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Cozy Mystery Series that Take Place In: KY


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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…

Camper and Criminals Mystery Series

Tonya Kappes writes the Camper and Criminals Cozy Mystery Series which is set in Kentucky. It features Mae West who fled her upscale New York lifestyle and her Ponzi scheming husband and now owns a trailer park/campground in Normal, Kentucky. One…

Ghostly Southern Mystery Series

Tonya Kappes writes the Ghostly Southern Mystery series which is set in Kentucky. It features undertaker Emma Lee Raines. She works at the Eternal Slumber Funeral Home-- and she sees ghosts!


Josiah Reynolds Mystery Series

Abigail Keam writes the Josiah Reynolds Mystery series which started in 2010 and is set in Kentucky. It features Josiah Reynolds, a former art history professor. Josiah was once a celebrity with wealth, social position, and a famous husband. Now…

Kenni Lowry Mystery Series

Tonya Kappes writes the Kenni Lowry Mystery Series which started in June 2016 and is set in Kentucky. It features Sheriff Kenni Lowry who likes to think the zero crime rate in Cottonwood, Kentucky is due to her being sheriff, but she quickly…

Killer Coffee Mystery Series

Tonya Kappes writes the Killer Coffee Mystery Series which started in January 2017 and is set in Kentucky. Roxanne Bloom (her friends, though few call her Roxie) quit her job as a lawyer, divorced her cheating husband, and moved to the quaint…

Maggie Morgan Mystery Series

Michelle Goff writes the Maggie Morgan Mystery series which started October 2014 in and is set in Kentucky. It features amateur sleuth Maggie Morgan. She lives in Sugar Creek, a small community nestled in the hills and hollows of eastern Kentucky…

Magical Cures Mystery Series

Tonya Kappes writes the Magical Cures Mystery series which started in 2012 and is set in Kentucky. It features June Heal who has nothing to lose when she relocates her homeopathic cure shop, A Dose of Darla, from the flea market booth in her home…

Mail Carrier Mystery Series

Tonya Kappes writes the Mail Carrier Mystery Series which is set in Kentucky and started in 2019.  It features mail carrier and widower Bernadette Butler.


Paris Kentucky Bakery Mystery Series

Rose Betancourt (AKA Rose Pressey) writes the Paris Kentucky Bakery Mystery Series which started in July 2023 and is set in Kentucky.  Living in Paris and having a sidekick cat named Pepe le Pew gives Marci Beaucoup’s life a certain

Southern Cake Baker Mystery Series

Maymee Bell (aka Tonya Kappes) writes the Southern Cake Baker Mystery Series which started in November 2018 and is set in Kentucky. It features pastry chef, Sophia Cummings.


Trash to Treasure Crafting Mystery Series

Rosie writes the Trash to Treasure Crafting Mystery series which started in 2012 and takes place in Kentucky. It features recently divorced, Raelynn Pendleton who inherits a victorian house from a virtual stranger. She turns it into a bed-and-…