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Alphabet Soup Mystery Series

Erica Whelton writes the Alphabet Soup Mystery Series which started in February 2024. It features Chef Jessica Vasquez and her new restaurant: The Crock Pot.


The Cop and Inspector Mysteries Series

Joanne Pence writes the The Cop and Inspector Mysteries Series which started in December 2023 and is set in San Francisco, CA.  It features Angelina Amalfi, a gourmet cook who is also the assistant to a famous chef with his own television…

Charcuterie Shop Mystery Series

J.C. Eaton writes the Charcuterie Shop Mystery Series which started in July 2022 and is set in Arizona.   It features former business tech turned charcuterie chef  Katie Aubrey and a flamboyant, self-absorbed ghost occupying…

Caribbean Kitchen Mystery Series

Raquel V. Reyes writes the Caribbean Kitchen Mystery Series which started in October 2021 and is set in Miami, Florida.  It features Cuban-American cooking show star Miriam Quiñones-Smith. Food anthropologist Miriam Quiñones-Smith's move from New…

Cape Cod Foodie Mystery Series

Amy Pershing writes the Cape Cod Foodie Mystery Series which started in February 2021 and is set in Massachusetts.   It features foodie & Chef Samantha Barnes. Sam inherits her Great-Aunt Ida’s house on the Cape and lands a job writing…

Hill Country Cozy Mystery Series

Lucy Jackson writes the Hill Country Cozy Mystery series which started in March 2020 and is set in Texas.  It features high-end chef Fancy Bohannon who is high tailing it home to small-town Texas to escape a professional scandal. She…

Alaskan Diner Mystery Series

Elizabeth Logan writes the Alaskan Diner Mystery Series which is set in Alaska and started in May 2020.  When Chef Charlie Cooke is offered the chance to leave San Francisco and return home to Elkview, Alaska, to take over her mother…

Tuscan Cooking School Mystery Series

Stephanie Cole writes the Tuscan Cooking School Mystery Series which is set in Tuscany, Italy and started in February 2020. American Chef Nell Valenti is offered a chance to move to Tuscany to help transform an aging villa into a farm-to-table…

An Undercover Dish Mystery Series

Julia Buckley writes the An Undercover Dish Mystery series which started in October 2015 and is set in Illinois. It features chef Lilah Drake’s who owns the Covered Dish. Her business discreetly provides the residents of Pine Haven, Illinois,…

Angelina Amalfi Mystery Series

Joanne Pence writes the Angelina Amalfi Mystery series which started in 1993 and is set in San Francisco, CA. It features Angelina Amalfi, a gourmet chef and food writer with enough sass and spunk for two. Angelina always finds a murder or two to…

Angie & Friends Food & Spirits Series

Joanne Pence writes the Angie & Friends Food & Spirits Series which is set in San Francisco, CA. It features Angelina Amalfi, a gourmet chef and food writer with enough sass and spunk for two. The books also feature story lines with…

Biscuit Bowl Food Truck Mystery Series

J.J. Cook writes the Biscuit Bowl Food Truck Mystery series which started in April 2014 and is set in Mobile, Alabama. It features Zoe Chase. She has always wanted to own her own restaurant—but first, she’ll have to serve up a heaping helping of…

Chef Maurice Mysteries Series

J.A. Lang writes the Chef Maurice Mysteries series which started in April 2015 and is set in the Cotswolds, England. It features Chef Maurice, proprietor of Le Cochon Rouge in the Cotswold village of Beakley. “They say one should never trust a…

Chef-to-Go Mystery Series

Denise Swanson writes the Chef-to-Go Mystery Series which started in April 2018. It features Dani who has hit a dead-end in her career. She unexpectedly inherits an enormous old house in a quaint college town. This gives her the perfect…

Cook-Off Mystery Series

Devon Delaney writes the Cook-Off Mystery Series which is set in Connecticut and started in April 2018. After a short-lived marriage, Sherry Frazzelle is living single life to the fullest in her little Connecticut town, accompanied by her Jack…

Cozy Mystery Recipe Book

Nancy Lynn Jarvis is the editor of 'Cozy Food: 128 Cozy Mystery Writers Share Their Favorite Recipes'. This is a collection of recipes from 128 cozy mystery writers. This isn't a series... it's a recipe book. I had to create a series for this…

Domestic Diva Series

Krista Davis writes the Domestic Diva Series which started in 2008 and takes place in Virginia. It features event planner Sophie Winston. She constantly encounters her rival, lifestyle columnist, TV celebrity Natasha Smith who have been rivals…

Hamptons Murder Mystery Series

Carrie Doyle (Carrie Doyle Karasyov) writes the Hamptons Murder Mystery Series which is set in the Hamptons in New York. It features renowned chef and Inn owner Antonia Bingham. In this series Carrie brings readers behind the scenes for an…

Hemlock Falls

Sarah Quilliam, manager of the Hemlock Falls Inn, and her chef sister, Meg live in the state of New York and solve murders. Books are still being written for this series, however the series started in 1994 and some of the earlier books are not…

Italian Chef Mystery Series

Catherine Bruns writes the Italian Chef Mystery Series which started in August 2019. It features Chef Tessa Esposito. Tessa is struggling to get back on her feet following her husband's fatal accident. She turns to her first love -- cooking.


Kensington Palace Chef Mystery Series

Nell Hampton (aka Nancy Parra & Nancy Coco) writes the Kensington Palace Chef Mystery Series which started in April 2017 and is set in England. Chef Carrie Ann Cole is about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime--an assignment as the new…

Sadie Hoffmiller Culinary Mystery Series

This series started in 2009 and takes place in Colorado. It features Sadie Hoffmiller, a retired widow with nothing to do but cook, garden and watch her neighbors. Sadie is a smart and spunky amateur sleuth. Even though Sadie's home base is in…

Santa Fe Cafe Mystery Series

Ann Myers writes the Santa Fe Cafe Mystery series which starts in September 2015 and is set in New Mexico. It features Tres Amigas Café chef Rita Lafitte. Rita teams up with her octogenarian boss, Flori, the town's most celebrated snoop to solve…

Silver Sisters Mystery Series

Morgan St. James writes the Silver Sisters Mystery series. It features identical twin sisters, over-the-hill flower child from Alaska, Goldie Silver and popular syndicated advice to the lovelorn columnist, Godiva Olivia DuBois, a wealthy Beverly…

Southern Cake Baker Mystery Series

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.


Whitehouse Chef Series

Never let them see you sweat -- that's White House Assistant Chef Olivia Paras's motto, which is pretty hard to honor in the most important kitchen in the world. She's hell-bent on earning her dream job, Executive Chef.


Yarn Retreat Mystery Series

Betty Hechtman writes the Yarn Retreat Mystery series which started in July 2013 and takes place in northern California. It features Dessert chef Casey Feldstein who doesn’t know a knitting needle from a crochet hook. But after her aunt dies…