I shortly considered talking about Epic Fantasy’s love for the words Sword, King, Throne, Queen and so on but then I realized there is a genre I enjoy and that has a tendency for a certain something in the title. And by that, I mean Cozy Mysteries and groanworthy puns.
So please enjoy this collection of titles I found in less than 20 minutes on cozy-mystery.com and appreciate that it doesn’t consist solely of needlework-themed mysteries with dye/die-puns which would have been entirely possible because that’s a very popular pun.
Dropped Dead Stitch
In Cave Danger
A Pour Way to Dye
Dearly Depotted
Bearly Departed
Thyme of Death
Innocent Until Proven Quilty
Thread and Burried
Knot What it Seams
Mission Impawsible
A play on words is such a common part of cozies, I think. It seems to take a bit of the edge off murder, maybe?
I guess so. After all the murders in cozies tend to be quite light-hearted anyway
LOVE IT! I love every cringeworthy pun of cozies because they never fail to make me smile!
Exactly. I always have to stop myself from getting those books just for the title
I love your take on this week’s topic! These are so fun. Yes, they are corny, but they make me smile. Here is our Top Ten Tuesday
Thank you. I just love cozy-titles in all their groanworthyness
This is like an unexpected gift! I don’t read a lot of cozy mysteries but now I think I need to start, JUST for these wonderful puns. This made my day.
Hehe. I’m really happy that you enjoyed this so much 😀
And I am currently reading I Know What You Bid Last Summer by Sherry Harris, and there are so many great cozies-I loved this!!
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Thank you!
I love this list! I secretly (not so secretly, I guess) LOVE cozy mysteries and the puns and word play is so hilarious to me because some are cute and some are soooooo bad. Fun list!
Thank you! (I really want to read some of those for the puns, now)
Ha ha. I love cozy mystery titles. They’re always so punny — some of them are more clever than others, but still, they make me smile. Which cozy mystery series is your favorite? I’ve recently discovered Ellie Alexander and I’m really enjoying hers.
Happy TTT!
Susan
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My absolute favourite does not have *any* puns: Carola Dunn’s Lady Daisy mysteries. But I’m also quite fond of Paige Shelton’s cooking/ghost series