Finding Clean Cozy Mystery Books

My mom and I went to the library recently, and she was in the mystery section. We love reading cozy mystery books, but sometimes you’ll pick a series that’s not all that clean. Sometimes they’ll have sexual situations or not very nice language. When I pick up a cozy mystery, I want it to be cute, quirky and clean. A lot of them are just that, but you just never know anymore.

I belong to a Facebook group called Mystery Most Cozy, so I asked them for suggestions. They had a lot of them! I haven’t read all of these books, of course, so hopefully their ideas of clean are the same as mine.

What do you expect out of a cozy mystery? My first experience with cozy mystery books was The Cat Who series by Lilian Jackson Braun, so that shaped my idea of the cozy genre. They include no sex and very little cursing. The murders aren’t gruesome, and they are always solved by the lead character in the book.

Cozy Mystery Series Suggestions

Here are the suggestions from the Mystery Most Cozy group in no particular order. Hopefully this will be a great list for all of us cozy mystery lovers.  I’m linking them to Amazon if they are available there. I’ll just link to one of the books in the series if there are more than one (there almost always are!), and you can find the rest of the series there.If you’ve read any of these and found that they really aren’t all that clean, please let me know!

A Fresh-Baked Mystery Series by Livia J. Washburn

Books by the Bay Mystery Series by Ellery Adams

Mystic Notch Cozy Mystery Series by Leighann Dobbs

A Flower Shop Mystery Series by Kate Collins

Southern Sisters Mystery Series by Anne George

Southern Pasta Shop Mystery Series by Jennifer Hart

Ghost-in-Law Mystery Series by Jana DeLeon

Miss Prentice Cozy Mystery Series by E. E. Kennedy

Dr. Alexandra Gladstone Mystery Series by Paula Paul

Hamish Macbeth Mystery Series by M. C. Beaton

Murder She Wrote Mysteries

Agatha Raisin Mystery Series by M. C. Beaton (They swear a lot in this. They’re British…)

Craft Corner Mystery Series by Mary Ellen Hughes

Maggie Olenski Mystery Series by Mary Ellen Hughes

Pickled and Preserved Mystery Series by Mary Ellen Hughes

A Murder in the Mountains Mystery Series by Heather Day Gilbert

An Amish Mystery Series by Laura Bradford

Southern Sewing Circle Mystery Series by Elizabeth Lynn Casey

Lucille Mystery Series by Peg Cochran

Pawsitively Organic Mystery Series by Liz Mugavero

Magic Potion Mystery Series by Heather Blake

Wishcraft Mystery Series by Heather Blake

Mrs. Murphy Mystery Series by Rita Mae Brown

Tea Shop Mystery Series by Laura Childs

Professor Bradshaw Mystery Series by Bernadette Pajer

The Cat Who Mystery Series by Lilian Jackson Braun

Melanie Travis Mystery Series by Laurien Berenson

Domestic Diva Mystery Series by Krista Davis

Paws and Claws Mystery Series by Krista Davis

Aunt Dimity Mystery Series by Nancy Atherton

Magical Bakery Mystery Series by Bailey Cates

The Pampered Pets Mystery Series by Sparkle Abbey

Death on Demand Mystery Series by Carolyn Hart

Cheese Shop Mystery Series by Avery Aames

Village Cooks Mystery Series by Valerie Horowitz

White House Chef Mystery Series by Julie Hyzy

Meg Langslow Mystery Series by Donna Andrews

St. Rose Quilting Bee Mystery Series by Annette Mahon

Bibliophile Mystery Series by Kate Carlisle

Goldy Shultz Mystery Series by Diane Mott Davidson

Benni Harper Mystery Series by Earlene Fowler

Caprice De Luca Mystery Series by Karen Rose Smith

Lady Emily Mystery Series by Tasha Alexander

Dulcie Schwartz Mystery Series by Clea Simon

Sleuthing Sisters Mystery Series by Christine Lynxwiler, Sandy Gaskin, and Jan Reynolds

Scumble River Mystery Series by Denise Swanson

Devereaux’s  Dime Store Mystery Series by Denise Swanson

Mary O’Reilly Paranormal Mystery Series by Terri Reid

Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery Series by Sue Ann Jaffarian

Passport to Peril Mystery Series by Maddy Hunter

Local Foods Mystery Series by Edith Maxwell

Dorothy Martin Mystery Series by Jeanne Dams

Hilda Johansson Mystery Series by Jeanne Dams

Kay Driscoll Mystery Series by Susan Bernhardt

Shaky Detective Mystery Series by Lyla Fox

Libby Sarjeant Murder Mystery Series by Lesley Cookman

Penny Brannigan Mystery Series by Elizabeth J. Duncan

Raven’s Nest Bookstore Mystery Series by Allison Kingsley

An LOL 4 Mystery Series by Mary Beth Magee

Victorian San Francisco Mystery Series by M. Louisa Locke

Fiona Mason Mystery Series by Judith Cranswick

Cats in Trouble Mystery Series by Leann Sweeney

A lot of these authors have other series as well, and I am sure I have not included all of the great cozy mystery series out there! Please feel free to add your comments with your favorite clean cozy mystery series too!