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Earlier this year, I enactment unneurotic a preview of the most anticipated cozy mysteries coming retired from January to early-mid June 2023. While it’s hard to judge the twelvemonth is already halfway over, the 2nd fractional of 2023 holds conscionable arsenic galore amusive and escapist caller cozy mysteries to enjoy.
Historical, paranormal, and modern fans volition each find thing to look for astatine their section room oregon bookstore arsenic we look guardant to what the 2nd fractional of the year’s cozy enigma releases has successful store. Read connected to find 15 of the astir anticipated cozy mysteries coming retired during the 2nd fractional of 2023, from Regency epoch romps to rom-cozies and much (and each 1 with a delightfully punny title)!
As a contributor who’s been tracking caller cozy mysteries implicit the past fewer years, I’m besides excited to stock that my debut caller Board to Death is retired August 22 from Kensington Books! It’s the archetypal successful a bid starring Ben Rosencrantz, an introverted English prof who is framed for execution aft returning location to tally his dad’s committee crippled store successful Salt Lake City, Utah. With the assistance of loyal favored chihuahua, a handsome florist adjacent door, and an eccentric assemblage of committee crippled enthusiasts, helium whitethorn conscionable person a accidental astatine clearing his name!
A Most Agreeable Murder by Julia Seales (June 27)
I work an beforehand transcript of A Most Agreeable Murder on NetGalley earlier this twelvemonth and it is, without exaggerating, 1 of the funniest cozy mysteries I person ever read.
Beatrice Steele struggles to find a spot wherever she belongs successful her stuffy English village, and her fascination with existent transgression surely isn’t helping. Until a bachelor drops dormant astatine the autumnal shot and Beatrice’s expertise mixed with her earthy oculus for reflection makes her the cleanable idiosyncratic to drawback the killer.
Misfortune Cookie (Noodle Shop Mystery #9) by Vivien Chien (June 27)
After becoming the manager of her family’s Ho-Lee Noodle House restaurant, Lana Lee travels to a edifice normal successful California with her sister Anna May. Thankfully, their Aunt Grace lives adjacent and is blessed to person them enactment over.
But erstwhile a adjacent person of Aunt Grace dies and the constabulary garbage to look into the lawsuit seriously, Lana takes the probe into her ain hands.
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To Have and to Heist by Sara Desai (July 18)
This caper is cleanable for those who emotion rom-cozies — books that blend cozy enigma and romcom tropes. Simi Chopra ne'er expected to program and execute a high-stakes necklace heist astatine a wedding. But to wide her friend’s name, she’ll bash it. Even much astonishing to Simi is her increasing chemistry with Jack, a antheral with a mysterious past who agrees to assistance her with the heist.
A Fatal Groove (Record Shop #2) by Olivia Blacke (July 25)
After reopening their family’s vinyl grounds store and adding a cafe with punny portion names, sisters Juni, Tansy, and Maggie Jessop person rapidly made Sip & Spin Records a staple of their community.
Someone successful their community, however, has it retired for the Jessops. At the outpouring Bluebonnet Festival, Tansy is framed for execution erstwhile the politician drops dormant from poisoned java traced to their booth. If Juni and Maggie privation to beryllium their sister’s innocence, they’ll person to enactment connected their amateur sleuthing hats again.
A Shimmer of Red (Odessa Jones #3) by Valerie Wilson Wesley (July 25)
With her existent property concern thriving and her catering gig taking disconnected arsenic well, Odessa Jones can’t assistance but consciousness that things are looking up. But the beingness of a psychic is ne'er easy. Her caller coworker Anna is soon killed successful a hit-and-run, and Odessa’s powers alert her that it was premeditated murder. Determined to drawback Anna’s killer, Odessa investigates — adjacent if doing truthful makes her the adjacent target.
The Body successful the Back Garden (Crescent Cove #1) by Mark Waddell (August 22)
The archetypal successful a quozy (queer cozy) enigma series, The Body successful the Back Garden stars investigative writer Luke Tremblay arsenic helium unexpectedly inherits his large aunt’s location successful a coastal Canadian town. His luck takes a turn, however, erstwhile helium discovers a corpse successful his caller backyard.
Now helium indispensable usage the skills helium learned successful his vocation to fig retired who wanted to framework him for execution and wherefore — each portion pursuing a 2nd accidental astatine romance with an aged friend.
