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Jacqueline Winspear writes the Maisie Dobbs Mystery series which started in 2003 and is set in early 20th century England. It features Psychologist and Investigator Maisie Dobbs. As a young girl Maisie worked as a servant in a Belgravia mansion.…

Eliza Casey writes the Manor Cat Mystery Series which started in November 2019 and is set in early 1900 England. Danby Hall is the only home Lady Cecilia Bates has ever known. Despite the rigid rules of etiquette and her mother the Countess of…

Mignon Ballard writes the Miss Dimple Kilpatrick Mystery Series which started in 2010 and takes place in Georgia. It features revered first grade teacher, Miss Dimple Kilpatrick, during the years of World War II in the small town of Elderberry…

Molly Murphy always knew she’d end up in trouble, just as her mother predicted. So, when she commits murder in self-defense, she flees her cherished Ireland, and her identity, for the anonymous shores of America.

Margaret Dumas writes the Movie Palace Mystery Series which started in February 2019 and is set in San Francisco, CA. It feautres Nora Paige whose movie-star husband leaves her for his latest co-star. She flees Hollywood to take refuge in San…

Inspector Witherspoon's dedicated housekeeper, Mrs. Jeffries keeps things running smoothly and is quite clever at putting Witherspoon on the right track in case after case. In fact, Mrs. Jeffries' polished detective skills prove once again that…

Shelley Freydont writes the Newport Gilded Age Mystery series which started in August 2015 and is set in Rhode Island. In 1895, the height of the Gilded Age, the social elite spend their summers in Newport, Rhode Island. Within the walls of their…

Michael Nethercott writes the O’Nelligan and Plunkett mystery series which started in October 2013 and is set in mid-1950’s Connecticut. It features Mr. O’Nelligan and Lee Plunkett, an unlikely pair of sleuths... Mr. O'Nelligan is an Irish-born…

This series started in 1993 and is set in England in 1906. It features Cecily Sinclair. She is a recent widow and runs the Pennyfoot Hotel... a seaside hotel left to her by her husband. Cecily is very forward for her time-- smokes cigars, drives…

Barbara Jean Coast a.k.a. Andrea Taylor & Heather Shkuratoff write the Poppy Cove Mystery series. It started in 2013 and takes place in 1950s California. The series is loosely based on Santa Barbara in the late 50′s, early 60′s and revolves…

Rhys Bowen mystery author and Agatha Award winner debuts a 1930s London mystery series, featuring a penniless twenty-something member of the extended royal family. Her ridiculously long name is Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, daughter…

This series is set in Victorian England and features Thomas Pitt a Police Inspector and his wife Charlotte. This series started in 1979 but there are e-books and paperbacks available.... even for the first book in the series. Even though Thomas…

Please view the list of books in this series below. Kate Parker writes the Victorian Bookshop Mystery series which started in December 2013 and is set in Victorian England. At 30, Victorian bookshop owner Georgia Fenchurch knows she’s considered…