My hot take: cozy mysteries are even better when they’re queer. Quozy mysteries, as they’ve been dubbed, feature queer characters solving crimes. Because the mysteries are cozy, the crimes are typically rather bloodless and done off the page. And the settings of the books are more evocative than gritty. More apothecaries and bed and breakfasts, fewer dark alleys. If these are the kinds of mysteries you seek, you’re in luck. Quozy mystery is a growing subgenre.
You can have historical quozy, paranormal quozy, even science fiction and fantasy quozy. There is no corner of literature to which authors won’t add a queer cozy mystery. For that, we should applaud them. Several of the books are also parts of series. I love to rely on an author who can bring me back to a familiar setting and give my favorite amateur detective a new villain to unmask.
Most of these also involve some amount of romance as a plot alongside the mystery. I’m hoping some of these new series contain tantalizingly slow romances that play out over the course of the series. I live for that payoff. So let’s hop aboard the quozy express and see where these books take us.<...
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