{"id":41425,"date":"2023-05-29T09:22:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T14:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=41425"},"modified":"2023-05-31T10:00:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T15:00:45","slug":"cozy-mystery-book-recommendations-may-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/cozy-mystery-book-recommendations-may-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Cozy Mystery Book Recommendations \u2013 May 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 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\/julia-buckley-hungarian-tea-house-mysteries\/\"><strong>Julia Buckley&#8217;s Hungarian Tea House Mystery 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 May? 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 May 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\/Victoria-Abbott.html\">Victoria Abbott<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Writing duo\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/Mary-Jane-Maffini.html\">Mary Jane Maffini<\/a> &amp; daughter Victoria Maffini): <strong>Book Collectors Mystery Series<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/Lorna-Barrett.html\">Lorna Barrett<\/a><\/strong> (aka <a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/L.-L.-Bartlett.html\">L. L. Bartlett<\/a>\u00a0&amp;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/Lorraine-Bartlett.html\">Lorraine Bartlett<\/a>): <strong>Booktown Mystery Series<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/julia-buckley.html\">Julia Buckley<\/a>: Hungarian Tea House Mystery Series<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/Lynn-Cahoon.html\">Lynn Cahoon<\/a>: Tourist Trap Mystery Series<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Colleen Cambridge: American in Paris Mystery Series<\/strong> (first entry <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3C6QuU4\">Mastering the Art of French Murder<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/maria-dirico.html\">Maria DiRico<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(aka\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/ellen-byron.html\">Ellen Byron<\/a>): <strong>Catering Hall Mystery Series<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/jessica-ellicott.html\"><strong>Jessica Ellicott<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(aka\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/jessie-crockett.html\">Jessie Crockett<\/a>\u00a0&amp;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/jessica-estevao.html\">Jessica Estevao<\/a>):\u00a0<strong>WPC Billie Harkness Mystery Series<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Angie Fox: Southern Ghost Hunter Mystery Series<\/strong> (first entry <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3P3rzsD\"><em>Southern Spirits<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/Betty-Hechtman.html\">Betty Hechtman<\/a><\/strong><strong>: Crochet Mystery Series<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/Sofie-Kelly.html\">Sofie Kelly<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 (aka\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/Sofie-Ryan.html\">Sofie Ryan<\/a> &amp; Darlene Ryan for Young Adult): <strong>Magical Cats Mystery Series<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/Leslie-Meier.html\">Leslie Meier<\/a><\/strong>: <strong>Lucy Stone Mystery Series<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/Elaine-Viets.html\">Elaine Viets<\/a><\/strong>:\u00a0<strong>Francesca Vierling Mystery Series<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/Livia-J.-Washburn.html\">Livia J. Washburn<\/a>: Fresh-Baked Mystery Series<\/strong><\/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>May 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\u00a0Julia Buckley&#8217;s Hungarian Tea House Mystery [&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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"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}},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41425","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-aM9","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41425","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=41425"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41427,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41425\/revisions\/41427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}