Category: Cozy Mystery
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Agatha Award Winners 2024: Celebrating Traditional Mysteries
If you’re a fan of Agatha Christie, you’ll likely find something to love in this annual awards roundup. Fans chose the winners, which cannot include explicit sex, gore or violence.
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Edgar Award Winners 2024: Few Female Sleuths, Few Surprises
Familiar names and titles dominated the list of award recipients but I think this annual winners’ roundup — described as “the Oscars of mystery awards” — is always worth a look.
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The Expectant Detectives: Very Pregnant Women Track a Killer
I am not now, nor have I ever been, nine months pregnant. But it doesn’t matter. This is a hilarious modern take on a cozy, wherein a waddle of women tackle a mystery to distract from the terror of impending childbirth.
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Cyanide and Sensibility: A Cozy with Flavors of Austen
It’s fun to spot the references to Jane Austen and her characters in this cozy mystery featuring a professor of English literature who likes to dress in Regency-style gowns while teaching — and solving murders.
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The Third Girl: Fleeing to France in this Modern Cozy
Molly Sutton, 38, returns to France after her marriage ends and settles into a large village, where she discovers a love of almond croissants — and a gift for solving murders. First published in 2015, there are now 11 books in the series.
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Dead and Gondola: A Cozy with Touches of Christie
In this smart traditional cozy, the bookshop-owning Christie sisters must call on all the knowledge they’ve culled from mysteries to figure out who killed the stranger riding alone in the gondola in front of them. A wintry mountain setting adds to the fun.
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