A is for Agatha (unless she's under "C.") These are the cozy mystery book authors beginning with "A." I have added a few authors who write nonfiction, and also a few authors who write "non-cozy" books. 

You might be surprised to see Steve Allen included on this list. Yes, he's THE STEVE ALLEN who hosted the Tonight Show before Jay Leno, and even before Johnny Carson! He is probably better known for his non-mystery books, and who can forget his piano playing, song-writing (off the cuff) routines? 

Avery Aames   (aka Daryl Wood Gerber)   Aames writes the Cheese Shop Mystery Series which features the co-owner of the "Fromagerie Bessette" or, as the people living in her small Ohio town call it, the Cheese Shop. As Gerber, she writes stand alone non-cozy mysteries...

Jeff Abbott    Mystery Suspense... Has MA from Rice

Lynn Abercrombie (aka Ruth Birmingham & Walter Sorrells) Sorrells is an Edgar Award winning author who writes suspense novels for both adults and young adults. He is an expert in the martial arts and is a bladesmith of modern swords.

Pearl Abraham   Although she is not a mystery author, I loved one of her books....

Peter Abrahams   (aka Spencer Quinn) Not Cozy... I absolutely love to find authors (especially mystery authors!) who are really successful authors, and who then decide to write mysteries for children and/or young adults. Abrahams is one of those authors. As Spencer Quinn he writes the Chet and Bernie Mystery Series, which is told from Chet's point of view. Chet is the loyal dog of Bernie Little...

Peter Abresch     Abresch writes a mystery series that is set on the shores of New Jersey. It features a senior citizen, ex-physical therapist who takes a class at an Elderhostel and while there, embarks on a new life full of sleuthing.

Suzanne Adair   Good news for history-mystery lovers! Adair is a new author who writes a series set  during the American Revolution.

Alina Adams  Figure Skating Cozy... Adams was a researcher for ice skating television shows before becoming a mystery author.

Deborah Adams   The Jesus Creek series

Ellery Adams (aka J. B. Stanley & Jennifer Stanley)   With a Master's in English Literature, it is no wonder that Adams/Stanley decided to write novels. Adams writes the Books by the Bay Mystery Series which features a group of mystery writers who solve crimes on the North Carolina coast. As J. B. Stanley, she writes the Collectible Mystery Series which features a reporter who solves mysteries in and out of antique shows, and the Supper Club Mystery Series which features a "retired" English Literature Professor who, together with the "Flab Five," solves crimes while supping. Stanley also writes the Hope Street Church Mystery Series as Jennifer Stanley...

Riley Adams  (aka Elizabeth Spann Craig)    As Adams, she writes the Memphis Barbeque Mystery Series, which features the owner of a barbeque restaurant. As Craig, she writes the Myrtle Clover Mystery Series which features a retired octogenarian sleuth in North Carolina...

Lydia Adamson   Three series: a cat-sitter, a librarian, & a veterinarian

Gregory Ahlgren   My husband read the only book I have found by this author and enjoyed it so much that he recommended it to me.

Catherine Aird   English Cozy featuring the department head of the CID.

Susan Wittig Albert   Albert writes three series on her own. The first features an herbalist (China Bayles Mystery Series), the second is the Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter Mystery Series, and Albert's third series is the Darling Dahlias Mystery Series which features a group of garden club ladies during the Depression. Albert and her husband write the Kate Ardleigh Sheridan & Sir Charles Sheridan Mystery Series which is set during the Victorian era using the pseudonym "Robin Paige."

Peter Alding  (aka Roderic Jeffries & Jeffrey Ashford) (Not Cozy) The C. I. D. Room Mystery Series with Constable Kerr...

Bruce Alexander     aka Bruce Cook……Alexander wrote a series of historical mysteries that feature an 18^th century blind magistrate in London.

Barbara Allan   Allan is the husband/wife writing team comprised of Barbara and Max Allan Collins. Together, they write the Trash n' Treasures Mystery Series.

Conrad Allen    aka Edward Marston and Keith Miles... If you are a Conrad Allen fan, then you are in a for a huge treat! He writes several series...set mostly in England.

