Linda Reilly writes the Grilled Cheese Mystery Series which started in January 2022 and is set in Vermont. Back in Balsam Dell to heal after the death of her husband, Carly Hale is finally pursuing her lifelong dream―opening Carly's…

Abby Collette writes the Books & Biscuits Mystery Series which started in November 2021 and is set in Washington.  When Koby Hill and Keaton Rutledge were orphaned at age two, they were separated, but their unbreakable connection…

Veronica Bond writes the Dinner and a Murder Mystery Series which started in August 2021. It features Actor Nora Blake who finds her dream job when she is cast in a murder-mystery troupe that performs in an imposing but captivating…

Lena Gregory writes the All-Day Breakfast Cafe Mystery Series which started 2018 in and is set in Florida.  It features Gia Morelli who owns the All-Day Breakfast Cafe.

Kate P. Adams writes the Charleton House Mystery Series which started in April 2020 and is set in England.  It features cafe manager, Sophie Lockwood.  The cafe is located at the ancestral home of the Fitzwilliam-Scott family which…

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…

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…

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…

J.J. Cook writes the Biscuit Bowl Food Truck Mystery series which started in April 2014 and is set in Mobile, Alabama. It features Zoe Chase. She has always wanted to own her own restaurant—but first, she’ll have to serve up a heaping helping of…

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…

Alex Erickson writes the Bookstore Cafe Mystery series which started in May 2015 and is set in Ohio. It features bookstore/cafe owners Krissy Hancock and her best friend Vicki. Together they solve murders.

The Cackleberry Club series centers around three women - Suzanne a widow, Petra whose husband has Alzheimer's, and Toni in the midst of a divorce. Together they run a restaurant/book store/craft store and solve murders.

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…

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…

Dianne Harmon writes the Cedar Bay Mystery series which is set in Oregon. It features widower Kelly who owns Kelly's Koffee Shop. Follow Kelly, her boxer dog, Rebel, and her boyfriend, Mike, the county sheriff as they solve murders in the small…

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…

Jessica Beck writes the Classic Diner Mystery series which started in 2012 and is set in North Carolina. It features husband and wife team Greg and Victoria who run The Charming Moose Diner in Jasper Fork, North Carolina, along with the rest of…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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-…

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…

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…

Lynn Cahoon writes the Farm-to-Fork Mystery Series which started in March 2018 and is set in Idaho. Angie Turner hopes her new farm-to-table restaurant can be a fresh start in her old hometown in rural Idaho. But when a goat dairy farmer is…

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…

Susannah Hardy writes the Greek to Me Mysteries series which started in January 2015 and is set in New York. Georgie Nikolopatos manages the Bonaparte House, a Greek restaurant and historic landmark in beautiful upstate New York rumored to…

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…