Grave Expectations by Alice Bell (September 5)
Grave Expectations follows an antithetic sleuthing team: a mean named Claire and the shade of her champion person Sophie, who was murdered erstwhile they were teenagers. While holding a seance astatine an aged woman’s day enactment astatine an English manor, Claire encounters a troubled tone who seems to person been killed astatine the premises. With the assistance of Sophie and a handsome section named Sebastian, Claire investigates for herself.
Murder successful an Italian Village (Bria Bartolucci #1) by Michael Falco (September 26)
Following the abrupt decease of her hubby Carlo, Bria Bartolucci fulfills his imagination of moving a B&B successful Italy’s Amalfi Coast. Here, she hopes that she and her lad Marco tin heal.
A dormant assemblage successful her impermanent country is the past happening she expects oregon wants connected opening time but, to her horror, that’s precisely what happens. Convincing the constabulary of her innocence volition mean uncovering retired who wanted to framework her for the execution and why.
One Puzzling Afternoon by Emily Critchley (October 3)
Told betwixt 2 timelines decades apart, this cozy enigma follows an aged pistillate named Edie Green who is determined to uncover the information down a enigma haunting her since childhood. Although Edie suffers from representation issues, she’s definite she saw her champion person Lucy conscionable arsenic she looked the past clip Edie saw her. The occupation is, Lucy disappeared successful 1951.
A Frightfully Fatal Affair (Dinner Lady Detectives #4) by Hannah Hendy (October 5)
Married mates and amateur sleuths Margery and Clementine Butcher-Baker conscionable their lucifer successful a slayer targeting the secondary schoolhouse wherever they work. When a mathematics teacher is recovered murdered soon earlier the section harvest festival, the 2 indispensable lick the lawsuit earlier their tiny English colony descends into chaos.
Murder and Mamon (Tita Rosie’s Kitchen #4) by Mia P. Manansala (October 17)
Lila Macapagal’s favourite cafe regulars are the Calendar Crew, a radical of women named April, Mae, and June who are besides her godmothers. When they unfastened a section laundromat, Lila is thrilled to be their opening time solemnisation — adjacent if not everyone successful the assemblage is thrilled by the caller business.
To the Calendar Crew’s shock, a slayer strikes astatine the expansive opening and leaves an ominous connection adjacent to the assemblage of Ninang April’s niece. Everyone knows the Calendar Crew loves to gossip. But it’s up to Lila to find retired who hates them (or is hiding a unsafe capable secret) to termination idiosyncratic over.
Murder by the Seashore (California Bookshop #1) by Samara Yew (October 17)
In this sunny escapist work for the acold autumn months, bookstore proprietor Scarlett Gardner rebuilds her beingness pursuing a achy breakup successful her coastal California town. When a caller lawsuit turns up dormant and the authorities uncover she made Scarlett the heir to her will, Scarlett indispensable analyse — not lone to wide her sanction but successful hunt of answers to her ain family’s secrets.
Barbacoa, Bomba, and Betrayal (Caribbean Kitchen #3) by Raquel V. Reyes (November 7)
Food anthropologist and cooking TV amusement big Miriam Quiñones hopes that a travel to sojourn her parents successful Punta Cana volition connection a accidental to relax. Unfortunately, information follows this amateur sleuth connected vacation. Between a telenovela star’s disappearance and the sinister gut feeling her champion friend’s caller fellow gives her, Miriam has plentifulness of unusual occurrences to benignant done if she wants to support those she cares astir from harm.
Sniffing Out Murder (Bailey the Bloodhound #1) by Kallie E. Benjamin (December 5)
Following the occurrence of her children’s publication series, Priscilla returns to her tiny Indiana hometown with her bloodhound Bailey (the inspiration for her stories). Her luck takes a crook for the worse, though, erstwhile Bailey discovers the dormant assemblage of Pris’s erstwhile precocious schoolhouse bully Whitney.
Because the 2 had an statement days earlier, Pris becomes the premier suspect. Her lone anticipation is utilizing Bailey’s scent tracking skills to lick the transgression herself.
Coconut Drop Dead (Spice Isle #3) by Olivia Matthews (December 26)
Running a bakery successful Brooklyn’s Little Caribbean vicinity was ever Lyndsay Murray’s dream. So erstwhile Spice Isle Bakery is chosen arsenic a vendor for the yearly Caribbean American Heritage Festival, she’s thrilled that her household concern is doing truthful well.
But the celebrations crook to fearfulness erstwhile Camille, a reggae set vocalist and adjacent person of Lyndsay’s relative Manny, is recovered dormant astatine the festival. Manny’s definite that the constabulary are incorrect astir ruling her decease an accident. Lyndsay has a knack for solving crimes and, to bring her relative closure, vows to drawback the killer.
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