10 Cozy Mysteries to Curl Up With This Season

Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim, the Thursday Murder Club, are still riding high off their recent real-life murder case. They’re looking forward to a bit of peace at Cooper’s Chase, their posh retirement village.

But an unexpected visitor is in dire need of help. He has been accused of stealing diamonds worth millions from the wrong men.

Then the first body is found. But not the last. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim are up against a ruthless murderer who wouldn’t bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians. Can our four friends catch the killer before the killer catches them?

Frances Adams always said she’d be murdered. She was right.

In 1965, Frances Adams is at an English country fair where a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. It is a prediction that sparks her life’s work—trying to solve a crime that hasn’t happened yet.

Nearly sixty years later, Annie Adams is summoned to the country estate of her wealthy and reclusive great-aunt Frances. But when Annie arrives in the quaint English village of Castle Knoll, Frances is found murdered.

Can Annie safely unravel the dark mystery at Castle Knoll?

Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by.

Since Gran died, twenty-five-year-old Molly has been navigating life’s complexities on her own. Her obsessive love of cleaning and proper etiquette makes her an ideal candidate for a maid position at the Regency Grand Hotel.

But then Molly enters the suite of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black, only to find Mr. Black dead in his bed. Molly’s unusual demeanor has the police targeting her as their lead suspect

Recent MBA grad Bronwyn Crewse has taken over her family’s ice cream shop in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Win is renovating Crewse Creamery and filling the menu with delicious, homemade ice cream flavors. Many are from her grandmother’s original recipes. However, unexpected construction delays mean she misses the summer season. The day she opens, an early first snow keeps the customers away.

That evening, Win finds a body in the snow. It turns out the dead man was a grifter with an old feud with the Crewse family. Soon, Win’s father is implicated in his death. With the help of her quirky best friends and her tight-knit family, she’ll catch the ice-cold killer.

Judith is a seventy-seven-year-old whiskey-drinking, crossword puzzle author living in a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of Marlow.

Then Judith hears her neighbor being shot while skinny-dipping in the Thames. The local police don’t believe her story.

Judith investigates and picks up a crew of sidekicks: Suzie, the dogwalker, and Becks, the vicar’s wife. Together, they are the Marlow Murder Club.

When another body turns up, they realize the puzzle they set out to solve has become a trap from which they might never escape.

Julia Bird has left London for a fresh start in a picturesque Cotswolds village. The rustic charm of her little cottage is everything she’d hoped for. But when she tears down the old garden shed to make way for a chicken coop, she finds the body of a young woman, apparently buried for decades.

With only one copper on the case in Berrywick, Julia decides to solve the whodunnit herself, taking her wayward puppy Jake along for the ride.

And so begins a whirlwind tour of the village. From the dotty 90-year-old to the delightful doctor and the village gardener, it seems everyone has something to hide.

Mae West is no stranger to mystery. As owner of Happy Trails Campground, she’s kept Normal, Kentucky, running as smoothly as a campfire marshmallow roast. But when paranormal TV star Ken Treadwell is found stabbed during the town’s “Haunts and Hikes” festival, things take a deadly detour.

With her mama’s event on the line and campground gossip reaching a full boil, Mae must untangle the mystery with help from her fiercely loyal Laundry Club Ladies. The suspects are Ken’s polished entourage, a few bitter locals, and even Mae’s right-hand woman, the fiery Dottie Swaggert.

It’s all aboard for Millie’s inaugural voyage as Siren of the Seas’ cruise director. It’s full steam ahead for their Christmas cruise to the Leeward Islands. With Danielle Kneldon, the newly minted assistant cruise director by her side, Millie’s certain she can handle whatever is thrown her way.

But the voyage is off to a rocky start when Danielle is attacked inside the cargo storage area before the ship departs. When questioned, Danielle is evasive about the reason why she was there, other than to pick up a suitcase sent to her by a “friend.”

Millie offers to track it down, but trouble is brewing when the contents are red-flagged by none other than super-sniffer cat, Fin.

Now with a beautiful new series look, this is Agatha Christie’s first mystery to feature the beloved investigator Miss Marple. A dead body in a clergyman’s study proves to the indomitable sleuth that no place, holy or otherwise, is a sanctuary from homicide.

Miss Marple encounters a compelling murder mystery in St. Mary Mead. Colonel Protheroe, local magistrate and overbearing landowner, is the most detested man in the village. Everyone—even in the vicar—wishes he were dead. And very soon, he is shot in the head in the vicar’s own study. Can Miss Marple unravel the tangled web of clues that will lead to the unmasking of the killer?

Rose’s cousin is eloping to Miami, and Rose is playing host.

Dorothy realizes she needs a date with whom she can exchange wedding-related wisecracks. Turning to a newfangled VHS dating service, she believes she’s found the ideal conversationalist. Unfortunately, who looks good on TV can actually be a total jerk in real life. It seems she’ll have to enjoy the company of Sophia, Blanche, and whoever Blanche has targeted for a hookup.

As the Girls all pitch in, Rose is thrilled that the event is perfect. That is, until Dorothy’s date is found dead—face-planted in an otherwise scrumptious-looking cheesecake.