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Diverse Cozy Mysteries

Like you mysteries cozy, but looking for a bit of diversity? Check these out!

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  • A sparkling debut mystery set on the south side of Chicago, featuring the quick-witted, unforgettable Savvy Summers, proprietor of a soul food café.
    Book, 2025New York : Minotaur Books, 2025. — MF JACKSON-OPOKU
  • Returning home to help save her Tita Rosie's failing restaurant, Lila Macapagal is shocked when her ex-boyfriend, a notoriously nasty food critic, dies suddenly, moments after they had a confrontation, leaving her the only suspect.
    Book, 2021New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2021. — MF MANANSALA
  • A cash-strapped actress tries to solve a murder for the reward money. Humor and Hollywood scandals!
    eBook, 2021Kellye Garrett, 2021
  • Owner of a pet grooming business, Mimi Lee, after the local breeder she exposed for mistreating Chihuahuas is murdered, must clear her name with the help of her talking cat, Marshmallow, who is the only one who can get her out of this mess.
    Book, 2020New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2020. — MF CHOW
  • After waking up with a black eye, a Seattle teacher discovers that his crush, dancer Camilo Rodriguez, has gone missing and joins forces with his best friends to uncover what happened to the “Dreamer” whose parents were deported years ago.
    eBook, 2022CROOKED LANE BOOKS, 2022
  • When she discovers a dead man in the middle of her tea shop, Vera Wong, a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands, calls the police but not before swiping the flash drive from the body, setting a trap for the killer that becomes complicated…
    Book, 2023New York : Berkley, [2023] — MF SUTANTO
  • Moving from New York to Coral Shores, Miami, food anthropologist Miriam gets a short-term job as a Caribbean cooking expert on a Spanish-language morning TV show, which sets the stage for murder--one that could be the recipe for her own death.
    eBook, 2021CROOKED LANE BOOKS, 2021
  • When the disgruntled owner of a rival bakery is murdered after getting a rise out of her, Lyndsay Murray, the owner of Spice Isle Bakery, falls under suspicion and most prove her innocence while dealing with her overprotective and meddlesome family.
    eAudiobook, 2023Dreamscape Media, 2023
  • Tempest Raj, while visiting her dad's latest renovation project, discovers the body of her former stage double and wonders if she was the original target, and as she dives into this impossible mystery, she wonders if the Raj family curse has finally…
    Book, 2022New York : Minotaur Books, 2022. — MF PANDIAN
  • Iced in Paradise

    a Leilani Santiago Hawai'i Mystery

    Hirahara, Naomi, 1962-
    Leilani must solve a murder and run the family shaved ice store on Kauai.
    Book, 2019Altadena, California : Prospect Park Books, [2019] — MF HIRAHARA
  • Cotterill is English and Australian but has lived in Southeast Asia for many years. This series features Dr. Siri Paiboun and is set in Laos in the 1970s.
    eBook, 2009ereads.com, 2009
  • When the insufferable Broadway reject who stars in their production of Annie Get Your Gun is shot center stage, Tasha Weaver, the costume shop head at the Eastbrook Playhouse, must catch a killer to save the theater and keep her community safe…
    eBook, 2024CROOKED LANE BOOKS, 2024
  • Principal Smith fails to show up for work, and has been MIA. Determined to get to the bottom of things, Mavis, along with the school psychologist with the great forearms (look, it's worth noting), launches an investigation that will challenge her…
    Book, 2024New York : Berkley, 2024. — MF BRYANT
  • Dispatched to Kuala Lumpur to solve a perplexing case involving a famous model on death row who swears she is innocent, bumbling Inspector Singh confronts challenging obstacles including formidable circumstantial evidence and police resistance.
    eBook, 2010St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2010
  • Influencer-turned-bakery-owner Maddy Montgomery has sold plenty of wedding cakes before, but before she turns one out for her and her fiancé’s wedding, she’ll have to solve a little case of murder . . .
    eBook, 2025Kensington Books, 2025