What are Cozies?

Cozies are mystery novels typically set in English country houses, villages, or other benign environments. Cozies feature very little violence, aside for the murder, and few gory details. The term arose from the relatively genteel settings, the common use of amateur sleuths as protagonists, and the fact that all loose ends are tied up and the villain caught and punished by the novel's conclusion. Agatha Christie's Jane Marple novels typify the subgenre. The detectives in cozies typically use brains and not brawn to get to the bottom of a crime. (Hard-boiled detective novels are the opposite of the cozy.) See this link: Writing the Cozy Mystery.
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I'll start off with The Bilbao Looking Glass - Charlotte Macleod
or Mom Meets Her Maker - James Yaffe. ;)

I'll take The Bilbao Looking Glass - Charlotte Macleod

and offer either The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by Agatha Christie or
Death on the Cape & Other Stories by Mary Higgins Clark

Please pm me when you accept!!

I'll take Death on the Cape & offer

Death and Faxes by Leslie O'Kane.

Thanks.

:P

refreshing with

All That Glitters by Elizabeth Powers.

Or the one above.

I will take Death and Faxes.

Murder on Ice by Alina Adams.

Refreshing.

This or previous offer.

Strawberry Shortcake Murder by Joanne Fluke.

I'll take your Strawberry Shortcake Murder, & raise you

Say It with Poison by Ann Granger

Thanks. :P

I'll take your Say it with Poison and offer up:http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4920482

Knit One, Kill Two by Maggie Sefton

That looks too good to let go, Bobbie. I'll take it and offer:

A Little Local Murder by Robert Barnard - no longer AVL.

Refreshing with

A Bicycle Built for Murder by Kate Kingsbury
The Wrong Way Down by Elizabeth Daly
If Death Ever Slept by Rex Stout

:D

And again

Who Killed Mona Lisa? by Carole Buggé.

Dying for Chocolate from Diane Mott Davidson (3900615 )