Sunday, August 3, 2025

Seven cozy mysteries that revolve around weddings

Valerie (V. M.) Burns is a mystery writer whose novels and short stories have been finalists for the Agatha, Anthony, Edgar, and Next Generation Indie Book Awards. She is the author of the Mystery Bookshop, Dog Club, RJ Franklin, and Baker Street Mystery series, as well as the Bailey the Bloodhound Mysteries under the name Kallie E. Benjamin. Burns is a member of Sisters in Crime, Crime Writers of Color, Mystery Writers of America, and the Crime Writers' Association. She is also an adjunct professor in the Writing Popular Fiction Program at Seton Hill University in Greensburg, PA. Born and raised in northwestern Indiana, Burns now lives in the southeastern United States with her two poodles.

Burns's new cozy mystery Icing on the Murder.

At CrimeReads the author tagged seven favorite wedding-themed cozies, including:
Jenn McKinlay, Wedding Cake Crumble (Cupcake Bakery Mystery)

The tenth book in the Cupcake Bakery Mystery series, Wedding Cake Crumble, Melanie Cooper, owner of Fairy Tale Cupcakes, is preparing for a wedding and a book signing. However, when the people hired to work at the wedding begin turning up dead, and the bestselling author is the next to bite the dust.

Mel needs to figure out how the murders are connected and why—before the killer brings the entire cupcake crew crumbling down.
Read about the other entries on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue