Seattle Times: Our readers recommend these mystery novels that are also funny

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https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/our-readers-recommend-these-mystery-novels-that-are-also-funny/

Looks like a great list! Enjoy!

On edit, by request: adding 4 paragraphs.

Spencer Quinn’s Chet and Bernie mysteries. A lot of you chimed in for this 12-book series, about a detective agency run by Bernie, who is a person, and Chet, who is a dog. (But can he make cocktails?) The titles all play on famous novel or movie titles; my favorite is “A Fistful of Collars.”

“Squeeze Me” by Carl Hiaasen. Hiaasen’s name came up fairly often, mostly next to this 2020 bestseller about a dead dowager, a First Lady/Secret Service romance, a wildlife wrangler and a lot of hungry pythons.

Colin Cotterill’s Dr. Siri Paiboun series. This 15-book series is set in 1980s Laos, with its main character a doctor who becomes national coroner, inheriting an incompetent boss and quirky staff. Cotterill, an English Australian author, recently concluded the series with “The Delightful Life of a Suicide Pilot.

Also, Evanovich Stephanie Plum series, Pariac O'Donnell, Alan Bradley, Vaseem Khan, J.D. Robb, Sue Grafton, Kinky Friedman, Craig Johnson, Ann George, Lynn Truss, Rhys Bowen, Christopher Fowler, Qiu Xiaolong, Joe Ide, & Donald Westlake.