This Rec League is from Rebecca from our podcast Patreon Discord:

So I’m really enjoying the Below Stairs mysteries and wondered if anyone has any recs for other historical cosy mystery series. What I like about them is they generally resolve well and have that cosy mystery feel, but they also acknowledge some of the social justice issues of the time. I don’t really like high society stuff, so I like that they’re about working class.

Susan: Hither Page by Cat Sebastian has a very tired spy poking around a small village trying to solve a murder with a former army doctor, and it’s full of people trying their best

Fewer cozy vibes, but Murder on the Last Frontier by Cathy Pegau has a suffragette journalist in a frontier town in Alaska trying to solve the murder of a sex worker.

…I’m coming to realise that I read a lot of historical mysteries, and a lot of cozy mysteries, but not a lot in the intersection, hang on.

Sarah: I LOVED the Hither, Page books.

The Crown Colony series by Ovidia Yu, starting with The Frangipani Tree Mystery. They’re set in the late 30s in Singapore, when it’s still a British colony.

Murder at Mallowan Hall by Colleen Cambridge ( A | BN | K ) is about Agatha Christie and her housekeeper, Phyllida Bright.

Miss Aldridge Regrets by Louise Hare might work – it’s more noir and takes place on the Queen Mary in the 30s.

What mysteries would you recommend? Let us know in the comments!