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Hi, I am about to go on holidays and need something fun for a loooong plane flight. Looking for some light cozy mysteries - light because I find I can't concentrate well when flying.
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If cozy means little to no violence, this is it. If it means no complicated plot, ditto. EDITED: Not quite as non-violent, but perhaps in the direction you are asking for, and easy to try out, is The Moonstone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moonstone http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/155 Last edited by SteveEisenberg; 08-16-2013 at 11:55 PM. |
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Pushing Up Daisies: A Dirty Business Mystery by Rosemary Harris is pretty good so far.
You can't go wrong with Janet Evanovitch or Lois Greiman for being laugh out loud funny in parts. http://www.cozy-mystery.com/Authors-E.html Is a pretty thorough and well done website. Helen |
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Thank you all so much for your suggestions! I'll take a look
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Joanne Fluke's Hannah Swensen series would definitely count as cozies. First book is Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder.
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Ellery' Queen's "The Roman Hat mystery" is a good read. It's available in paper and kindle format.
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You might like to look at Maggie Sefton's books - so cozy they include knitting patterns and recipes!
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The Alpine series by Mary Daheim
The Hamish Macbeth series by M.C. Beaton The Flavia de Luce series by Alan Bradley The Father O'Malley/Vicky Holden/Wind River series by Margaret Coel Last edited by 4691mls; 08-22-2013 at 09:14 PM. |
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Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series is very good. Don't go by the movie, the book is much much much much better! The Grandma Mazzer character is hilarious!
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All of the Agatha Christie novels would fall in this category, too, especially the Miss Marple ones.
![]() The Murder at the Vicarage (1930) The Body in the Library (1942) The Moving Finger (1943) A Murder is Announced (1950) They Do It with Mirrors, or Murder with Mirrors (1952) A Pocket Full of Rye (1953) 4.50 from Paddington, or What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw! (1957) The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, or The Mirror Crack'd (1962) A Caribbean Mystery (1964) At Bertram's Hotel (1965) Nemesis (1971) Sleeping Murder (written around 1940, published 1976) |
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You might try Jan Dunlap's Bob White murder mysteries. Bob White is a birder, and all of the books have a bird watching sub-theme. I believe the first is The Boreal Owl Murder.
Interestingly, they do not appear to be currently available from Amazon for the Kindle, but they are available for Nook from Barnes & Noble. |
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Kobo has the Cadfael series. All are couponable.
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