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Cider House Mystery Series

Joyce Tremel writes the Cider House Mystery Series which started in January 2024 and is set in Pennsylvania.  It features Kate whose husband dies in a car accident. She has inherited a fruit orchard in a small town just outside Gettysburg,…

Maple Syrup Mystery Series

Catherine Bruns writes the Maple Syrup Mystery Series which started in October 2022 and is set in Vermont.  Leila Khoury has always believed that everyone loved her father as much as they loved his artisanal maple syrup. But when he's…

Shirley Steele Mystery Series

Kathy Cohen writes the Shirley Steele Mystery Series which started in 2022 and is set in Minnesota.  It features Shirley Steele who moves to Minnesota and settles on a hobby farm near her son and daughter-in-law. She never…

Farm to Table Mystery Series

Amanda Flower (aka Isabella Alan) writes the Farm to Table Mystery Series which started in February 2021 and is set in Michigan.  Shiloh Bellamy cashed in her big city job and 401K to return home to Michigan to save the family farm, but turning…

Hill Country Cozy Mystery Series

Lucy Jackson writes the Hill Country Cozy Mystery series which started in March 2020 and is set in Texas.  It features high-end chef Fancy Bohannon who is high tailing it home to small-town Texas to escape a professional scandal. She…

Finn Family Farm Mystery Series

Elle Brooke White writes the Finn Family Farm Mystery Series which started in April 2020.  It features Reluctant farmer Charlotte Finn. Charlotte Finn never wanted to inherit the…

Garlic Farm Mystery Series

Gin Jones writes the Garlic Farm Mystery Series which is set in Massachusetts and started in April 2020. It features App developer Mabel Skinner who inherits her aunt, Peggy Skinner's garlic farm.


Blossom Valley Mystery Series

This series started in 2012 and is set in California. It features Dana Lewis who is in charge of marketing at the O'Connell Organic Farm and Spa.


Buttermilk Creek Mystery Series

Mollie Cox Bryan writes the Buttermilk Creek Mystery Series which started in September 2019 and is set in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. It features Brynn MacAlister who takes the gouda with the bad. With her three Red Devon cows, she…

Candy Holliday Series

In the seaside village of Cape Willington, Maine, Candy Holliday has an idyllic life tending to the Blueberry Acres farm she runs with her father. She's an amateur sleuth who solves murders. The fourth book in this series, Town in a Pumpkin Bash…

Christmas Tree Farm Mystery Series

Jacqueline Frost writes the Christmas Tree Farm Mystery Series which started in October 2017 and is set in Maine. It features Holly White who works at her family's tree farm.


Cider Shop Mystery Series

Julie Anne Lindsey writes the Cider Shop Mystery Series which started in October 2019 and is set in West Virginia. Winona Mae Montgomery and her Granny Smythe own the Smythe Apple Orchards.


Cranberry Cove Mystery Series

Peg Cochran writes the Cranberry Cove Mystery series which starts in August 2015 and is set in Michigan. It features Monica Albertson who comes to Cranberry Cove—a charming town on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan—to help her half-brother Jeff…

Farmer's Daughter Mystery Series

Peg Cochran writes the Farmer's Daughter Mystery Series which starts in September 2016 and is set in Michigan. On her blog, The Farmer’s Daughter, Shelby McDonald is growing her audience as she posts recipes, gardening tips, and her experiences…

Farmers' Market Mystery Series

Paige Shelton writes the Farmers' Market Mystery series which takes place in South Carolina. It features Becca Robins who owns a berry and pumpkin-producing farm and makes jams and preserves and sells them at Farmers' Markets.


Georgia Peach Mystery Series

Susan Furlong (aka Lucy Arlington) writes Georgia Peach Mystery series which started in July 2015 and is set in Georgia. To help run the family peach farm during her parents’ absence, Nola Harper returns to her childhood home of Cays Mill,…

Greenhouse Mystery Series

Wendy Tyson writes the Greenhouse Mystery Series which started in 2016 and is set in Pennsylvania. It features Megan Sawyer who gives up her big-city law career to care for her grandmother and run the family’s organic farm and cafe in her scenic…

Henny Penny Farmette Mystery Series

Meera Lester writes the Henny Penny Farmette Mystery series which starts in September 2015 and is set in California. It features ex-policewoman Abigail Mackenzie. After an injury forced her to leave the police department, Abigail Mackenzie…

Jules and Bun Mystery Series

J. M. Griffin writes the Jules and Bun Mystery Series which started in June 2019 and is set in New Hampshire. Juliette “Jules” Bridge prides herself on the tender rehabilitation she provides for injured or abused rabbits on her New Hampshire…

Local Foods Mysteries

Edith Maxwell (aka Maddie Day) writes the Local Foods Mysteries which started in May 2013 and is set in Massachusetts. It features organic farmer Cam Flaherty who has to deal not only with eager locavores but also murder on the farm.


Nut House Mystery Series

Elizabeth Lee writes the Nut House Mystery Series which started in February 2014 and is set in Texas. It features Lindy Blanchard who has devoted five years of her life to saving the pecan trees on her family’s farm. Lindy works at the family…

Olive Grove Mystery Series

Kelly Lane writes the Olive Grove Mystery series which starts in January 2016 and is set in Georgia. In the sweet Southern town of Abundance, Georgia, home of the Knox family’s olive farm, gossip isn’t the only thing that can kill you... After…

Orchard Series

This series started in 2008 and is set in Massachusetts. When Boston investment banker Meg Corey moves to Granford, Massachusetts, things don't go exactly smoothly. She has left behind a Boston job that was swallowed up in a bank merger, and ex…

Pumpkin Patch Mystery Series

Joyce and Jim Lavene write the Pumpkin Patch Mystery Series which started in 2015 and is set in Virginia. It features Richmond attorney Sarah Tucker who returns to sell her family’s abandoned farm in Misty River, Virginia despite unanswered…

Sugar Grove Mysteries

Jessie Crockett writes The Sugar Grove Mysteries which is set in New Hampshire and started in October 2013. It features fourth generation syrup maker Dani Greene and her life in fictitious Sugar Grove, New Hampshire.


Very Cherry Mystery Series

Darci Hannah writes the Very Cherry Mystery Series which started in 2018 and is set in Wisconsin. It features Whitney Bloom who runs the family orchard and inn business, the Cherry Orchard Inn. Whitney Bloom was living in Chicago and was fired…