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Down South Cafe Mystery Series

Gayle Leeson (aka Gayle Trent) writes the Down South Cafe Mystery Series which starts in June 2016 and is set in Virginia. It features aspiring chef and small-town Virginia native Amy Flowers. She is ready to open her own café offering old-…

Eliza Gordon Mystery Series

Amy Beth Arkawy writes the Eliza Gordon Mystery Series which started in 2011 and is set in New York. It features former soap opera star, Eliza Gordon who has moved to a small town and now owns, Soup Opera, where Eliza Gordon is serving up more…

Ethnic Eats Mystery Series

Kylie Logan writes the Ethnic Eats Mystery Series which starts in May 2016 and is set in Ohio. It features Laurel Inwood former personal chef to a Hollywood movie star who finds herself jobless. Laurel Inwood returns to Hubbard, Ohio to help her…

Farm-to-Fork Mystery Series

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…

Five-Ingredient Mystery Series

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…

Greek to Me Mystery Series

Susannah Hardy (AKA Jane Haertel) 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…

Italian Kitchen Mystery Series

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…

Italian Restaurant Mystery Series

Shelley Costa writes the Italian Restaurant Mystery Series which started in May 2013 and takes place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It features thirty-two year old Eve Angelotta who is the head chef at Miracoloher, her family's Italian restaurant…

Kebab Kitchen Mystery Series

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—…

Literary Pub Mystery Series

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,…

Lobster Shack Mystery Series

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…

Mack's Bar Mystery Series

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…

Mahalia Watkins Soul Food Series

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…

Marygene Brown Series

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…

Murder in an Irish Village Mystery Series

Carlene O'Connor writes the Murder in an Irish Village Mystery series which starts in February 2016 and is set in Ireland. It features twenty-two-year-old Siobhán O'Sullivan who runs the family bistro, Natalie's Bistro, named for her mother,…

Mystery a la Mode Series

This series which takes place in Texas. It features Tallulah Jones who is recently divorced and struggling to keep her ice cream store Remember the A La Mode open.


Noodle Shop Mystery Series

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…

Pancake House Mystery Series

Sarah Fox wrties the Pancake House Mystery Series which started in 2016 and is set in Washington. It features Marley McKinney. When her aging cousin, Jimmy, is hospitalized with pneumonia, she agrees to help run his pancake house while he…

Peridale Cafe Mystery Series

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.


Poppy Markham Culinary Cop Mystery Series

Robin Allen writes the Poppy Markham Culinary Cop Mystery series which started in 2011 and is set in Austin, Texas. It features Poppy Markham who practically grew up at the family restaurant in Austin, Texas, and, until recently, worked as a sous…

Sally Solari Mystery Series

Leslie Karst writes the Sally Solari Mystery Series which is set in Northern California. It features attorney Sally Solari. After losing her mother to cancer, Sally Solari quits her job as an attorney to help her dad run his old-style Italian…

Seaside Café Mystery Series

Bree Baker (aka Julie Anne Lindsey) 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,…

Taste of Texas Mystery Series

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…

The Spice Shop Mysteries

Gail Oust writes The Spice Shop Mystery series which started in December 2013 and is set in Georgia. It features recently divorced, Piper Prescott who starts the Spice It Up store in a small town in Georgia.


Whitstable Pearl Mystery Series

Julie Wassmer writes the Whitstable Pearl Mystery series which started in 2015 and is set in England. It features 30-year-old seafood restaurant owner Pearl Nolan. She always wanted to be a detective but life, and a teenage pregnancy, got in the…