15 of the Greatest New Cozy Mysteries Coming Out within the Second Half of 2023

I learn an advance copy of A Most Agreeable Homicide on NetGalley earlier this 12 months and it’s, with out exaggerating, one of many funniest cozy mysteries I’ve ever learn.

Beatrice Steele struggles to discover a place the place she belongs in her stuffy English village, and her fascination with true crime definitely isn’t serving to. Till a bachelor drops lifeless on the autumnal ball and Beatrice’s experience combined together with her pure eye for remark makes her the right particular person to catch the killer.

After changing into the supervisor of her household’s Ho-Lee Noodle Home restaurant, Lana Lee travels to a restaurant conference in California together with her sister Anna Might. Fortunately, their Aunt Grace lives close by and is completely happy to have them keep over.

However when a detailed pal of Aunt Grace dies and the police refuse to look into the case significantly, Lana takes the investigation into her personal arms.

This caper is ideal for many who love rom-cozies — books that mix cozy thriller and romcom tropes. Simi Chopra by no means anticipated to plan and execute a high-stakes necklace heist at a marriage. However to clear her pal’s identify, she’ll do it. Much more stunning to Simi is her rising chemistry with Jack, a person with a mysterious previous who agrees to assist her with the heist.

After reopening their household’s vinyl file store and including a restaurant with punny drink names, sisters Juni, Tansy, and Maggie Jessop have rapidly made Sip & Spin Data a staple of their group.

Somebody of their group, nonetheless, has it out for the Jessops. On the spring Bluebonnet Pageant, Tansy is framed for homicide when the mayor drops lifeless from poisoned espresso traced to their sales space. If Juni and Maggie need to show their sister’s innocence, they’ll need to placed on their newbie sleuthing hats once more.

Along with her actual property enterprise thriving and her catering gig taking off as nicely, Odessa Jones can’t assist however really feel that issues are trying up. However the lifetime of a psychic is rarely simple. Her new coworker Anna is quickly killed in a hit-and-run, and Odessa’s powers alert her that it was premeditated homicide. Decided to catch Anna’s killer, Odessa investigates — even when doing so makes her the subsequent goal.

The primary in a quozy (queer cozy) thriller collection, The Physique within the Again Backyard stars investigative journalist Luke Tremblay as he unexpectedly inherits his nice aunt’s residence in a coastal Canadian city. His luck takes a flip, nonetheless, when he discovers a corpse in his new yard.

Now he should use the abilities he realized in his profession to determine who wished to border him for homicide and why — all whereas pursuing a second probability at romance with an outdated pal.

Grave Expectations follows an uncommon sleuthing workforce: a medium named Claire and the ghost of her greatest pal Sophie, who was murdered after they have been youngsters. Whereas holding a seance at an aged girl’s party at an English manor, Claire encounters a troubled spirit who appears to have been killed on the premises. With the assistance of Sophie and a good-looking native named Sebastian, Claire investigates for herself.

Following the sudden demise of her husband Carlo, Bria Bartolucci fulfills his dream of operating a B&B in Italy’s Amalfi Coast. Right here, she hopes that she and her son Marco can heal.

A lifeless physique in her visitor room is the very last thing she expects or needs on opening day however, to her horror, that’s precisely what occurs. Convincing the police of her innocence will imply discovering out who wished to border her for the homicide and why.

Instructed between two timelines many years aside, this cozy thriller follows an aged girl named Edie Inexperienced who is set to uncover the reality behind a thriller haunting her since childhood. Though Edie suffers from reminiscence points, she’s sure she noticed her greatest pal Lucy simply as she seemed the final time Edie noticed her. The difficulty is, Lucy disappeared in 1951.

Married couple and newbie sleuths Margery and Clementine Butcher-Baker meet their match in a killer focusing on the secondary college the place they work. When a math instructor is discovered murdered shortly earlier than the native harvest pageant, the 2 should clear up the case earlier than their small English village descends into chaos.

Lila Macapagal’s favourite cafe regulars are the Calendar Crew, a gaggle of ladies named April, Mae, and June who’re additionally her godmothers. Once they open an area laundromat, Lila is thrilled to attend their opening day celebration — even when not everybody locally is thrilled by the brand new enterprise.

To the Calendar Crew’s shock, a killer strikes on the grand opening and leaves an ominous message subsequent to the physique of Ninang April’s niece. Everybody is aware of the Calendar Crew likes to gossip. However it’s as much as Lila to seek out out who hates them (or is hiding a harmful sufficient secret) to kill somebody over.

On this sunny escapist learn for the chilly autumn months, bookstore proprietor Scarlett Gardner rebuilds her life following a painful breakup in her coastal California city. When a brand new buyer turns up lifeless and the authorities reveal she made Scarlett the inheritor to her will, Scarlett should examine — not solely to clear her identify however in quest of solutions to her family’s secrets and techniques.

Meals anthropologist and cooking TV present host Miriam Quiñones hopes {that a} journey to go to her dad and mom in Punta Cana will provide an opportunity to calm down. Sadly, hazard follows this newbie sleuth on trip. Between a telenovela star’s disappearance and the sinister intestine feeling her greatest pal’s new boyfriend offers her, Miriam has loads of unusual occurrences to kind by way of if she needs to guard these she cares about from hurt.

Following the success of her kids’s guide collection, Priscilla returns to her small Indiana hometown together with her bloodhound Bailey (the inspiration for her tales). Her luck takes a flip for the more serious, although, when Bailey discovers the lifeless physique of Pris’s former highschool bully Whitney.

As a result of the 2 had an argument days earlier, Pris turns into the prime suspect. Her solely hope is utilizing Bailey’s scent monitoring expertise to unravel the crime herself.

Working a bakery in Brooklyn’s Little Caribbean neighborhood was at all times Lyndsay Murray’s dream. So when Spice Isle Bakery is chosen as a vendor for the annual Caribbean American Heritage Pageant, she’s thrilled that her household enterprise is doing so nicely.

However the celebrations flip to horror when Camille, a reggae band singer and shut pal of Lyndsay’s cousin Manny, is discovered lifeless on the pageant. Manny’s sure that the police are unsuitable about ruling her demise an accident. Lyndsay has a knack for fixing crimes and, to deliver her cousin closure, vows to catch the killer.