Skip to main content

Series by Category

Historical Themed Cozy Mystery Series


The images are
Daniel Pitt Mystery Series

Anne Perry writes the Daniel Pitt Mystery Series which started in and is set in England. It's 1910 and twenty-five-year-old Daniel Pitt is a junior barrister in London.  Daniel is Thomas Pitt's son which is a character in Anne Perry's Thomas and…

Victorian Book Club Mystery Series

Callie Hutton writes the Victorian Book Club Mystery Series which started in May 2020 and is set in Bath, England in the 1890s.  It features Mystery author Lady Amy Lovell and her fiancee Lord William Wethington who together solve…

Redmond and Haze Mystery Series

Irina Shapiro writes the Redmond and Haze Mystery Series which is set in Victorian England and started in February 2020. It features investigator Daniel Haze and former American soldier and a skilled surgeon Jason Redmond.


A Special Pennyfoot Hotel Mystery

This series takes place in early 1900 England at the Pennyfoot Hotel. The main character, Cecily Sinclair Baxter, owns the hotel and is witty and very independent. The Christmas books are based on the original series, the Pennyfoot Hotel. The…

Abigail Adams Mystery Series

Barbara Hamilton (aka Barbara Hambly) writes the Abigail Adams Mystery Series which started in 2009 and is set in 1770's Boston. It features Abigail Adams. In the Massachusetts Colony, political upheaval turns murderous...


Algonquin Round Table Mystery Series

J.J. Murphy writes the Algonquin Round Table Mystery series which started in 2011 and is set in 1920s Manhattan New York. It features Dorothy Parker and a circle of writers who regularly meets for lunch in a hotel dining room. The Algonquin Round…

Amory Ames Mystery Series

Ashley Weaver writes the Amory Ames Mystery series which started in October 2014 and is set in 1930s England. It features high society protagonist Amory Ames. It's set amidst the upper-crust of British society. The first book, 'Murder at the…

Bess Crawford Mystery Series

Charles Todd is the writing team of Charles and Caroline Todd-- a mother and son writing team who live on the east coast of the United States. Charles Todd writes the Bess Crawford Mystery series which is set in early 1900 England during WWI and…

Bess Ellyott Mystery Series

Nancy Herriman writes the Bess Ellyott Mystery Series which started in March 2018 and is set in historic England. Herbalist and widow Bess Ellyott tries to escape the loss of her husband in Elizabethan London only to find that death is following…

Carpenter & Quincannon Mystery Series

Marcia Muller writes the Carpenter & Quincannon Mystery Series which started in January 2013 and takes place in San Francisco. It is a lighthearted historical mysteries set in 1890s San Francisco. It features former Pinkerton operative Sabina…

Cattarina Mystery Series

Monica Shaughnessy writes the Cattarina Mystery series which started in 2014 and is set in Philadelphia in the 1800s. It features Poe's cat, Cattarina. This series is full of Victorian witticisms and rich, historical detail, this cozy novella is…

Charles Lenox Series

Charles Finch writes the Charles Lenox Series which started in 2007 and is set in England in 1865. It features Charles Lenox, a wealthy gentlemen and amateur detective. A Beautiful Blue Death was his first novel and was nominated for an Agatha…

Christmas Mystery Series

Set in Victorian England this series features Britain’s wealthy and powerful elite in West End mansions and great country houses. The characters in this series are from Anne Perry's other Victorian series Thomas and Charlotte Pitt series and the…

Daisy Dalrymple Mystery Series

This series started in 1994 and is set in England. It features journalist, Daisy Dalrymple. This series takes place in the 1920s and Daisy, the daughter of a Viscount, shocks her family when she decides that she wants to make her own living as a…

Dandy Gilver Mystery Series

Catriona McPherson writes the Dandy Gilver Mystery Series which started in 2005 and is set in 1920s Scotland after WWI. It features Aristocrat, Dandelion Dahlia Leston (Dandy). In this classic whodunit, mixed with a little bit of upstairs/…

