Cozy season is in full swing. This fall brought a new We Solve Murders adventure from Richard Osman, a brand-new haunted bookshop series from Cleo Coyle, and fresh entries in long-running favourites, and November and December are packed with holiday-themed mysteries from Donna Andrews, Rhys Bowen, Ellery Adams, Lynn Cahoon and more. Below are notable new cozy mysteries of 2026, newest first, followed by upcoming books you can preorder now: culinary cozies, English village whodunits, witchy and paranormal capers, bookshop mysteries and historical charmers.
Updated November 2026. Release dates are taken from the Kindle listings on Amazon and can still move; books marked "Preorder" aren't out yet.
📚 Out Now: Fall 2026
Released September to early November 2026, newest last:
We Chase Shadows by Richard Osman (We Solve Murders #2), Released September 15, 2026. Amy, Rose and Steve are back on the road after a body turns up at dawn on the steps of an Italian villa, and the chase runs from Italy to Palm Springs by way of Barcelona and Steve's village pub. The globe-trotting follow-up from the creator of The Thursday Murder Club. View on Amazon →
Eat, Drink, and Get Buried by Cleo Coyle (A Coffeehouse Mystery #22), Released September 22, 2026. When the Village Blend caters a glittering rooftop party, a woman is thrown from a balcony to her death, and coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi races to clear a friend's accused boyfriend. Culinary cozy with a menu of recipes. View on Amazon →
The Pumpkin Vice Cafe by Ellie Alexander (A Bakeshop Mystery #23), Released September 29, 2026. Autumn comes to Ashland and a very-pregnant Jules Capshaw gets pulled into another murder when a wedding planner turns up dead. Cozy-season perfection: sweaters, lattes, and a Torte bakery mystery. View on Amazon →
The Ghost and the Dead Librarian by Cleo Coyle (A Haunted Bookshop Detective Mystery #1), Released September 29, 2026. A fresh start for Cleo Coyle's ghost-and-bookshop world: young widow Penelope revives her aunt's Rhode Island bookshop and, with a sharp-tongued 1940s private-eye ghost at her side, digs into the death of an eccentric local librarian. Paranormal bookshop cozy, Book 1. View on Amazon →
Countdown to Christmas Murder by Leslie Meier (A Lucy Stone Mystery #32), Released September 29, 2026. With her kids grown and gone, reporter Lucy Stone is short on holiday spirit until a Dickens-themed Christmas event in Tinker's Cove turns up a suspicious death. Small-town Maine holiday cozy. View on Amazon →
Deck the Halls with Boughs of Murder by Jacqueline Frost (A Christmas Tree Farm Mystery #7), Released October 6, 2026. Holly White and Sheriff Evan Gray are celebrating their baby's first Christmas in their brand-new home at Reindeer Games, until murder crashes the season. Festive Christmas-town cozy. View on Amazon →
A Murder at Midnight by Ellie Alexander (A Novel Detectives Mystery #4), Released October 13, 2026. A ghost-hunting TV host books an overnight shoot at the Secret Bookcase in Redwood Grove, and Annie and Fletcher's haunted-tour fundraiser ends with a real corpse. Bookish autumn cozy from the author of the Bakeshop Mysteries. View on Amazon →
Miss Wolcott's Ghost by Louise Penny (Chief Inspector Gamache #21), Released October 20, 2026. Armand Gamache returns to the Quebec village of Three Pines in the 21st book of the series. More literary and darker than a classic cozy, but a perennial favourite with cozy readers who love a close-knit village. View on Amazon →
Pumpkin Spice Scandal by Tonya Kappes (Killer Coffee Mysteries #21), Released October 25, 2026. Fall festival season packs Honey Springs, Kentucky, and Roxy Bloom's Bean Hive Coffeehouse is in full pumpkin mode when small-town gossip turns into murder. Coffee-shop cozy. View on Amazon →
