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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…

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…

Clueless Cook/Jordan McAllister Mystery Series

Liz Lipperman aka Liz Roth writes the Clueless Cook Mystery Series (Jordan McAllister Mystery series) which started in 2011 and is set in Texas. It features Jordan McAllister who is an inexperienced Newspaper Food Critic. Liz Lipperman also…

Cookbook Nook Mystery Series

Daryl Wood Gerber aka Avery Ames writes the Cookbook Nook Mystery series which started in July 2013 and takes place in California. It features Jenna Hart who is an avid reader, admitted foodie, and owner of a cookbook store in picturesque coastal…

Dinner Club Mystery Series

Linda Wilken (aka Erika Chase) writes the Dinner Club Mystery Series which started in July 2016. It features Event planner Jennifer “J.J.” Tanner. J.J. Tanner is an event planner by day and a burgeoning foodie by night. She’s recently joined a…

Farmer's Daughter Mystery Series

Peg Cochran writes the Farmer's Daughter Mystery Series which starts in September 2016 and is set in Michigan. On her blog, The Farmer’s Daughter, Shelby McDonald is growing her audience as she posts recipes, gardening tips, and her experiences…

Food Blogger Mystery Series

Debra Sennefelder writes the Food Blogger Mystery Series which started in March 2018. Leaving behind a failed career as a magazine editor and an embarrassing stint on a reality baking show, newly divorced lifestyle entrepreneur Hope Early thought…

Food Festival Mystery Series

Penny Pike (aka Penny Warner) writes the Food Festival Mystery series which started in August 2014 and is set in California. It features restaurant reviewer Darcy Burnett who gets served a pink slip from the San Francisco Chronicle. Now she needs…

Gourmet Girl Mystery Series

The Gourmet Girl Mystery Series started in 2007 and takes place in Boston, Massachusetts. It features Chloe Carter, food connoisseur, aimless grad student, and resilient survivor of failed romances . . . Chloe Carter is forever on a quest for the…

Hayley Powell Food and Cocktail Mysteries

This series started in 2012 and takes place in Bar Harbor, Maine. It features single mom, Hayley Powell. Hayley is the new food writer at the Island Times... the only problem is she's an office manager, not a writer. Hayley needs the money so…

Key West Food Critic

Lucy Burdette writes the Key West Food Critic series which started in 2012 and takes place in Key West Florida. It features Hayley Snow. Hayley Snow's life always revolved around food. But when she applies to be a food critic for a Key West style…

Mint Julep Mysteries

Sharman Ramsey writes the Mint Julep Mysteries which started in 2014. It is set on Waverly, a plantation in Cox County, Alabama, and introduces a multicultural community unique to the region. Two newly widowed sisters, Dabney Palmer Rankin and,…

Noshes Up North Mystery Series

Mary Grace Murphy writes the Noshes Up North Mystery series which started in January 2014 and is set in Wisconsin. It features Nell Bailey, a retired teacher who struggles with her weight. She decides to start a food blog and restaurant review…

Supper Club Series

J.B. Stanely aka Ellery Adams writes the Supper Club Mystery series. James Professor Puff Henry may as well have loser stamped on his forehead. Divorced, overweight, shy, and living at home, he relies on books and his favorite snack -- cheese…