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Golden Motel Mystery Series

Ellen Byron writes the Golden Motel Mystery Series which started in July 2024 and is set in California.  Down-on-her-luck sitcom writer Dee Stern is flipping the script. Twice divorced and wasting her talents on an obnoxious kids’ show, the…

Hummingbird Hollow B&B Mystery Series

Ayla Rose writes the Hummingbird Hollow B&B Mystery Series which started in July 2024 and is set in Vermont. When thirty-three-year-old Hannah Solace returns to her hometown to renovate and reopen the inn she co-owns with…

Northwoods Mysteries Series

Annie McEwen writes the Northwoods Mysteries Series which started in March 2024 and is set in Wisconsin.  It features interior designer Emmy Cooper who leaves Chicago and retreats to her family’s lake cottage resort in the beautiful…

Bourbon B&B Mystery Series

Gin Jones writes the Bourbon B&B Mystery Series which started in January 2024 and is set in Kentucky.  It features Kentucky native Jess Walker's whose big-city career has kept her too busy to visit her sisters and hometown. However, she…

Sierra Pines B&B Mystery Series

Kathryn Long (AKA Bailee Abbott) writes the Sierra Pines B&B Mystery Series which is set in California and started in March 2023.  Take one quaint B&B, two kind but quirky caretakers, a dead aunt, a…

Sunset Lodge Mystery Series

Diana Xarissa writes the Sunset Lodge Mystery Series which started in July 2022 and is set in New York. Abigail and Amanda (Mandy) Clark decide to give up life in the big city and buy a historic lodge in New York’s…

Seaside Inn Mystery Series

Rimmy London writes the Seaside Inn Mystery Series which started in June 2020 and is set in California.  A hauntingly beautiful seaside mansion has been abandoned for decades... and for good reason. When Abby stumbles on the…

Emma Everett Mystery Series

B.E. Maahs writes the Emma Everett Mystery Series which started in January 2022 and is set on Vancouver Island in Canada.  It features Emma Everett who arrives in Breezy Bay on Vancouver Island to forget about Hunter, the man…

Ivy Nichols Mystery Series

Audrey Keown writes the Ivy Nichols Mystery Series which is set in Chattanooga, Tennessee and started in September 2020.  If you want to spend a night amid the luxury and charm of the early 20th century, book a room at Hotel 1911.…

The Maid Mystery Series

Nita Prose writes The Maid.  It features Molly Gray who is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly…

Mountain Lodge Mystery Series

Diane Kelly writes the Mountain Lodge Mystery Series which started in October 2021 and is set in Tennessee in the Blue Ridge Mountains.  As if hitting the half-century mark wasn’t enough, Misty Murphy celebrated her landmark birthday…

Haunted Haven Mystery Series

Carol Perry writes the Haunted Haven Mystery Series which is set in Florida and started in August 2021.  Maureen Doherty and her golden retriever Finn have taken possession of a charming old inn—only to discover that it’s already…

Evenfall Witches B&B Mystery Series

Auralee Wallace writes the Evenfall Witches B&B Mystery Series which started in October 2021 and is set in Massachusetts.  For four hundred years, the Warren witches have used their magic to quietly help the citizens of the…

Resort at Castaway Bay Mystery Series

Kathi Daley writes theResort at Castaway Bay Mystery Series which started in June 2021 and is set on an island in California.  It features Sydney Whitmore, a forensic psychologist living in San Francisco. She moves home to Shipwreck Island, and…

Catskill Summer Resort Mystery Series

Vicki Delany writes the Catskill Summer Resort Mystery Series which started in August 2021 and is set in the Catskills in New York in 1953. It’s the summer of 1953, and Elizabeth Grady is settling into Haggerman’s Catskills Resort.…

Pippin Lane Hawthorne Mystery Series

Melissa Bourbon and Wendy Lyn Watson write the Pippin Lane Hawthorne 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…

Victoria Town Mystery Series

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.

 


Island Sisters Mystery Series

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…

Book Lover's B&B Mystery Series

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-…

Agnes and Effie Mystery Series

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…

B&B Spirits Mystery Series

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…

Backyard Farming Mystery Series

Vikki Walton writes the Backyard Farming Mystery Series which started in 2018 and is set in Colorado. Finally healing after her heart-breaking divorce, Anne Freemont is ready to put the painful past behind her. Discovering an old Victorian for…

Bed & Breakfast Series

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.…

Bittersweet Hollow Mystery Series

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…

Book Retreat Mystery Series

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…

By the Sea Mystery Series

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…

Cajun Country Mystery Series

Ellen Byron writes the Cajun Country Mystery Series which starts in August 2016 and is set in Louisiana. It features Maggie Crozat who has returned home to her family's plantation-turned-bed-and-breakfast in Louisiana.


Candy Coated Mystery Series

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…

Cape Cod Cozy Mystery Series

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…

Cassie Hall Concierge Mystery Series

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…