Favorite Cozy?

[Bookish Ruth]

I'm curious what others would single out as their favorite cozy or favorite cozy author. I love Agatha Christie's novels, but wouldn't be able to pick out just one... I'm also a big fan of Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody series. Now that I'm blogging, I'm discovering lots of new, fantastic authors. I really enjoyed Oblivious by Cyndia Depre, and One Bad Apple by Sheila Connolly.

What about you? New favorites, old favorites?

[Lori]

I enjoy these seriers:

Mary Dahiem - Emma Lord Mysteries
Tim Myers - Lighthouse Mysteries (really like him)
Maggie Sefton - Real Estate Mysteries (She has only one out, Dying To Sell), waiting for another.
Diane Mott Davidson - Culinary Mysteries

I would have a very hard time choosing my favorite book, but I think Tim Myers is my favorite author out of these.

[Bookish Ruth]

There are lighthouse cozies?! How on earth did these escape my notice?

[The Book Cave]

I so miss Tim's Lighthouse Mysteries. I loved his Harrison Black series ~ AT Wick's End. I am enjoying his Clay and Crime mysteries written as Melissa Glazer.

Tim Myers
[1958-]

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Alex Winston, owner of the Hatteras West Inn and Lighthouse in the Blue Ridge Mountain foothills in North Carolina:
Innkeeping with Murder (2001)
Finalist 2001 Agatha Award for Best First Novel

Reservations for Murder (2002)

Murder Checks Inn (2003)
Room for Murder (2003)

Booked for Murder (2004)


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Harrison Black, inheritor of At Wick’s End candle shop from his great aunt, in the Candlemaking Mysteries:
At Wick’s End (2004)

Snuffed Out (2004)
Death Waxed Over (2005)

A Flicker of a Doubt (2006)


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Benjamin Perkins, working in his family’s specialty soap store Where There’s Soap, in the Soapmaking Mysteries:
Dead Men Don’t Lye (2006)

A Pour Way To Dye (2006)
A Mold for Murder (2007)


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Written as Elizabeth Bright
Jennifer Shane and her shop, Custom Card Creations, in The Card-Making Mysteries:
Invitation to Murder (2005)

Deadly Greetings (2006)
Murder and Salutations (2006)


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Written as Melissa Glazer
Carolyn Emerson, middle-aged proprietor of a do-your-own-pottery shop, Fire at Will, in fictional Maple Ridge, Vermont, in the Clay and Crime mysteries:
A Murderous Glaze (2007)

The Cracked Pot (2008)
A Fatal Slip (2008)

[Jeri Studebaker]

Agatha Christie is definitely my favorite. And like you, I can't really single out any one of her books -- every single one of them is as good as any other, IMO.

It was a very, very sad day when I discovered that I couldn't find any of her books I hadn't already read. For a while I thought I just wouldn't read mystery novels anymore. Then I gradually found a few other authors I liked: Margaret Truman, Eliot Roosevelt, Dorothy Gilman, Tony Hillerman, the cat series (can't think of the author now but the main character's a guy who owns two siamese cats), Sue Grafton.

I think the author I'd pick up first though, if I had a choice, is probably M.C. Beaton (she does the Hamish MacBeth series and the Agatha Raisin series).

[Catherine Klosterman]

The series of The Cat Who...... is by Lilian Jackson Braun. There are like 22 of them I think. I found 18 of them at a garage sale this past summer. I haven't started them yet. I always seem to find another book in my hand before I can reach for something off the bookshelf....lol

[Vannie Ryanes]

You are in for a treat with the very early novels. If possible start with the earliest publish date. The Cat Who Could Read Backwards is the first of the series.

[Vannie Ryanes]

You have probably remembered by now that the siamese cat series is fondly known as The Cat Who... by Lilian Jackson Braun. She is very old now; the newer books lack something, but still are pretty enjoyable.

[Kim]

I do enjoy Agatha Christie as well -- I'm always in the dark up to the end. I just read the first Agatha Raisin mystery The Quiche of Death and loved her and the book. I will definitely be returning to Carsely to see if Agatha is snooping around again. Thank you for your comment.

[Harvee Lau]

I like Sujata Massey's Japanese mysteries such as The Typhoon Lover, The Flower Master, among others. An American woman in Japan, teaching English, solves crimes while giving an inside view of the culture.

[Heidi]

Cleo Croyle's Coffeehouse mysteries!!! Love them!!!

[Vannie Ryanes]

I too enjoy Cleo Coyle's Coffeehouse mystery series. I believe that I have read all of them.

[Kaye]

I just love Carolyn Hart and posted an interview with her and review of Dare to Die at
http://kayespenguinposts.blogspot.com