Series by Category
Newspaper & Reporter & Writer Themed Cozy Mystery Series
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This series started in 2002 and is set in Los Angeles, CA. It features Jaine Austen who owns a writing service-- This Pen for Hire-- out of her apartment. She writes brochures, resumes, letters, and personal ads. She shares her apartment with her…
Jo-Ann Recoppa writes the Jersey Girl Cozy Mystery series which is set in New Jersey. It features reporter Colleen Caruso who was just a lowly stringer at her local newspaper until she tripped over a dead body while out on her morning jog. Now…
Peggy Ehrhart writes the Knit & Nibble Mystery Series which started in March 2018 and is set in New Jersey. Since her only daughter left for college, widow Pamela Paterson has kept busy as associate editor of a craft magazine and founder of…
Lucy Stone, is a reporter in the fictional town of Tinker’s Cove, Maine, where she lives in an old farmhouse (quite similar to mine on Cape Cod!) with her restoration carpenter husband Bill and four children. These books are holiday-based.
Terry Ambrose writes the McKenna Mystery series which is set in Hawaii. It features journalist and former skip tracer Wilson McKenna who retires to Hawaii and finds himself solving murders.
Jess Lourey writes the Murder-by-Month mystery series which started in 2006 and is set in Minnesota. It features Mira James who has been taking it easy since college graduation--too easy. Due to a dead-end job and a cheating boyfriend, the Twin…
This series started in 2008 and features Mallory Marlowe, a recent widow who is a travel writer. There are two books in this series and the 2nd book was published in 2009. I wrote to the author and she said this series has ended. I added this…
E.J. Copperman writes the Mysterious Detective Mystery Series which starts in June 2016. It features mystery writer Rachel Goldman. The main character in her books features Duffy Madison, consultant to the county prosecutor’s office, helps find…
Ilsa Evans writes the Nell Forrest Mystery series which is set in Australia. It features journalist Nell Forrest-- a (slightly younger) Miss Marple. For Nell Forrest, life in the little town of Majic is not going smoothly. One of her five…
T.C. LoTempio writes the Nick and Nora Mystery series which started in December 2014 and is set in California. It features crime reporter Nora Charles. She doesn’t believe in fate, even if she is a crime reporter who shares a name with a…
Kate Dyer-Seeley (AKA Ellie Alexander) writes the Pacific Northwest Mysteries series which started in June 2014 and is set in Oregon. Portland, Oregon, is the perfect fit for someone like Meg Reed. It’s a city with a small town feel, where she…
Dane McCaslin writes the Proverbial Crime Mystery series which started in 2015 and is set in New York. It features two British expats, Caro Layton-Browning, an accomplished writer of mysteries and her husband Gregory... together they solve…
Hannah Reed writes the Scottish Highlands Mystery Series which started in October 2014 and is set in Scotland. It features writer Eden Elliott. After the recent death of her mother and the dissolution of her marriage, thirty-something Eden…
G G Collins writes the The Taylor Browning Cozy Mystery Series which started in October 2017 and is set in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It features Taylor Browning, the new mystery editor at Endicott Publishing.
Sara J. Henry writes the Troy Chance Mystery series which started in 2011 and takes place in New York. It features Troy Chance, a young journalist who lives in Lake Placid New York. There are many twists and turns in the novels in this series.…
Hannah Dennison writes the Vicky Hill Exclusive Mystery series which started in 2008 and is set in England. It features Vicky Hill, a suffocatingly single reporter whose attempts at finding the right man and the scoop of a lifetime take a…
Julia Buckley writes the Writer's Apprentice Mystery Series which started in July 2016 and is set in Indiana. It features writer apprentice Lena London. In the first book Camilla Graham’s bestselling suspense novels inspired Lena London to become…
Kathi Daley writes the Writers Retreat Southern Seashore Series which started in May 2017. It features Jillian Hanford who uses the help of local writers to solve murder cases.
Connie di Marco writes the Zodiac Mystery Series which starts in June 2016 and is set in San Francisco. It features San Francisco astrologer Julia Bonatti. In the first book Julia's life is turned upside down when she becomes the target of the…