The main character, Heather Wells, is an ex-pop star who works at a college residence hall while writing songs on the side. I found Murder for Choir to be an enjoyable cozy read, laced with humor and a good dose of fun.Īnother light-hearted, humorous mystery on my list of favorites is Size 12 and Ready to Rock by Meg Cabot. While trying to win over her students, Paige also gets into sleuthing when she sets out to solve the murder of a rival choir director. This Glee Club Mystery fits into the cozy sub-genre and features Paige Marshall, a struggling opera singer who takes a job teaching show choir at a high school to make ends meet. Murder for Choir by Joelle Charbonneau is also the first in a series. George does a great job of weaving the music theme throughout the story, and the book also has a great cast of interesting (and delightfully suspicious) characters. The main character is a composer and aspiring conductor who is attempting to compose a symphony at the resort when she gets caught up in a murder investigation. A traditional mystery, Eine Kleine Murder is the first book in the Cressa Carraway series and takes place at a rural lake resort. For me, the characters really bring the story to life but I also enjoyed the bell-ringing theme, which I’d never encountered in a book before.Ī more recent music-themed mystery on my list is Kaye George’s Eine Kleine Murder.

I love the classic British feel of this mystery as well as the cast of quirky village characters. Wimsey returns to the community months later following the discovery of a murder victim and the mystery unfolds from there. After Wimsey’s car goes off the road on a snowy New Year’s Eve, he takes shelter at a nearby rectory. Part of the Lord Peter Wimsey series, The Nine Tailors centers around the practice of ringing church bells. I love British mysteries, both in book form and on television, and Sayers is, of course, one of the great British mystery writers.

Included on that list is The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. That’s reflected in my list of favorite musical mysteries. While I do enjoy darker, grittier mysteries, it’s the cozy, traditional, and light-hearted ones that I gravitate to the most.

I also played violin and piano throughout my school years, and for me music and mysteries go together like the delicious combination of peanut butter and chocolate.

I grew up reading books by Agatha Christie, Colin Dexter, and other mystery writers. The mystery genre has been my favorite for as long as I can remember and I always have a stack or two (or three or four) mystery novels lying around my house (my shelves have long been filled to capacity).

Eine Kleine Murder by Kaye George