Cozy Mystery Book Reviews
Reviews for Cozy Mysteries Released in 2024
This page features cozy mystery book reviews for books released or scheduled for release in 2024. All of these books are stand-alone crime fiction novels, the first book in a new cozy series, or part of a critically acclaimed cozy mystery series.
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When sixty-something Dawna Carpenter finds a body and a framing hammer in her hometown hardware bathroom, she pairs up with her adult daughter and sets out to nail a killer.
Review of Hammers and Homicide
Dee Stern is tired of writing sitcoms, so she buys a retro motel on the edge of the California wilderness. When her first guest involuntarily "checks out," Dee and her pal Jeff start sleuthing.
Review of A Very Woodsy Murder
Bella Winter owns Vintage Winter, an antique store in a charming little town in the Shropshire Hills. When she finds the body of a treasure hunter who was murdered while digging something up in the dark, Bella does some digging of her own and uncovers a hoard of secrets and suspects.
Review of The Antique Store Detective
Berit Gardner is on deadline and struggling to write, so she heads to a rundown Cornwall village with more intrigue than she could ever make up. When a man mysteriously dies in a library explosion, Berit searches for answers and uncovers surprising secrets in Great Diddling.
Review of The Murders in Great Diddling
Single mom Kate Buckley races to Shamrock, Massachusetts after receiving an urgent message from her sister Colleen. When she arrives, she finds a murdered Irish step dancer and gets drawn into the investigation to protect her sister, who may or may not have had a hand in the dancer’s death.
Emily Dalle is a lifestyle blogger who stumbles upon the body of a talk show host nicknamed the Queen of Mean. Emily crowdsources clues by reaching out to her online audience. Before they can help her solve the mystery, she gets a message from the murderer who tells her to back off...or else.
Ally McKinley is a retired television researcher who owns a malthouse turned guesthouse in the Scottish Highlands. When her first guest ends up dead, Ally gets the locals, including an earl at a nearby castle, to spill the tea. She discovers that the dead American tourist had a big secret and more than one enemy.
Tony Gillingham stops by a lively party at a quintessential English country house to visit his pal Bill Beverly. The two friends end up investigating a mystery when someone is shot and their eccentric host disappears. This Golden Age mystery (written by Winnie the Pooh author A.A. Milne) is set in the 1920s.
Ricki, the owner of a vintage cookbook and kitchenware store in the Bon Vee Culinary House Museum in New Orleans, is assisting the museum staff in planning a haunted house tour for Halloween. When a dead body unexpectedly turns their prop tomb into a real one, Ricki embarks on a thrilling investigation, unearthing more than a few buried secrets.
Two friends, Angela Benbow and Caledonia Wingate, convince two other reluctant pals to help them solve a mystery. The four amateur sleuths are determined to discover what happened to their fellow retirement community resident, Sweetie, who met an unfortunate end. As they investigate, they learn explosive secrets about their fellow residents and themselves.
Miss Marigold Manners has the poise and style of a well-bred young woman from a wealthy Boston family. Unfortunately, she has a poor person's bank account. When she gets an invitation from a mysterious long-lost relative, she heads to Great Misery Island off the coast of Salem, Massachusetts. She finds strange people with plenty of secrets. Murder, malice, and mayhem ensue.
Allie Catt is a caterer, personal chef, and literature buff in a North Carolina mountain community. She creates custom dinner parties for book lovers based on classic literature, such as Pride and Prejudice, Rebecca, and The Great Gatsby. When a friend gets accused of murder, Allie channels her favorite fictional detectives and cooks up a plan to solve a mystery.
Cheesemonger Willa Bauer and the staff of her cheese shop, Curds & Whey, are in neighboring Yarrow Glenn to participate in the fall Dairy Days festival! The festival has lots of dairy-themed activities, including butter sculptures, goat races, cheese wheel relays, and a Miss Dairy pageant. But good times are not to brie. A Miss Dairy contestant is found under a pile of milk jugs, and Willa is forced to find out who wanted the princess out of the whey.
Bailey Briggs is an aspiring graphic novelist and the manager of the Lazy Bones Books in the Halloween-themed town of Elyan Hollow, Oregon. Bailey is confronted with two puzzling mysteries while coordinating the town’s Spooky Season Literary Festival.
Joanne Fluke’s Lake Eden Cookbook: Hannah Swensen’s Recipes from the Cookie Jar features an enormous collection of recipes. This compilation includes never-before-seen recipes and title recipes from the first 29 books in the Hannah Swensen Mystery series.
Roxi Carlucci, a part-time private investigator in Fresno, has a new mystery to solve when a killer writes an ending for one of the authors attending the first-ever Tower Halloween Mysteryfest. It’s up to Roxi and her P.I. cousin Stephen to figure out whodunnit before Mysteryfest can become murderfest.
Cozy mystery writer Maggie Chase and thriller writer Ethan Wyatt write books for the same publisher. She can't stand his perfectly chiseled face, and he can't seem to remember her name. They accept an invitation to spend Christmas at a famous mystery author’s estate. But then their mysterious host disappears from a locked room and a body turns up, leaving Maggie and Wyatt with two mysteries to solve. There’s a good chance they’ll kill each other. Or kiss each other. Or both.
Bailey King, an Amish Candy shop owner and star of an Amish Sweets television show, has perfected a gingerbread man recipe just in time for a Candy Land themed Christmas on the village square in Harvest, Ohio. When one of her Amish friends is murdered, Bailey vows to solve the crime and sifts through the clues with her sweet sheriff fiancé.
Jessica Fletcher is spending Christmas in Cabot Cove! The whole Cabot Cove community is pitching in to plan holiday festivities in hopes of becoming Maine’s number one Christmas town. When the wife of a Boston tycoon ends up dead, it's up to Jessica to figure out who's been naughty and nice.
Reporter Violet Rhinehammer is celebrating a magical Christmas in the small, charming town of Holiday Junction when she stumbles across a twisty holiday mystery involving a stolen ornament design. She’ll have to dig through a snow pile of secrets to figure out whodunnit.
Journalist Maddie Marlow is stranded at the Merry Monarch Pub in the Yorkshire Dales because of a Christmas Eve blizzard. As the pub guests participate in a scavenger hunt, the power goes out, and someone gets murdered. Now the survivors need to figure out which one of them is a cold killer.
Photographer Bobbie Brooks goes from witness to suspect when she finds the body of a fellow photographer under the local covered bridge. Now it’s up to her and the rest of the Keep It Snappy Shutter Club to capture enough clues to catch a killer.
Lindsey Bakewell is hosting a tea party at her iconic lighthouse bakeshop for special guest star Vivi Lemonberry, a celebrity chef looking to reboot her career. When a scandal sours the event, Lindsey goes from baking to sleuthing.
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