With their intimate settings, subdued action and likeable characters, cozy mysteries are rarely seen as anything more than light entertainment.
The cozy, a subgenre of crime fiction, has been historically misunderstood and often overlooked as the subject of serious study.
This anthology brings together a groundbreaking collection of essays that examine the cozy mystery from a range of critical viewpoints.
The authors engage with the standard classification of a cozy, the characters who appear in.