There is a book store in Madison called "Booked for Murder". Its staff is famous for knowing all the crime books. You can go in there and say you are planning a trip to Austin, TX or Seattle, WA and they will show you a mystery set in the locale. I know because I did just that.
It is fun to read a story set where you are. We are in the Northwoods and Victoria Houston is a writer who places many of her stories in the northern part of Wisconsin. She has 13 stories in her "Dead" series. We have read others and are getting near the end of "Dead Insider". This story is about politics but as with most of her Northwoods stories, much of it relates to fishing, especially fly fishing, the kind with a light rod, specially tied flies that imitate some insect, and waders for walking in a stream.
The way she uses Northwoods themes as a background reminds me of the way Dick Francis used horse racing themes in his books, even though they had foreground themes such as wine, photography and glass blowing.
I don't think that Houston's "Dead" series quite qualifies as cozies but they might. Merriam-Webster online defines this type of mystery story as
cozy - a light detective story that usually features a well-educated protagonist and little explicit violence
but they might. They remind me of M.C.Beaton's stories. That writer has two main series, one of which features Hamish MacBeth, a policeman in a little town in Scotland who keeps running into crime cases.--
Bill
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