Sherry Harris writes the Chloe Jackson, Sea Glass Saloon Mystery Series which is set in Florida and started in June 2020. With Chicago winters in the rearview mirror, Chloe Jackson is making good on a promise: help her late friend’s…
Restaurant Themed Cozy Mystery Series
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…
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…
Susannah Hardy writes the Greek to Me Mysteries series which started in January 2015 and is set in New York. Georgie Nikolopatos manages the Bonaparte House, a Greek restaurant and historic landmark in beautiful upstate New York rumored to possess…
Shari Randall writes the Lobster Shack Mystery Series which is set in Maine and started in January 2018. It features Allie Larkin who was living her dream as a ballet dancer when a bad fall put her out of business. Now she’s back home in Mystic…
Jessica Beck writes the Classic Diner Mystery series which started in 2012 and is set in North Carolina. It features husband and wife team Greg and Victoria who run The Charming Moose Diner in Jasper Fork, North Carolina, along with the rest of her…
A.L. Herbert writes the Mahalia Watkins Soul Food series which started in February 2015 and is set in Maryland. Welcome to Mahalia's Sweet Tea--the finest soul food restaurant in Prince George's County, Maryland. In between preparing her famous…
Tina Kashian writes the Kebab Kitchen Mystery Series which started in February 2018 and is set in New Jersey. It features Lucy Berberian who quits her Philadelphia law firm and heads home to Ocean Crest, New Jersey. She knows what she’s getting—…
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…
Dianne Harmon writes the Cedar Bay Mystery series which is set in Oregon. It features widower Kelly who owns Kelly's Koffee Shop. Follow Kelly, her boxer dog, Rebel, and her boyfriend, Mike, the county sheriff as they solve murders in the small…
Vivien Chien writes the Noodle Shop Mystery Series which started in March 2018. Welcome to the Ho-Lee Noodle House, where the Chinese food is to die for. . . The last place Lana Lee thought she would ever end up is back at her family’s restaurant…
The Cackleberry Club series centers around three women - Suzanne a widow, Petra whose husband has Alzheimer's, and Toni in the midst of a divorce. Together they run a restaurant/book store/craft store and solve murders.
Alex Erickson writes the Bookstore Cafe Mystery series which started in May 2015 and is set in Ohio. It features bookstore/cafe owners Krissy Hancock and her best friend Vicki. Together they solve murders.
Lynn Cahoon writes the Farm-to-Fork Mystery Series which started in March 2018 and is set in Idaho. Angie Turner hopes her new farm-to-table restaurant can be a fresh start in her old hometown in rural Idaho. But when a goat dairy farmer is murdered…
Maya Corrigan writes the Five-Ingredient Mystery series which started in November 2014 and is set in Virginia. It features Val Deniston who is haunted by the car accident that ended her career as a cookbook publicist. She trades in the chaos of New…
Linda Reilly writes the Deep Fried Mystery series which started in May 2015. It features Talia Marby. She’s returned to her hometown and is happy to help her dear friend Bea Lambert by working at Lambert’s Fish & Chips, a cornerstone of a…
Bree Baker writes the Seaside Café Mystery Series which started in July 2018. It features Everly Swan who has moved back to her seaside hometown and the proud owner of a little iced tea shop and café right on the beach, things are finally…
Rosie Genova writes the Italian Kitchen Mystery series which starts in October 2013 and is set in New Jersey. It features whodunit writer Victoria Rienzi. She is getting back to her roots by working at her family’s Italian restaurant. But in between…
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…
Sarah Fox writes the Literary Pub Mystery Series which started in December 2018 and is set in Vermont. Booklover Sadie Coleman knows that in life, as in fiction, the right setting can make a world of difference. The small town of Shady Creek,…
Kylie Logan writes the Chili Cook-Off Mystery series which starts in October 2013. It takes place all over the United States but I categorized it in Illinois because the main character is from Chicago. It features Maxie Pierce who is so done with…
Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell) writes the Country Store Mystery series which starts in November 2015 and is set in Indiana. It features Robbie Jordan and Pans ‘N Pancakes, her country store restaurant in fictional South Lick, Indiana. When she…
Kate Young writes the Marygene Brown Series which started in May 2019 and is set in Georgia. For generations, the women of the Brown family on Peach Cove Island have been known for their Southern sass and sweet homemade desserts at their beloved…
Allyson K. Abbott, AKA Beth Amos and Annelise Ryan (Mattie Winston Series) writes the Mack's Bar Mystery series which started in August 2013 and is set in Wisconsin. It features bar owner, Mack Dalton. She has a nose for trouble—literally. A…
Jessica Beck writes the Cast Iron Cooking Mystery series which started in May 2015 and is set in . It features fraternal twins, Annie and Pat and their sister Kathleen who is the town sheriff. The twins run the Cast Iron Store and Grill and solve…
Cate Conte writes the Cat Cafe Mystery Series which is set on an Island, just off the coast of Massachusetts. Maddie James has arrived in Daybreak Island, just off the coast of Massachusetts, eager to settle down and start her own business—and maybe…
This series started in 2010. It takes place in TN and features Gwen Silver, also known as Nashville Katz. She is recently divorced and leaves New York because she inherited Murray's Jewish Deli in Nashville.
Rebecca Adler writes the Taste of Texas Mystery series which starts in December 2015 and is set in Texas. It features Reporter turned Tex-Mex waitress Josie Callahan. After losing her newspaper job in Austin and having her former fiancé unfriend her…
Jennie Brown writes the Cafe Prose Mystery Series which started in June 2019 and is set in Pennsylvania. It features thirty-three-year-old Talbot Meadows who has thrown herself into her work as a rare materials appraiser at the prestigious Library…
This series takes place in Snowflake, Vermont near a ski resort. This series started in August 2012. It features Lucky Jamieson who inherits her parents' soup shop, By the Spoonful. Lucy has many decisions to make. She wonders whether she should…