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Getting  Cozy

WITH THESE COZY AUTHORS
Find your next cozy mystery series here. Pick your favorite cozy author or try a new one. The choice is yours! There are seven books with excerpts below to get you started.

Main Street Book Club Mystery Series

For fans of Kate Carlisle and Ellery Adams!

There’s not much to do on Friday nights in Sugar Springs, Mississippi, and it seems like the perfect opportunity for Arlo Stanley to host an after-hours book club at her newly-opened bookstore. But murder in their small town hijacks the discussion, and soon Arlo and her book club ladies are on the case.
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Amy Lillard is the award-winning author of several Amish romances. She is a member of RWA, ACFW, NINC, and the Author’s Guild. She lives in Tulsa, OK.
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Seaside Cafe Mystery Series

A delightful beachside cozy mystery series!

Everly Swan returns to her coastal hometown of Charm, North Carolina to open an iced tea shop and cafe, "Sun, Sand, and Tea", right on the beach and soon finds herself mixed up in murder.
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Bree Baker is a Midwestern writer obsessed with small-town hijinks, sweet tea, and the sea. She’s been telling stories to her friends, family, and strangers for as long as she can remember, and more often than not, those stories feature a warm ocean breeze and a recipe she’s sure to ruin. Now she’s working on those fancy cooking skills and dreaming up adventures for the Seaside Café mysteries. Bree is a member of Sisters in Crime, International Thriller Writers, and the Romance Writers of America
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Trouble in Paradise Mystery Series

Brand New Tropical Mystery Series!

A new villa broker, Plum Lockhart, leaves her New York City life and corporate job to live on the tropical island of Paraiso and keeps busy by walking on the beach, working on her tan, and solving mysteries.
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Hamptons Murder Mystery Series

For fans of Louise Penny and Bree Baker!

A gourmet chef and innkeeper, Antonia Bingham, solves murders among the beautiful beaches, luxurious living, millionaire mansions and upper echelon of the East Hamptons.
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A fan of mystery and crime novels and a cooking enthusiast, CARRIE DOYLE combined all her interests to create Antonia Bingham, the star of the Hamptons Murder Mystery series. Carrie is the author of several novels and five optioned screenplays. She splits her time between New York City and East Hampton, NY. 
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Italian Chef Mystery Series

For fans of Joanne Fluke and Susan Furlong!

Tessa Esposito is starting her life over after her husband's fatal accident. So when an opportunity to run her own Italian restaurant comes along she  immediately starts slinging dough...and solving murder.
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USA Today bestselling author Catherine Bruns lives in Upstate New York with an all-male household that consists of her very patient husband, three sons, and several spoiled pets. Catherine has a B.A. in both English and Performing Arts and is a former newspaper reporter and press release writer. In her spare time, she loves to bake, read, and attend live theater performances. Over the past five years, she’s written fifteen mystery novels plus several novellas and has many  more stories waiting to be told.
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Chef-to-Go Mystery Series

From New York Times bestselling author Denise Swanson!

A delicious culinary cozy mystery series featuring Dani Sloan, whose catering and take-away business Chef-to-Go attracts a large clientele from the nearby university.
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Welcome Back to Scumble River Mystery Series

School psychologist Skye Denison-Boyd never thought that she would return to her hometown of Scumble River, Illinois, but now she’s married to the police chief and finds that she has a talent for sleuthing herself.
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DENISE SWANSON is the New York Times bestselling author of the Scumble River mysteries, the Deveraux’s Dime Store mysteries, and the Chef-to-Go mysteries, as well as the Change of Heart contemporary romances. She has been nominated for RT Magazine’s Career Achievement Award, the Agatha Award, and the Mary Higgins Clark Award.
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Dr. Kate Vet Mystery Series

For fans of Miranda James and Leann Sweeney!

Dr. Kate Vet mysteries are thoughtful, animal-centric cozies that follow Dr. Kate’s evolution not just as an amateur sleuth, but as a vet, a girlfriend, a daughter, and a member of her newly adopted community as she interacts with animals and their owners via clinic visits and house calls.
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Eileen Brady is a veterinarian living in Scottsdale, Arizona. She is a wife and mother of two daughters and often has to chase her six cats and two dogs away from her laptop keyboard. The Kate Turner, DVM Mysteries is her first series.
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Stationery Shop Mystery Series

For fans of Lauren Elliot and Essie Lang!

As the new co-owner of Tundish Montana's stationery shop WANTED, Delta Douglas knows how to organize a killer crafting event. Creativity and cardstock are all she needs to move one step closer to her ultimate dream: developing her own line of crafting products. However, Delta also has a talent for selling stationery and solving murder in her small Montana town.
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VIVIAN CONROY is the author of the Cornish Castle, Country Gift Shop, and Lady Alkmene mystery series. Besides writing, Vivian enjoys hiking, collecting stationery, and trying new desserts, especially if chocolate is involved. 
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