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.
Newspaper & Reporter & Writer Themed Cozy Mystery Series
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…
LynDee Walker writes the Headlines in High Heels Mystery series which is set in Richmond, Virginia and started in 2013. It features Crime reporter Nichelle Clarke’s days can flip from macabre to comical with a beep of her police scanner.
The first…
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.
Hannah Dennison writes the Vicky Hill Exclusive Mystery series which started in 2008 and is set in England. It features Vicky Hill, a suffocatingly single reporter whose attempts at finding the right man and the scoop of a lifetime take a backseat…
Jo-Ann Recoppa writes the Jersey Girl Cozy Mystery series which is set in New Jersey. It features reporter Colleen Caruso who was just a lowly stringer at her local newspaper until she tripped over a dead body while out on her morning jog. Now her…
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…
Janis Thornton writes the Elmwood Confidential Mystery series which started in 2014 and is set in Indiana. Small town newspaper editor Crystal Cropper can't resist a good mystery. Especially when the trail of dirt and gossip leads right to the…
Emma Lord lives in the Cascade Mountains in the town of Alpine. Runs a newspaper and solves mysteries. Very good series.
Marty Donnellan writes the Hannah Scrabble Mystery series which started in 2014 and is set in 1978. Meet Hannah Scrabble, bullheaded farmer, entrepreneur, skating teacher, spy thriller author and town snoop. It's 1978, before cellphones and personal…
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.
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…
Dane McCaslin writes the Proverbial Crime Mystery series which started in 2015 and is set in New York. It features two British expats, Caro Layton-Browning, an accomplished writer of mysteries and her husband Gregory... together they solve murders.
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 of…
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…
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…
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 of…
Gail Lukasik writes the Leigh Girard Mystery series which started in 2006 and is set in Door County Wisconsin. It features Chicago native, Leigh Girard who has fled to Egg Harbor, Wisconsin, a remote artist community on the Door County peninsula, to…
Kay Finch writes the Bad Luck Cat Mystery series which started in September 2015 and is set in Texas. It features aspiring mystery author Sabrina Tate and her new feline friend Hitchcock. Sabrina has never been the superstitious type. Still, when…
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 still…
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…
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…
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…
Elizabeth Rose writes the Annie Malone Mystery series that started in 2012 and is set in Wisconsin. It features ghostwriter Annie Malone. Annie, and her new friend, Lizzy, become embroiled in a murder mystery in beautiful Door County, Wisconsin.…
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…
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…
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.…
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 city'…
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…
This series started in 2005 and is set in England. The books in this series do have the main character traveling to The Hamptons in New York. It features Lee Bartholomew who is a ghostwriter and solves crimes. She lives alone - by choice - in her…