Series by State

This series started in 2001 and is set in California. It features never-married, middle-aged, plus-sized woman, Odelia Grey who is a paralegal and amateur sleuth.

Sparkle Abbey aka Mary Lee Woods (Sparkle) and Anita Carter (Abbey) write the Pampered Pet Mystery Series which started in 2011 and is set in Laguna Beach, CA. It features Caro Lamont, former psychologist turned pet therapist. She finds herself…

This series takes place in California and started in 2010. It features San Francisco teacher Presley Parker. She was recently laid off and opens her own event coordination business, Killer Parties.

Kirsten Weiss writes the Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum mystery series which is set in California. It features Maddie Kosloski's career flatlines, who retreats to her wine country hometown for solace and cheap rent. Railroaded into managing…

This series started in 2011 and takes place in California. It features Lauren Vancouver who is an Animal Advocate and runs an animal shelter. Lauren is an amateur sleuth.

Carol Grace (aka Carol Culver) writes the Pie Shop Mystery Series. This series started in 2011 and is set in California. It features Hanna Denton who has returned home to Crystal Cove, California, to take over her Grannie Louises' pie shop. The…

Kirsten Weiss writes the Pie Town Mystery Series which started in October 2017 and is set in California. It features Valentine Harris who moves to the coastal California town of San Nicholas, expecting to start a new life with her fiancé. Five…

Barbara Jean Coast a.k.a. Andrea Taylor & Heather Shkuratoff write the Poppy Cove Mystery series. It started in 2013 and takes place in 1950s California. The series is loosely based on Santa Barbara in the late 50′s, early 60′s and revolves…

The Quilting Mystery series set in California. It features Dewey Pellicano who is a computer tech but inherits her mother's quilting business, Quilter Paradiso.

Carol Higgins Clark writes the Regan Reilly Mystery series which started in 1992 and is set in California. It features daughter of a successful mystery writer and a P.I. Regan Reilly. Each book finds Regan traveling to a different place even…

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…

Diana Orgain writes the Roundup Crew Mystery Series which started in 2019 and is set in California. Every Friday night in the idyllic seaside town of Pacific Cove, California, the Roundup Crew, a group of dog-friendly folks, have a spirited…

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…

This series started in 1995 and is set in California. It features forty-year-old, displaced Southern belle with a buxom figure, Detective Sergeant Savannah Reid. Savannah now finds herself in the exclusive community of San Carmelita, CA.

M.L. Rowland writes the Search and Rescue Mystery series which started in January 2014 and is set in California. It features Gracie Kinkaid search and rescue volunteer for Timber Creek Search and Rescue.

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…

Gigi Pandian writes the Secret Staircase Mystery Series which started in February 2022 and is set in California. After a disastrous accident derails Tempest Raj’s career, and life, she heads back to her childhood home in California to comfort…

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…

Morgan St. James writes the Silver Sisters Mystery series. It features identical twin sisters, over-the-hill flower child from Alaska, Goldie Silver and popular syndicated advice to the lovelorn columnist, Godiva Olivia DuBois, a wealthy Beverly…

Nancy Parra writes the Sonoma Wine Country Mystery Series which started in December 2017 and is set in California. Taylor O’Brian is a new businesswoman, founder of “Taylor’s Off The Beaten Path Wine Tours,” who lives on a small winery with her…

Linda O. Johnston writes the Superstition Mystery Series which started in October 2014 and is set in California. It features Rory Chasen and her dog Pluckie. When her beloved fiancé walks under a ladder and is killed by a car five minutes later…

Kirsten Weiss writes the Tea and Tarot Mystery Series which started in May 2019 and is set in California.  Abigail Beanblossom’s dream of owning a tea room in her California beach town is about to come true. She’s got the lease, the start-up…

Korina Moss writes the The Cheese Shop Mystery Series which is set in California and started in March 2022.  It features Cheesemonger Willa Bauer who is proving that sweet dreams are made of cheese. She’s opened her very own French-…

Joanne Pence writes the The Cop and Inspector Mysteries Series which started in December 2023 and is set in San Francisco, CA.  It features Angelina Amalfi, a gourmet cook who is also the assistant to a famous chef with his own television…

Judith Gonda writes the Tory Benning Mystery Series which started in February 2020 and is set in California.  It features California landscape architect Tory Benning.

Lynn Cahoon writes the Tourist Trap Mystery Series which started in 2014 and is set in California. It features store owner Jill Gardner. In the gentle coastal town of South Cove, California, all Jill Gardner wants is to keep her store--Coffee,…

Lily Ivory is not your average witch. Her spell-casting powers tend to draw mischievous spirits while keeping normal humans at a distance. But now her vintage clothing store could give her a chance to make friends in San Francisco....

Betty Hechtman writes the Yarn Retreat Mystery series which started in July 2013 and takes place in northern California. It features Dessert chef Casey Feldstein who doesn’t know a knitting needle from a crochet hook. But after her aunt dies…

Connie di Marco writes the Zodiac Mystery Series which starts in June 2016 and is set in San Francisco. It features San Francisco astrologer Julia Bonatti. In the first book Julia's life is turned upside down when she becomes the target of the…