Sherry Harris writes the Chloe Jackson, Sea Glass Saloon Mystery Series which is set in Florida and started in June 2020. With Chicago winters in the rearview mirror, Chloe Jackson is making good on a promise: help her late friend’s…
Restaurant Themed Cozy Mystery Series
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…
Elizabeth Logan writes the Alaskan Diner Mystery Series which is set in Alaska and started in May 2020. When Chef Charlie Cooke is offered the chance to leave San Francisco and return home to Elkview, Alaska, to take over her mother…
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…
Linda Reilly writes the Deep Fried Mystery series which started in May 2015. It features Talia Marby. She’s returned to her hometown and is happy to help her dear friend Bea Lambert by working at Lambert’s Fish & Chips, a cornerstone of a…
Bree Baker writes the Seaside Café Mystery Series which started in July 2018. It features Everly Swan who has moved back to her seaside hometown and the proud owner of a little iced tea shop and café right on the beach, things are finally…
Rosie Genova writes the Italian Kitchen Mystery series which starts in October 2013 and is set in New Jersey. It features whodunit writer Victoria Rienzi. She is getting back to her roots by working at her family’s Italian restaurant. But in between…
Lyndsey Cole writes the Black Cat Cafe Mystery series which is set in New Hampshire. It features Annie Fisher who flees Cooper, NY and moves to her hometown of Catfish Cove, NH. Annie immediately has a place to live, a job at her Aunt Leona’s new…
Sarah Fox writes the Literary Pub Mystery Series which started in December 2018 and is set in Vermont. Booklover Sadie Coleman knows that in life, as in fiction, the right setting can make a world of difference. The small town of Shady Creek,…
Kylie Logan writes the Chili Cook-Off Mystery series which starts in October 2013. It takes place all over the United States but I categorized it in Illinois because the main character is from Chicago. It features Maxie Pierce who is so done with…
Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell) writes the Country Store Mystery series which starts in November 2015 and is set in Indiana. It features Robbie Jordan and Pans ‘N Pancakes, her country store restaurant in fictional South Lick, Indiana. When she…
Kate Young writes the Marygene Brown Series which started in May 2019 and is set in Georgia. For generations, the women of the Brown family on Peach Cove Island have been known for their Southern sass and sweet homemade desserts at their beloved…
Allyson K. Abbott, AKA Beth Amos and Annelise Ryan (Mattie Winston Series) writes the Mack's Bar Mystery series which started in August 2013 and is set in Wisconsin. It features bar owner, Mack Dalton. She has a nose for trouble—literally. A…
Jessica Beck writes the Cast Iron Cooking Mystery series which started in May 2015 and is set in . It features fraternal twins, Annie and Pat and their sister Kathleen who is the town sheriff. The twins run the Cast Iron Store and Grill and solve…
Cate Conte writes the Cat Cafe Mystery Series which is set on an Island, just off the coast of Massachusetts. Maddie James has arrived in Daybreak Island, just off the coast of Massachusetts, eager to settle down and start her own business—and maybe…
This series started in 2010. It takes place in TN and features Gwen Silver, also known as Nashville Katz. She is recently divorced and leaves New York because she inherited Murray's Jewish Deli in Nashville.
Rebecca Adler writes the Taste of Texas Mystery series which starts in December 2015 and is set in Texas. It features Reporter turned Tex-Mex waitress Josie Callahan. After losing her newspaper job in Austin and having her former fiancé unfriend her…
Jennie Brown writes the Cafe Prose Mystery Series which started in June 2019 and is set in Pennsylvania. It features thirty-three-year-old Talbot Meadows who has thrown herself into her work as a rare materials appraiser at the prestigious Library…
This series takes place in Snowflake, Vermont near a ski resort. This series started in August 2012. It features Lucky Jamieson who inherits her parents' soup shop, By the Spoonful. Lucy has many decisions to make. She wonders whether she should…
Julie Wassmer writes the Whitstable Pearl Mystery series which started in 2015 and is set in England. It features 30-year-old seafood restaurant owner Pearl Nolan. She always wanted to be a detective but life, and a teenage pregnancy, got in the way…
Christine Wenger writes the Comfort Food Mystery series which started in August 2013 and is set in New York. It features Trixie Matkowski who agrees to take over her aunt’s diner in upstate New York. Trixie is looking forward to the small town…
Carlene O'Connor writes the Murder in an Irish Village Mystery series which starts in February 2016 and is set in Ireland. It features twenty-two-year-old Siobhán O'Sullivan who runs the family bistro, Natalie's Bistro, named for her mother,…
Shelley Costa writes the Italian Restaurant Mystery Series which started in May 2013 and takes place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It features thirty-two year old Eve Angelotta who is the head chef at Miracoloher, her family's Italian restaurant.…
Kylie Logan writes the Ethnic Eats Mystery Series which starts in May 2016 and is set in Ohio. It features Laurel Inwood former personal chef to a Hollywood movie star who finds herself jobless. Laurel Inwood returns to Hubbard, Ohio to help her…
Gail Oust writes The Spice Shop Mystery series which started in December 2013 and is set in Georgia. It features recently divorced, Piper Prescott who starts the Spice It Up store in a small town in Georgia.
Gayle Leeson (aka Gayle Trent) writes the Down South Cafe Mystery Series which starts in June 2016 and is set in Virginia. It features aspiring chef and small-town Virginia native Amy Flowers. She is ready to open her own café offering old-fashioned…
Amy Beth Arkawy writes the Eliza Gordon Mystery Series which started in 2011 and is set in New York. It features former soap opera star, Eliza Gordon who has moved to a small town and now owns, Soup Opera, where Eliza Gordon is serving up more than…
Leslie Karst writes the Sally Solari Mystery Series which is set in Northern California. It features attorney Sally Solari. After losing her mother to cancer, Sally Solari quits her job as an attorney to help her dad run his old-style Italian…
Robin Allen writes the Poppy Markham Culinary Cop Mystery series which started in 2011 and is set in Austin, Texas. It features Poppy Markham who practically grew up at the family restaurant in Austin, Texas, and, until recently, worked as a sous…
Sarah Fox wrties the Pancake House Mystery Series which started in 2016 and is set in Washington. It features Marley McKinney. When her aging cousin, Jimmy, is hospitalized with pneumonia, she agrees to help run his pancake house while he…