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Home Renovation Mystery Series

Callie Carpenter writes the Home Renovation Mystery Series which started in December 2023 and is set in North Carolina.  It features home renovator Jamie who is recently divorced and receives a run down historic house as her only settlement…

Domestic Partners in Crime Mystery Series

Frank Anthony Polito writes the Domestic Partners in Crime Mystery Series which is set in Michigan and started in May 2022.  Real-life domestic partners and stars and producers of the new hit reality home renovation show Domestic Partners,…

Secret Staircase Mystery Series

Gigi Pandian writes the Secret Staircase Mystery Series which started in February 2022 and is set in California. After a disastrous accident derails Tempest Raj’s career, and life, she heads back to her childhood home in California to comfort…

Do-It-Yourself Mystery Series

This series started in 2008 and is set in Maine. Inheriting her aunt’s old Maine cottage has led Avery Baker down a new career path—home renovation. Finding a property’s hidden potential has rewards and challenges—not to mention certain…

Fixer Upper Mystery Series

Kate Carlisle writes the Fixer Upper Mystery series which started in November 2014 and is set in California. In the seaside town of Lighthouse Cove in northern California, everyone knows the best man for the job is actually a woman—contractor…

Haunted Home Renovation Mystery

This series started in 2010 and takes place in San Francisco. It features Melanie Turner, who leaves Paris and takes over her depressed father's San Francisco Bay construction business, Turner Construction. They specialize in restoration of…

Haunted Renovation Mystery Series

Rose Pressey writes the Haunted Renovation Mystery series which started in 2011 and is set in the South. The second book in this series takes place in Georgia so I'm categorizing this in Georgia. It features Alabama Hargrove. 'Bama' always has a…

Home Repair is Homicide Series

Amateur sleuth Jacobia Tiptree lives in Eastport, Maine after leaving her job as a financial adviser in New York. She has purchased an old home that needs repair and lives there with her teenage son Sam. Jake, as she is known to her friends, also…

House-Flipper Mystery Series

Diane Kelly writes the House-Flipper Mystery series. Started in January 2019 and set in Nashville, TN. Meet Whitney Whitaker and her cat Sawdust. A hopeless romantic when it comes to real estate, she knows what it takes to find—and flip—the home…

Jazzi Zanders Mystery Series

Judi Lynn writes the Jazzi Zanders Mystery Series which started in 2018 and is set in Indiana. It features House-flipper Jazzi Zanders and her cousin Jerod.


Magnolia Mystery Series

Ellen Elizabeth Hunter writes the Magnolia Mystery series which is set in Wilmington, North Carolina and started in 2003. It features historic preservationist Ashley Wilkes and her sister Melanie Wilkes who is a realtor. The author writes, If you…