Bed and Breakfast & Inn & Hotel Themed Cozy Mystery Series
Melissa Bourbon and Wendy Lyn Watson write the Book Magic Mystery Series which is set in Oregon and North Carolina. Cousins Pippin Lane Hawthorne and Cora Lane live on opposite coasts (Pippin in Devil’s Cove, North Carolina, and…
Mollie Cox Bryan writes the Victoria Town Mystery Series which started in July 2020 and is set in Virginia. It features Viv Barton and her aunt who run the Sweet Victoria B & B.
Hannah Dennison writes the Island Sisters Mystery Series which started in August 2020 and is set on an island off of Cornwall, England. It features two sisters who inherit an old hotel in the remote Scilly Islands…
Victoria Gilbert writes the Book Lover's B&B Mystery Series which is set in North Carolina and started in August 2020. Nestled in the historic waterfront town of Beaufort, North Carolina, Chapters Bed-and-…
Krista Davis writes the Paws and Claws Mystery series which starts in December 2013 and is set in Virginia. It features Holly Miller who returns home to her family-run inn on Wagtail Mountain after receiving a troubling phone call about her…
Kate Kingsbury (aka Doreen Roberts) writes the Merry Ghost Inn Mystery Series which starts in January 2017 and is set in Oregon. It features Melanie West and her grandmother, Liza Harris. They open a B&B together on the Oregon coast and find…
Anna Gerard (a/k/a Diane A.S. Stuckart a/k/a Ali Brandon) writes the Georgia B&B Mystery Series which started in July 2019 and is set in Georgia. It features Nina Fleet who was awarded a tidy sum in her divorce. She retires and moves to a…
This series started in 2010 and takes place in New Jersey. It features newly divorced Alison Kerby and her nine-year-old daughter. She is looking for a second chance so she returns to her hometown on the Jersey Shore to transform a Victorian…
Stephanie Blackmoore writes the Wedding Planner Mystery Series which started in June 2016 and is set in Pennsylvania. It features B&B owner Mallory Shepard. After dumping her cheating fiancé and cancelling the wedding, Mallory Shepard can't…
Heather Horrocks write the Who Dun Him Inn Mystery series which is set in UT. Mystery buff Vicki Butler plans to kill someone this weekend. Nothing personal, just business. Vicki has an inn with rooms decorated with different detective motif. It'…
Janet Finsilver writes the Kelly Jackson mystery series which started in 2013 and is set in northern California. It features Kelly Jackson, the new manager of the Redwood Cove Bed and Breakfast. In the first book Kelly replaces the previous…
Annie Irvin (aka Liz Elder) and her sister Rae Sanders write the Bittersweet Hollow Mystery series which started in 2013 and is set in the Midwest. It features Olivia Waterford who is selling her beautiful old bed and breakfast, the Bittersweet…
Sherry Lodge writes the Cassie Hall Concierge Mystery Series which started in January 2017 and is set in Maryland. It features Cassie Hall-- a dedicated daytime concierge at the Parkstone who has a knack for fashion and who-done-its. Take a…
Nancy Coco (aka Nancy Parra) writes the Candy Coated Mystery series which started in November 2013 and is set in Mackinac Island, Michigan. It features Alice McMurphy, owner of the “Historic McMurphy Hotel and Fudge Shop. The old Victorian Inn…
Maia Chance writes the Agnes and Effie Mystery Series which started in June 2017. It features 28-year-old Agnes Blythe and her glamorous, eccentric Great Aunt Effie who arrives in town and offers to help Agnes salvage the condemned Stagecoach Inn…
Lynn Bohart writes the Old Maids of Mercer Island Mystery series which started in 2013 and is set in Seattle, Washington. Someone is killing older women on Mercer Island. Join Julia Applegate, her talking parrot, two miniature Dachshunds, and the…
Carolyn L. Dean writes the Ravenwood Cove Mystery Series which started in 2016 and is set in Oregon. It features Amanda Graham who moves from L.A. to Ravenwood Cove, Oregon after she inherited a rundown bed and breakfast, a starving cat, and some…
Judith McMonigle Flynn has traveled a rough road from tending bar at the Meat & Mingle to owning Hillside Manor on Seattle’s upscale Queen Anne Hill. After a second—and much happier—marriage to her old flame, Joe Flynn, life seems sweet.…
CeeCee James writes the Oceanside Mystery Series which is set in Florida. It features Maisie Swenson who takes over as manager at Florida’s elite Oceanside hotel, she’s thrilled to move on site with her Momma and their basset hound, Bingo.
Ellery Adams writes the Book Retreat Mystery series which started in August 2014 and is set in Virginia. It features Jane Steward who manages the storybook resort of Storyton Hall that caters to book lovers who want to get away from it all. In…
Pamela Kopfler writes the B&B Spirits Mystery Series which started in December 2017 and is set in Louisiana. As the owner of a charming Louisiana bed and breakfast, Holly Davis believes in Southern hospitality—but she draws the line at…
Ruth Moose writes the Dixie Dew Bed & Breakfast series which started in May 2014 and is set in North Carolina. It features Beth McKenzie who attempts to turn an old Southern mansion into a Bed and Breakfast called The Dixie Dew. In the first…
Kathleen Bridge writes the By the Sea Mystery series which started in April 2018 and is set in Florida. Liz Holt returns home after an intense decade in New York to help run the family inn. The Indialantic by the Sea hotel has a hundred-year-old…
Cynthia Gallant Simpson writes the Cape Cod Cozy Mystery series which started in 2011 and takes place in Massachusetts. It features Liz Ogilvie-Smythe, a Provincetown innkeeper and amateur sleuth and James Finneran, newly installed Police Chief…
Sheila Connolly writes the Victorian Village Mystery Series which started in June 2018 and is set in Maryland. It features Katherine Hamilton who moves to the town of Asheford to run a huge Victorian mansion just outside of town. Kate has less-…
This series started in 2012 and takes place in the US Virgin Islands on St. John. It features Pen Hoffstra the manager of the tropical island's resort.
J.D. Griffo writes the Ferrara Family Mystery Series which started in July 2018 and is set in New Jersey. It features Alberta Scaglione whose spinster aunt left her a secret lake house in Tranquility, New Jersey. Alberta, a widow, is no spring…
This series is set off the coast of Maine on quaint Cranberry Island. The main character, Natalie Barnes quit her job and sold her house and purchased the Gray Whale Inn. This was an Agatha-nominated series. Each book contains several delicious…
Sarah Quilliam, manager of the Hemlock Falls Inn, and her chef sister, Meg live in the state of New York and solve murders. Books are still being written for this series, however the series started in 1994 and some of the earlier books are not…
Caroline Fardig writes the Southern B&B Mystery Series which started in 2018 and is set in Savannah, Georgia. It features Quinn Bellandini who loves her life in Savannah, Georgia, where she runs her grandfather’s B&B with her sister,…