I’ll be honest: I have not traditionally been much of a mystery reader. I read Gone Girl during its heyday and have enjoyed a few others like The Guest List and the delightful Flavia de Luce children’s series, sure, but it’s not one of my go-to genres. Knives Out got me to thinking about funny murder mysteries, though, and I learned about the cozy mystery genre, and I realized there might be something to this that I had been missing. Then I found Arsenic and Adobo, the first book on this list, earlier this year and knew that to be true. There’s a whole world of funny and cozy murder mysteries I’d been missing. These ten humorous murder mysteries like Knives Out aren’t the full extent of great funny mysteries out there, but if you’re a fan of the hit Rian Johnson film, they’re certainly a great place to start. These books are full of complicated and quirky families, both professional detectives and amateur sleuths trying to clear their — or their loved ones’ — names, and lots of hilarious antics. We may have a ways to wait for Knives Out 2, but these murder mysteries like Knives Out are here and ready for the reading.
Murder Mysteries Like Knives Out
Want even more murder mysteries like Knives Out? Check out these cozy mystery recs: The foodie aspect of this cozy murder-mystery provides so much flavor alongside the whodunit and howdunit of it all. Much like the setup in Knives Out, someone is trying to frame Lila for a murder she and her family definitely didn’t commit — but proving it was someone else is easier said than done. Less of a murder-mystery and more of a how-do-we-clean-up-this-murder mystery. The family dynamics in this are polar opposite to the scheming bunch in Knives Out, but that just makes me love it all the more. These women are ride or die for each other and I am here for every second of it.
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