Funny Cozy Mystery Series....

[Little Star]

The Stephanie Plum Series by Janet Evanovich is hard to beat for me. Especially the first 10 or so books in the series.

I'm going on vacation for a month and would like to find a very light, funny series to read. Any that made you chuckle often?

I have enough of the more serious reads to bring with me. I'll be sitting near the sliding glass doors looking out over the great Atlantic Ocean and reading most of the time.

What say you guys, any recommendations?

[bravenak]

1. Victoria Thompson

Murder on Astor Place. http://www.amazon.com/Victoria-Thompsons-Gaslight-Order/lm/3M0TBOKK1NS5C

Great series, she's a midwife who is always getting into mysteries to solve. It's turn of the century and it takes you to a different part of New York City in each novel.

Rhys Bowen- i have read the Molly Murphy series and it's the cat's meow! It has an Irish immigrant named Molly who has come to America for a better life. She decides to take a job as a Private Investigator and befriends a pair of Feminists who live and love together. This is a really funny series.

She also has a series called the Royal Spyness series. It involves a young Lady who is in line to the British throne, but so far back that she'll never be Queen. She's also a bit poor and has to find ways to get enough money for marmalade. Very enjoyable and a fast read.
http://www.amazon.com/Rhys-Bowen/e/B000APMASK

[Little Star]

2. Thank you bravenak....

I'll look into those.

[bravenak]

3. You're welcome.

They are awesome books. Enjoy!

[getting old in mke]

5. Lisa Lutz

_The Spellman Files_ + following. Five, I think. Very, very, funny, and unlike Ms. Plum, the characters change a grow.

Did I mention funny?

[Little Star]

8. OK, I'm sold! Just googled. Thanks.

[scarletwoman]

4. Oh yes, I have a couple recommendations!

Caroline Graham, a British author, has a wonderful series:

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/caroline-graham/

Chief Inspector Barnaby
1. The Killings at Badger's Drift (1987)
2. Death of a Hollow Man (1989)
3. Death in Disguise (1992)
4. Written in Blood (1994)
5. Faithful Unto Death (1996)
6. A Place of Safety (1999)
7. A Ghost in the Machine (2004)

Louise Penny, a Canadian author, also has a simply terrific series:

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/p/louise-penny/

Chief Inspector Gamache
1. Still Life (2005)
2. Dead Cold (2006)
aka A Fatal Grace
3. The Cruellest Month (2007)
aka The Cruelest Month
4. The Murder Stone (2008)
aka A Rule Against Murder
5. The Brutal Telling (2009)
6. Bury Your Dead (2010)
6.5. The Hangman (2011)
7. A Trick of the Light (2011)
8. The Beautiful Mystery (2012)
9. How the Light Gets In (2013)
10. The Long Way Home (2014)

Both series by both authors are extremely engaging and beautifully written. They maybe aren't as big on humor as what you have in mind, but they are certainly big on HUMANITY. I highly recommend them - both series will bring a smile and feeling of warmth. I think they would all be wonderful books for sitting tucked up in a blanket, overlooking the ocean in November.

[Nay]

9. I second the recommendation of Louise Penny's series. I loved it. nt

[Staph]

6. Elizabeth Peters' series featuring Amelia Peabody

Amelia is a decidedly independent Victorian lady, who inherits Papa's money and becomes enamored of all things Egyptian. She and her archeologist husband are constantly in the middle of mysteries.

"Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body..."
- Abdullah, p. 151, Lion in the Valley

The books:

Crocodile on the Sandbank
Curse of the Pharaohs
The Mummy Case
Lion in the Valley
Deeds of the Disturber
The Last Camel Died at Noon
The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog
The Hippopotamus Pool
Seeing a Large Cat
The Ape Who Guards the Balance
The Falcon at the Portal
He Shall Thunder in the Sky
Lord of the Silent
The Golden One
Children of the Storm
Guardian of the Horizon
Serpent on the Crown
Tomb of the Golden Bird
A River in the Sky

[scarletwoman]

10. Oh, excellent choice! That's a fabulously fun series!

I'm so glad you brought it up!

I went through my personal Elizabeth Peters/Amelia Peabody craze some years ago, and read the entire series up to The Serpent on the Crown, when it came out in 2005. At that point I was moving away from the Cozy genre into other sorts of reading, so I haven't read any of her titles that came after the 2005 book.

Even so, I remember the series with great fondness - it's a wonderful recommendation!

[Ineeda]

7. Alan Bradley

writes the Flavia De Luce Mystery Series -- highly recommended. Here's a great link for Cozy lovers: http://www.cozy-mystery.com/

[shenmue]

11. Rhys Bowen

[SheilaT]

12. The Dortmunder books

by Donald Westlake. They are a hoot. John Dortmunder is a career criminal, and none of his schemes every quite work out the way he intends and along the way no one actually gets hurt.