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922 past books matching Mystery
Perfect for fans of laugh-out-loud cozies with sharp sleuths.
Murder With Peacocks
Mystery · Amateur Sleuths · Cozy Mystery
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Donna Andrews’s Murder With Peacocks, the award-winning debut of the Meg Langslow Mysteries, is a hilarious cozy set amid three weddings and one untimely murder. With eccentric relatives, outrageous neighbors, and plenty of Southern charm, this witty mystery boasts a 4.5 out of 5 stars Amazon rating. Perfect for fans of laugh-out-loud cozies with sharp sleuths.
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Meg Langslow expected summer to be busy. After all, she’s maid of honor in three weddings, and each bride has happily dumped every detail of the planning into her lap. Between herbal purification ceremonies, live peacocks on the lawn, and endless errands, Meg barely has time to breathe.
Luckily, a certain handsome local helps keep her sane—though the town insists he’s unavailable. But when an obnoxious newcomer starts stirring up scandal and ends up dead, Meg’s carefully balanced to-do list topples into chaos.
Now she must juggle floral arrangements, feuding relatives, and finding a murderer. With “accidents” piling up, Meg realizes that wedding season could end in disaster.
If she cannot catch the killer, the next ceremony she attends may be her own.
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The Marlow Murder Club begins with a quiet English town and a death no one else believes happened.
The Marlow Murder Club
Mystery · Amateur Sleuths · Cozy Mystery
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The Marlow Murder Club begins with a quiet English town and a death no one else believes happened. When Judith, a sharp-minded septuagenarian living on her own terms, starts asking questions, she uncovers more than a single suspicious crime. Joined by two unlikely allies, she pursues the truth through secrets, misdirection, and community blind spots. This is a cozy mystery built on wit, observation, and amateur sleuthing with real stakes.
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2023 EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE, LILIAN JACKSON BRAUN AWARD
"An absolute joy to read. Funny, entertaining, and beautifully written." —B. A. Paris, New York Times bestselling author
A delightfully clever new mystery from creator of BBC One's hilarious murder mystery series Death in Paradise
Meet Judith: a seventy-seven-year-old whiskey drinking, crossword puzzle author living her best life in a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of Marlow.
Nothing ever happens in Marlow. That is, until Judith hears her neighbor shot while skinny-dipping in the Thames. The local police don't believe her story. It's an open and shut case, of course. Ha! Stefan can't be left for dead like that.
Judith investigates and picks up a crew of sidekicks: Suzie the dogwalker and Becks the vicar's wife. Together, they are the Marlow Murder Club.
When another body turns up, they realize they have a real-life serial killer on their hands. And the puzzle they set out to solve has become a trap from which they might never escape…
Robert Thorogood, has turned the Christie-mystery on its head with this ever-so-sly cozy perfect for readers who love Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club and An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good.
"Lightweight but no-nonsense and genuinely brainy"—Kirkus Reviews
"Damn right funny and heartwarming…great fun"—Crime Time
"I love Robert Thorogood's writing."—Peter James, international bestselling author
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Miranda James’s Murder Past Due begins the Cat in the Stacks series with charm, mystery, and a sleuthing cat.
Murder Past Due
Mystery · Amateur Sleuths · Cozy Mystery · Detective Fiction
Our take
Miranda James’s Murder Past Due begins the Cat in the Stacks series with charm, mystery, and a sleuthing cat. When a bestselling author is killed in Athena, Mississippi, librarian Charlie Harris and his cat Diesel must solve the crime. With a 4.6 out of 5 stars Amazon rating, this cozy debut is witty, bookish, and irresistible.
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Charlie Harris has settled back in his hometown of Athena, Mississippi, with his towering Maine coon cat, Diesel, for company. Between his library work and quiet walks with Diesel on a leash, life feels pleasantly uneventful—until a notorious author comes back to town.
Godfrey Priest may be a bestselling novelist, but Charlie remembers him as a manipulative bully. Apparently, so does everyone else in Athena. By lunchtime, Godfrey has already picked a fight. By dinnertime, he’s dead.
Suddenly, Charlie finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation. With an overeager deputy ready to arrest the wrong person, Charlie and Diesel must dig into old grudges and secrets to uncover the truth.
In Athena, every bookshelf hides a clue, and some rivalries never die.
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M. C. Beaton’s The Quiche of Death launches the beloved Agatha Raisin mysteries with sharp wit and small-town scandal.
The Quiche of Death
Mystery · Amateur Sleuths · Cozy Mystery
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M. C. Beaton’s The Quiche of Death launches the beloved Agatha Raisin mysteries with sharp wit and small-town scandal. When Agatha’s store-bought quiche is linked to a fatal poisoning, she must play sleuth to clear her name. With a 4.5 out of 5 stars Amazon rating, this cozy classic is a charming recipe of humor, intrigue, and murder.
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Agatha Raisin has traded her high-powered London PR career for early retirement in the quiet Cotswolds village of Carsely. But country life is proving more dull than delightful. Determined to win friends and influence neighbors, Agatha enters the local baking contest with a perfect quiche. There’s just one problem: she didn’t bake it.
