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This series started in 2010 and takes place in Arizona. Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura are finally living out their dream as the proud owners of the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery. Solve mysteries.

Karen Rose Smith writes the Daisy's Tea Garden Mystery Series which started in December 2017 and is set in Pennsylvania. In an old Victorian in the heart of Pennsylvania’s Amish country, Daisy Swanson and her aunt Iris serve soups, scones, and…

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.

Sally Berneathy writes the Death by Chocolate Mystery series which is set in Kansas City, Missouri. It features owner of the store Death by Chocolate , Lindsay Powell. You'll discover mystery, murder and mayhem along with quirky characters like…

Ginger Bolton (aka Janet Bolin) writes the Deputy Donut Mystery Series which started in January 2018 and is set in Wisconsin. It features Emily Westhill who runs the best donut shop in Fallingbrook, Wisconsin, alongside her retired police chief…

This series takes place in a small town in North Carolina. It features Suzanne Hart who owns a donut shop, Donut Hearts. Suzanne is recently divorced and cashed in her settlement to move back to her hometown and open this shop.

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…

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…

Daryl Wood Gerber writes the French Bistro Mystery Series which started in November 2017 and is set in California. It’s always been Mimi Rousseau’s dream to open her own bistro, but it seems beyond her grasp since she’s been chased back home to…

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.

Carol Durand and Summer Prescott write the Frosted Love Cozy Mystery series which started in 2015 and is set in New Orleans, Louisiana and Florida. It features Melissa Gladstone (Missy), who owns Missy's Muffins and More, a family muffin and…

Christine DeSmet writes the Fudge Shop Mystery Series which starts in September 2013 and is set in Wisconsin. It features Ava Oosterling who operates a copper-kettle fudge shop on the docks of Fishers’ Harbor, Wisconsin. Ava wants to make fudge…

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.

Dani Baker writes the Hansel & Pretzel Mystery Series which is set in Kitchener, Ontario. It features baker Linn Sommer who works at the German bakery Hansel & Pretzel. There are three books in the series that were originally written in…

Stella St. Claire writes the Happy Tails Dog Walking Mystery Series. It features Olivia Rickard who would kill to keep everything just the way it is. She’s got a gorgeous boyfriend who loves her, a supportive sister to lean on, and a dog walking…

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…

Summer Prescott writes the Key Lime Culinary Mystery series which is set in the Florida keys and started in 2015. It features pie shop owner Marilyn and her quirky daughter.

Leighann Dobbs writes the Lexy Baker Bakery Cozy Mystery Series which started in 2012. It features Lexy Baker who opens up her dream bakery. She's gotten rid of her cheating boyfriend and settled into her grandmothers house with her perky dog…

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…

This series started in 2012 and is set in Georgia. It features Katie Lightfoot. Kate's aunt and uncle open the Honeybee Bakery in Savannah and she enthusiastically agrees to join them. But then she notices Aunt Lucy is adding mysterious herbs to…

Victoria Hamilton writes the Merry Muffin Mystery Series which started in September 2013 and takes place in New York. It features expert muffin baker Merry Wynter. Merry is making a fresh start in small-town Autumn Vale, New York, in the mansion…

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…

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…

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…

J A Whiting writes the Paxton Park Mystery series which started in September 2017 and is set in Massachusetts. After surviving a terrible car crash in Boston, twenty-eight-year old Shelly Taylor accepts a part-time job as a baker at a mountain…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…