Felonious Category: Traditional

Classy cozies with little gunplay or gore, but often a fair amount of humor and – always – an intrepid amateur sleuth.


Landscape of Lies


Landscape of Lies

By Peter Watson

Book Title • Peter Watson • Traditional

Isobel Sadler is dead broke, and all she’s got left is a bad painting that’s been in her family for ...

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Elephants in the Distance


Elephants in the Distance

By Daniel Stashower

Book Title • Daniel Stashower • Traditional

Paul Galliard is a magician by training and heredity: his father died performing the Bullet Catch, an infamous trick that ...

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Heading Uptown


Heading Uptown

By Marissa Piesman

Book Title • Marissa Piesman • Nina Fischman • Traditional

The Third Book in the Nina Fischman Series For Nina Fischman and her mother, Ida, Queens is a foreign ...

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Personal Effects


Personal Effects

By Marissa Piesman

Book Title • Marissa Piesman • Nina Fischman • Traditional

The Second Book in the Nina Fischman Series Nina Fischman has dated plenty of life's losers, but she has ...

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Unorthodox Practices


Unorthodox Practices

By Marissa Piesman

Book Title • Marissa Piesman • Nina Fischman • Traditional

The First Book in the Nina Fischman Series Think real-estate is a current craze? Welcome to New York in the ...

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The Transcendental Murder


The Transcendental Murder

By Jane Langton

Book Title • Jane Langton • Traditional

First in the Homer Kelly series set in Concord, Massachusetts Scholarly infighting can get a lot more violent than most outsiders ...

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The Weird World of Wes Beattie

By John Norman Harris

Book Title • John Norman Harris • Traditional

The youngest sprig of a stuffy Toronto family, Wes Beattie ...

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Such Pretty Toys


Such Pretty Toys

By S.F.X. Dean

Book Title • Neil Kelly • S.F.X. Dean • Traditional

The Second Book in the Professor Neil Kelly Series Having solved the murder of his vibrant young fiancée (see ...

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By Frequent Anguish


By Frequent Anguish

By S.F.X. Dean

Book Title • Neil Kelly • S.F.X. Dean • Traditional

The First Book in the Professor Neil Kelly Series Professor Neil Kelly is passionate about language, about his scholarly ...

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Double Negative


Double Negative

By David Carkeet

Book Title • David Carkeet • Traditional

A wry, funny, Edgar-nominee (and cult favorite) about, of all things, linguistics; one of the “100 Best Mysteries of the ...

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