When the judge drops dead after sampling her entry, Agatha’s hopes of village stardom curdle into scandal. With whispers of poison spreading and sinister notes arriving at her door, she has more to worry about than bad publicity.
To clear her name and uncover the truth, Agatha must embrace her knack for nosiness.
If she fails, the only thing she’ll be serving up is a case of her own.
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Bree Baker’s Live and Let Chai launches the Seaside Café Mysteries with Southern charm, small-town scandal, and a heroine worth rooting for.
Live and Let Chai
Mystery · Amateur Sleuths · Cozy Mystery
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Bree Baker’s Live and Let Chai launches the Seaside Café Mysteries with Southern charm, small-town scandal, and a heroine worth rooting for. When a councilman dies and Everly’s chai is tied to the scene, she must solve the crime to save her café. With a 4.6 out of 5 stars Amazon rating, this cozy debut is refreshing and fun.
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Everly Swan is finally home. After a few rough years, she has returned to Charm, North Carolina, with a dream: to run Sun, Sand, and Tea, her breezy seaside café serving iced blends and homemade pastries. Life feels almost perfect—until a councilman is found dead, and her chai is left at the crime scene.
Now the town’s gossip is brewing hotter than her teapots, and Everly’s new business may not survive the scandal. Worse, the local detective is frustratingly handsome and far too eager to put her under suspicion.
To save her café, her reputation, and maybe her heart, Everly must unravel a murder tangled in secrets and small-town rivalries.
In Charm, tea is sweet, gossip salty, and justice must be served hot.
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Krista Davis’s The Diva Runs Out of Thyme kicks off the Domestic Diva Mystery series with Thanksgiving flair, witty rivalry, and murder.
The Diva Runs Out of Thyme
Mystery · Amateur Sleuths · Cozy Mystery
Our take
Krista Davis’s The Diva Runs Out of Thyme kicks off the Domestic Diva Mystery series with Thanksgiving flair, witty rivalry, and murder. When Sophie Winston becomes the prime suspect in a holiday homicide, she must solve the crime before her stuffing dreams are cooked. With a 4.5 out of 5 stars Amazon rating, this cozy mystery is delicious fun.
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Sophie Winston has always been the down-to-earth hostess, but she’s had enough of being overshadowed by Natasha Smith—her childhood rival who not only stole her husband but also reigns supreme over Alexandria’s social scene. This Thanksgiving, Sophie plans to take home the coveted prize at the Stupendous Stuffing Shakedown.
Her plan unravels when her hunt for the perfect turkey ends with a corpse instead of cranberries. Worse, the police find her photo and name inside the victim’s car, making Sophie their prime suspect.
Now, between dodging Natasha’s smug taunts and keeping her Thanksgiving feast from falling apart, Sophie must clear her name.
If she fails, the only thing on her holiday menu will be prison food. Recipes included.
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With a 4.4 out of 5 stars Amazon rating and praise for its “feisty heroine,” it is perfect for fans of witty historical mysteries and stylish whodunits.
Her Royal Spyness
Mystery · Cozy Mystery · Historical Mystery
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Rhys Bowen’s Her Royal Spyness introduces Lady Georgie, a broke aristocrat-turned-amateur sleuth in 1930s London. This sparkling series debut blends royal intrigue, cozy mystery, and laugh-out-loud charm. With a 4.4 out of 5 stars Amazon rating and praise for its “feisty heroine,” it is perfect for fans of witty historical mysteries and stylish whodunits.
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London, 1932. Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie—better known as Georgie—is thirty-fourth in line to the throne and absolutely penniless. Escaping Scotland, her overbearing brother, and an unwanted fiancé, she sets out for independence in the city.
Freedom, however, comes with complications. Georgie must learn to cook, clean, and survive without servants, all while dodging scandal. Then Her Royal Highness ropes her into a little undercover work, because who better to spy than a royal with nothing to lose?
But Georgie’s new life takes a darker turn when she discovers a dead Frenchman in her bathtub. Clearing her family’s name and avoiding the gallows suddenly tops the to-do list.
With charm, wit, and just enough nerve, Georgie may solve the case—or land in one herself.
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Natasha Preston’s The Dare is a #1 New York Times bestseller that turns a senior prank tradition into a deadly game.
The Dare
Mystery · Teen + Young Adult · Thriller · Suspense
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Natasha Preston’s The Dare is a #1 New York Times bestseller that turns a senior prank tradition into a deadly game. Known for her pulse-pounding YA thrillers, Preston delivers twists that will keep readers hooked. With a 4.4 out of 5 stars Amazon rating, this dark, addictive read proves that saying yes can be the most dangerous choice.
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In Marley’s town, the senior prank is not just tradition—it is survival. Each year, students are given dares that start as harmless fun: egging houses, glitter bombs, farm animals in the school halls. But the deeper you go, the darker the game becomes.
