9 Spring Cozy Mysteries To Brighten Up Your Shelves

Easter is a busy time of year for a chocolate shop, so Lee and her Aunt Nettie hire Bunny Birdsong to help make their famous chocolate bunnies.

At first it seems like she isn’t a good hire. After all, she’s a clutz who drops everything she touches.

But when she turns out to be a computer genius, Lee and her Aunt decide to keep her. Until her family visits, and Bunny’s Aunt ends up dead.

With Easter fast approaching, Lee has to hunt down a killer before more trouble lands on their doorstep.

Springtime at Dewberry Farm should mean that homesteader Lucy Resnick is busy getting ready for Easter Market. But when a tornado tears through the small town, Lucy’s plans change.

As she’s looking for two missing kids, she stumbles on a far more gruesome discovery. Her neighbor’s home health aide was strangled.

And when another neighbor is found drowned in a vat of dye, it’s obvious someone is targeting the town’s vulnerable citizens.

Can Lucy find the killer before they strike again? Or has dyeing season just begun?

Excited to escape the chilly spring, Lucy Stone heads to Moreton Manor for the “Heads Up” hat exhibition

 Even though Perry and Poppy, the earl and his sister, are very accommodating, things at the Manor are uneasy. And when the son of snobby Aunt Millicent’s handmaiden is found dead in a hidden, sealed off room, Lucy suspects it was an inside job.

As questions stack up, Lucy knows one thing for sure. There’s a killer in the Manor, and they may not be done.

Mother’s Day is always busy at Bailey King’s candy shop. She runs it with her Amish grandmother, and this year is extra sweet because her parents are visiting.

Bailey’s father rarely visits since he left the faith 30 years ago, and Bailey wants to make sure everything goes right.

But when a thief steals the money raised for a local women’s support group and her mother starts conspiring with Deputy Aiden Brody’s mother to plan their wedding despite not even being engaged, Bailey is suddenly in over her head.

Can she find the thief and stop her own wedding before the entire visit devolves into disaster?

Librarian Kathleen Paulson is looking forward to Spring. Her brother Evan is coming to Mayville Heights to visit, along with his band, The Flaming Gerbils.

But when one of his bandmates gets in a fight with a local businessman who later turns up dead, Evan’s friend is the main suspect. There are no shortage of suspects, making this one of the most difficult cases Kathleen has faced.

Good thing she has her trusted feline sidekicks by her side to help.

May brings many things to the Oceanview, most notably spring blossoms and the annual UFO festival.

Leaving her Aunt Eloise to try on alien costumes, Wren heads to the local honey vendor. But when she arrives, she finds the hive owner dead and the hives destroyed.

Even though the bees are angry, they didn’t kill him. It was a blow to the head.

As conspiracy theorists descend on the town, Wren and Aunt Eloise decide to find the killer the same way the bees would: by setting up a sting.

Spring brings more than warmer weather to North Harbor, Maine. It also brings Sarah Grayson the opportunity to discover new finds for her Second Chance shop.

She has her eye on the estate of Edison Hall, a collector with excellent taste. But when her rescue cat finds the body of the appraiser in the kitchen, all bets are off.

As Edison’s sister gets involved and drags Sarah’s friends with her, Sarah knows she has no choice but to find the killer before things get wildly out of hand.

Springtime is perfect in Fort Connor, Colorado. Until a veteran con artist shows up and gets the entire town up in arms.

Years ago, he operated a Ponzi scheme, and even though he went to jail, his victims never got their money back. But when he’s found dead, one of his previous victims becomes the main suspect.

Kelly Flynn knows Barbara didn’t do it. With the rest of her knitting circle friends, Kelly sets out to untangle the threads of this crime before Barbara is victimized once again.

The dive shop is busy in Aloha Lagoon, Hawaii, especially considering they’re sponsoring the first Spring Fling Dance at the resort.

Kiki Hepburn is in charge of the décor. In between hanging decorations, she overhears an argument between two men.

Later that night, Kiki and her boyfriend find one of the men dead with her old foe Ruby standing over him with the murder weapon.

Ruby convinces Kiki she’s innocent. With her boyfriend undercover and everyone on high alert, Kiki is soon on the trail of a killer.

But can she catch him before he strikes again?