Margaret Loudon (aka Peg Cochran) writes the Open Book Mystery series which started in October 2020 and is set in England. It features Penelope Parish who has hit a streak of bad luck, including a severe case of writer's block that…

Laura Jensen Walker writes the Bookish Baker Mystery Series which started in August 2020 and is set in Wisconsin.  It features mystery writer and baker Teddie St. John and her American Eskimo dog, Gracie.

Paige Shelton writes the Alaska Wild Mystery Series which started in December 2019 and is set in Alaska. Beth Rivers, known to the world as Elizabeth Fairchild, has spent years as a bestselling novelist. Her twisty, page-turning thrillers have…

This new series started in 2012 and takes place in North Carolina. It features Lila Wilkins who is a former newspaper journalist. After losing her job she accepts an internship at A Novel Idea, a thriving literary agency in the utopian town of…

E.J. Copperman writes the Mysterious Detective Mystery Series which starts in June 2016. It features mystery writer Rachel Goldman. The main character in her books features Duffy Madison, consultant to the county prosecutor’s office, helps find…

This series started in 2003 and is set in Washington D.C. It features Lacey Smithsonian who wants to work hard news but instead is a reluctant fashion reporter in Washington D.C. and savvy sleuth.

Jess Lourey writes the Murder-by-Month mystery series which started in 2006 and is set in Minnesota. It features Mira James who has been taking it easy since college graduation--too easy. Due to a dead-end job and a cheating boyfriend, the Twin…

Julia Buckley writes the Writer's Apprentice Mystery Series which started in July 2016 and is set in Indiana. It features writer apprentice Lena London. In the first book Camilla Graham’s bestselling suspense novels inspired Lena London to become…

Kate Dyer-Seeley writes the Pacific Northwest Mysteries series which started in June 2014 and is set in Oregon. Portland, Oregon, is the perfect fit for someone like Meg Reed. It’s a city with a small town feel, where she can crash on the couch…

This series started in 2002 and is set in Los Angeles, CA. It features Jaine Austen who owns a writing service-- This Pen for Hire-- out of her apartment. She writes brochures, resumes, letters, and personal ads. She shares her apartment with her…

Connie di Marco writes the Zodiac Mystery Series which starts in June 2016 and is set in San Francisco. It features San Francisco astrologer Julia Bonatti. In the first book Julia's life is turned upside down when she becomes the target of the…

Jeanne Cooney writes the Hot Dish Heaven Mystery series which started in 2013 and is set in Minnesota. It features Minneapolis cub newspaper reporter Emerald Malloy. Emerald solves murders in her small town of Red River Valley, MN.... just south…

Sara J. Henry writes the Troy Chance Mystery series which started in 2011 and takes place in New York. It features Troy Chance, a young journalist who lives in Lake Placid New York. There are many twists and turns in the novels in this series.…

Kathi Daley writes the Writers Retreat Southern Seashore Series which started in May 2017. It features Jillian Hanford who uses the help of local writers to solve murder cases.

In the small coastal town of Oyster Bay, North Carolina, you'll find plenty of characters, ne'er-do-wells. Olivia Limoges has returned to the hometown she left as a young girl. She is rich, stunning, suffering from a case of writers block and…

Retired newswoman Henrie O Collins has been around the world covering disasters and revolutions, murders and public scandals, Henrie O now solves mysteries. The series isn't set in one place. Henrie O solves murders all over the place. This…

G G Collins writes the The Taylor Browning Cozy Mystery Series which started in October 2017 and is set in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It features Taylor Browning, the new mystery editor at Endicott Publishing.

Maya Corrigan writes the Five-Ingredient Mystery series which started in November 2014 and is set in Virginia. It features Val Deniston who is haunted by the car accident that ended her career as a cookbook publicist. She trades in the chaos of…

Ellery Adams (aka J.B. Stanley) and Parker Riggs write the Antiques & Collectibles Mystery series. It features Amateur sleuth Molly Appleby, a sharp-witted writer for Collector's Weekly magazine. She has a keen knowledge of antiques, and a…

Peggy Ehrhart writes the Knit & Nibble Mystery Series which started in March 2018 and is set in New Jersey. Since her only daughter left for college, widow Pamela Paterson has kept busy as associate editor of a craft magazine and founder of…

This series started in 2012 and takes place in Bar Harbor, Maine. It features single mom, Hayley Powell. Hayley is the new food writer at the Island Times... the only problem is she's an office manager, not a writer. Hayley needs the money so…

This series started in 2008 and features Mallory Marlowe, a recent widow who is a travel writer. There are two books in this series and the 2nd book was published in 2009. I wrote to the author and she said this series has ended. I added this…

Kaitlyn Dunnett writes the Deadly Edits Mystery Series which started in 2018 and is set in New Jersey. After splurging to buy her childhood home in the Catskills, recently widowed Mikki Lincoln emerges from retirement as a freelance editor. With…

Patricia McLinn writes the Caught Dead in Wyoming Mystery series which started in and is set in Wyoming. It features TV reporterElizabeth “E.M.” Danniher. The series is set in Cottonwood County, Wyoming. It is east of Yellowstone Park, south of…

T.C. LoTempio writes the Nick and Nora Mystery series which started in December 2014 and is set in California. It features crime reporter Nora Charles. She doesn’t believe in fate, even if she is a crime reporter who shares a name with a…

Hannah Reed writes the Scottish Highlands Mystery Series which started in October 2014 and is set in Scotland. It features writer Eden Elliott. After the recent death of her mother and the dissolution of her marriage, thirty-something Eden…

Ilsa Evans writes the Nell Forrest Mystery series which is set in Australia. It features journalist Nell Forrest-- a (slightly younger) Miss Marple. For Nell Forrest, life in the little town of Majic is not going smoothly. One of her five…

Lucy Stone, is a reporter in the fictional town of Tinker’s Cove, Maine, where she lives in an old farmhouse (quite similar to mine on Cape Cod!) with her restoration carpenter husband Bill and four children. These books are holiday-based.

Terry Ambrose writes the McKenna Mystery series which is set in Hawaii. It features journalist and former skip tracer Wilson McKenna who retires to Hawaii and finds himself solving murders.

The Blackbird Sisters Mystery Series started in 2002 and is set in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It features three sisters, Nora, Libby and Emma Blackbird. They are Philadelphia heiresses whose parents have run off with their trust fund. Now they…