Bookish cozy mysteries featuring writers
- Dane Luna
- Aug 27
- 2 min read
Updated: Aug 30
Authors as amateur sleuths or as unfortunate murder victims—in these cozy crime books, these authors aren't just writing the mysteries, they feature in them!
Writer Anthony Horowitz and disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne's first case is a woman who goes to a funeral parlor to plan her own service and is found dead six hours later. It's clear she planned her funeral, but did she also plan her murder?
This series is particularly unique because its author, Anthony Horowitz, writes himself into the book as an amateur sleuth.
This Agatha Award-winning novel is set in the English manor home of a millionaire mystery writer who is found dead on his writing desk.
Mystery author Berit Gardner attends a writers' conference in the idyllic French countryside when a notorious literary critic drops dead at the end of her lecture.
Gemma lives a cozy and quiet life while running the Bookworm, a bookshop in a quaint town in Derbyshire. But when she discovers the local author dead after a book signing event, her quiet life is upended as she searches for the murderer.
Our Featured Drink: Agatha Christie's Devonshire Cream
Writers and coffee go together like murder and a mystery, but apparently not when it comes to Agatha Christie. Her drink of choice wasn't coffee, but was in fact, Devonshire cream! A little surprising, as Devonshire cream is more like butter than it is liquid, but who are we to question the queen of mystery's drink choices? I myself love a healthy dollop of clotted cream, so I really can't blame her for having a cup of the stuff next to her typewriter while she worked.
And while it would be relatively easy now to purchase a jar of clotted cream, you can also make it yourself with this recipe from Paper and Salt.
Which real-life mystery writers would you like featured in a cozy mystery series?
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