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A Walk Through England Mystery Series

Nicholas George writes the, A Walk Through England Mystery Series which started in March 2024 and is set in England. After a long career as a detective in San Diego, Rick “Chase” Chasen has traded in his badge for a change of scenery…

Detective Matthew Venn Series

Ann Cleeves writes the Detective Matthew Venn series which is set in England and started in .  It features detective Matthew Venn. NOW A BRITBOX SERIES STARRING BEN ALDRIDGE AND PEARL MACKIE. The Long Call from Ann…

Carolina Tales Mystery Series

Susan Boyer writes the Carolina Tales Mystery Series which started in April 2023 and is set in South Carolina. It features private investigator  Hadley Cooper. In the first book, Hadley gets a request from a new friend to stake…

Resort at Castaway Bay Mystery Series

Kathi Daley writes theResort at Castaway Bay Mystery Series which started in June 2021 and is set on an island in California.  It features Sydney Whitmore, a forensic psychologist living in San Francisco. She moves home to Shipwreck Island, and…

Maya and Sandra Mystery Series

Lee Hollis writes the Maya and Sandra Mystery Series which started in September 2020 and is set in Portland, Oregon.  It features newly elected PTA president Sandra Wallage and private investigator Maya Kendrick.  Together they solve…

Piper & Porter Mystery Series

Amanda Flower writes the Piper & Porter Mystery Series which started in August 2020.  It features detective Darby Piper.  In the first book Darby is in shock. Samantha Porter—her mentor and business partner at Two Girls Detective Agency—has…

Sugar Martin Vintage Mystery Series

Shéa MacLeod writes the Sugar Martin Vintage Mystery Series which is set in 1948 England.  After receiving a letter about a mysterious inheritance, Sugar Martin hops a plane from the West Coast of America to exciting post-war London…

Merry Folger Nantucket Mystery Series

Francine Mathews (aka Stephanie Barron) writes the Merry Folger Nantucket Mystery Series which started in 2016 and is set in Nantucket, MA.  It features thirty-two-year-old detective Merry Folger who is the daughter of the local…

Amber Reed CCIA Mystery Series

Zanna Mackenzie writes the Amber Reed CCIA Mystery series which is set in England. It features Amber Reed who during the day works as a horoscope writer for a local paper and in the evenings she's a bar maid in a pub. It also features Charlie…

Armand Gamache Series

This series takes place in Three Pines, a small rural village south of Montreal and features Inspector Gamache of the Sorete du Quebec. The experienced inspector goes about his discovery with a slow and steady approach to finding the real killer…

Barking Detective Mystery Series

Waverly Curtis is the pseudonym of Waverly Fitzgerald and Curt Colbert. Together they write the Barking Detective Mystery series which started in 2010 and is set in Seattle, Washington. It features P.I. Geri Sullivan and her talking Chihuahua,…

Berger and Mitry Mysteries Series

This series started in 2001 and is set in Connecticut. It features New York Film critic/author Mitch Berger and Connecticut State trooper Desiree Mitry. Mitch recently lost his wife to cancer and has become a recluse. His editor talks him into…

Beryl and Edwina Mystery Series

Jessica Ellicott (aka Jessie Crockett & Jessica Estevao) writes the Beryl and Edwina Mystery Series which started in October 2017 and is set in England. It features Beryl Helliwell who is a boisterous American and Edwina Davenport, a very…

Blue Moon Investigations Mystery Series

Steve Higgs writes the Blue Moon Investigations Mystery series which is set in England and started in 2017. It features Tempest Michaels who after retiring from the army opens a detective agency. Tempest Michaels is a paranormal investigator by a…

Capucine Culinary Series

Alexander Campion writes the Capucine Culinary Series which started in 2010 and takes place in France. It features 28-year-old Parisian Police Detective Capucine Le Tellier and her portly food critic husband.


Cate Kinkaid Files Mystery Series

This series started in 2012. It features Cate who is desperate for a job. She has no private investigator series but goes to work as an assistant private investigator for her Uncle Joe's Belmont Investigations.


Constable Evans Series

A refugee from city life, Constable Evan Evans hardly gets a chance to settle down in Llanfair, a secluded Welsh village with plenty of local color, before he must investigate the murder of two hikers on a mountain. This series has ended but it…

Damien Dickens Mystery Series

Phyllis Entis writes the Damien Dickens Mystery series which started in 2015 and is set in New Jersey. It features P.I. Damien Dickens.


Desert Flowers Mystery Series

Lee Hollis writes the Desert Flowers Mystery Series which is set in Palm Springs, California. It features Poppy Harmon who goes from complacent retiree to penniless widow in a matter of weeks. The idea of spending her golden years as the biggest…

Detective Parrott Mystery Series

Saralyn Richard writes the Detective Parrott Mystery Series and is set in Pennsylvania. It features Dectective Oliver Parrott. In the first novel he is called to a country estate the morning after an elaborate birthday party where a murder…

Dix Dodd Mystery Series

N.L. Wilson (aka Norah Wilson and Heather Doherty) writes the Dix Dodd Mystery series which is set in England. It features Dix Dodd who is tired of getting no respect at the big P.I. firm where she’s worked for years. At age 40 she ventures out…

Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James Series

Award winning author Deborah Crombie writes the Kincaid & James Mystery Series which started in 1993 and takes place in London, England. It features Duncan Kincaid, Police Superintendent and his down-to-earth Police Sergeant Gemma James.


Granny Reid Mystery Series

G.A. McKevett writes the Granny Reid Mystery Series which started in October 2018 and is set in Georgia. It features Granny Reid, previously known as Stella Reid who used to run the Moonlight Magnolia Agency.


Honeymoon Falls Mystery Series

Allan Emerson writes the Honeymoon Falls Mystery series which started in June 2015 and is set in Canada. It features Captain Will Halsey, head of Honeymoon Falls' three-person police force. Care for some marital murder? Enjoy a nice parade? Then…

Jenkins & Burns Mysteries

Laura Bradford writes the Jenkins & Burns Mystery series which takes place in New Jersey and started in 2005. There are three books in this series and they have now been re-issued under new names as e-books. The series features reporter Elise…

Kenni Lowry Mystery Series

Tonya Kappes writes the Kenni Lowry Mystery Series which started in June 2016 and is set in Kentucky. It features Sheriff Kenni Lowry who likes to think the zero crime rate in Cottonwood, Kentucky is due to her being sheriff, but she quickly…

Lexi Carmichael Mystery Series

Julie Moffett writes the Lexi Carmichael Mystery Series which is set in DC. It features Lexi Carmichael, computer geek extraordinaire. She spends her days stopping computer hackers at the National Security Agency. And her nights? Those she spends…

Liz Talbot Mystery Series

Susan Boyer writes The Liz Talbot Mystery Series which started in 2012 and takes place in South Carolina. It features modern Southern belle and Private Investigator Liz Talbot. Liz carries a Sig 9 in her Kate Spade handbag, and her golden…

Liza Radley Housewife Detective Chronicles

Jenna Mattison writes the Liza Radley Housewife Detective Chronicles which started in 2013 and is set in Boston, Massachusetts. It features housewife turned private eye Liza Radley. She teams up with detective Jack Parella to form the Crimes of…

Lola Cruz Mystery Series

This series started in 2009 and takes place in California. It features Delores (Lola) Cruz, a private detective at Camacho and Associates by day and a waitress at the restaurant owned by her family, Abuelitas, by night.