albert&#8217;s China Bayles Mysterey Series<\/strong><\/a>. For the reasons I want to recommend it, be sure to check out the blog entry!<\/p>\n<p>So, what have you been reading that you can recommend in April? Please be sure to tell us <em>why<\/em>\u00a0you liked these Cozies so much. I know we\u2019re 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.)<\/p>\n<p>As always, please do not tell us about the Cozy Mysteries you did not like.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What really good Cozy Mystery did you read April 2023 that you want the rest of us to know about, and <em>why<\/em>\u00a0did you enjoy it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/Susan-Wittig-Albert.html\">Susan Wittig Albert<\/a>: China Bayles Mystery Series<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/v-m-burns.html\"><strong>V.M. Burns<\/strong><\/a><strong>: Mystery Bookshop Mystery Series<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/ellen-byron.html\">Ellen Byron<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(aka\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/maria-dirico.html\">Maria DiRico<\/a>)<strong>: Cajun Country Mystery Series<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/Lynn-Cahoon.html\">Lynn Cahoon<\/a><\/strong><strong>: Kitchen Witch Mystery Series<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/Deborah-Crombie.html\">Deborah Crombie<\/a><\/strong><strong>: Kincaid &amp; James Mystery Series<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Emmeline Duncan: Ground Rules Mystery Series<\/strong> (first entry <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/425cCJC\"><em>Fresh Brewed Murder<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/Joanne-Fluke.html\">Joanne Fluke<\/a>: Hannah Swensen Mystery Series<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dianne Freeman: Countess Harleigh Mystery Series<\/strong> (first entry <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3HtsHkB\"><em>A Lady&#8217;s Guide to Etiquette and Murder<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/Daryl-Wood-Gerber.html\">Daryl Wood Gerber<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(aka\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/Avery-Aames.html\">Avery Aames<\/a>)<strong>: Cookbook Nook Mystery Series<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stephanie Graves: Olive Bright Mystery Series<\/strong> (first entry <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/41KZt8M\">Olive Bright, Pigeoneer<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Margaret Mayhew: Village Mysteries<\/strong> (first entry <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3oYAWic\">Old Soldiers Never Die<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Richard Osman: Thursday Murder Club Mystery Series<\/strong> (first entry <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3HskgWz\">The Thursday Murder Club<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/Peter-Robinson.html\">Peter Robinson<\/a>: Inspector Banks Mystery Series<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eryn Scott: Whiskers and Words Mystery Series<\/strong> (first entry <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3HmwhNe\">Littered with Trouble<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/Paige-Shelton.html\">Paige Shelton<\/a><\/strong><strong>: Scottish Bookshop Mystery Series<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/Victoria-Thompson.html\">Victoria Thompson<\/a>: Gaslight Mystery Series<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Diana Xarissa: Isle of Man Cozy Mystery Series<\/strong> (first entry <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3LHkzQ4\">Aunt Bessie Assumes<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u2666To\u00a0access more\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cozy-mystery.com\/Cozy-Mystery-Books-Recommendations.html\">Cozy Mystery Books Recommendations<\/a><\/strong>, click on this link\u2666<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I usually don\u2019t comment on your recommendations since they speak for themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April is almost over, so it\u2019s 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\u00a0Susan Wittig Albert&#8217;s China Bayles Mysterey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-monthly-cozy-recommendations","7":"entry","8":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-aLm","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41376"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41384,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41376\/revisions\/41384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}