Small town or close-knit community settings Let’s highlight some of the other important ingredients that make up the recipe for a fabulous cozy. Many of the main characters own small businesses and work as bakers, booksellers, chefs, florists, baristas, and the like which allow them to have access to lots of people/suspects and flexible times to investigate clues. And just like Jessica Fletcher, cozies feature amateur sleuths who have stumbled across a mystery and work to solve the case. These hallmarks are often compared to the classic Angela Lansbury show Murder, She Wrote and perhaps that is because the term cozy was coined around the same time as the show aired. (Did you know Matlock is coming back with Kathy Bates in Andy Griffith’s old role? I cannot wait!)Ĭozy mysteries are a subgenre of mystery novels that have a number of tropes unique to them. Plus, they remind me of being a kid and checking out all of my neighborhood library’s Encyclopedia Brown books and watching reruns of Matlock after school. With cozies, I can enjoy the book knowing that there won’t be any violent or graphic scenes on the page and rest easy that the culprit will be caught in the end. As I mentioned in 21 spine-tingling but not TOO scary audiobooks for fall, I cannot read about gory murders and often avoid popular gritty thrillers. And while I agree with Anne Shirley that Octobers are fabulous, I am so glad to live in a world where there are cozy mysteries.
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