Amatuer Sleuth Themed Cozy Mystery Series
Richard Osman writes The Thursday Murder Club Mystery Series which started in September 2020 and is set in Kent, England. In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together…
Catherine Coles writes the Tommy & Evelyn Christie Mystery Series which started in July 2020 and is set in England. This series takes place in the 1920s. It features Evelyn and Tommy Christie who become Earl and Lady Northmoor…
S.C. Perkins writes the Ancestry Detective Mystery Series which started in 2019 and is set in Texas. It features genealogist Lucy Lancaster who loves nothing more than tracking down her clients’ long-dead ancestors. Her first…
Cheryl Hollon writes the Paint & Shine Mystery Series which is set in Kentucky and started in June 2020. After inheriting her uncle’s Red River Gorge homestead in Eastern Kentucky—smack dab in the middle of the Daniel Boone National Forest—…
Barbara Ross writes the Jane Darrowfield Mystery Series which is set in Massachusetts and started in May 2020. It features professional busybody Jane Darrowfield. Jane Darrowfield is a year into her retirement, and she’…
Catie Murphy writes the Dublin Driver Mystery Series which is set in Ireland and started in December 2019. It features cab driver, Megan Malone. Ferrying tourists around Dublin for the Leprechaun Limo Service makes quite a change…
Karen Fields writes the Ellen Sparks Mystery series which started in 2014 and is set in California. It features thirty-five year Ellen Sparks. She is the Director of Employee Relations at a Carlsbad, California bio-genetics firm, and is…
The sleepy town of Bradley, North Carolina, might not be as quiet as it seems. Murders happen at a steady rate and octogenarian amateur sleuth Myrtle Clover is determined to solve them before her police chief son.
M.L. Rowland writes the Search and Rescue Mystery series which started in January 2014 and is set in California. It features Gracie Kinkaid search and rescue volunteer for Timber Creek Search and Rescue.
This series started in 2011 and is set in San Francisco. It features Rita Jewel who works at her dream job of selling fabulous clothes and accessories to the socialites at Dolce's Boutique.
Duffy Brown writes the Cycle Path Mystery series which started in December 2014 and is set on Mackinac Island, Michigan. Mackinac Island is a peaceful summer resort town where everyone coasts through the streets on bicycles. Hoping to shift her…
Karen MacInerney author of the Gray Whale Inn writes the Dewberry Farm Mystery series which started in July 2015 and is set in Texas. It features Houston reporter Lucy Resnick who cashes in her retirement to buy her grandmother’s farm in…
Jacqueline Diamond writes the Safe Harbor Medical Mystery Series which started in April 2016. It features recently widowed Dr. Eric Darcy.
Catriona McPherson writes the Last Ditch Mystery Series which started in April 2018 and is set in California. It features Lexy Campbell who fell in love and left her native Scotland for a golden life in California―hitched to a hunk, building her…
Steven Rigolosi writes the Miss Felicity Prim Mystery series which started in 2014 and is set in Connecticut. After being mugged in New York City, Miss Felicity Prim decides to leave the big city and purchase a home in the country, where she will…
Rebecca Wolf-Nail writes the The Belly Dance Mysteries series which started in 2014 and is set in Seattle. It features lifelong friends Ginger and Susan who took their first bellydance class on a dare. They never dreamed they’d end up performing…
The Claire Hanover Mystery Series started in 2007 and set in Colorado. It features Claire Hanover who is a forty-something gift basket designer. The first book in this series, A Real Basket Case, is an Agatha Award Finalist for Best First Novel…
Linda S. Reilly writes the Apple Mariani Mystery series which starts in March 2013 and is set in New Hampshire. It features paralegal and title searcher Apple Mariani. Apple's Aunt Tressa is a realtor and together they solve murders.
Lisa Fortin writes the Callie Stone Mystery series which started in 2014 and is set in Oregon. It features event planner Callie Stone who was fired from her job in New York. She returns to her quirky home town in Oregon. Come visit the quirky…
Jean Flowers writes the Postmistress Mystery series which starts in November 2015 and is set in Massachusetts. It features Cassie Miller who decides to return to her small hometown in the Berkshires to lick her wounds and live in the house where…
Mollie Cox Bryan writes the Cora Crafts Mystery Series which started in August 2016 and is set in North Carolina. It features thirty-something blogger Cora Chevalier, who moves to small-town Indigo Gap, North Carolina. It seems like the perfect…
Suzanne Young writes the Fishen-Rodd Mystery Series which is set in Colorado. It features Beryl Fishen and Nadine Rodd, two “women of a certain age,” live in a Colorado retirement community. Together, they solve murders.
Tempa Pagel writes the Andy Gammon Mystery Series which started in 2006 and is set in Massachusetts. It features Andy Gammon,a former history teacher and transplanted Detroiter, now living in a New England coastal town with her dyed-in-the-wool…
Mary Welk writes the Rhodes to Murder Mystery series which started in 1996 and is set in Illinois. It features ER nurse and amateur sleuth Caroline Rhodes and her sleuthing partner, history professor Carl Atwater.
Tonya Kappes writes the Divorced Diva Mystery series which started in 2012. The series takes place in a small town named Swanee. I don't know for sure but I'm guessing it's located in Tennessee. It features 40 something Holly Harper. Holly is…
Lois Winston writes the Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery Series which started in 2011 and is set in New Jersey. It features Anastasia Pollack who is recently widowed and left with her husband's gambling debt. She has two teenage sons and a…
Jerusha Jones writes the Mayfield Mystery series which is set in Washington state. It features amateur sleuth Nora Sheldon. Her husband, Skip is kidnapped while they’re on their honeymoon and Nora finds herself mixed up with the FBI while trying…
Summer Prescott writes the Rocky Cove Mystery series - which is set in Maine and started in 2015. It features Divorced caterer Becca Rogers. As she caters some high end events, she finds herself well out of her comfort zone, and well above her…
Riley Blake writes the Cozy Retirement Mystery Series. It features best friends since childhood, Mary Louise, Opal, and Pearl who enter a retirement community with plans to live out their golden years reminiscing about the good old days while…
Cornelia Kidd (aka Lea Wait) writes the Maine Murder Mystery Series which started in June 2018 and is set in Maine. It features Anna Winslow, her husband Burt and their teenage son who have deep roots on Quarry Island, Maine. Burt and his brother…