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Cooking with Cozy Mysteries

Solve a murder and also whip up a dish to pass? Only possible with a cozy mystery. The cozy mysteries listed here also include themed recipes in each book. Bon appetit! (And watch your back.)

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  • Whether it's to satisfy a craving for chocolate or pick up the hottest new bestseller, the locals in charming West Riverdale, Maryland, are heading to Chocolates and Chapters, where everything sold is to die for.
    BookNew York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2014 — MYSTERY FICTION AARONS
  • When a mysterious stranger buys a whole box of heavily iced crullers, throws them at her friend Gabby's storefront, and then winds up dead, Suzanne Hart, the owner of April Springs' only donut shop, tries to find his killer.
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2012 — MYSTERY FICTION BECK
  • When her catering event turns frosty, pastry chef-slash-amateur sleuth Sophia Cummings must solve a murder if she wants to earn her dough.
    BookNew York : Crooked Lane, 2018 — MYSTERY FICTION BELL
  • Receiving a surprise inheritance, social media expert Maddy Montgomery must live in her great-aunt Octavia's house in New Bison, Michigan, for a year, running her bakery and caring for an English mastiff named Baby, while trying to prove…
    BookNew York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corp., [2022] — MYSTERY FICTION BURNS
  • In the fourth in Vivien Chien's Noodle Shop delicious mystery series, Ho-Lee Noodle House is ready to take the Cleveland night market by storm--until a brand-new food venue literally explodes onto the scene.
    BookNew York, NY : St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2019 — MYSTERY FICTION CHIEN
  • While at the Maryland Mystery Fan Fest to compete in a costume-themed dessert bake-off, Val Deniston faces off against nemesis Cynthia Sweet, and is drawn into a mystery when Cynthia is murdered by someone who is definitely not a fan.
    BookNew York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corp., [2022] — MYSTERY FICTION CORRIGAN
  • While attending a high school reunion back in California, Robbie Jordan catches wind of rumors that her mother may not have died of natural causes all those years ago, and, with the help of friends, must solve this mystery to return home…
    BookNew York, NY : Kensington Books, [2020] — MYSTERY FICTION DAY
  • Sage Caplin, owner of the Ground Rules coffee truck in Portland, investigates after she discovers a man's body with his throat slashed in front of her business while trying to keep her estranged, con-artist mother at bay.
    BookNew York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corp., [2021] — MYSTERY FICTION DUNCAN
  • Not even Lake Eden's nosiest residents suspected Hannah Swensen would go from idealistic newlywed to betrayed wife in a matter of weeks. But as a deadly mystery unfolds in town, the proof is in the pudding.
    BookNew York, NY : Kensington Books, 2019 — MYSTERY FICTION FLUKE
  • When Chef Romeo, who just opened up a new restaurant in town, dies from complications after having a heart attack, Hayley Powell, whose hospitalized brother swears it was murder, must find the person who had no reservations about killing…
    BookNew York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corp., [2021] — MYSTERY FICTION HOLLIS
  • Dying for a Taste

    a Sally Solari Mystery

    Karst, Leslie
    After losing her mother to cancer, Sally Solari quits her job as an attorney to help her dad run his old-style Italian eatery in Santa Cruz, California. But managing the front of the house is far from her dream job. Then in a sudden twist,…
    BookNew York, NY : Crooked Lane Books, 2016 — MYSTERY FICTION KARST
  • Between trying to get her baking business off the ground and helping her aunt remodel her Bed and Breakfast in Cape May, New Jersey, Poppy is ready to call, "Mayday!" And now Aunt Ginny is sleepwalking on her new sleeping pill prescription…
    BookNew York, NY : Kensington Books, Kensington Publishing Corp., [2018] — MYSTERY FICTION KLEIN
  • The first book in a culinary cozy series full of sharp humor and delectable dishes—one that might just be killer. When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical…
    BookNew York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2021 — MYSTERY FICTION MANANSALA
  • Brooklyn’s annual Caribbean American Heritage Festival is finally here, and Spice Isle Bakery is thrilled to be one of the event’s food vendors. The day's festivities are cut short when Camille, lead singer of an up-and-coming reggae band,…
    BookNew York, NY : St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2023 — MYSTERY FICTION MATTHEWS
  • Moving from New York to Coral Shores, Miami, food anthropologist Miriam gets a short-term job as a Caribbean cooking expert on a Spanish-language morning TV show, which sets the stage for murder—one that could be the recipe for her own…
    BookNew York : Crooked Lane Books, 2021 — MYSTERY FICTION REYES