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Secret Bookcase Mystery Series

Ellie Alexander writes the Secret Bookcase Mystery Series which started in June 2024.  Welcome to The Secret Bookcase, a quirky bookstore in a grand, converted manor house, where the selection of crime fiction is dangerously good. The store…

Agatha Royale Mystery Series

Ella Andrew writes the Agatha Royale Mystery series which started in November 2023.  It features Agatha Royale, who is seeking a fresh start after a challenging divorce, envisioned new beginnings in Bristol Lake, complete with…

Marlow Mystery Club Series

Robert Thorogood writes the Marlow Mystery Club Series which started in and is set in England.  Meet Judith: a seventy-seven-year-old whiskey drinking, crossword puzzle author living her best life in a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts…

California Bookshop Mystery Series

Samara Yew writes the California Bookshop Mystery Series which started in October 2023 and is set in California.  It features Scarlett Gardner who moved to southern CA to be close to her boyfriend where she opened the Palm…

Witches' Brew Mystery Series

Gretchen Rue writes the Witches' Brew Mystery Series which started in 2022 and is set in Washington.  It features Phoebe Winchester’s whose beloved aunt Eudora has passed away. Her aunt has a taste for adventure—and a knack for…

Bookstore Mystery Series

Sue Minix writes the Bookstore Mystery series which started in January 2023. Crime writer Jen returns to her small hometown with a bestselling book behind her and a bad case of writer’s block. Finding sanctuary in…

Magic Candle Shop Mystery Series

Valona Jones writes the Magic Candle Shop Mystery series which started in January 2023 and is set in Savannah, Georgia. This has a paranormal vibe. It features 30-year-old fraternal twins Tabby and Sage Winslow who…

Murder Posse Mystery Series

J. A. Whiting writes the Murder Posse Mystery Series which started in June 2022 and is set in New Hampshire. Peggy, Jennifer, and Nadine are three smart, middle-aged women who have some “special” skills. Nicknamed the “Murder Posse,” they…

Killer Chocolate Mystery Series

Christina Romeril writes the Killer Chocolate Mystery Series which started in October 2022 and is set in Montana.  Identical twin sisters Alex and Hannah are the owners of Murder and Mayhem, a mystery bookshop that sells their famous poison…

Survivors Book Club Mystery Series

Lynn Cahoon writes the Survivors Book Club Mystery Series which started in June 2022 and is set in Arizona.  Two things got Rarity Cole through her breast cancer treatments: friends and books. Now cancer-free, Rarity is devoting her life to…

Sweet Fiction Bookshop Mystery Series

Kitt Crowe writes the Sweet Fiction Bookshop Mystery series which started in October 2021 and is set in Oregon. Dissatisfied with corporate life, Lexi and her dog Cookie, return to her hometown Confection, Oregon to mind her parents…

By the Book Mysteries Series

Tamara Berry writes the By the Book Mysteries Series which started in May 2022 and is set in Oregon. Bestselling thriller writer Tess Harrow is almost at the end of her rope when she arrives with her teenage daughter at her grandfather's…

Vintage Cookbook Mystery Series

Ellen Byron writes the Vintage Cookbook Mystery Series which started in June 2022 and is set in New Orleans, LA.  Twenty-eight-year-old widow Ricki James leaves Los Angeles to start a new life in New Orleans after her showboating actor…

Maggie's Murder Mystery Series

Morgan W. Silver writes the Maggie's Murder Mystery Series which is set in England and started in January 2020.  It  features bookstore owner and writer Maggie Matthews.


Outer Banks Bookshop Mystery Series

Alicia Bessette writes the Outer Banks Bookshop Mystery Series which started in May 2022 and is set in North Carolina.  It features Callie Padget, a former reporter turned bookshop clerk in the Outer Banks. When Callie is laid off…

Love Is Murder Mystery Series

Mimi Granger writes the Love Is Murder Mystery Series which started in September 2021.  Lizzie Hale may be the lucky owner of a successful romance bookshop, Love Under the Covers, but she's decidedly un-lucky in love. Though she's…

Books & Biscuits Mystery

Abby Collette writes the Books & Biscuits Mystery Series which started in November 2021 and is set in Washington.  When Koby Hill and Keaton Rutledge were orphaned at age two, they were separated, but their unbreakable connection…

Cambridge Bookshop Mystery Series

Elizabeth Penney writes the Cambridge Bookshop Mystery Series which started in September 2021 and is set in England.  It features Vermont native and librarian Molly Kimball and her mother, poet Nina Marlowe, who move to Cambridge,…

Jane Austen Society Mystery Series

Elizabeth Blake (aka Carole Bugge and CE Lawrence) writes the Jane Austen Society Mystery Series which started in 2019 and is set in England.  Erin Coleridge’s used bookstore in Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire, England is a meeting…

Cozy Mysteries To Die For Series

Judy Moore writes the Cozy Mysteries To Die For Series which started in May 2020 and is set in Florida. It features Beck O’Rourke and her grandmother Alice who own Beach Reads bookstore and…

Brooklyn Murder Mystery Series

Olivia Blacke writes the Brooklyn Murder Mystery Series which started in February 2021 and is set in Brooklyn, New York.  It features Bayou transplant Odessa Dean who has a lot to learn about life in Brooklyn. So far she's scored a…

Secret Library Cozy Mystery Series

CeeCee James writes theSecret Library Cozy Mystery Series which started in January 2021.   It features  Laura Lee who took a summer job as a housekeeper at the old Thornberry Estate. She knew it was a creepy place, but she had no idea how creepy…

Jane Doe Book Club Mystery Series

Kate Young writes the Jane Doe Book Club Mystery Series which started in October 2020 and is set in Georgia.  It features Lyla Moody who loves her sleepy little town of Sweet Mountain, Georgia. She likes her job as receptionist for…

Snug Harbor Mystery Series

 Karen MacInerney writes the Snug Harbor Mystery Series which started in June 2020 and is set in Maine.  It features Bookseller and recent divorcée Max Sayers who has risked her life savings to start a fresh chapter with the purchase…

Antique Bookshop Mystery Series

Laura Gail Black writes the Antique Bookshop Mystery Series which started in August 2020 and is set in North Carolina.  It features  Jenna Quinn.  Fleeing some unsavory doings in her hometown of Charlotte, Jenna accepts her uncle's…

Beach Reads Mystery Series

Maggie Blackburn (aka Mollie Cox Bryan) writes the Beach Reads Mystery Series which started in July 2020 and is set in North Carolina.  Summer Merriweather's career as a Shakespeare professor hangs by a bookbinder's thread. Academic…

Victorian Book Club Mystery Series

Callie Hutton writes the Victorian Book Club Mystery Series which started in May 2020 and is set in Bath, England in the 1890s.  It features Mystery author Lady Amy Lovell and her fiancee Lord William Wethington who together solve…

Bookbinding Mystery Series

Harper Kincaid writes the Bookbinding Mystery Series which is set in Virginia and started in May 2020.  Quinn Victoria Caine is back in her quirky town of Vienna, Virginia, starting her new life as a bookbinder in her family-owned,…

A Book Club Mystery Series

Laura DiSilverio (aka Ella Barrick) writes A Book Club Mystery series which started in April 2015 and is set in Colorado. It features Amy-Faye Johnson who owns an event planning business and is a member of her beloved book club, the Readaholics…

A Bookmobile Mystery Series

Nora Page writes the Bookmobile Mystery Series which started in May 2018 and is set in Georgia. It features senior librarian Cleo Watkins who hits the road in her bookmobile in search of justice.