Bakery & Desserts Themed Cozy Mystery Series
Nancy Coco (AKA Nancy Parra) writes the Oregon Honeycomb Mystery Series which started in January 2021 and is set in Oregon. It features Wren Johnson who owns the 'Let It Bee' honey boutique. It also features her Havana Brown cat,…
Lynn Cahoon writes the Kitchen Witch Mystery Series which started in August 2020 and is set in Idaho. It features kitchen witch Mia Malone who moves to her Grandmother's quirky Idaho hometown, where magic is an open secret and…
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.
Vicki Delany writes the Tea by the Sea Mystery Series which started in July 2020 and is set in Massachusetts. As the proud proprietor and head pastry chef of Tea by the Sea, a traditional English tearoom on the picturesque bluffs of Cape Cod,…
Joy Ann Ribar writes the Deep Lakes Mystery Series which is set in Wisconsin and started in June 2019. It features Francine "Frankie" Champagne. The 40-something owner of Bubble and Bake — bakery by day, wine lounge by night —…
Abby Collette writes the Ice Cream Parlor Mystery Series which is set in Ohio and started in May 2020. Recent MBA grad Bronwyn Crewse has just taken over her family's ice cream shop in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and she's going back to…
Kaye George writes the Vintage Sweets Mystery Series which is set in Texas and started in March 2020.
In the picturesque tourist town of Fredericksburg, Texas, Tally Holt has opened a new candy store with a vintage twist, but there’s no…
This series takes place in a small town in North Carolina. It features Suzanne Hart who owns a donut shop, Donut Hearts. Suzanne is recently divorced and cashed in her settlement to move back to her hometown and open this shop.
This series started in 2010 and takes place in Arizona. Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura are finally living out their dream as the proud owners of the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery. Solve mysteries.
Meg Muldoon writes the Christmas River Mystery series which started in 2012 and is set in Oregon. It features pie baker extraordinaire Cinnamon Peters. Cinnamon owns a bakery in the charming town of Christmas River and they celebrate Christmas…
Ginger Bolton (aka Janet Bolin) writes the Deputy Donut Mystery Series which started in January 2018 and is set in Wisconsin. It features Emily Westhill who runs the best donut shop in Fallingbrook, Wisconsin, alongside her retired police chief…
Leighann Dobbs writes the Lexy Baker Bakery Cozy Mystery Series which started in 2012. It features Lexy Baker who opens up her dream bakery. She's gotten rid of her cheating boyfriend and settled into her grandmothers house with her perky dog…
Michael Lee West writes the Teeny Templeton Mystery series which started in 2012 and is set in South Carolina. It features out-of-work Charleston pastry chef Teeny Templeton. This series is full of quirky characters and southern charm.
Leigh Selfman writes the Rosie Kale Mystery series which is set in California. It features baker Rosie Kale who solves crimes with her senior snoop helpers, Nana and Birdie.
Sarah Graves writes the Death by Chocolate Mystery Series which started in January 2018 and is set in Maine. It features Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree and her best friend Ellie who open a waterfront bake shop, The Chocolate Moose. Sarah wrote the Home…
Ellie Grant (aka Joyce and Jim Lavene) write the Pie in the Sky Mystery series which started in September 2013 and is set in North Carolina. It features Maggie Grady who works in her Aunt Clara's Pie Shop. Maggie is forced to retreat from her…
This series takes place in a small town in Minnesota and started in 2000. Hannah Swenson owns a cookie / bakery shop and solves murders. The books are always themed around a type of dessert.
Karoline Barrett writes the Bread & Batter Mystery series which started in November 2015 and is set in New York. It features co-owners of Bread and Batter Bakery, Molly Tyler and Olivia Williams. Molly is recently divorced and looking for a…
Cynthia Baxter writes the Lickety Splits Mystery Series which started in March 2018 and is set in New York. Kate McKay had doubts about swapping her high-powered life in Manhattan for Wolfert’s Roost, the quaint Hudson Valley village where she…
All the Chocoholic Mysteries feature Lee McKinney, a Texas beauty queen transplanted to a Michigan resort, where she is business manager for TenHuis Chocolade, a business owned by her aunt, Nettie TenHuis. The setting of the Chocoholic books is…
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…
Kristi Abbott writes the Popcorn Shop Mystery series which starts in March 2016 and is set in Ohio. It features Rebecca Anderson. After a failed marriage to a celebrity chef, she’s ready for her life to open up and expand. She has returned to her…
Maymee Bell (aka Tonya Kappes) writes the Southern Cake Baker Mystery Series which started in November 2018 and is set in Kentucky. It features pastry chef, Sophia Cummings.
This series takes place in Texas and features retired schoolteacher Phyllis Newsom and her friends-- all retired teachers. She loves to bake and solve murders.
Mary Jane Clark writes the Wedding Cake Mystery Series (Piper Donovan) which started in 2011 and takes place in New Jersey. It features Piper Donovan, a struggling actress and professional Cake decorator in her family's bakery business.
Laura Bradford (aka Elizabeth Lynn Casey) writes the Emergency Dessert Squad Mystery Series which starts in June 2016. It features failing bakery owner Winnie Johnson. Winnie had hoped to be rescued by an inheritance from her wealthy friend and…
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…
This series started in 2011 and takes place in New Orleans. It features pastry chef Rita Lucero. She leaves New Mexico and goes to New Orleans to get her husband Philippe to sign divorce papers..... in the first book in the series-- she finds him…
When the going gets tough, Ella Mae LaFaye bakes pies. So when she catches her husband cheating in New York, she heads back home to Havenwood, Georgia, where she can drown her sorrows in fresh fruit filling and flakey crust. But her pies aren't…
Lilly York writes the Willow Crier Mystery Series which started in 2015 and is set in Oklahoma. It features Willow who moves south when she inherits her grandfather’s ice cream shop. From the slow southern dialect to the crazy drivers, Willow…