Newspaper & Reporter & Writer Themed Cozy Mystery Series
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 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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.
Laina Turner writes the Presley Thurman Mystery series which started in 2011 and is set in Chicago. It features Presley Thurman-- your average single female trying to make her way up the corporate ladder while looking the best she possibly can.…
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…
This series started in 2010 and is set in Massachusetts. It features Rose McNichols who is a reporter for the Granite Cove Gazette. This series gives you a glimpse into a small New England town. There is plenty of humor and interesting characters…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Emma Lord lives in the Cascade Mountains in the town of Alpine. Runs a newspaper and solves mysteries. Very good series.
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…
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…
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…