Lynn Cahoon writes the Kitchen Witch Mystery Series which started in August 2020 and is set in Idaho. It features kitchen witch Mia Malone who moves to her Grandmother's quirky Idaho hometown, where magic is an open secret and…
Bakery & Desserts Themed Cozy Mystery Series
Laura Jensen Walker writes the Bookish Baker Mystery Series which started in August 2020 and is set in Wisconsin. It features mystery writer and baker Teddie St. John and her American Eskimo dog, Gracie.
Vicki Delany writes the Tea by the Sea Mystery Series which started in July 2020 and is set in Massachusetts. As the proud proprietor and head pastry chef of Tea by the Sea, a traditional English tearoom on the picturesque bluffs of Cape Cod,…
Joy Ann Ribar writes the Deep Lakes Mystery Series which is set in Wisconsin and started in June 2019. It features Francine "Frankie" Champagne. The 40-something owner of Bubble and Bake — bakery by day, wine lounge by night —…
Abby Collette writes the Ice Cream Parlor Mystery Series which is set in Ohio and started in May 2020. Recent MBA grad Bronwyn Crewse has just taken over her family's ice cream shop in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and she's going back to…
Kaye George writes the Vintage Sweets Mystery Series which is set in Texas and started in March 2020.
In the picturesque tourist town of Fredericksburg, Texas, Tally Holt has opened a new candy store with a vintage twist, but there’s no…
Ellie Grant (aka Joyce and Jim Lavene) write the Pie in the Sky Mystery series which started in September 2013 and is set in North Carolina. It features Maggie Grady who works in her Aunt Clara's Pie Shop. Maggie is forced to retreat from her high-…
This series takes place in a small town in Minnesota and started in 2000. Hannah Swenson owns a cookie / bakery shop and solves murders. The books are always themed around a type of dessert.
Karoline Barrett writes the Bread & Batter Mystery series which started in November 2015 and is set in New York. It features co-owners of Bread and Batter Bakery, Molly Tyler and Olivia Williams. Molly is recently divorced and looking for a…
Cynthia Baxter writes the Lickety Splits Mystery Series which started in March 2018 and is set in New York. Kate McKay had doubts about swapping her high-powered life in Manhattan for Wolfert’s Roost, the quaint Hudson Valley village where she grew…
All the Chocoholic Mysteries feature Lee McKinney, a Texas beauty queen transplanted to a Michigan resort, where she is business manager for TenHuis Chocolade, a business owned by her aunt, Nettie TenHuis. The setting of the Chocoholic books is the…
Elizabeth Lee writes the Nut House Mystery Series which started in February 2014 and is set in Texas. It features Lindy Blanchard who has devoted five years of her life to saving the pecan trees on her family’s farm. Lindy works at the family store…
Kristi Abbott writes the Popcorn Shop Mystery series which starts in March 2016 and is set in Ohio. It features Rebecca Anderson. After a failed marriage to a celebrity chef, she’s ready for her life to open up and expand. She has returned to her…
Maymee Bell (aka Tonya Kappes) writes the Southern Cake Baker Mystery Series which started in November 2018 and is set in Kentucky. It features pastry chef, Sophia Cummings.
This series takes place in Texas and features retired schoolteacher Phyllis Newsom and her friends-- all retired teachers. She loves to bake and solve murders.
Mary Jane Clark writes the Wedding Cake Mystery Series (Piper Donovan) which started in 2011 and takes place in New Jersey. It features Piper Donovan, a struggling actress and professional Cake decorator in her family's bakery business.
Laura Bradford (aka Elizabeth Lynn Casey) writes the Emergency Dessert Squad Mystery Series which starts in June 2016. It features failing bakery owner Winnie Johnson. Winnie had hoped to be rescued by an inheritance from her wealthy friend and…
Darci Hannah writes the Very Cherry Mystery Series which started in 2018 and is set in Wisconsin. It features Whitney Bloom who runs the family orchard and inn business, the Cherry Orchard Inn. Whitney Bloom was living in Chicago and was fired from…
This series started in 2011 and takes place in New Orleans. It features pastry chef Rita Lucero. She leaves New Mexico and goes to New Orleans to get her husband Philippe to sign divorce papers..... in the first book in the series-- she finds him…
When the going gets tough, Ella Mae LaFaye bakes pies. So when she catches her husband cheating in New York, she heads back home to Havenwood, Georgia, where she can drown her sorrows in fresh fruit filling and flakey crust. But her pies aren't just…
Lilly York writes the Willow Crier Mystery Series which started in 2015 and is set in Oklahoma. It features Willow who moves south when she inherits her grandfather’s ice cream shop. From the slow southern dialect to the crazy drivers, Willow finds…
Yvonne Rediger writes the Musgrave Landing Mystery Series and is set in Canada. Jane Westcott has come home to the village of Musgrave Landing and nothing will be the same again. She has inherited her aunt's cafe and a good thing too. Her personal…
Nancy Coco (aka Nancy Parra) writes the Candy Coated Mystery series which started in November 2013 and is set in Mackinac Island, Michigan. It features Alice McMurphy, owner of the “Historic McMurphy Hotel and Fudge Shop. The old Victorian Inn…
Valerie Horowitz writes the The Village Cooks Mystery series which started in 2013 and is set in New Jersey. It features Bonnie Emerson, daughter of a former U.S. president who owns the Village Cooks cookbook/cookware shop.
Sharon Farrow writes the Berry Basket Mystery Series which started in October 2016 and is set in Michigan. It features Marlee Jacob who returns to the sandy shores of Oriole Point, Michigan and now runs the Berry Basket, a berry emporium with…
Eve Calder writes the Cookie House Mystery Series which started in July 2019 and is set in Florida. Kate McGuire’s life was sweet in Manhattan before she lost her restaurant job and fiancé both. But sometimes that’s just the way the cookie…
Mary Kennedy writes the Dream Club Mystery series which started in September 2014 and is set in Savannah, Georgia. It features business consultant Taylor Blake who has returned to Savannah to help her sister Allison turn her dream of running an old-…
This series was started in 2008 and takes place in Virginia. It features newly divorced Daphne Martin who moves back to her hometown and opens up a cake decorating company, Daphne's Delectable Cakes.
Winnie Archer (aka Misa Ramirez & Melissa Bourbon) writes the Bread Shop Mystery Series which started in February 2017 and is set in California. It features struggling photographer Ivy Culpepper. She has lots of soul-searching to do since…
Isis Crawford aka Barbara Block, writes the Mystery with Recipes Series which started in 2003 and is set in New York. It features sisters Bernie & Libby Simmons. They own a catering and bake shop, A Little Taste of Heaven. Tender hearted…