Cozy Mystery Authors

There are many authors who write cozy mysteries. Here is a list of both well-known and lesser-known authors, but you reading choices are not limited to just those on this page. Try out an author new to you and discover your new favorite.

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Well-Known Authors for Cozy Mysteries

Sally Goldenbaum

Sally Goldenbaum downsized from a large Kansas home to a condo in Gloucester, MA, which is also the setting for the USA Today best selling Seaside Knitters Mystery series.. Read any of her cozy mysteries featuring the following characters.

Izzy Chambers (Seaside Knitters Mysteries)

Portia (Po) Paltrow (Queen Bee Quilters Shop Mysteries)

Jesse Q. Sutanto

Jesse Q. Sutanto is the award-winning, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties, and Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers. The film rights to Dial A for Aunties was bought by Netflix, and the TV rights to Vera Wong was bought by Warner Bros.. Read any of her cozy mysteries featuring the following characters.

Vera Wong (The Vera Wong Mystery Series)

Multiple "Aunties" (The Aunties Mystery Series)

Joanne Fluke

Joanne Fluke is the multi-book New York Times bestselling cozy mystery author of over 20 novels in the Hannah Swensen Mysteries series. Like Hannah Swensen, she was born and raised in a small town in rural Minnesota, but now lives in sunny Southern California. Read any of her cozy mystery series featuring the following character.

Hannah Swensen (Hannah Swensen Mysteries)

Stella Cameron

Cameron Stella Cameron is a New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author with over fourteen million copies of her books in print. Cameron continues to add to her critically acclaimed Alex Duggins Mystery Series Read any of her cozy mysteries featuring the following character.

Alex Duggins (The Cotswolds Murder Mysteries)

Barbara Ross

Barbara Ross is the author of the Maine Clambake Mysteries and the Jane Darrowfield Mysteries. Her books have been nominated for multiple Agatha Awards for Best Contemporary Novel and have won the Maine Literary Award for Crime Fiction. She lives in Portland, Maine. Read any of her cozy mysteries featuring the following characters.

Julia Snowden (Maine Clambake Mystery Series)

Jane Darrowfield (Jane Darrowfield Mystery 2book Series)

Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown is the bestselling author of the Sister Jane novels as well as the Sneaky Pie Brown mysteries, An Emmy-nominated screenwriter and a poet, Brown lives in Afton, Virginia. Read any of her cozy mysteries featuring the following characters.

Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen (Mrs. Murphy Mystery Series)

Jane Arnold ("Sister" Jane Mystery Series

Nita Prose

Nita Prose is the author of the Molly the Maid series, which has sold more than 2 million copies worldwide and was published in over forty countries. Nita lives in Toronto, Canada, in a house that is moderately clean.. Read any of her cozy mysteries featuring the following characters.

Molly Gray (Molly the Maid Mystery Series)

Meddlesome Marge (Busybodies Mystery Collection)

M. C. Beaton

M.C. Beaton was the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Agatha Raisin novels as well as the Hamish Macbeth series and the Edwardian Murder Mysteries featuring Lady Rose Summer. Known as the “Queen of Crime”, she was born in Scotland and started her career writing historical romances under several pseudonyms as well as her maiden name, Marion Chesney. Read any of her cozy mysteries featuring the following characters.

Agatha Raisin (Agatha Raisin Mystery Series)

Constable Hamish Macbeth (Hamish Macbeth Mystery Series)

Other Cozy Mystery Authors to Explore

Check out the work of some of these other cozy mystery authors. Some you may know, so give an new-to-you author a chance.

Donna Andrews (Meg Langslow Series)

Lilian Jackson Braun (Cat Who... Series)

Ellie Alexander (A Secret Bookcase Mystery Series)

Dale Mayer (Lovely Lethal Gardens Series)

Maddie Day (CeCe Barton Series)

Best Sellers in Cozy Mysteries

Have you read any of these best-sellers in the cozy mystery genre?

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