Cozies Set Around Halloween (Part 2)

I love reading books that have the cozy autumn vibes. Falling leaves, baking, warm drinks, and cool, crisp air. For me, it also pulls me into all things Halloween. I love my paranormal cozies, but sometimes I just want books that take place around that holiday, without a big emphasis on the paranomal.

If you’re looking for some non-paranormal cozy mysteries to read over the Halloween season, here are some more that I enjoyed, along with a snippet of the blurb from each book (from Goodreads).

Maybe you will, too!

A Streetcar Named Murder by T.G. Herren (A New Orleans Mystery #1)
Blackmail in the Big Easy turns to cold-blooded murder in this debut cozy mystery perfect for fans of Jane K. Cleland.

When the mysterious letter arrives by courier, Valerie Cooper doesn’t know what to make of it. She’s become the beneficiary of her late husband’s estranged uncle’s will—a man she never knew—and inherited a majority partnership in the family’s company, New Orleans Fine Antiques. Valerie knows nothing about antiques, but she decides to learn the business and become an active partner. She’s also got her hands full fending off Collette, a woman who wants to sell the huge old house in the Irish Channel neighborhood Valerie and her husband painstakingly renovated.

The Big Chili by Julie Buckley (Undercover Dish Mystery #1)
Lilah Drake’s Covered Dish business discreetly provides the residents of Pine Haven, Illinois, with delicious, fresh-cooked meals they can claim they cooked themselves. But when one of her clandestine concoctions is used to poison a local woman, Lilah finds herself in a pot-load of trouble. After dreaming for years of owning her own catering company, Lilah has made a start into the food world through her Covered Dish business, covertly cooking for her neighbors who don’t have the time or skill to do so themselves, and allowing them to claim her culinary creations as their own. While her clientele is strong, their continued happiness depends on no one finding out who’s really behind the apron.

Witches’ Bane by Susan Wittig Albert (China Bayles, #2)
Herb shop owner China Bayles is shocked when Halloween hijinks take a gruesome turn. In a small Texas town, what starts as a little festive Halloween fun ends in a brutal murder. And lawyer-turned-herbalist China Bayles is even more shocked when her friend Ruby, a New Age expert in tarot and astrology, becomes the prime suspect after a minister accuses her of witchcraft.

Trick or Treat Murder by Leslie Meier (Lucy Stone #3)
Haunted-house parties and ghostly galas…grinning pumpkins, mayhem and murder. It’s going to be one heck of a Halloween for Lucy Stone and Tinker’s Cove. It’s October in Maine, and everyone in Tinker’s Cove is preparing for the annual Halloween festival. While Lucy Stone is whipping up orange-frosted cupcakes, recycling tutus for her daughters’ Halloween costumes, helping her son with his pre-teen rebellion, and breast-feeding her brand-new baby, an arsonist is loose in Tinker’s Cove.

Other posts for Halloween reading options:

Cozies Set Around Halloween (Part 1 of ?)
Cozy Witches to Enjoy for Halloween (List of Series)