Thursday, December 16, 2021

Top 10 cozy crime novels

SJ Bennett holds a Ph. D. in Italian Literature from the University of Cambridge and was a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company before turning to writing. She has published ten books for teenagers, winning the Times/Chicken House Competition for Threads and the Romantic Novel of the Year award for Love Song. She lives in London.

Bennett's new novel, All the Queen's Men, is the second volume in the Her Majesty the Queen Investigates series.

At the Guardian Bennett tagged her top ten cosy crime novels, including:
Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett

Garrett made waves in the US as a standout voice when her Detective by Day series was first published in 2017, scooping several awards. Garrett takes the cosy to Los Angeles, featuring semi-famous, mega-broke Black actress-turned-PI, Dayna Anderson. Her prose is fresh and funny and the settings are everything a film lover would hope for.
Read about the other entries on the list.

Hollywood Homicide is among Elle Marr's five top diverse crime novels.

--Marshal Zeringue