Cozy Mysteries
Ellery Adams
 
Adams's engaging cozy mysteries are as varied as her characters. These mysteries offer a slice of small-town life in North Carolina.
 
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Susan Wittig Albert
Albert's mystery series, feature an interesting mix of colorful characters, multiple puzzles leading to ingenious plot twists, and carefully researched, richly described settings. 
 
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M.C. Beaton
Stories that offer readers a comfortable combination of eccentric characters, vividly detailed settings, expertly crafted plots and a strong measure of humor.
 
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V.M. Burns
Burn's novels emphasizes the importance of family and friends in her amusing, engaging, own voices novels. Her characters are well-developed, likable, and realistic, and display the value of strong female friendships.
 
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Vivien Chien
 
Gently humorous, witty, clever mysteries with a strong sense of place and memorable, if quirky, characters.
 
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Abby Collette
 
Novel that are charming, engaging and detailed, giving enough twists to keep readers on their toes.
 
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Sheila Connolly
 
 
Cozy mysteries that have the pace of a thriller and written in an engaging, witty style.
 
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Cleo Coyle
Coyle is the pen name of the wife-and-husband duo of Alice Alfonsi and Marc Cerasini. 
 Their series are written in a cozy, serio-comic style with charming secondary characters who complicate their heroines' lives.
  
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Isis Crawford
Crawford writes upbeat, witty, and fast-paced culinary mysteries that offer enticing descriptions of cooking and delicious recipes to accompany the cozy plots. 
 
 
 
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Krista Davis
 
Davis writes various types of mysteries, including cozy, culinary, pet and holiday. The stories are fast-paced and upbeat.
 
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Lauren Elliott
 
Elliot, author, of the popular Beyond the Page Bookstore Mysteries is known for her quirky characters, humor, clever plots, and twist endings.
  
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Amanda Flower
Flower's cozy novels often finds their protagonist in unlikely situations with an amusing conclusions.
 
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Miranda James
 James creates characters whose relationship with authority is mutually respectful rather than antagonistic and as former natives recently returned home, they are able to tap all sorts of connections while retaining an outsider's perspective
 
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Leslie Meier
Meier is the author of a mystery series featuring reporter Lucy Stone. Lucy often finds herself in situations where she is able to hone her amateur detecting skills
 
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Victoria Thompson
Thompson is best known for her engaging historical mystery series starring likable female characters who find themselves entangled in investigations that frequently touch on social issues and crimes against women.
 
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