Cozy mysteries are perennial favorites among Book Riot readers, and since we’ve just entered the best season to read them, Libby has shared the top 10 most borrowed cozy mysteries in the North American Public Library space. They range from a time-hopping mystery set in the English countryside to a charming tale of an elderly lady shopkeeper sleuth.
Make sure to round the list below off with the BIPOC cozy books listed by Managing Editor Vanessa Diaz here—which include Detective Aunty by Uzma Jalaluddin and A Murder for Miss Hortense by Mel Pennant—or the ones listed here by Book Riot writer Anne Mai Yee Jansen (Under Lock and Skeleton Key by Gigi Pandian, Murder in G Major by Alexia Gordon, Mimi Lee Gets a Clue by Jennifer J. Chow, and Tita Rosie’s Kitchen mystery series by Mia P. Manansala).
Libby’s Top 10 Borrowed Cozy Mysteries
10. Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies by Catherine Mack
9. Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
8. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
7. How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin
6. The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood
5. Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon
4. The Maid by Nita Prose
3. Murder Takes a Vacation by Laura Lippman
2. Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
1. We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
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