Everyone knows refusing a dare means humiliation, maybe even exile from your peers. Everyone also knows saying yes can ruin your future. Arrests, expulsion, even death have followed in the wake of past games.
When Marley and her friends accept their dares, the line between joke and nightmare blurs fast. What begins with laughter spirals into a dangerous cycle where secrets surface and loyalty is tested.
In a town built on dares, the biggest risk is deciding when to stop playing.
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David Gordon’s The Hard Stuff is a sharp, action-packed caper that blends grit with wit.
The Hard Stuff
Mystery
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David Gordon’s The Hard Stuff is a sharp, action-packed caper that blends grit with wit. With 4.4 stars, this second Joe the Bouncer novel finds an ex–black ops soldier turned mob enforcer plotting a diamond heist against terrorists. Praised by Booklist and Publishers Weekly, it is equal parts clever, violent, and wildly entertaining.
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Joe Brody is not your average strip club bouncer. He is an ex–black ops specialist with a résumé full of scars and one new title: sheriff of New York’s underworld. When the city’s mob bosses need something done off the books, they call Joe.
This time, the job is as messy as it gets. A Dominican mob boss discovers her heroin suppliers are tied to an al Qaeda splinter group. Their profits are fueling terror, and the only way to stop them is to rob them blind. Twice.
Fresh out of detox, Joe is thrown into a diamond-district heist that spirals into an international nightmare. To pull it off, he must outwit drug lords, terrorists, and his own demons. And failure is not an option.
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Lee Goldberg’s Ashes Never Lie, an Editors’ Pick in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, delivers explosive stakes with 4.5 stars from 5,400+ reviews.
Ashes Never Lie
Mystery
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Lee Goldberg’s Ashes Never Lie, an Editors’ Pick in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, delivers explosive stakes with 4.5 stars from 5,400+ reviews. Sharpe, Walker, and Eve Ronin join forces to chase a deadly arsonist, uncover a massive swindle, and stop a plot that could kill thousands. A high-octane thriller from the New York Times bestselling author.
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Fires ignite across Los Angeles. Empty houses erupt in daylight with no cause, leaving arson investigator Walter Sharpe baffled and his partner, restless ex–US marshal Andrew Walker, hungry for answers. Then another blaze miles away claims a life, and homicide detectives Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone join the chase.
The burn patterns whisper a bizarre story. The corpse raises more questions than answers. What begins as two separate investigations soon tangles into one deadly web of fraud, fugitives, and fire.
As clues unravel, the detectives face a cunning arsonist whose brilliance is matched only by ruthlessness. To stop a catastrophe, they must risk everything. Thousands of lives hang in the balance, and in the ashes, the truth refuses to stay buried.
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Anna North’s Bog Queen, praised as “an absolute astonishment” by Pulitzer finalist Vauhini Vara, blends ancient mystery with modern urgency.
Bog Queen
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Mystery · Thriller · Women's Fiction
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Anna North’s Bog Queen, praised as “an absolute astonishment” by Pulitzer finalist Vauhini Vara, blends ancient mystery with modern urgency. When a perfectly preserved Iron Age woman is found in an English bog, a forensic anthropologist uncovers secrets both personal and historical. With a 4.5 out of 5 stars Amazon rating, this novel glimmers with power and depth.
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In the peatlands of northwest England, a body surfaces from the bog. Preserved for more than two thousand years, she should be dust, yet her face still stares back.
Forensic anthropologist Agnes is brought in to investigate, but science alone cannot explain what she finds. The Iron Age woman buried in the bog feels unsettlingly close, as if her story reaches across centuries.
The discovery sparks conflict in the present. Developers want profit, activists demand preservation, and the bog itself seems to guard its own secrets. As Agnes digs deeper, the past bleeds into her life, forcing her to question her gift, her independence, and her identity.
Can she bring justice to the woman in the bog, or will the land consume them both?
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With a 4.4 out of 5 stars Amazon rating, this cozy crime delight is perfect for fans of wit and intrigue.
Sugar and Spite
Mystery · Cozy Mystery
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M. C. Beaton’s beloved sleuth returns in Sugar and Spite, co-written with R.W. Green. When murders strike the Cotswolds birdwatching community, Agatha Raisin must unravel secrets, rivalries, and her own messy love life to catch the killer. With a 4.4 out of 5 stars Amazon rating, this cozy crime delight is perfect for fans of wit and intrigue.
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The birdwatchers of the Cotswolds are dying, and Agatha Raisin is certain it is not natural causes. Behind the genteel hobby lies a tangle of grudges, romances, and long-buried secrets. Someone in the flock has murder on their mind.
Agatha and her team at Raisin Investigators dig deep into decades of rivalries, but danger circles closer with every clue. Even worse, her personal life is in chaos. John Glass has been whisked away by his cruise ship job, and Sir Charles Fraith is all too eager to fill the gap.
Between simmering scandals, romantic entanglements, and a killer who sees her as the next target, Agatha has her hands full.
Can she crack the case before she ends up as the final casualty?
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