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Cozy Mystery Series that Take Place In: MN


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Cozy Librarian Mystery Series

This series started in November 2012 and takes place in Minnesota. It features Karen Nash, a librarian who in the first book in this series is off to London only to find that a dead body shows up at the B&B where she is staying.


Fat Cat Mystery Series

Janet Cantrell (aka Kaye George) writes the Fat Cat Mystery series which started in September 2014 and is set in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It features Quincy, a pudgy and adorable cat who is always hungry on his diet. He gets into a lot of trouble…

Hannah Swensen Series

This series takes place in a small town in Minnesota and started in 2000. Hannah Swenson owns a cookie / bakery shop and solves murders. The books are always themed around a type of dessert.


Hot Dish Heaven Mystery

Jeanne Cooney writes the Hot Dish Heaven Mystery series which started in 2013 and is set in Minnesota. It features Minneapolis cub newspaper reporter Emerald Malloy. Emerald solves murders in her small town of Red River Valley, MN.... just south…

Magical Cats Mystery Series

Sofie Kelly aka Darlene Ryan writes the Magical Cats Mystery Series which is set in Minnesota and started in 2011. It features librarian Kathleen Paulson who has moved to Mayville Heights, Minnesota. Kathleen takes in two stray cats-- Owen a…

Murder by Month Mystery Series

Jess Lourey writes the Murder-by-Month mystery series which started in 2006 and is set in Minnesota. It features Mira James who has been taking it easy since college graduation--too easy. Due to a dead-end job and a cheating boyfriend, the Twin…

Needlecraft Mystery Series

This series is set in Minnesota and started in 1999. It features Betsy Devonshire who moves to Excelsior, MN to live with her sister and work in her needlepoint store. Her sister Margaret is murdered and Betsy finds a hidden talent for…

Pet Boutique Mystery Series

Annie Knox (aka Wendy Lyn Watson - La Mode Mystery Series) writes the Pet Boutique Mystery series which started in January 2014 and is set in Minnesota. It features Izzy McHale, owner of the new Trendy Tails Pet Boutique in Merryville, Minnesota…

Shirley Steele Mystery Series

Kathy Cohen writes the Shirley Steele Mystery Series which started in 2022 and is set in Minnesota.  It features Shirley Steele who moves to Minnesota and settles on a hobby farm near her son and daughter-in-law. She never…