10 Mystery Books So Funny and Clever, They’ll Be Your Next Favorite

Looking for funny mystery books for your 2025 reading list? Check out these 10 laugh-out-loud whodunits that combine humor and suspense in the most entertaining way. I’m a huge fan of twisty mystery books, but they rarely include funny moments. So, I’m thrilled to have found these funny mystery-suspense books packed with hilarious moments. These are perfect for fans of cozy mysteries and dark comedy!

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The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

The Thursday Murder Club is about four quirky retirees who meet up to solve cold cases, but when someone’s actually murdered in their retirement village, they jump in to crack the case. The gang—Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim, and Ron—are sharp, funny, and totally unexpected as detectives. It’s clever, full of twists, and feels like hanging out with the coolest grandparents ever.

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders.

But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves.

Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it’s too late?

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Over My Dead Body by Maz Evans

In Over My Dead, Dr. Miriam Price wakes up dead, and things just keep getting worse. People think she killed herself, so now she’s stuck in Limbo; unless she can prove she was murdered. Her only chance is teaming up with Winnie, her cranky neighbor who can see ghosts. They bicker nonstop, but it’s hilarious watching them solve the mystery and try not to kill each other.

When the misanthropic Dr Miriam Price wakes up dead, her day has only just started to go wrong.

With everyone mistakenly thinking she killed herself, she’s condemned to half a century in Limbo as a ‘Death By Misadventure’ – unless she can prove that she was murdered. Unable to communicate with anyone living, Miriam’s investigative options look decidedly limited.

But she soon realises that Winnie, her elderly next-door neighbour – and mortal enemy – can see, hear and talk to her. The good news for Miriam is that the dying can interact with the dead. The bad news for Winnie is that if she can see Miriam, she hasn’t got long to live. Now this unlikely detective duo must work together to solve Miriam’s murder – and maybe avert Winnie’s death – before time runs out for them both. And before they kill each other first.

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Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

Ernie Cunningham’s family reunion takes a surprise turn when someone’s murdered and let’s just say his family is really familiar with killing people. This book is funny and witty with a narrator who feels like he’s talking directly to you. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone has got Agatha Christie vibes but with way more sarcasm.

Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I’m not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate.

I’m Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I’d killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it’s a little more complicated than that.

Have I killed someone? Yes. I have.

Who was it?

Let’s get started.

EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE

My brother

My stepsister

My wife

My father

My mother

My sister-in-law

My uncle

My stepfather

My aunt

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Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

Bernadette is this brilliant, reclusive mom who disappears right before a family trip to Antarctica. Her daughter Bee pieces together emails, letters, and clues to figure out what happened. Where’d You Go, Bernadette is hilarious with a lot of chaos and a deeper story about family and identity.

Bernadette Fox has vanished.

When her daughter Bee claims a family trip to Antarctica as a reward for perfect grades, Bernadette, a fiercely intelligent shut-in, throws herself into preparations for the trip. But worn down by years of trying to live the Seattle life she never wanted, Ms. Fox is on the brink of a meltdown. And after a school fundraiser goes disastrously awry at her hands, she disappears, leaving her family to pick up the pieces–which is exactly what Bee does, weaving together an elaborate web of emails, invoices, and school memos that reveals a secret past Bernadette has been hiding for decades. Where’d You Go Bernadette is an ingenious and unabashedly entertaining novel about a family coming to terms with who they are and the power of a daughter’s love for her mother.

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The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman

Mrs. Pollifax is a bored widow who decides to join the CIA, because why not? What starts as a simple mission to Mexico turns into a wild Cold War adventure. She’s tough, funny, and totally underestimated. So basically The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax is about a grandma who becomes a spy and kicks everyone’s butt.

Mrs. Virgil (Emily) Pollifax of New Brunswick, New Jersey, was a widow with grown children. She was tired of attending her Garden Club meetings. She wanted to do something good for her country. So, naturally, she became a CIA agent. This time, the assignment sounds as tasty as a taco. A quick trip to Mexico City is on her agenda. Unfortunately, something goes wrong, and our dear Mrs. Pollifax finds herself embroiled in quite a hot Cold War—and her country’s enemies find themselves entangled with one unbelievably feisty lady.

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Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen

Bad Monkey starts with a severed arm in a freezer and takes you on a crazy journey through Florida and the Bahamas. There’s a disgraced cop, a voodoo witch, a sleazy real estate guy, and yes, a monkey. It’s darkly funny and totally over-the-top in the best way.

Carl Hiaasen is back doing what he does best: spinning a wickedly funny, fiercely pointed tale in which the greedy, the corrupt, and the degraders of pristine land in Florida–now, in the Bahamas too–get their comeuppance in mordantly ingenious, diabolically entertaining fashion.

Andrew Yancy–late of the Miami Police, soon-to-be-late of the Key West Police–has a human arm in his freezer. There’s a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, his commander might relieve him of Health Inspector duties, aka Roach Patrol. But first Yancy will negotiate an ever-surprising course of events–from the Keys to Miami to a Bahamian out island–with a crew of equally ever-surprising characters, including: the twitchy widow of the frozen arm; an avariciously idiotic real estate developer; a voodoo witch whose lovers are blinded-unto-death by her particularly peculiar charms; Yancy’s new love, a kinky medical examiner; and the eponymous Bad Monkey, who earns his place among Hiaasen’s greatest characters with hilariously wicked aplomb.