Garrison Allen  (aka Gary Amo)   Allen writes the Big Mike Mystery Series which features the owner of a mystery bookstore, along with Big Mike... a huge Abyssinian cat who happens to love lima beans...(Allen was recommended by a site reader... I have not read any of his books yet.)

Michael Derek Allen    I liked the first in the Spence Series a lot. Haven't read the others....yet. 

Sarah Addison Allen    Allen, a New York Times bestselling author, has her degree in Literature. She writes novels that feature magical happenings... not necessarily mysteries.

Steve Allen   Based on Steve Allen, the comedian, and his wife, actress Jayne Meadows...as crime solvers!

Margery Allingham    Cozy from England...  Albert Campion series, which features a very upper-crust sleuth...

Madelyn Alt    Alt’s series is set in Stony Mill, Indiana, and involves both an antique shop and a witch!

Sheryl J. Anderson    Anderson has worked as a screenwriter, a television producer and writer, and is now teaching screenwriting, as well as writing the Molly Forrester Mystery Series which features an advice columnist (sort of like a Dear Abby type of writer) who also solves mysteries.

Donna Andrews    One of her series involves a blacksmith theme (the Meg Lanslow series)...

Lori Andrews   Andrews is a professor of law in Chicago and an expert in genetics. She writes the Dr. Alexandra Blake Mystery Series, and has published ten nonfiction books... Not Cozy

Mary Kay Andrews   aka Kathy Hogan Trocheck... I haven't tried her Weezie & BeBe series, but now that I am aware of it, I am going to!  I love Trochek's Julia Callahan Garrity series.

Sarah Andrews  Andrews, being a geologist herself, has two mystery series which both feature geologists/sleuths...

Jennifer Apodaca    Apodaca's books are mysteries with a whole lot of romance! She calls them "dangerously romantic"....

Jeffrey Archer   Not cozy... His personal life would make a great novel!

A. K. Arenz     Arenz writes the Bouncing Grandma Mystery Series. She is a member of the American Christian Fiction Writers.

Margot Arnold   British Cozy that features an anthropologist and an archaeologist in Cambridge.

Suzanne Arruda    Arruda wanted to use her Master's degree (that emphasizes ecology) and her enjoyment for both animals and the outdoors (she managed to work as a zoo keeper while in college!) when writing her mystery series. What better setting than Africa for her main character Jade del Cameron... a very adventurous sleuth!

Joani Ascher   Ascher is a part-time children's room librarian who writes the Wally Morris Mystery Series. This series is set in New Jersey and features a nursery school teacher who solves mysteries when not working on her lesson plans...

Maureen Ash   Ash writes the Templar Knight Mystery Series which features Bascot de Marin, wounded in the Crusades, who returns to England after being imprisoned/enslaved for eight years in the Holy Land...

Jeffrey Ashford   (aka Roderic Jeffries & Peter Alding) (Not Cozy) As Ashford he has stand-alones...

Isaac Asimov   Asimov's family owned candy shops while he was growing up, which sold science fiction magazines, which is where he developed his love for all things science fiction. But, he also wrote mysteries... along with many.... and I mean "many" other accomplishments in his life.

Libi Astaire    Astaire, a journalist living in Jerusalem, writes the Ezra Melamed Mystery Series which is a Regency England mystery series...

Nancy Atherton    When her "Aunt"  Dimity leaves her a Cotswold cottage, little does Lori know that the cottage includes her aunt's presence...

Sarah Atwell   (aka Sheila Connolly) Degrees in Art History and Fine Arts paved the way for Atwell to eventually write the Glassblowing Mystery Series. She not only enjoys the beauty of blown glass but apparently also has "mastered" the art. As Sheila Connolly, she writes the Orchard Mystery Series which takes place in beautiful Massachusetts... on an apple orchard.

Margaret Atwood   I've read a couple of her books, and find them quirky, very different....

Lori Avocato   Who better than a registered nurse (and Sister's in Crime member) to write a mystery series about an ex-registered nurse who invetigates medical fraud?

"B" Authors