A Classic Case of Murder by Daryl Wood Gerber (A Literary Dining Mystery #3), Released October 27, 2026. Chef and caterer Allie Catt throws an A Christmas Carol supper in the North Carolina mountains, and a rare-book expert dies before dessert. Culinary cozy with a literary theme. View on Amazon →
The Coffee House Sleuths: Books 1-3 by T. Lockhaven (The Coffee House Sleuths box set), Released November 2, 2026. Former Boston ad man Michael West settles into small-town Lana Cove and a corner table at the Bitter Sweet Café, then digs up a severed finger in his garden. The first three books in one collection, with café owners Ellie and Olivia helping him follow a rare stamp into fraud and murder. Humorous culinary cozy. View on Amazon →
Numb Were the Beadsman's Fingers by Alan Bradley (Flavia de Luce #12), Released November 3, 2026. Precocious chemist-sleuth Flavia de Luce follows a nun's death into the cloisters of Golgotha House and secrets decades old. Witty 1950s English village mystery. View on Amazon →
The Long Witch Goodnight by Amanda M. Lee (Wicked Witches of the Midwest #29), Released November 3, 2026. Bay, Thistle, the Winchester cousins and the irrepressible Aunt Tillie return to Hemlock Cove for another chaotic case. Long-running, laugh-out-loud witch cozy. View on Amazon →
📖 Earlier in 2026
Death of a Groom by M.C. Beaton with R.W. Green (Hamish Macbeth #38), Released February 10, 2026. Scotland's most unambitious policeman is back: when a lavish Valentine's Day wedding at Tommel Castle Hotel ends in murder, and two women from Hamish's past turn up as guests, the sleepy Highland village of Lochdubh has a killer to catch. Classic British village cozy. View on Amazon →
The Whisking Hour by Ellie Alexander (A Bakeshop Mystery #22), Released February 24, 2026. Pastry chef Juliet "Jules" Capshaw's night at the theater in Ashland, Oregon takes a dark turn when a production of a murder-mystery play produces a very real body. Culinary cozy with recipes and Shakespearean flair. View on Amazon →
Death at a Firefly Tea by Laura Childs (A Tea Shop Mystery #30), Released March 10, 2026. As fireflies glow over a Charleston garden tea, one of the city's grande dames is poisoned by tainted baked Alaska, and tea maven Theodosia Browning launches a shadow investigation. A long-running Southern culinary cozy favorite. View on Amazon →
Marsh Mystics by Jana DeLeon (A Miss Fortune Mystery #30), Released April 19, 2026. When a yoga-retreat owner turns up dead in the Louisiana bayou, ex-CIA agent Fortune Redding and the ladies of Swamp Team 3 have to investigate on the sly to protect the sheriff's job. Laugh-out-loud small-town cozy, 30 books strong. View on Amazon →
The Diva Hosts a Murderer by Krista Davis (A Domestic Diva Mystery #19), Released May 26, 2026. Entertaining maven Sophie Winston is back in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, where a gathering goes wrong and Sophie must cut to the core of another murder. Lifestyle-and-food cozy with a domestic flair. View on Amazon →
Probable Caws by Donna Andrews (A Meg Langslow Mystery #39), Released August 4, 2026. Blacksmith Meg Langslow untangles another murder amid the eccentric residents of Caerphilly, Virginia, in the latest from the multiple-award-winning "funniest mystery" author. Small-town amateur-sleuth comedy. View on Amazon →
🔜 Coming Soon (Preorder Now)
November 2026
Jay to the World by Donna Andrews (A Meg Langslow Mystery #40), Preorder: releases November 10, 2026. The 40th Meg Langslow mystery brings the holiday season to Caerphilly, Virginia, and, naturally, another murder for Meg to solve amid the festivities. Christmas-cozy comedy. View on Amazon →
Dead Before Tea Time by M.C. Beaton with R.W. Green (An Agatha Raisin Mystery #37), Preorder: releases November 10, 2026. The Cotswolds' most abrasive amateur sleuth, ex-PR maven Agatha Raisin, takes on a fresh case in the latest entry in the TV-adapted series. Quintessential English village cozy. View on Amazon →