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Devil’s Chew Toy by Rob Osler

Hayden McCall wakes up with a black eye, no memory of the night before, and a missing dancer named Camilo. Along with Camilo’s best friends, he tries to figure out what happened.

Seattle teacher and part-time blogger Hayden McCall wakes up in a stranger’s bed alone, half-naked and sporting one hell of a shiner. Then the police come knocking on the door. It seems that Latino dancer Camilo Rodriguez has gone missing and they suspect foul play. What happened the night before? And where is Camilo?

Determined to find answers, Hayden seeks out two of Camilo’s friends–Hollister and Burley–both lesbians and both fiercely devoted to their friend. From them, Hayden learns that Camilo is a “Dreamer” whose parents had been deported years earlier, and whose sister, Daniela, is presumed to have returned to Venezuela with them. Convinced that the cops won’t take a brown boy’s disappearance seriously, the girls join Hayden’s hunt for Camilo.

The first clues turn up at Barkingham Palace, a pet store where Camilo had taken a part-time job. The store’s owner, Della Rupert, claims ignorance, but Hayden knows something is up. And then there’s Camilo’s ex-boyfriend, Ryan, who’s suddenly grown inexplicably wealthy. When Hayden and Hollister follow Ryan to a secure airport warehouse, they make a shocking connection between him and Della–and uncover the twisted scheme that’s made both of them rich.

The trail of clues leads them to the grounds of a magnificent estate on an island in Puget Sound, where they’ll finally learn the truth about Camilo’s disappearance–and the fate of his family.

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Coming in Hot by Deany Ray

Coming in Hot is about Piper and her biker grandma who are in witness protection, trying to adjust to life in Florida when they crash into a murder mystery. They’re supposed to be laying low, but instead, they’re sneaking around solving crimes. This one’s fast, funny, and packed with crazy characters. Plus, Piper’s grandma is an absolute riot.

Starting a new life in Florida means year-round sunshine, beautiful beaches, and balmy breezes. For most people, anyway.

But not for thirtysomething Piper and her grandmother, former members of a motorcycle gang in Oregon.

For them, it means entering the witness protection program and moving to Bitter End in the Sunshine State. Yes, to Bitter End. It doesn’t get much more ironic than this.

But hey, it’s better than rotting in jail for getting busted with tax evasion and money laundering, and infinitely better than getting killed by said gang for testifying against them.

Needless to say, they both have difficulties adjusting to life in Florida. Moving into a retirement community and dealing with all those quirky characters? Wearing flip-flops instead of biker boots? Where do you even hide your gun if you’re wearing those godawful muumuu dresses? Not to mention, they’re supposed to keep everything on the right side of the law now? Ugh!

Oh, and there’s that dead body in their neighbor’s front yard. Instead of laying low, Piper and her Gran somehow get sucked into that murder mystery.

When they realize they’re in too deep and their cover is almost blown, they have no other choice but to find the killer before it’s too late.

Unique characters, laugh-out-loud moments, and of course, a hot PI guy await for you in this fast and funny romp!

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Poison in Paddington by Samantha Silver

Cassie Coburn heads to London after her medical career crashes, but instead of sightseeing, she’s solving a murder with a French detective named Violet. There’s also a mischievous cat on a leash and a cute pathologist she’s crushing on. This novel is a cozy, modern mystery with plenty of laughs and charm.

When Cassie Coburn moved to London, she never thought she’d be involved in a quadruple homicide.

After a car accident ended her medical career before it even started, Cassie moved to London on a whim, expecting to see the sights and live the typical tourist backpacker lifestyle.

Instead she finds herself accompanying a French private detective, Violet Despuis, as they attempt to find out who poisoned four people in the middle of London.

Cassie’s life soon includes this crazy detective, an ancient landlady with a curious past, a mischeivous orange cat who likes going for walks on a leash, and a super hot pathologist that Cassie is sure is out of her league.

And they haven’t even found the murderer yet…

The Cassie Coburn mysteries are a cozy mystery series featuring a Sherlock-holmes style sleuth. If you want a light, fun, modern mystery featuring a San Francisco girl totally out of her element in London, and a crazy French woman who happens to be very good at noticing things, then this is the series for you.

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The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society by C.M. Waggoner

The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society follows Sherry Pinkwhistle, a librarian who’s surprisingly good at solving murders. But when her cat gets possessed by a demon, she realizes something supernatural is going on in her village. It’s part fantasy, part mystery, and totally bonkers in the best way.

A librarian with a knack for solving murders realizes there is something decidedly supernatural afoot in her little town in this cozy fantasy mystery.

Librarian Sherry Pinkwhistle keeps finding bodies—and solving murders. But she’s concerned by just how many killers she’s had to track down in her quaint village. None of her neighbors seem surprised by the rising body count…but Sherry is becoming convinced that whatever has been causing these deaths is unnatural. But when someone close to Sherry ends up dead, and her cat, Lord Thomas Crowell, becomes possessed by what seems to be an ancient demon, Sherry begins to think she’s going to need to become an exorcist as well as an amateur sleuth. With the help of her town’s new priest, and an assortment of friends who dub themselves the “Demon-Hunting Society,” Sherry will have to solve the murder and get rid of a demon. This riotous mix of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Murder, She Wrote is a lesson for demons and murderers.

Never mess with a librarian.

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