If you love Cozy Mystery Books With Puzzles, you’re in luck. Murder mystery puzzle books have become extremely popular and range from epistolary novels to murder mystery games on a page to mystery books incorporating puzzles. Here are my favorites!
Cozy Mystery Books With Puzzles
The Killer Question by Janice Hallett
Why you’ll love it:
- A pub quiz premise
- An epistolary format that includes group texts and police reports
- An elaborate and twisty mystery that will keep you guessing!
Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent
Why you’ll love it:
- Set in Oxford
- Follows a group of dictionary employees
- Mysterious clues
- A decades old mystery
The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman
Why you will love it:
- Book five in the Thursday Murder Club series
- A (possibly) missing fortune
- Includes clues that you can follow and solve!
Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests by KJ Whittle
Why you will love it:
- A group of people are invited to a dinner party … every year
- Every year, one of them will die
- Who is inviting them, and why?
You Are the Detective by Maureen Johnson and Jay Cooper
Why you will love it:
- A historical murder mystery
- You are given witness statements and clues to read and ponder
- Who is the killer?
The Puzzle Box by Danielle Trussoni
Why you’ll love it:
- Intriguing main character with a brain injury that makes him a puzzle genius
- Set in Japan
- Incorporates Japanese history
The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett
Why you will love it:
- A deviously complex epistolary novel
- Multiple narrative strands that come together
- A character based on a fictionalized Enid Blyton
The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angelsby Janice Hallett
Why you will love it:
- Two rival journalists trying to chase the same story
- An intriguing cult murder
- Complex and really surprising
Top Rated Puzzle Mysteries that I Have Not Yet Read:
If you’ve tried any of these, give you thoughts in comments!
Picking Up The Pieces by JB Abbott
A group of puzzle enthusiasts team up to solve a murder.
Welcome to Murder Week by Karen Dukes
A woman finds her late mother’s ticket to a mystery murder week and decides to go.
That Missing Piece is Killing Me (Alice Pepper 2) by Roz Noonan
Librarian Alice Pepper and her group of puzzle fanatics solve murders.
Merry Murdle by G. T. Karber
Detective Logico has been called to the North Pole to solve the kidnapping of Santa Claus. Can he solve 25 murders and save Christmas?