Thread: Want recs for mystery with humor, not too gory and ugly, but not a silly cozy either

Try Donna Andrews. They are light and funny, but very well written IMO. It is important to read the first one, Murder with Peacocks first, A Murder Hatched: Murder with Peacocks and Murder with Puffins, the First Two Books in the Meg Langslow Series (Meg Langslow Mysteries) after that it doesn't matter so much. Have you read Elizabeth Peters Amelia Peabody series? The first one Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, Book 1) was kind...

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Try "The War Against Miss Winter" by Kathryn Miller Haines. If you like it there are two more in the series. World War II era in NYC and the theatre.

Blind Malice (Rachel Myers Murder Mysteries) Blue Ridge Parkway Plunge (Rachel Myers Murder Mysteries) Christmas Tree Wars (Rachel Myers Murder Mysteries) The New River Blues (Rachel Myers Murder Mystery Series)

I have several suggestions for humorous, non-cozy mysteries: 1) Lisa Lutz is the author of a series starring protagonist Izzy Spellman, a 28 year old private detective who works in her family's PI business in San Francisco. I think this series is very funny, starting with the very first scene. There are three books in the series now, with a fourth on the way in March 2010. Start with The Spellman Files: A Novel (Izzy Spellman Mysteries)...

You might like Virginia Lanier. Good, solid mysteries, not silly at all. The House on Bloodhound Lane (not sure this is the first. The series is about a lady that raises bloodhounds and also makes them available as trackers. She goes out with her dogs on many an emergency.) I second anything by Elizabeth Peters. Her Vicky bliss series is lighter than the Amelia Peabody, but both are very good. The Spellman File mysteries above are pretty...

Wendy, I have a cozy mystery with a strong sense of the upcoming season and Holiday, with a touch of humor and light romance. No gore and no swearing. My novel, The Haunted Hillerman House , is available on Kindle and in paperback through my website and Amazon.com. It has secret messages. Family secrets. A Halloween night trip to the family crypt. For more information on this title, please visit the website listed below my profile photo....

Have you tried Lee Harris? Very good, and most set around a holiday. For sheer silliness, Tamara Myers.

If you are/were a romance reader, you may enjoy the mysteries of Georgette Heyer, many of which had long been out of print but are now being published by Sourcebooks. Heyer wrote many witty romances during her long career and some of that wit may be found in her mysteries.. . Of course, humor is a question of taste, so if your idea of humor is not witty repartee but rather slapstick laugh-out-loud, you might like Janet Evanovich's...

Wendy, My favorite author is Dick Frances. He has written 45 Books (43 fiction, 2 non-fiction). All but 6 can be read in any order as each has a different hero with different careers although many in his early books were jockeys since the author was the Queen Mum's champion steeplechase jockey before he started to write. His heroes are hardworking, honest, respectful of women and just plain nice guys. While they may get beaten up,...