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Originally Posted by 4691mls
I also don't usually like the kind of cozy where the main character runs a local food or craft shop and annoys local law enforcement by butting into all their investigations.
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While I did enjoy several of the coffee house mystery cozies by Cleo Coyle, I agree in general with the sentiment.
Even in those where the protagonist is put in proximity to the crime in a reasonable way,. I can never help feeling like during the series, the police would have neutralized this person long ago, either for constantly interfering or because some outsider so often involved with murders is probably the killer....
I enjoyed how the "Mrs. Pollifax" spy novels subvert that trope by starting out having the elderly, outsider protagonist walk into a CIA office and ask if she could please get a job as a spy.
(Not murder mysteries, but I do recommend at least the first few in that series, starting with "The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax.")