The Best-Selling Cozy Mystery Novels of 2025
These best-selling cozy mystery novels showcase the genre’s finest qualities—books that will keep you delightfully engaged with their charming settings, amateur sleuths, and clever puzzles. Whether you’re a dedicated mystery enthusiast or simply seeking your next heartwarming read, these stories deliver endearing characters, ingenious plots, and satisfying conclusions.
At Inishmore Castle’s grand opening weekend, sisters Mercy and Lizzie McCarthy discover their relaxing whiskey tasting trip has turned deadly when a fake priest is found dead in the library, followed by another guest drowned in the lake.
With secret passages in the walls and suspects ranging from an unconvincing nun to suspicious owners, Mercy and her dog Mr. Poe must solve the mystery before becoming the killer’s next victims.
Bexley Cosgrove, abandoned as a child and saved by a dog, now dedicates her life to animal rescue. When she finds a stray on a ferry to Gooseberry Bay, she brings him to her shelter on Bainbridge Island.
The discovery that the dog’s collar contains a secret worth killing for pulls Bexley into a murder investigation, forcing her to call on friends to solve the mystery and protect her canine charge.
Taking a trip down memory lane can be murder. When dog trainer Eve checks on her former landlord Marissa, she discovers the woman murdered in what should have been Eve’s old home.
As unsettling events unfold, Eve realizes she was likely the intended victim. With the killer now aware of their mistake and hunting her again, can she solve the case before becoming the next target?
When Officer Timothy O’Fallon dies cleaning his gun, PI Rachel Alexander questions why this stranger from her 9/11 survivors group named her executor. Their only interaction: when he returned her pit bull Dashiell with tear-soaked fur after a walk.
As Rachel investigates his lonely Greenwich Village life, contacting siblings he didn’t trust with his affairs, the mystery deepens. Was it accident, suicide, or something more sinister hiding in his secretive past?
Abigail Summers, a dressmaker in life and sleuth in death, investigates a campathon committee member’s murder and discovers another killing planned for the upcoming 10K fun run.
When she encounters the spirit of a boy buried at the Courtridge Hotel twelve years ago, Abigail joins forces with psychic Hayley Moon to determine if the cases connect and whether a man was wrongfully imprisoned.
It’s been a quiet year for the Thursday Murder Club until Elizabeth meets a troubled wedding guest. While Joyce plans tables and first dances, danger quickly follows as kidnap and death enter the picture.
A villain desperate for an uncrackable code will stop at nothing to get it. With lives at stake, can the friends solve both a puzzle and a murder before time runs out?
New York, 1927: New mother Penelope Prescott is drawn back to detective work when Henrietta Pope arrives with an anonymous letter claiming her father’s 1907 death wasn’t a random mugging but a deliberate murder after one of Penelope’s mother’s dinner parties.
With her exceptional memory, Penelope revisits that fateful night, questioning former guests to uncover which high-society figure harbored a deadly secret worth killing for—and finally bring justice twenty years later.
The murder of homeless Old Joe on Darlinghurst Road seemed unexpected until a wealthy Point Piper woman is found with her throat cut, bridging Sydney’s social divide with blood.
Detective Gary Haddock and rookie Sergeant Natalie Campbell must connect these seemingly unrelated killings as they hunt a possible serial killer lurking in Sydney’s iconic streets before more victims fall.
I’m addicted to my stalker. Each night he sneaks through my window, growing bolder as he moves from my living room to my bedroom. I feel his presence everywhere, pretending to sleep when he approaches, yet my body betrays me when he touches me—coming alive despite my fear.
I’ve never seen his face or learned his name, but I can’t bring myself to lock the window or tell him no. He’s sick, obsessed with his mind games and infatuation, but perhaps I’m equally disturbed because, whether I like it or not, I’m addicted to my stalker.