Episode 007 - Cozy Mysteries

In our ongoing quest to become better librarians by reading every genre (regardless of our actual interest) we tackle Cozy Mysteries.

Listen to your hosts Anna Ferri, Meghan Whyte, Matthew Murray, and Amanda Wanner discuss why people read cozy mysteries, character vs. plot, how everything seems to be a series, and their favourite punny titles.

Your Hosts This Episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Amanda Wanner

Cozy Mysteries We Read (or kinda):

Recommended

• The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #15) by Alexander McCall Smith
• Books Can Be Deceiving (Library Lover's Mystery, #1) by Jenn McKinlay
• The Pigeon Pie Mystery by Julia Stuart (I finally finished it!)
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce #1) by Alan Bradley

Read

• Ming Tea Murder (Tea Shop Mystery, #16) by Laura Childs
• Swag Bags and Swindlers (Haley Randolph #8) by Dorothy Howell
• The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #3) by Agatha Christie
• The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing (Vish Puri, #2) by Tarquin Hall
• Thread and Gone (Mainely Needlepoint #3) by Lea Wait (almost recommend; not terribly badly written; I just felt the plot/mystery solution was a bit weak)
• Pushing Up Daisies (Dirty Business, #1) by Rosemary Harris

Did Not Finish

• Ghoul Interrupted (Ghost Hunter Mystery #6) by Victoria Laurie
• Gretel and the Case of the Missing Frog Prints (A Brothers Grimm Mystery #1) by P. J. Brackston
• From Fear to Eternity (Immortality Bites Mystery, #3; Immortality Bites, #8) by Michelle Rowen
• Six and a Half Deadly Sins (Dr. Siri Paiboun #10) by Colin Cotterill
• Brewed, Crude and Tattooed by Sandra Balzo
• Little Shop of Homicide (A Devereaux Dime Store Mystery #1) by Denise Swanson

More “books” we mentioned

• Shutterbug Follies by Jason Little (recommended)
• Bucko by Jeff Parker and Erika Moen
• Detective Conan/Case Closed by Gosho Aoyama
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