15 of the Best New Cozy Mysteries Coming Out in the Second Half of 2023

I learn an advance copy of A Most Agreeable Murder on NetGalley earlier this yr and it’s, with out exaggerating, one of the 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 actually isn’t serving to. Until a bachelor drops useless at the autumnal ball and Beatrice’s experience combined along with her pure eye for statement makes her the good particular person to catch the killer.

After turning into the supervisor of her household’s Ho-Lee Noodle House restaurant, Lana Lee travels to a restaurant conference in California along with her sister Anna May. Thankfully, their Aunt Grace lives close by and is pleased to have them keep over.

But when an in depth pal of Aunt Grace dies and the police refuse to look into the case critically, Lana takes the investigation into her personal fingers.

This caper is ideal for individuals 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. But to clear her pal’s title, she’ll do it. Even extra shocking 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 report store and including a restaurant with punny drink names, sisters Juni, Tansy, and Maggie Jessop have shortly made Sip & Spin Records a staple of their neighborhood.

Someone in their neighborhood, nonetheless, has it out for the Jessops. At the spring Bluebonnet Festival, Tansy is framed for homicide when the mayor drops useless 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.

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

The first in a quozy (queer cozy) thriller collection, The Body in the Back Garden 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 expertise he discovered 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 staff: a medium named Claire and the ghost of her greatest pal Sophie, who was murdered after they had been youngsters. While holding a seance at an aged lady’s celebration at an English manor, Claire encounters a troubled spirit who appears to have been killed at the premises. With the assist 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 working a B&B in Italy’s Amalfi Coast. Here, she hopes that she and her son Marco can heal.

A useless physique in her visitor room is the very last thing she expects or desires 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.

Told between two timelines many years aside, this cozy thriller follows an aged lady named Edie Green who is decided to uncover the fact behind a thriller haunting her since childhood. Although Edie suffers from reminiscence points, she’s sure she noticed her greatest pal Lucy simply as she regarded the final time Edie noticed her. The bother 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 faculty the place they work. When a math trainer is discovered murdered shortly earlier than the native harvest pageant, the two should remedy the case earlier than their small English village descends into chaos.

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

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

In 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 useless and the authorities reveal she made Scarlett the inheritor to her will, Scarlett should examine — not solely to clear her title however in search of solutions to her family’s secrets and techniques.

Food anthropologist and cooking TV present host Miriam Quiñones hopes {that a} journey to go to her mother and father in Punta Cana will provide an opportunity to chill out. Unfortunately, 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 a lot of unusual occurrences to type by means of if she desires to guard these she cares about from hurt.

Following the success of her kids’s e-book collection, Priscilla returns to her small Indiana hometown along with her bloodhound Bailey (the inspiration for her tales). Her luck takes a flip for the worse, although, when Bailey discovers the useless physique of Pris’s former highschool bully Whitney.

Because the two 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.

Running 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 Festival, she’s thrilled that her household enterprise is doing so effectively.

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