15 Cozy Mysteries Coming Out in the First Half of 2021

Sage Caplin cannot be more thrilled to start a coffee cart business in Portland with her friend Haley. But when a dead man is found with his throat slashed in their cart, excitement quickly turns to fear. Sage finds herself entangled in a whodunnit where the suspects range from disgruntled vendors to others who may have motives for framing Sage and Haley.

Women’s Club manager Avery Morgan is excited to welcome a theater troupe to perform at their venue. The opportunity seems perfect for finding new members…until the lead performer’s corpse is found backstage.

Luckily, Avery has a fellow sleuth on her side—the ghost Clemmie Bow, who was once a speakeasy singer during the Roaring Twenties. Together, they must solve who out of the performer’s many enemies wanted him dead enough to murder him themselves.

Bookseller Delaney Nichols is no stranger to mysterious cases. When a stranger invites her to a treasure hunt hosted by a socialite rumored to have murdered her boyfriend years ago, she is hesitant yet intrigued. But when a man is murdered and the socialite kidnapped soon after the treasure hunt begins, Delaney must bring the killer to justice before she becomes the next victim.

After a devastating break-up, Lila Macapagal moves in with her family to help out at her Tita Rose’s restaurant. But soon after her arrival, a food critic—who just so happens to be Lila’s ex-boyfriend—is murdered. When she soon becomes the prime suspect, Lila must rely on the support of her aunties and her dachshund Longanisa to clear her name.

Bookshop owner and Scrabble enthusiast Ellery Page feels like he finally belongs in Pirate’s Cove, Rhode Island, when he is invited to the annual masquerade. Plus, what better distraction from thinking about his recent ex-boyfriend? But when socialite Marguerite Bloodworth-Ainsley’s second husband is murdered during the masquerade ghost hunt, Ellery must once again put on his amateur sleuthing hat.

Librarian Lucy Richardson is eager to announce her recent engagement. And when her friends throw her a celebration party at Coquina Beach, everything seems to be falling into place. But when her ex shows up in town and a body is found at Jake’s Seafood Bar, Lucy must juggle personal drama and local intrigue to solve the crime and steer her engagement away from stormy waters.

Everyone in Su Lin’s village knows to stay away from the cannonball tree. But when she discovers the body of her relative Mimi nearby, the tree becomes an even more ominous location.

Because Mimi was known to be cruel to Su Lin, she becomes a suspect. And when others die under mysterious circumstances, Su Lin must find the true culprit to save her village and her reputation.

Avery Ames returns home to run the family antique shop after her parents’ untimely deaths. But when the store is connected to a rare and missing ruby, Avery suspects that her parents were the victims of foul play. After another sudden death occurs and Avery begins to receive threatening notes, she teams up with security guard Art Smith to solve the crime before she becomes the next victim.