Bakery & Desserts Themed Cozy Mystery Series
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Carol Grace (aka Carol Culver) writes the Pie Shop Mystery Series. This series started in 2011 and is set in California. It features Hanna Denton who has returned home to Crystal Cove, California, to take over her Grannie Louises' pie shop. The…
Amanda Flower (aka Isabella Alan) writes the Amish Candy Shop Mystery Series which started in August 2017 and is set in Ohio. Bailey King is living the sweet life as assistant chocolatier at world-famous JP Chocolates in New York City. But just…
Susan Bernhardt writes the Kay Driscoll Mystery Series which is set in Wisconsin and started in January 2014. It features fifty-something Kay Driscoll, a retired nurse and newcomer to the insular town of Sudbury Falls in northern Wisconsin. With…
Ellie Alexander writes A Bakeshop Mystery series the which started in December 2014 and is set in Oregon. Welcome to Torte—a friendly, small-town family bake shop where the treats are so good that, sometimes, it’s criminal… After graduating from…
Agatha Frost writes the Peridale Cafe Mystery Series which started in 2017 and is set in England. It features soon to be divorced Julia South who moves back to her hometown and starts the Peridale Cafe.
This series started in 2011 and takes place in Chatterley Heights, Maryland. It features Olivia Greyson and her best friend, Maddie Briggs. Together they own The Gingerbread House which is on the first floor of Livie's Victorian home. Their shop…
Lyndsey Cole writes the Black Cat Cafe Mystery series which is set in New Hampshire. It features Annie Fisher who flees Cooper, NY and moves to her hometown of Catfish Cove, NH. Annie immediately has a place to live, a job at her Aunt Leona’s new…
Kirsten Weiss writes the Pie Town Mystery Series which started in October 2017 and is set in California. It features Valentine Harris who moves to the coastal California town of San Nicholas, expecting to start a new life with her fiancé. Five…