A pun is a play on words that's usually made for comic effect. These pun-titled clever mystery cozies are all that and more.
Flashlight Worthy says:
Leah, who's a regular contributor here at FLW, is always expanding our horizons. For those who don't know, a "cozy" is a mystery novel which includes a bloodless crime and contains very little violence, sex, or coarse language. By the end of the story, the criminal is punished and order is restored to the community.
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onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Alpine for You: A Passport to Peril Mystery
by Maddy Hunter
This cozy is not only a nice mystery, but it’s also very funny.
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272 pages,
used, starting at $0.01
|41 reviews
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onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Arson and Old Lace: A Far Wychwood Mystery
by Patricia Harwin
Expat Catherine has found not only a home in Far Wychwood, an idyllic English village, but also murder. If you are a British cozy lover, you will enjoy this one.
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304 pages
|$6.99
|27 reviews
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onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Candy Apple Dead
by Sammi Carter
Abby Shaw runs a candy shop called Divinity. All turns sour when another merchant ends up dying in a fire and the cause is arson. And with Abby’s brother is the chief suspect.
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232 pages
|$6.99
|16 reviews
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onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">High Rhymes and Misdemeanors: A Poetic Death Mystery
by Diana Killian
Literary scholar Grace Hollister visits the English Lake District and stumbles upon murder. This is a bit different than the usual cozy. There’s a bit more adventure and suspense.
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352 pages,
used, starting at $0.06
|19 reviews
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onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">The Merchant of Menace
by Jill Churchill
This yuletide cozy is a hoot and Jane is busy as ever trying to host two holiday parties and dealing with a houseful of Christmas company. And if all that is not enough someone goes and gets murdered.
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256 pages
|$6.99
|13 reviews
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onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Scent to Her Grave
by India Ink
Persia Rose Vanderbilt returns to her Washington state home to help out in her aunt’s bath and body shop, Venus Envy. The suds really hit the proverbial fan when not one, but two murders occur and Persia has to try and not get herself into a lather and figure out who did it.
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272 page paperback
|$6.99
|16 reviews
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onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Slay Bells
by Kate Kingsbury
This charming British series takes place in 1914. I must say this is one of the coziest of the many Christmas cozies that have been published. So get ye some figgy pudding, a Christmas cracker and enjoy.
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304 page paperback
|$10.40
|4 reviews
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onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Sticks & Scones
by Diane Mott Davidson
There are quite a few culinary mystery series, but the exploits of caterer sleuth Goldy Bear Schulz are by far my favorites.
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368 pages
|$7.99
|49 reviews
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onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Too Many Crooks Spoil the Broth
by Tamar Myers
Meet Magdalena Yoder, a frank-talking, frugal Mennonite innkeeper.
This debut title finds Magdalena running herd on a bunch of unruly hunters and animal rights activists. Things are already amiss when murder comes calling.
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255 pages
|$6.99
|21 reviews
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onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Vi Agra Falls: A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery
by Mary Daheim
Come on -- you knew someone was going to make a Viagra Falls joke. This is number 24 in this madcap, fun series.
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336 page hardcover
|$16.86
|3 reviews
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onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Thursday Next: First Among Sequels
by Jasper Fforde
A very well-received book despite its screwball plot.
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384 page hardcover
|$16.47
|57 reviews
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