Funny Mystery Books

The best funny mystery book reviews. Funny mysteries, also known as crime capers or humorous mysteries, are intended to entertain readers with light suspense while also delivering ample doses of amusement.

GRQ, a Must-Read Domestic Thriller by Steven Bernstein

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The Bottom Line: Darkly funny and emotionally raw, GRQ is a must-read domestic thriller that charts the struggle of a man who will promise anything — and the family who must endure the cost. GRQ (Get Rich Quick) begins in Los Angeles, where a mysterious financial advisor (who swears he’s not an unreliable narrator) begins by telling us about his client, Marlon. It seems that Marlon is an […]

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Extraterrestrial Noir, an Unforgettable Comedic Thriller by Rich Leder

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The Bottom Line: Don’t miss this bawdy sci-fi thriller. Leder spins regular doses of sex, aliens and teen heroism into an unforgettable idiosyncratic comedic gem.  Extraterrestrial Noir opens on the night of a forecasted meteor shower in suburban New Jersey. The Devine family — husband Connie, wife Maggie, brother Danny and uber-intellectual 12-year-old daughter Mike – gather in the front yard in the hours before dawn to catch a glimpse

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The Crisis, an Endearing Action Comedy Thriller by T.O. Paine

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The Bottom Line: A clever action comedy that manages to be both quirky and endearing while packing a sneaky emotional punch. The Crisis opens on a Monday, as Florida Pay-N-Save convenience store workers Mattie and Calvin survive an armed robbery. But during the incident, Mattie notes that something seems off with the criminal couple – a muscled man and a young girl with a number tattooed on her leg. On their way

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Spy Thriller of the Year: The Spy Who Hated Me by Haris Orkin

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The Bottom Line: Voted the year’s best spy thriller in the 2024 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Since the debut of the wildly funny You Only Live Once, the first book in Haris Orkin’s James Bond satire series, Orkin has been far more prolific than the material that originally inspired him. The latest installment in Orkin’s James Flynn Escapade series, The Spy Who Hated Me, is Orkin’s fifth since the

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Silver Bells: A Christmas Horror Story, an Addictive Holiday Horror Novel

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The Bottom Line: Only a grinch wouldn’t love this addictive holiday horror story. Highly recommended. Christmas has long been a celebration of hope emerging from the clutches of horror. Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol features doomed ghostly apparitions confronting Scrooge, while Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas blends eerie comic horror elements with the warmth of holiday cheer. Sandy Lender’s Silver Bells: A Christmas Horror Story continues the tradition in Reindeer Creek, a festive

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Far Out, a Hilarious Crime Caper by Khaled Talib

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The Bottom Line: A pacey and hilarious crime caper that will thrill fans of David Wong and Janet Evanovich.   Hollywood movie star Goldie Saint Helen isn’t herself after an accident on the Pacific Coast Highway. Unable to remember her real identity, she believes she’s living in the 1960s as a hippie detective who must save a teenage girl from a wild CIA drug experiment (it’s

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Death by Saxophone, The Year’s Best Mystery

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The Bottom Line: Winner, Best Mystery, The BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Highly recommended..  There’s no way to properly describe Death by Saxophone without first defining the object of its characters’ obsession: black market recordings called “bone records.” Also called “ribs,” bone records are bootlegged gramophone recordings first made from X-ray films as a way to smuggle banned music in and out of the Soviet Union.  When smooth jazz

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The Great Gimmelmans, an Exhilarating Crime Thriller by Lee Matthew Goldberg

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The Bottom Line: Think the Corleones are the ultimate crime family? Meet the Gimmelmans, whose exhilarating crime spree fuels this rip-roaring romp through the late 1980s.  Set in the late 80s, The Great Gimmelmans is narrated by Aaron Nicholas Gimmelman, whose parents lose everything in the 1987 Black Monday stock market crash. After the repossession of their cars, valuables and home, they’re left with an RV dubbed The Gimmelmans’

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Funeral Daze, a Hilarious High-Stakes Mystery by Dorian Box

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The Bottom Line: A hilarious page-turner that effortlessly blends crime, humor and South Florida beach culture. Recommended for fans of Richard Osman and Alexander McCall Smith.   Funeral Daze begins as broke lottery winner and widower Danny Tweakwell receives an invitation from the Slagger-Jewell Funeral Home. He’s had no contact with the home since the Jewell family helped him out of a major jam five years earlier. This time, the service

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License to Die, a Fun and Action-Packed Bond Satire by Haris Orkin

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The Bottom Line: The good times roll in License to Die, perhaps the best entry yet in Haris Orkin’s action-packed, fun and touching Bond satire series.  We first met international super spy James Flynn in Orkin’s hilarious James Bond parody Goldhammer. As a resident of a City of Roses Psychiatric Institute, he believed he was at the headquarters of His Majesty’s Secret Service. License to Die takes Flynn to a

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