Cozy Mysteries

• The Cat Who Brought Down the House\\

• Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Sea\\

• Cat in a Topaz Tango\\

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• Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder\\

• Death of a Valentine\\

• Death of a Gossip\\

• Face Down Among the Winchester Geese\\

• A Groom With a View\\

• Stork Raving Mad\\

• Sweet Revenge\\

• The Tale of the Oat Cake Crag\\

• Whisker of Evil\\

(:title Cozy Mysteries:) (:description cozy mysteries selected by library staff - October 2010:)

Warm up this winter with some cozy mysteries

Compiled by Forbes Library Staff. Summaries from ContentCafe. October 2010

• Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Sea
  by Nancy Atherton
  Sent with her twin five-year-old sons to a Scottish island after her high-profile attorney husband receives death threats, Lori Shepherd begins to suspect local foul play upon her discovery of a skull on the beach.
• Cat in a Topaz Tango
  by Carole Nelson Douglas
  Feline gumshoe, Midnight Louie, has his paws full when a killer strikes the set of a week-long Las Vegas charity dance event, and Temple Barr must resurrect her teen persona to ensure the safety of her fiancé and future step-daughter.
• The Cat Who Brought Down the House
  by Lillian Jackson Braun
  Reluctant millionaire and small town reporter Jim Qwilleran and his cats, Koko and Yum Yum, confront a new mystery when octogenarian Thelma Thackerary returns to Moose County to turn the old opera house into a film club.
• Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
  by Joanne Fluke
  Cookie-baking sleuth Hannah Swenson must protect her reputation when a popular delivery man is found murdered behind her bakery with Hannah's cookies scattered around him.
• Death of a Valentine
  by M.C. Beaton
  Announcing his engagement to associate Josie McSween, police sergeant and once-confirmed bachelor Hamish Macbeth struggles with prenuptial jitters while investigating the murder of a woman whose increasingly complicated case introduced him to his fiancée.
• Death of a Gossip
  by M.C. Beaton
  Police Constable Hamish Macbeth is called in to investigate the death of the unpopular Lady Jane, a malicious gossip and student at the Lochdubh School of Casting, Salmon and Trout Fishing, set in the Scottish Highlands.
• Face Down Among the Winchester Geese
  by Kathy Lynn Emerson
  Lady Susanna Appleton would be content to tend to the medicinal herbs in the garden of her London townhouse, but a mysterious murder prompts her to investigate and reveals that even her own husband is not above suspicion, in a mystery set in Elizabethan England.
• A Groom With a View
  by Jill Churchill
  Caterers Jane and Shelley are pleased as punch to host a lavish wedding in the old monastery, but when a sudden thunderstorm knocks out the electricity, murder breaks the guests' nuptial spell, and Jane steps in to investigate.
• Stork Raving Mad
  by Donna Andrews
  Hosting a Spanish playwright during a graduate student's production of his play, Meg, eight-and-a-half months pregnant with twins, is on the case when the department dean cancels the play and is promptly found murdered.
• Sweet Revenge
  by Diane Mott Davidson
  Catering a holiday breakfast for the local library staff, Goldy Schultz is shocked to see a supposedly dead woman who is believed to be Goldy's ex-husband's killer, an encounter that precedes the murder of a high-end map dealer.
• The Tale of the Oat Cake Crag
  by Susan Wittig Albert
  Trying not to arouse village gossip, Beatrix Potter quietly investigates the arrival of anonymous letters that threaten the good name of her friend, Grace Lythecoe, all the while considering a second chance at love.
• Whisker of Evil
  by Rita Mae Brown
  With rabies on the rise and a new post office threatening her position, Harry Haristeen and her trio of feline detective friends find themselves in even more trouble when they start snooping around an irresistible mystery.

Category: Reading Lists, Mysteries