If you’ve fallen head over heels for the beloved series, Only Murders in the Building starring Selena Gomez, Martin Short and Steve Martin, we know you’re dying for more murder mysteries like it. These cozy tales of true crime aren’t your typical killer thriller. Instead they lighten the mood with zany amateur sleuths, lower stakes cases and can’t-miss conundrums that will have you guessing to the very end.
Welcome to Murder Week by Karen Dukess
Cath just lost her mother, but is going through the grieving process with ambivalence. Her free-spirited, absentee mother lived a life very different from Cath’s quiet, routined one. But when going through her belongings, Cath finds tickets her mother bought to “murder week” and instead of dismissing it, she decides to go on the trip herself. Taking off for England, Cath joins a cast of characters all determined to solve a fake murder, but who end up investigating themselves as they all come to terms with their past.
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Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man) by Jesse Q. Sutanto
In book two of one of our favorite elderly sleuth series, Vera is at it again. Last time a dead body was found in her teahouse. Now a young woman has come to her discussing her missing friend. And since her son is dating a police officer, she just might have the ability to peek inside a case file and try to help this girl. When the missing man’s body is pulled out of Mission Bay, the case gets even more mysterious because no one seems to know him… even his own alleged parents. Vera is on the case!
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Murder by Cheesecake: A Golden Girls Cozy Mystery by Rachel Ekstrom Courage
When Rose’s cousin decides to elope in Miami, the wedding festivities seem to be going off without a hitch. That is until Dorothy’s date—whom she found via a VHS dating service—ends up facedown in a cheesecake, dead. Now, the Golden Girls must solve a murder where everyone at the event is a suspect and try to keep the wedding on the tracks.
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The Verifiers by Jane Pek
Claudia has no interest in living up to her strict Chinese family’s expectations of her. She has no intention of getting a respectable job or boyfriend. She prefers girls and she’s just accepted a job working as an online sleuth for a dating detective agency. When a client leads her down a path riddled with personal and corporate lies, she’s on the case while attempting to claim the life she wants.
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The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
In this New York Times bestselling series, four 70-somethings meet every Thursday to discuss unsolved murders. With a cast as unforgettable as the cases, this hilarious novel hits the elderly sleuth satisfaction and it’s also being adapated for Netflix with Steven Spielberg as a producer, starring Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren.
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10 Marchfield Square by Nicola Whyte
Only Murders in the Building, but make it set in London. That’s this book. When a murder takes place in a small residential square, an adored landlady, her beloved cleaner and an unlikable writer who resides there set off following clues to find the killer. Everyone has something to hide and perhaps there’s more than one killer they are after.
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Icing on the Murder by Valerie Burns
Everything is going great for Maddy, her bakery is booming, she’s marrying her dream guy, she’s being featured in the biggest bridal expo and she’s entered a contest to have all her wedding expenses covered. What she couldn’t account for is Serafina, the supremely nasty wedding planner, being impaled by one of Maddy’s cake skewers. Now she and some of her closest friends must solve the murder while dealing with all the bridal mayhem.
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How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin
Frances always knew she’d be murdered. After a fortune teller predicted it in 1965, she became obsessed with finding out who would do the deed. Annie is summoned by her eccentric, elderly aunt, but when she arrives, she finds Frances murdered. Now it’s up to Annie to pour through decades of clues and research to find out who is responsible for her death.
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Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala
Lila is recovering from a bad breakup working in the family restaurant and getting dating advice/judgement from her aunties. As things are starting to turn around, her ex-boyfriend ends up dead after eating the food and she’s suspect number one. Now, with the restaurant threatening to be closed and her freedom on the line, Lila has to solve the case to save herself and the family biz.
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