cozy mystery

Marilyn Levinson is the author of the Twin Lake series under her own name and The Haunted Library series as Allison Brook. The next Haunted Library novel, Checked Out for Murder, will be released on September 8. People often ask, "What is a cozy mystery?" Well, it's a mystery that evokes a sense of coziness in the reader, a much-needed feeling these days, in the Time of the Coronavirus. But what makes a mystery a cozy? The term is believed to have originated with Agatha Christie's mysteries. Picture Miss Marple gathering clues as she chats with various neighbors in St.…