Cosy books looking for recommendations

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I've recently started to get into cosy type books and was wondering if anyone had any recommendations? I'm not into romance type books although I don't mind if it has romance in it as long as it's not the main storyline. Cosy mysteries is more my style and in case you're not sure what a cosy book is think Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman or Agatha Christie. then there are cosy tv shows such as Agatha Raisin, Death in Paradise, Hamish Macbeth, Murdoch Mysteries, Miss Fisher's murder Mysteries and many more and of course the books these shows are based on.

I read cosy mysteries , I’m currently reading the Cotswold Curiosity Shop books by Debbie Young . I read very late at night so like easy reads .

Hazel Holt’s Mrs Malory series.

I immediately thought of Miss Read, and also the My Friends series by Jane Duncan. They vary a bit, but the early ones at least are very cosy I think. Must be 20 yea S since I read them mind.

You might want to try
The Three Dahlias Katy Watson

After the Armistice Ball by Catriona McPherson

The same author has written 2 books in a different series . The first is In Place of Fear.
The Windsor Knot by S J Bennett

A Spoonful of Murder by J M Hall
2 Series by Frances Brody 1st Dying in the Wool
2nd A Murder Inside
A Case of Life and Limb By Sally Smith
Hattie Brings the House Down by Patrick Gleeson
Death at Crookham Hall by Michelle Salter

You could try T A Williams's Armstrong and Oscar books.

They are a series of cosy murder mysteries based in Italy with mouthwatering descriptions of the food and scenery.

The first in the series is "Murder in Tuscany"

btw - Oscar is a gorgeous black labrador!

I really wouldn’t call her books cosy!

@Blackcountryexile I’ve read all the Michelle Salter ones in that series and they are a good read , Anita Davison also does some good ones particularly the Miss Merrill and Aunt Violet series

Try The Marlow Murder Club series by Robert Thorogood. He wrote Death in Paradise.

Josephine Tey books - cosy but also some grittiness for the time - try The Franchise Affair first maybe.

Or The Josephine Tey mysteries - series by Nicola Upson where she turns Tey into a character where mysteries occur in her orbit. Although I've only read An Expert in Murder set in the world of the theatre with some real life characters.

Or, not mystery, but Mapp and Lucia books by E F Benson.