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I loved The Spellshop!! I still haven’t decided my favorite reads from 2024 but, I need to pick soon. Loved hearing your favorites and I added a few to my future reading.

I haven't read any of these books, but I have read and enjoyed the Thursday Murder Club books, so I will definitely be looking for the Osman one. I'm brand new to your channel, so I don't know which other authors you enjoy, so I'm going to recommend John Sandford. He has a long-running (30+ books) series starring Lucas Davenport. At the beginning of the series, he is a homicide detective in Minneapolis. I live in the Twin Cities, so the locales and pieces of "local color" are very familiar. Definitely NOT cozy, as the cases can be very terrible. But he's a very interesting character and I've enjoyed them all. There is also a spinoff series starring Virgil Flowers, a Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent in more rural Minnesota. Also great. Happy reading!

I’m excited that none of these are books I’ve read yet! Now I have a nice start for my tbr 2025! Congratulations on your first year and cheers to many more!🎉

Katie, I love the presentations of the books you have read and also that you have a picture of the book on screen while you are describing it.

Thank you for this list. I love the mystery/thriller & Cozy Mystery genres, so I'm hooping I will enjoy these! Happy New Year 🎆

Congraaatulations on one year! 🎉 The Spellshop was also one of my favorites this year, as you know. Our reading tastes are pretty much the opposite, but we'll always have The Spellshop. 🤣 Some other fave reads were Morbidly Yours by Ivy Fairbanks, the Dark in You series by Suzanne Wright, and All Rhodes Lead Here by Mariana Zapata.

I very much appreciate your recs! I read The Stranger Diaries by new to me author Elly Griffiths and loved it. I’m going through your recs and putting books on hold from my library. Happy 2025.

I read The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak. Good Book! One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware- was pretty good. Thanks for the recommendations. Congratulations on your one year anniversary! I loved Lula Deans Little Library of Banned books, not on your list but I really enjoyed it

Hi Katie - congratulations on your first year and thanks so much. I’m just discovering your channel and I’m so pleased to have found you. Really enjoying how you give simple and enticing reviews without giving away the story. The genres you read and share on are right up my alley though I suspect you could read this week’s grocery list and I’d still enjoy it. Looking forward to many more years of your reading reviews. Happy New Year🎉 😂

Happy New Year and congratulations on your channel’s first year! I’m glad I found you. I look forward to reading your recommendations!

Hi, 📕 56 Days by Katherine Ryan Howard is Great Read. Thanks for your list of favorites for 2024 Happy New Year 📚

Great video! Our reading tastes are so similar and I look forward to more from you channel in 2025

I read The Last One at the Wedding and enjoyed it, too. I also recommend a short novel called How Can I Help by Laura Simms and Cutting Teeth by Chandler Baker. Lots of good reading this year. Thanks Katie!

My top three ~ The Husbands by Holly Gramazio, Unruly by David Mitchell, and We Solve Murders by Richard Osman

Found Look in the Mirror in a cruise ship library. Far fetched overall, but with a great ending.

Loved your list! Will def be taking most of these recs and I'm happy to use your Amazon links to support your channel 👍... My #1 for 2024 was Age of Myth by Michael J. Sullivan. Normally I don't even read classic fantasy, but maybe I'm converted. This one captured me! ❤ Also loved and recommend two middle grade books. The Princess Pumpkin by Steven Banbury. A sweet, whimsical Halloween story. And Hollowpox by Jessica Townsend. (The Nevermoor series is truly the closest to Harry Potter vibes I've come across). You and your little girl may enjoy them one day 😊 ... Have a Blessed New Year! 🎉💚❤️

Happy New Year!

So far I read, Secret’s you keep by Kate White it was a page turner! So good. I subscribed to your channel.

Awesome! I’m glad you showed up in my UA-cam algorithm!! I’m recovering from surgery and need books and authors!!! Yay! You inspire me.

Yes yes yes I understand your thoughts on “The Blue Door”…..The writing/ narrator kept me listening/audiobook…..but it just seemed so scattered with possibilities…..and it seemed to take a path of least resistance …..I thought the story was presented as intriguing it is opening segments and I believed this would be a real “who done it”….and blah…..

I tagged you to do 'The Bring Back Browsing Tag,' created by Roving Reader. It's airing tomorrow (Sunday). Happy Holidays!

I read Paula Hawkins “The blue hour” and was very disappointed in it. It was a chore to read. I actually loved “The girl on the train” but really haven’t enjoyed any books after that by Hawkins. I also have read quite of few Elly Griffiths books and I agree that the first book in the Harbinger Karr series was best. The Second in series was good but 3 and 4 ,in my opinion, were not good at all. Is it possible to link ebooks?