Rituals and Rolling Pins by Bailey Cates (A Magical Bakery Mystery #11), Preorder: releases November 10, 2026. Savannah hedgewitch-baker Katie Lightfoot rallies her spellbook-club coven when a paranormal true-crime podcaster is killed in what looks like a magical ritual. Witchy culinary cozy. View on Amazon →
Witches of Questionable Intent by Jenn McKinlay (Books of Dubious Origin #2), Preorder: releases November 10, 2026. Librarian-witch Zoe Ziakas and the BODO team hunt a stolen, dangerous magical tome through midnight markets and demon-infested streets. Bookish paranormal cozy with a dash of romance. View on Amazon →
To Crown It All by Rhys Bowen (A Royal Spyness Mystery #20), Preorder: releases November 17, 2026. The landmark 20th Royal Spyness book: it's 1936, King George VI's coronation looms, and minor royal Lady Georgiana "Georgie" Rannoch gets a cryptic plea for help from her mother. Witty 1930s historical cozy. View on Amazon →
Mermaids & Memoirs by Elle Adams (A Library Witch Mystery #17), Preorder: releases November 17, 2026. Rory Hawthorn's new year in Ivory Beach gets complicated when a famous magical author arrives for a library signing, just as Rory is untangling her grandmother's secret past. Bookish witch cozy. View on Amazon →
The Liars' Book Club by Ellery Adams (A Secret, Book, and Scone Society Novel #9), Preorder: releases November 24, 2026. An absent groom, a stolen historical document, and a book club coming apart at the seams: bookseller-bibliotherapist Nora Pennington faces a stormy new mystery in Miracle Springs, North Carolina. Bookshop cozy. View on Amazon →
New Year, New Murder by Lynn Cahoon (A Tourist Trap Mystery #19), Preorder: releases November 24, 2026. Instead of a getaway to Mexico, Jill Gardner King stays home in South Cove, California, where a restaurant rivalry turns deadly before the New Year. Bookstore-and-coffee cozy. View on Amazon →
The First Ladies' Guide to Murder by Amanda Flower (The First Ladies' Murder Club #1), Preorder: releases November 24, 2026. Washington, 1894: First Lady Frances Cleveland and former First Lady Julia Dent Grant join forces to look into the suspicious death of a young maid. A new Gilded Age historical series, Book 1. View on Amazon →
December 2026
Murder Under the Mistletoe by C.J. Archer (Cleopatra Fox Mysteries #13), Preorder: releases December 1, 2026. A gambling-house keeper dies after a kiss beneath the mistletoe, and Cleo and Harry take on the case of the woman accused. Edwardian London hotel mystery for the holidays. View on Amazon →
Murder, She Wrote: A Killing in Real Estate by Jessica Fletcher and Terrie Farley Moran (Murder, She Wrote #62), Preorder: releases December 8, 2026. A developer's plan for a luxury hotel and a heated mayoral race split Cabot Cove down the middle, and Jessica Fletcher is soon looking at murder. Classic small-town Maine cozy. View on Amazon →
Top Dog Murder by Leslie Meier (A Carole and Poopsie Mystery #2), Preorder: releases December 15, 2026. Newly wealthy Rhode Island empty-nester Carole Capobianco and her Brittany spaniel, Poopsie, sniff out another mystery. The second book in the Lucy Stone author's newer series. View on Amazon →
The Ghost and Déjà Vu by Bobbi Holmes (Haunting Danielle #39), Preorder: releases December 30, 2026. Hiring a new housekeeper for Marlow House means family secrets are at risk, and not only the Marlows'. Paranormal cozy set in the seaside town of Frederickport. View on Amazon →
Early 2027
Strawberry Scam by Amanda Flower (An Amish Candy Shop Mystery #11), Preorder: releases January 26, 2027. Bailey King's TV network films a special in Harvest, Ohio, during strawberry season, and the town's sweetest time of year turns deadly. Amish-country culinary cozy. View on Amazon →
More to Explore
We add new cozy releases here as they're announced. In the meantime, explore our guides to the best cozy mystery series, cozy mystery authors A–Z and paranormal cozies, or browse all new releases in our catalog.