#cozy mystery

[brandyschillace]

FOUNTAIN PENS!

Found a jewelry box at antique store… perfect for my pens and inks. Not all of which are pictured. Obviously.

[feli-artblog]

Etsy

[beautyandlifestyleblog86]

Cozy and warm 🍁🍂🍁🍁✨

[unstablebill]

For Pride as a Special Treat™ I'm buying a BLAZE of my queer murder mystery novel! 🤩 PLEASE LOOK UPON IT!

I love cozy mysteries but there is a distinct lack of them in queer/furry spaces, so I wrote one 😌 You can find it on lovely indy press Furplanet at the link below! 4 illustrations and covers by @jayfitzmaurice

A Summer Vacation to Die For

Dr. Ino Reamer has a lot of plans for his summer vacation — relaxing, working out, trying to conquer the crushing ennui of his 30s. Solving a murder was not part of these plans. But when a colleague's grim demise very nearly ends Ino's tenure, the hyena can't help but apply the scientific method to his search for the truth. When a few suspicious characters take note of Ino's investigation, the case takes on a new urgency, and now Ino must crack the case before Finals Week becomes his final week! 😱

386 pages, rated R (murder off screen)

https://furplanet.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=1202

(you CAN get it on Amazon but please support my independent publisher!!)

"Enthralling murder mystery? Check. Loveable furry characters? Check. Adorable/cheesy romance? Double-check. If you share any of these interests, I highly recommend picking up this book, you won't regret it!" - review

This is part 1 of a planned 4 part series so please watch me for updates on my upcoming books. I am a small author so I appreciate the support - please follow and reblog and like and share and subscribe and whatever else we do these days!

Thank you for reading! 😁

[fliegenengel]

a shelter needs no roof

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

So I found this critique that I won't name or link that described the cozy mystery as a mystery without stakes. Basically, because there's a relaxing atmosphere, more focus on puzzle solving than suspense, and an amateur detective, cozy mysteries are meaningless fluff for those that are too softhearted or dumb to handle "real" mysteries. In the cozy mystery, nothing really bad happens.

Sir, the premise of a cozy mystery is that there's a dead body. There might be other crimes involved in how that body got dead, but the list of cozy mysteries that don't revolve around murder is short. The recipes and the small town and the funny pets and circle of helpful and quirky friends do not cancel out the dead body, they provide a contrast to it. A dead body in the alley of a film noir is part of the scenery. A dead body in someone's cat cafe is a community-shattering disruption.

The fantasy is not that nothing really bad happens. The fantasy is that when something bad happens, you can make sure it doesn't happen again.

[thelailasblog]

[mruverthewriter]

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

Poirot Aesthetics: The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb (S5Ep1)

"'You may think me a foolish, credulous woman, Monsieur Poirot, but I am afraid. Supposing that the spirit of the dead King is not appeased? Perhaps to you I seem to be talking nonsense--'

'No, indeed, Lady Willard,' said Poirot quickly. 'I, too, believe in the force of superstition, one of the greatest forces the world has ever known.'"

[brandyschillace]

Librarians Unite for Representation

Public Library Association slogan this year ‘Free People Read Freely.’ Together we unite against book bans and promote representation.

[qbdatabase]

I really loved Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree and Can't Spell Treason without Tea by Rebecca Thorne recently and I'm wondering there's any similar books but with male leads?

Tavern by Deston J. Munden has an asexual male MC who's also an orc working hard to open up his own tavern / restaurant with a found family in a d&d-esque setting

The Glamour Thieves by Don Allman is more urban fantasy, and the shop is robotics / cars, not food, but the male MC is a gay orc

Cursed Cocktails by S. L. Rowland moves away from the orc theme but keeps the cozy fantasy and food / beverage theme with an older gay male MC who retired from adventuring life

Of Knights and Books and Falling in Love by Rita A. Rubin has neither orcs nor food, but it does have books, and it's a very cute cozy fantasy (that does deal with some heavy themes) with an MM couple and a gorgeous cover! (not supposed to judge, but c'mon. look'it that cover)

The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard is like a combination of courtly intrigue and cozy fantasy between an asexual male court advisor and his king(god), with a beautiful queer platonic relationship that develops between them over a vacation. it's also over 900 pages long

I hope at least one of those has what you're looking for! Thanks for the ask <3

full notes on representation and publishing info at qbdatabase.com

[beautyandlifestyleblog86]

Home 🏠 ✨✨🤍🤍

[susanontherocks]

OMG I just figured it out.

On Death in Paradise, the reason the detectives always catch their man is because of Harry! Hear me out.

Harry is a faerie creature

He’s unusually intelligent.

He’s not afraid of humans.

He still looks exactly the same after more than 13 years (he was already an adult when we first encountered him in series 1) google says geckos generally live 10-15yrs in the wild.

He is of a species that does not seem to exist in the Caribbean (at least not on Guadalupe, the island the show is filmed on) if at all.

He appears to be slightly unreal or uncanny (yes I know he’s CGI this post is meant to be funny)

The detectives (mostly) feed him for no reason other than kindness. They don’t expect favours in return, like people sometimes do when leaving food for the fae. They care for his health and well being, and consider him a friend.

This is also why Neville was framed for murder. He was cruel to Harry and trapped him and tried to evict him from his own home (it’s Harry’s shack IMO and the detectives are all lodgers). He later reconsiders and brings Harry home, which is why he’s still able to catch the murderers, but he was still punished for his actions.

[fliegenengel]