First in a Series! Cozy Mystery New Releases for July 2025
- Dane Luna
- Jul 16
- 2 min read
Updated: Jul 26
An Oregon adventure race, a prohibition-era jazz club, a magical herb shop, and a haunted library. If you're looking to start a new cozy mystery series, the books below all have very unique settings, but they have two things in common: a murder, and that they're the first book in their series!
Meg Reed is reporting on an adventure race in Oregon for an adventure magazine when a contestant plummets to their death. She'll need to use her journalistic skills to uncover the murderer.
When a notorious pimp is murdered in a prohibition-era jazz club in Illinois, it'll take a sleuthing young widow to find the real killer and save the young woman being wrongfully accused of the murder.
Elena Bennett has left her corporate job to renovate The Moonlit Charm, her grandmother's herb shop in the sleepy town of Moon's Landing, and discovers she has a special talent that may or may not have been passed down in her family for generations.
But when a scientist is found murdered, Ellie and her Siamese cat Suki must uncover the truth behind the town and her heritage so she can find the killer.
Emily Plankhurst has inherited her family's research library and is intent on continuing its legacy. But when a renowned history professor who recently borrowed a treasure map from her library goes missing, she'll need the help of the ghost in the library to find the professor before anyone else gets to him and the buried treasure.
Which cozy mystery series will you start reading?
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