Settle in with These 8 Cozy Crime Novels This Autumn

For fans of procedurals, partnered detectives, and cases that feel ripped from the headlines!

The series follows two great characters in Colorado: Detective Inaya Rahman, who is sent to places with high complaints against officers and has a tight-knit family; and her boss, Lieutenant Waqas Seif, who is raising his two younger brothers and, unlike Rahman, keeps his culture/ethnicity to himself. This time around, two separate incidents that involved officer shootings led to protests across the Blackwater Falls community, leading Rahman and Seif to have to dig deep to get to the heart of these cases.

If you want to start at the beginning (you do! It’s a great series!), pick up Blackwater Falls. And if you’re a lover of “completed” backlist series, absolutely read Ausma Zehanat Khan’s previous procedural series that starts with The Unquiet Dead.

For fans of reluctant amateur sleuths, humor, and space settings!

Mallory Viridian literally went to live on a space station to get away from the fact that on Earth, people kept dying around her, and she kept having to solve the murders. Surely (don’t call me Shirley!) you can see where this is going. The murders follow her to space, too! This time around, her past has followed her from Earth, including the agent who was always after her…

If you want to start at the beginning of this very fun series, pick up Station Eternity!