I would love to hear what cozies had you LOL... I am always looking for new funny cozies.. I thinkmI've read them all. 

my fave's are :  The Maggody series  by joan hess          Spying in highheels  'can't think of the author'

I love all kinds of cozies,but I especially like the ones that make me laugh.  Anne George's Southern Sisters Mysteries are "laugh out loud" funny.  I also like Maddy Hunter's Passport to Peril series , Joan Hess Claire Malloy series, and anything by Elaine Viets!

Sofie Metropolis series by Tori Carrington!!!

(I see her as the "Greek Stephanie Plum!)

Victoria Laurie's 2 series have had me laughing. I loved those!

The "Mr. Monk" series by Lee Goldberg always makes me smile!

Mrs. Pollifax mysteries by Dorothy Gilman are my favorites. Mrs. Pollifax reminds me of my grandma (miss her so much) and is a laugh a minute. :)

I agree with Anne George and Maddy Hunter, great lol books.  I also like Laura Levine.  Her last one wasn't as funny but the rest were great and she has a new one coming out in May.

Maddy Hunter's Passport to Peril series and Nancy Bartholomew's Strip series (about an exotic dancer in Panama City, FL)

You know I am glad I read this post.

I have read Ann George a long time ago and remember how  comical they are.

I'm glad you brought her up.

Will try to find her again.

Thanks,

Helen L.

The Gladdy Gold series by Rita Lakin are very funny. These take place in a retirement community in Florida.  A group of "senior citizens", led by Gladdy, start a detective agency after they have solved their first crime.

Thank you, Thank you to Ladyhawke for mentioning Rita Lakin. I had seen these titles in Waldenbooks last week and I thought I'd be able to remember them. However, I have been searching ever since and all I could remember was they had old in the title. I thought I was going nuts :)

Thanks again

The Ellen Byerrum "Crimes of Fashion" series is pretty good, it has a lot of funny moments... thoguh the humor is more witty than slapstick. Nancy Martin's Blackbird Sisters series is also pretty funny. I had recently read Some Like It Hot-Buttered by Jeffrey Cohen, which was literally PACKED with jokes of all kinds and references from comedic films (the hero in the book owns a comedy movie theater.)

I really like the Crimes of Fashion series too. I love her newspaper columns throughout the books.

Stephanie - I was just about to mention the Blackbird Sisters!  I'm reading one now, and was ROFL last night!  I've been eye-balling that Jeffrey Cohen book at B&N, but haven't picked it up yet.  I guess I have to move that to the top of my "to get" pile ...

Two older cozy series that had me laughing out loud are the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters and the Sarah Kelling series by Charlotte MacLeod.

Has anyone read Emilie Richards -Let There Be Suspects or Beware False Profits ? 

I just finished Let There Be Suspects and now I'm about 1/2 way through Beware False Profits. I like them tho I will admit they are not what I expected. Beware False Profits is probably my least favorite so far. I think Let There Be Suspects was the best of the 3. I am finding myself skimming parts of Profits just because I don't see what some of these conversations and "scenes" have to do with the actual story.

Sparkle Hayter's books are great.

So are the Pet Detective, of which I can't remember anything but that right now.  The first four or so at least.  It's one of the fluffy series I actually like, of which there aren't that many--most are kinda boring for me.

I always get a good chuckle out of Tamar Myers's Penn Dutch mysteries - between Magdalena, Frennie, Suzanna, and Gabe the Babe's mom - I don't know who makes me laugh harder sometimes!!

I have to agree with the Penn Dutch series and Anne George is always funny, love Elaine Veits, too!

Another series I love and find funny  is Deb Baker's Dolls to Die For series. But then I love dolls, too!

Read Dixie Cash--------Since you are Leaving anyway take out the trash

It was sooooo funny   that I had to read the last two chapters in the bathroom as I was laughing so hard I was wetting my drawers-------She has written several others  (title escapes me but look her up as she is a rare treat

Bedpan

I also read all of Anne George and loved them-------I remember I was just crushed when I found out that she had died several years ago  and there would be no  more adventures of the sisters--------I believe she had heart problems.

BP

I love the early M.C. Beaton series books of both the Agatha Raisin & the Hamish Macbeth series. The later books were too formulated for me, but the early ones are terrifically funny.

Patricia Sprinkle, Charlaine Harris' older series, Rett McPherson....all 'cozies' with a slew of witty and intelligent women.  While they don't all make you crack up laughing every single chapter, they will keep a smile on your face from their observations and conversational manner.  :) 

~~*~~*~*~~*~*~~*~~

Nancy