In 5 days you have acquired 2,500 views!! You are becoming an internet sensation!!!

The Perils of Lady Catherine De Bourgh sounds amazing!

I have taught The Turn of the Screw. A lot of interpretations. Not a comfortable book. Henry James is king of the untrustworthy narrator. A very plausible interpretation is demonic possession. Look forward the Turn of The Key.

Thank you for this list and your detailed descriptions. This is my favorite genre, and it's difficult to find good ones just based on the published descriptions. I have subscribed & will continue to follow you. Happy Holidays!

This was soooo helpful. Thank you. I do have to say, though that woman who might swim naked in the Thames is asking for something nasty to happen in her body. It’s not very clean.

Katie, I’m so glad I found your channel! It’s a wonderful alternative to the gloom and doom political channels!😳 I am reading Winter Solstice after listening to one of your videos about cozy winter reads and I a, enjoying it. I can’t wait to read many of these! Thank you so much!

LOVE the Claudia Gray Regency series!!!

I koved Zero Days

I’ve reserved Murder in Highbury - looking forward to it! You do a really great job of explaining the books without giving away too much! Have you read The It Girl by Ruth Ware? Unfortunately, I didn’t like it as much as I had anticipated I would.

I’d love it if you’d review my sister’s mystery, “May the Wolf Die.” It was just listed in NY Times best crime fiction 2024.

Hi Katie! Great books! We love so many of the same books! I have We Solve Murders. But, your great description of it makes me want to move it up in my reading list AND the same with One Perfect Couple! I read and really enjoyed The Last Time She Saw Him! Loved Like Mother, Like Daughter! A Talent For Murder was a favorite for me this year, too. The Last One At The Wedding is a top 10 favorite of the year for me, too! And, I’ve added the Wyldecliffe Heights book to my long list to read….sounds great!!❤❤

Katie’s #1 fan!!

lovely video !!! love you and daddy

Namaste Katie Dodrill, i am in love with your channel and it gives me that cozy feel, I love love love it and yes I pile up my TBR as per your recommendations. Please keep making such enriching and fun videos, I eagerly wait for them. Lots of love from India

I just got Murder in Highbury! Really excited to read it. I read the first two books in the Jonathan Darcy series and loved them both.

Glad I've come across your channel! Def adding Last One at the Wedding! Not a NEW release, but if you like a twisty ending maybe try Defending Jacob by William Landay. My favorite mystery-thriller 👍

I have not read the books you mentioned. Have you read any James Patterson or Ashley Flowers?

I love the Murder, She Wrote series. The emphasis is on the community and friendships. The murders are easily solved, very few twisted plots. Perfect when you want something more charming than challenging.

My favorite thriller is And Then There Was None. I loved the movie adaptations too. 😊

I just discovered your channel and I loved all of the books you recommended. They seemed like I would enjoy every one of them. I look forward to more videos from you in the future.

I'm confused... a Poirot Agatha Christie mystery by someone else? How do they get away with that?

I think you’d like this book. Paige Sheldon’s A Christmas Tartan. Christmastime has come to Scotland, and Delaney and all her coworkers at the Cracked Spine, the quirky bookshop in the heart of Edinburgh, are all in the holiday spirit. Between mugs of hot chocolate and nibbles of gingerbread, Delaney has been given the task of tracking down the provenance of a mysterious box of objects that her boss, Edwin, has recently acquired. In it are various trinkets, but what really catches Delaney's eye is a worn copy of A Christmas Carol, where she also finds an old photo tucked inside. On the back is a name, which leads her to a woman whose granddaughter has gone missing. When it becomes clear that the box might be connected to the missing girl, Delaney is pulled into the intrigue, and takes it upon herself to figure out what really happened-and why.

For Christmas cozy, Try her "Envious Casca." It combines Christmas manor house with a locked room mystery

A very old one: "Why Shoot a Butler?" by Georgette Heyer (1930s) Definitely manor-house cozy, but some thriller elements.

Thanks, I’m a new subscriber. I enjoyed your DES reviews. Wish I would have found her years ago. But guess she came along at the right time for me. And as you said, she’s so cozy!

She’s one of my favorites! I’ve read quite a few. Didn’t think I would like Mrs. Tim of the Regiment. The first half was a little slower starting, but the second half (which was actually originally book two) was so much fun. That was this summer, now I just finished Mrs. Tim Carries on and it was really good. It was written during the midst of WWII, so it was really interesting how she brought it into parts of the book. I have a hard time choosing my favorite one of hers. I also really like her neighbor Molly Clavering’s books (among others from that era) I’m in a Facebook group for D. E. Stevenson.

I had not thought about Christmas in Georgia for years! Thank you for mentioning it!