C.S. Challinor is a kind of modern-day Agatha Christie, with a Scottish barrister solving murders. Rex Graves is a middle-age widower with a college-age son who is an amateur sleuth in the manner of Miss Marple, albeit without the formal gathering to trip up the murderer.

He has been involved in murders at a bed and breakfast belonging to a friend of his mothers, a nudist resort in France, and in Florida at the college where his son Campbell is matriculating. These are cozies in the best sense of the word  --  no blood and gore, no graphic sexual scenes (although Rex is a virile man), and a logical conclusion reached by using the clues and information presented in the story.

The books are not overlong so easily and quickly read.  They are great light mysteries. I most recently read "Phi Beta Murder" which delightfully had a romantic subplot. Go Rex!

Give this author a try.  As usual, I gathered this author's name from Cozy-Mysteries.com. Check this website out; it is awesome.