Best of 2024 — Cozy Mysteries

Happy New Year fellow book lovers and friends! Well here we are in 2025! For me 2024 was a year I was glad to say goodbye to but it was as always a great year of reading and I read almost 100 books last year!

I usually don’t do a best books I read because I read so many great books that it is so hard to narrow it down to just a few books! This year I’ve decided instead of doing a round up the best books I read in 2024 I decided to do more of a awards category like best contemporary mystery etc.

What were some of your favorite reads of 2024:

Best New Mystery — these are mysteries that are new to me

This was a book club pick and Julia Buckley is an author I’ve wanted to read for a while. When this book was picked I was excited to read my first Julia Buckley mystery and I see why so many love this author! I loved this first book!

Goodreads Blurb: An aspiring suspense novelist lands in the middle of a real crime in the first Writer’s Apprentice mystery.

Lena London’s literary dreams are coming true — as long as she can avoid any real-life villains…

Camilla Graham’s bestselling suspense novels inspired Lena London to become a writer, so when she lands a job as Camilla’s new assistant, she can’t believe her luck. Not only will she help her idol craft an enchanting new mystery, she’ll get to live rent-free in Camilla’s gorgeous Victorian home in the quaint town of Blue Lake, Indiana.

But Lena’s fortune soon changes for the worse. First, she lands in the…