Darling Dahlias Mystery Series

The series is set in the 1930s, when times are tough, jobs are scarce, and people are worried about what lies ahead. But the ladies of the fictional town of Darling, Alabama, are determined to keep their spirits up, their families fed, and their…

Discreet Retrieval Agency Mystery Series

Maia Chance writes the Discreet Retrieval Agency Mystery Series which is set in Prohibition-era New York city. It features 31-year-old society matron Lola Woodby has survived her loveless marriage with an unholy mixture of highballs, detective…

Eliza Doolittle & Henry Mystery Series

D.E. Ireland (aka Meg Mims and Sharon Pisacreta) write the Eliza Doolittle & Henry Mystery series. The series started September 2014 and is set in early 20th century London. It features Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins who solve murders.


Florence Norris Mystery Series

Dorothy Cannell writes the Florence Norris Mystery Series which started in 2014 and is set in England in the 1930s. It features Florence Norris-- Housekeeper of Stodmarsh Family in Their Country House. This is a great English country house…

Gaslight Mystery Series

Victoria Thompson is the Edgar(r) Award-nominated author of the Gaslight Mystery series which started in 1999 and is set in turn-of-the-century New York. It features Midwife, Sarah Brandt and Police Detective, Frank Malloy. Sarah is estranged…

Gilded Newport Mystery Series

Alyssa Maxwell writes the the Gilded Newport Mystery series which started in March 2014 and is set in late 1800's Newport, Rhode Island. It features amateur sleuth Emmaline Cross. As both a Vanderbilt cousin and a Newporter born and raised, Emma'…

Hannah Scrabble Mystery Series

Marty Donnellan writes the Hannah Scrabble Mystery series which started in 2014 and is set in 1978. Meet Hannah Scrabble, bullheaded farmer, entrepreneur, skating teacher, spy thriller author and town snoop. It's 1978, before cellphones and…

Hattie Davish Mysteries Series

Anna Loan-Wilsey writes the Hattie Davish Mysteries series which is set in various cities in the late 19th century. It features traveling secretary and dilettante detective Hattie Davish-- a private secretary to the late 19th century's rich and…

Juliette Abbott Regency Mystery Series

Marilyn Clay writes the Juliette Abbott Regency Mystery Series which is set in England. It features clever, young Miss Juliette Abbott as amateur sleuth. The first book in the series, MURDER AT MORLAND MANOR takes place on a large country estate…

Kate Shackleton Mystery Series

This series started in 2009 and is set in England. It features Kate Shackleton who is a World War I widow that takes up sleuthing. Although Kate Shackleton's husband is listed as MIA, she hasn't given up hope. Meanwhile, she assists others in…

Lady Emily Mystery Series

Tasha Alexander writes the Lady Emily Mystery series which started in 2005 and is set in Victorian England. It features Lady Emily. Emily is a young and beautiful widow. Emily discovers foul play when her husband dies on an African hunting…

Leonardo da Vinci Mystery Series

This series started in 2008 and is set in Italy. It features Leonardo da Vinci and his assistant Dino in 14th century Italy. The second book in this series, Portrait of a Lady won the 2009 FLORIDA BOOK AWARDS.


Lucy Campion Mysteries

Susanna Calkins writes the Lucy Campion Mystery series which started in April 2013 and takes place in seventeenth-century England. It features English chambermaid Lucy Campion who is serving in the household of the local magistrate. Mystery and…

Lute Player Mystery Series

Joyce Elson Moore writes the Lute Player Mystery Series which starts in August 2015 and is set 17th-century Stockholm, Sweden. It features reluctant amateur sleuth, the Swedish queen’s lute player.


Maggie Hope Mystery Series

Susan Elia MacNeal writes the Maggie Hope Mystery series which started in and is set in 1940 England. It features American, Maggie Hope. She graduated at the top of her college class and possesses all the skills of the finest minds in British…