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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
Fun cliches in cozy mysteries:
- A cat/dog featuring prominently on the cover but is barely mentioned in the story.
- A generic Hot Cop for the female protagonist to fall in love with.
- Crazy people. (Sometimes it's the protagonist.)
- During the inevitable confrontation at the end, the murderer stops trying to kill the protagonist and instead starts blabbing about their motives, resulting in the protagonist recording it/figuring out a way to escape/the Hot Cop showing up in the nick of the time.
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The last cliche often appears in not-cozy mysteries too, unfortunately.